The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-15
THE LABORING MEN.

The fact ought not to be obScured-indeed
it can not be-that in this country the peo-
pie are supreme. They make and unmake
Lawmakers; they lay the foundations of
governments; they erect the superstructures;
they are the uncrowned sovereigns.
born to rule. This, thank God, is a
government for the people OF the people
and by the people, and if not administered
in the interests of the people it is cheat
and lie, and odious beyond exaggeration.
For number of years the government has
been wrongfully and criminally administer
ed The people see and realize the fact.
They are convinced that the. radical
party has strictly and studiously
legislated against their interests.
They have seen their fortunes disappear
like mist before a MONDAY sun, homes
wrested from their grasp, their business de-
stroyed as if struck by a thousand thunder
bolts, and this too while they were strug-
Cling with almost superhuman
efforts to succeed. This business
depression, confined to no locality,
has been felt from the pine forests of Maine
to the golden shores of California. Its sweep
has been continental and its effects every
where the ame-bankruptcy, poverty, idle
ness, hunger, despair. Such have been the
bitter fruits of radical rule. The party.
dead to every sentiment of patriotism,
and alive only to schemes of self aggrandize-
ment, has legislated to improve the condi-
ton of the money lords by making it posi-
bic for them to sieze and appropriate the
earnings of others-legalized piracy, such as
was never witnessed in the world since
Jesus whipped the money changers out
of their temple. AS if to make the case
still more haggard during all there years of
business prostration and ruiz: idleness and
hunger. The seasons have been fabulously
fruitful, we have had bread ID to spare.
Field and farm have responded to the pillow,
and the cattle on thousand hills have
attested the ability of the coun-
try to keep the people from hunger.
But radical curses have been more than a
match for Jehoyah's blessings and the radi
cal devil has been permitted to touch the
country in all of its enterprises and interests
with his frey fingers and create Widespread
ruin. At this supreme moment the suffering
people are earnestly discussing reforms and
remedies They are loath to starye in full
sight of bread or die of thirst while listen
ing to the music of gurglIng waters. And
now then. what? Why, simply this: Their
restlessness is regarded as dangerous
their lamentation the utterance of
criminal purposes, their resolutions
treason, and their wretched condi-
ton an evidence of their degradation.
Still these sufferers are the people-citizens
in all regards the peers of any other citizens
in the right to assemble, discuss their inter-
ests, take counsel together and provide as
best they may for further misfortunes and
privations, which, under the curse OF radi-
calism are certain to come. AS
a means of silencing the protests
of these people we hear the cry of commun-
ism, a Shylock stratagem to obscure the
damning curses of radicalism, and at this
late day, If possible, compel laboring men to
bear the odiunf of the acts of their oppressors.
We doubt not that there are COM
mrnists in the United States, just as
there are radical infidels like Bob Ingersoll,
radical thieves like Bugbee. radical conspir-
ators like John Sherman, radical perjurers
like ). Madison Wells, and radical frauds
like e. b. Hayes, but to charge the deep seated
unrest now prevailing among laboring men
in hiscountry to communism Isl self-eyident
lie, and the men who utter it know tito be so.
The underlying purpose of laborng men in
this country today is to find some pathway
out of the darkness that now environs them,
to obtain work and wages food and clothing,
shelter and home. Parents are endeavoring
to respond to the pleadings of children, and
to their own aspirations after that
which will enable them to occupy their
rightful positions in society. The demo-
ocratic party is the party of the people. 1t
recognizes the dignity of labor. 1t does not
believe poverty me, nor wealth virtue.