Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-30

What will be the harm OF ehdHgef
The avowed principles and policy OF the
democratic party. so far as they have any,
are in direct opposition to the interests Vi
the country. Slavery Is dead. but dlsPosf
tion 10 degrade labor still survives. 1t Is no
torious that the southern land owners will
not. as a rule, permit poor men, white or
black TO acquire land or property, they must
work as tenants on conditions which yleid a
mere sustenance Education of the laboring
classes, formerly Illegal. is still discouraged
A change of administration must lead to
change of tine principles and policy on when
the government has been administered The
protective tariff will be repealed. and as II
is too obvious for argument that American
manufacturers cannot compete with the pau
per laborers of Europe, at higher rates OF
wages, without a tariff, the repeal would re-
duce the price of labor in every industry IN
the country; it would close most of the mills
and factories, throw tens of thousands OF
operatives out of employment; compel them
70 resort to agriculture for sustenance; limit
the home market and reduce the prices OF
agricultural products and bring distress ana
ruin upon all classes Throughout the lanu'
with but one exception, and that exc ftlon Is
the southern planter.
VIM does the Southern Planter occupy an
exceptional positionf
BECAUSE his cotton and tobacco find
market in Europe the cost of production con-
sists chiefly in the price of labor. If manu-
facturinyinterests are DESTROYED the number ~
agricultural laborers will be increased and the
greater their degradation and the nearer the
starvation point at which they can be kept,
the cheaper will they sell their labor and the
greater will be the profits of the planter.
The Southern planter who raises cotton and
i tbar 70 IF free trade de-
struction of northern industries, and in Oppo-
sition to free schools, free ballots. small
farms and fair wages.
The masses at the South, if sufficiently in
telligent to understand their interests, would
be in sympathy with the North, but the poor
whites as well as the negroes, are kept in
such ignorance and degradation that they are
imposed upon by the political demagogues
who control the solid South control the dem
ocrats of the North and who hope with their
aid to grasp the reins of government. and in
this way bring the North into subsection and
tax its capital to pay their claims.
The republican policy is the only one that
will advance the interests of all sections,
South as well as North. 1t secures diversi-
fed industries, general education, universal
freedom free ballot, protected from terror
ism, assassination, false counts and ballot
stuffng: it insures liberal wages to all kinds
of labor and lower permanent rates for man
ufactured articles, by domestic competition.
than free trade would give under foreign
monopoly.
In a word, the success of the republican
party in the coming election means continued
prosperity; and their defeat, disaster to all
the interests of the country, and SO clear are
my convictions of the truth of this declaration
that l cannot remain silent if a single indi-
vidual of the great army of the boys in blue
can be influenced by my opinion and example
to vote in defence of the principles for which
he contended in the field, and which are once
more seriously endangered.
HERMAN HAUPT,
Gen. u S. Vols, Inspector General Boys in
Blue, and Chairman Indianapolis Veteran
Contention.