The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-08-02
NOT IN SYMPATHY WITH LABOR.

BY the late and previous issues of the
Repository, we observe that sheet is not
in sympathy with oppressed and suffer-
ing labor. 1t rather sides with the ty-
rants and oppressors, having no word of
unfriendly comment for the $4,000 sala-
ried officials, whose edicts from time to
time, reducing the laborers ten or twen-
ty per cent, there is no appeal from. The
oppressed worker cannot appeal to a
court of JUSTICE" Starvation though it
is, there is no appeal to Government"
possible-for him The laborer and his
destitute family have no such "rights."
LOUIS SoHAEFER, who is the active spir-
it of the editorial gang of the Repository
Office, in both English and German, is
one of them. He has been a railroad
pimp for years, dirty and contemplate
tool of Tom Scott & Co., and has had a
free pass as mark of high favor. Of
course, his foul tongue wagged actively
against the strikers. He has no sympa.
thy with the suffering working man.
Why, in building his Opera House he
had, we believe, suits with his stone and
brick contractors, and his plasterer.
These, and other matters we might mem
ton, will show plainly that this toady OF
railway Kings is no friend of labor.
Only last May, at the meeting of the
County Auditors at our Court House, to
assess the P. Ft. W. & G. R. R., promi-
nent gentlemen of the railway were on
hand, and made statements with view
of getting low valuation, Louis Schae-
fer assisting them, and making himself
ridiculous and contemplate by his toadY-
ism and seryility, in dancing around, and
bobbing, bowling and scraping to the rail
way dignitaries. All this was nauseat-
ing to see, and no doubt disgusting, real
ly, to the railroad gentlemen.
His foul tongue was bitter against the
Auditors, because they determined to SO
value the railroad, that the company
should be required to pay their share Of
taxes. His venom was especially direct
ed against Auditor SourbeCk, because oi
his outspoken, independent, manly course
in the matter.
The Repository man, SChaefer, has OPP
posed our Valley railway from it's incep-
ton, knowing that a competing line
would benefit Canton's industries and
business, and our laboring men, and re-
lieve us from the onerous freight exac-
tions of the lessees of the Pa. railroad
company. And yet this fraud pretends
to be friend of Canton's interestsl
We understand this man Schaefer is
scheming to form "workingman's"
party and from the foregoing all may
see the true character of this apish
mountebank. He is mere trickster, as
destitute of principle as he is lacking in
consistency in any direction. His con-
poction with the Repository Office is the
o. =. thing that gives him power or op-
portunity to deceive. His whangdoodle
fool, in the German language, is the only
poor stick that is left him to use and
abuse. A beautiful pair
No sensible working man of Canton
will allow himself to fall into any trap
prepared for him by fellow in the pay
of the Pennsylvania R. R. Co.; and who
fawns and bows like dancing master to
railway magnates; and who damns and
denounces all laborers for daring to as
sert their manhood in trying to obtain
living wages. A fraud like this is no
friend of labor, nor any honest cause.
Avoid him.