Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-10-27
THE RIGHT TO LABOR.

Within the past week the Dcmocra-
cy have published letter that it is al
legged General Garfield wrote. Gar
field has informed an agent of the As
sociated Press that the letter is stupid
forgery. The ludIcrous side to the &C
cusation is found in the fact that no
living man could be produced within
the ranks of the Democracy to father
the letter, SO they were compelled to
take a dead mans name, and declare
that the letter was sent to q man who is
now dead. The letter purports to have
been written within the year 1880 it
is dated January %, 1880. The name
of the man to whom it is alleged to
have been written is Morey. The Dem
Ocracy say that MOrey died since JAN
uary, and the letter was found among
bis papers. The town that Morey lived
in is named Lynn. The association
that Morey should have belonged to, the
Democracy say, is called the "Em-
ployers' Union. A dispatch from Bos-
ton, Nass., under date of the 22d inst,
relative to who MOrey is, and relative
to the organization called BY the Dem
ocracy, the Employers Union, says:
Inquiry among leading business
men in Lynn, says the Traveller, shows
that no such man as III. l.. Morey, to
whom Gen. Garfield is alleged to have
addressed letter on the Chinese ques-
tion, ever lived there since 1873, nor
has such labor union as the Employ
ers' Union ever existed there. Several
of the most prominent manufacturers OF
Lynn, representing a capital of over
$4,000, 900, have signed card de-
claring that there is not, and has not
been, any organization there called the
Employers Union, and that there is no
such man as FL. l.. Morey, to whom it is
asserted the Garfield letter on the Chi
nese question was written, and which
letter the General SO promptly pro-
nouuced a forgery. The card Of the
Lynn manufacturers, which is signed by
seventeen firms, is as follows:
"Tbe undersigned, shoe manufactur-
ers of this city, hereby state that there
never was any organization or associa-
tion called the Employers Union, and
We do not know any man by the name of
Ii. L.. Morey, who was ever employed
By US or a resident of this city"
Thus it will be seen that the letter is
what the Associated Press dispatch
calls it, stupid forgery.
The following is the letter:
personal AND CONFIDENTIAL.
HoUss OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, d. c., January %, 1880.
DEAR SIR: Yours in relation to the Chi
nese problem came duly TO hand
/ take IL that the question of employees is
eniy a question Of PriUGfe and corporate econ
oru aud 1pJ5-sdssnIs ar br-o L.,
right 10 buy labor uhere they can get IL cheap
est
We have a treaty with the Chinese Gov
ernment, which should be religiously kept
until its provisions are abrOgatei by the ac-
ton of the general government, and / am
not prepared TO say that it should be abrO-
gated until our great manufacturing and cor
porate interests are conserved in the mat
ter of labor.
Very truly yours,
J. A. GARFIELD.
81. l.. MoREY, Employers Union, Lynn,
Mass.
If Garfield had written the letter,
what of it 2 There is no question about
the right of a man to labor for what
ever amount that be and the man who
employs him may agree upon. When
men cannot do that, then they no longer
are freemen.
As to the Chinese side of the letter,
that is another question. The Chinese
government would rather have no inter-
course with Europeans and Americans,
but European policy and American
policy of business, and missionary in
terests have forced, as it we're, the
present treaty upon the so called Celes-
tial Kingdom. Get the Church and
the Business of the United States to
adopt non-intercourse policy with
China, and China will be glad to keep
her people at home, and keep other peo-
pie away from China.
Since the above vas put IN type, the
following from General Garfield has
been dispatched
MENTOR. Ohio, Octeber %, 1880.
Hon. MARSHALL JEWELL and Hon. s. W.
DORSEY:
will not break the rule I have adopted
" making public reply to campaign lies,
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