The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-08-28

I We always had an idea that we
knew something about hard work
and what constituted q workingman,
but of late . line seems to have been
drawn between people who have
! something and those who have not.
The Democratic papers are quite
/, fulsome in their batteries of the Ia
borer and claim that their party has
a natural attraction for them, but on
what ground? They cannot point
out a single great act which was in
tended solely to beue6t that class as
the records will prove.
They refused to pass the home
stead law when they had tia whole
government in their hands.
They went to war to prepetuate
slavery.
They held that slavery was the
normal condition of the laborer.
They enacted that all dues to the
g overnmet should be paid in coin,
the Government employees should be
paid in a superior currency, leaving
only deprecated State currency for
the laburer.
They opposed the creation of a
Government currency for all the peo-
pie. and when issued by the Republic
ans pronounced it unconstitutional.
Since their accession to power,
under a false plea of economy, they
have refused appropriations of the
peoples money for needed improve
ments, thus depressing labor in q
time of general distress while they
squandered thousands in pro6tless
Investigations.
They have repeatedly attempted
the reduction OF the traiif, that Amer
lean labor might be reduced to
competition with the half.paid labor
of foreign countries.
They have embarrassed aud
retarded the public buiness by un wise
reductions of the clerical and laboring
forces in all the departments.
They have attempted the reduction
of the army below the actual neces-
sites ofthe country for the protection
Of the frontier settlements, and with the
view of throwing upon an overbur-
dened market an additional supply of
unemployed labores.
These are the facts that ough. to
be ai.bin the knowledge Of every
man who reads, and cannot be con-
troverted. Ii errors were mad, in
large land grants 10 railroads, yet
when we look at the stupendous work
accomplished-works which have
benei ed the great West u the
amount Of Of hundreds of millions and
opened highways which under pres
ent democratic logic would still be in
allowance, it is q question whether il
was money misspent. Every MANNED
soldier, every widow and orphan.
owes TO the Republican party all
they are receiving as a soIace for
their losses. All the benefits arising
from our increasing exports, are due
to that party, for it cannot be con-
cealed that the democracy, as a party,
is in favor of free trade, aud if its
leaders could make a quarter of a
cent q pound by purchasing foreign
iron or steel and the material made
therefrom, as well as other manu-
f%acturs, they would purchase from
the foreign laborer in preference to
our own.
1t is also a notable fact that while
in counties which are close the demo-
cratic papers discourage the Nation
ais or unlimited greenback advocates,
in Republicans counties they gener-
ously encourage them TO 60 on and
organize. Here, for instance, the
Democrat is very much afraid that
Mr.. Dunn will get up a ticket not
exclusively democratic, and tries hard
to c%aiole the workingmen TO stick to
the free trade democracy, as so or
100 votes in this county tell largely
on one side or the other; and yet
with singular Inconsistency that paper
denounces Mr.. Killian. Now Sam
is undoubtedly a bard working young
man of good habits, aud we cannot
see with what grace the Democrat
can scout him. For our part we
have a decided objection TO him on
more tangible ground, and tina. is bis
vote in favor of the circus bill board
which disdgures and disgraces the
school yard, and which, if be does
no. redeem before the election ought
to make fifty votes against him.