Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-08-28
THE POOR MANS FRIEND.

A Pen Pictpre of William III. English.
The National View, of Washington pub
fishes the following appeal to the work
ing men:
"When William H. English, national
banker, bOndhOlder, mortgage dealer,
and candidate for the Vice Presidency,
goes armed with slip of paper into the
house Of a MORTGAGE. and turns the
housewife with her children into the
street, rObs it of every household treas
ure set there by the hand of affection;
and to the husband who has seen his
wife suffer, and his children born under
that roof; who has little by little,
through sweat and pain, built up his
alters and kept their fires alight, says
60, this is mine Law gives all this,
what does the law do to him. what does
public opinion do to him? What does
the party which claims to be pre-emi-
nently the poor mans friend do to him
Public opinion, in the form of poor men
whom he has robbed, execrates him as
the genius Of cold and implacable
mOney-getting, as hard as his coin, and
as narrow as his Dank-nOtes. The party
which clamOrs for the poor mans graft
tude beholds in him fitted exponent of
their legislative creed, and asks for him
the suffrages of the men that he has
robbed in the past, as they mean to rob
others in the future. Public opinion
in the form of an outraged and betrayed
people, will forever put quietus upon
this wholesale robber; this cold Oppres-
sOr of helpless poverty; this panderer to
future debauchery and crime. Who
shall say to what extremities the men
and women he and others like him send
homeless on the world shall be driven
What redress have they? What hope,
save to starve i'm despair or become
birds of prey. An eating sore on the body
polite, against whom, as tramps and
outlaws, Office-hOlding plunderers, will
legislatel WOrkingmen with no homes,
or homes held by feble tenure, whose
title rests in hands like these; men
whose wives and children fare scantily
that four walls may shelter them, that
their bare feet may touch the soil
which no other man can say is mine
WOrkingmen with daughters, who, in
their laughing youth, may be sent down.
ward to worse than death by the stroke
of r4frs 49,
3.1 30. AUCTIONEERS' HAMMER
in what is yet your home. Working
men, whose votes can settle the destiny
of the nation, will you cast those votes
for man from whose hands drip the
sweat of a thousand ruined men, and
whose bank-nOtes are wet with the tears
of homeless wOmen? Will you cast
your votes for party who, from selling
black flesh on the auction block, have
come to selling white flesh on every
thOrOughfare of the nation? Will you
vote for the whited sepulchre who, in
the false semblance of honor, sits in his
irOn-bOund chamber and threatens you
with the law should you dare speak Of
his crimes, for crimes they are against
God and human nature, though protect
ed by inhuman law? In his own person
VIM. H. English has been the fateful de-
strOyer of other mems homes and hopes
In his own person he has given his sup
port to the suppression of free speech
and the right of all men to a free an(
fair hearing. AS the exponent and
standard bearer of his party he persona
fies system which subverts ballots
which signifies the dominance of caste
which would perpetuate poverty, max
ing slavery universal instead of section.
al; which eagerly partakes of the spOils
OF its opponents, and has sold, for mes!
of official pOttage, the birthright of it
fathers. The principles of the Demo
cratic party are fittingly illustrated in
VIM. English; and he in turn is tn,
Democratic party in epitOme. They ar,
Joined to their idols. Let them alone.