The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-22
RAnICALIsM AND LARoR.


center in labor. The men who produce
something, who hew and delve and build.
who pillow, and plant and reap, who make
the waste places fruitful and the deserts
blossom, who navigate the ships and guide
the trains, the men of toll and skill, produce
all the wealth of the world. They are the
essential factors of progress, and the aront
coaretGs' Of civilization A writer in the
New York Graphic says:
The working people are the spending people.
IL is what they spend hatsuppoI Is the business
\ OF every civilized country. The more wages
they receive the more they will spend If their
wages are curtailed they spend less, and every
| interest suffers. For one man who spends
SlO,00O year there are $40 who each spend
S 1 oaa mere you nave o am expenditure OF sSo
/ eight millions Of working people OF all kinds
N1wsge-Ieceiying people In very good times
week; the enormous sum of sl20,000,000 was
/ disbursed each week for wages, and went at
once for the purchase of the necessities. the
bic now that these wages do not average $40 a
week, but assuming that they have been only
reduced One-tnitd there is a loss of s40,0J0U0O a
week; or, in other words, the spending classes
have 81 0oO, 0O0, 900 less TO spend In year than
before. This is an enormous sum TO be taken
away from the trade of the country each year,
and is quite sufficient in itself to account for
hard times.
The annual loss to the country is not
overstated; in fact, the estimate is in all
regards moderate, and affords reliable data
upon which TO compute the overwhelming
curse of radicalism. The policy of the great
national thief party has been to strike at and
strike down labor, to reduce it to the most
detestable vassalage, to palsy its hands, and
subject it to the most degrading bondage.
For years past radlcalism has massed its
forces to rob labor and exalt the money
power of the country. Its financial policy
has had no other purpose, and
it has accomplished its devilish
aims. The result is seen everywhere. The
blight and mildew and moist of radicalisn
rests upon every department of business
and upon every industrial enterprise in all
the land. Laboring men are not only earn
ing less wages than when the curse of radi-
calism commenced lis work, but millions of
workingmen are idle and earning no wages
at all. The grass is growing in the streets of
grerat marts OF trade; ships lie idle at their
wharves; dilspidation sits enthroned in ten
thousand homes; vacant houses await ten
anus, IdSo HublCi III TIC DlCCLC, nulkCl
daily becoming more pinching; poverty
is widening its area, and all
this because an inscrutiable Provi-
dence permits the radical party, with
damning fraud in the presidential office,
to thwart the will of the people and drive
its dagger-shaped policy down deeper into
the vitals of business. To devise remedies
for this deplorable state of affairs sets every
radical organ and conspirator to bowling like
devils damned. To seek to remove any
of the obstacles to a revival of business
by virtue of which money would flow out
from its prison houses, is certain to provoke
determined resistance and encounter veto
To suggest measures calculated to set
machinery into motion and give employ.
ment to laboring men, srouses the radical
camp, and every device that Shy
locks and devils can invent is at once util-
ICED in opposition to an era of prosperity
and the poor are compelled to suffer on.
To intimate that laboring men suffer by vir-
tue of vicious legislation is met by cry of
communism, and the voice of want is hushed
by the Shylock cry for troops to shoot
down workingmen. While this work
of shrinkage, failure, bankruptcy and
ruin is going forward, money sharks
are growing rich. John Sherman is daily
increasing the burdens of debt and taxation
the days grow darker, and the shadows of
business death lengthen over the land. In
congress the democratic party is powerless.
1t has set on foot measures of relief butthese
can not be got through radical-cursed SEN
ate, nor passed over the veto of the presidential
fraud. The supreme demand now is the
complete triumph of the democratic party.
There IS absolutely no other hopes, for the
country. To continue the radical party in
power is to invite further calamities-
Working people can not fail by this time to
appreciate the fact. The indications are
that they comprehend the situation, and are
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