Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-10-21
A Valuable Convert.

American Democrat of Cincinnati, has
declared for Garfield and the Republic
can ticket. Mr.. Morgan recently re-
turned from Europe, where he has been
travelling on commercial business. He
said that prior to leaving Cincinnati he
heard Judge Hoadly and othe-s thank
ing God that they were back in the old
Democratic ship of ''Free Trade" etc.
He determined while in Europe to in
vestigate the labor and tariff questions.
Here is some of his experiences In Great
Britain:
At Belfast, visiting the Broad Street
Spinning Works, a concern employing
5000 people, from the ages of ten years
to sixty and seventy, asked the mana.
ger, when saw the factory dismissed
for dinner, if that was where these
people live, pointing to lot of one
story huts, arranged like the camp Of
an army, with narrow passage-xays,
near the factory? His answer was,
Eyes, and the fathers, grandfashers and
greatfathers of these children lived
there before them." My reply, at that
time, was: "0nly those who went to
America, as did, when but nine years
of age, and my father at fifty, have
prospered In that Tree land, where
iaborers make happy homes for their
children, ard become good fFeemeu
themselves. From what you say, the
same good fortune never awaits those
who remain here" ! then said. Chow
about the education of the little ones
see passing out in such vast numberss"
His answer was: "We attend to that"
| said, 'sHow?" He replied: "We send
them to school two hours per day for
five months in the Year" Such is their
idea of educating the working classes:
After leaving Ireland travelled aa q
commercial Man-drummer as they are
called here--through Scotland and Eng.
land, which gave me the opportunity
of holding conversations with the
manufacturers there and the mechanics
In their establishments. | would talk
to the employers in their offices in the
day time, and their managers and eni-
ployes In the evening, and on all OOpas
sions had great difficulty in trying to
prove 70 them that we were equal to
them in all lines OF manufacturing.
But in every instance they would say,
employer, manager and mechanic, that
we may be equal, but we could not
manufacture as cheap as they could,
because our pay to the workingman and
the mechanic was three times greater
than they paid, and If We would take
off our selfish protective tariff they would
and could ruin our manufacturing In
terests, because they were the leading
manufacturers of the world and thought
it only right that the mother country
should continue to be the manufacture
ing portion of the world.
MY answer to such remarks was:
We cannot, and never will, permit
those tariffs to be removed. We have a
republic, not a monarchy, with queens,
kings, princes, and an immense aristO-
cratic nobility to support and foster,
and a grand army and navy to sustain.
To sustain our Government we do 1t
by education. Our mechanics and
laborers' children commence schooling
at the age of six, and finish their educa-
ton at an average of, say, sixteen or
seventeen years. In going to school at
the age of six they have shoes on their
feet, warm clothes on their little bodies,
and heads covered with comfortable
hats.
Educated labor becomes better skilled
mechanics than your ignorant labor;
they think more, and know as much
more about governmental affairs, when
they are seventeen years of age than
your uneducated mechanic will at the
age of thirty. They love their fathers
and mothers more than you do, they
take care of their aged parents. l know
some of the poorest Irishmen who came
to America twenty and thirty years
ago, who have sons, some Of our largest
merchants, manufacturers, lawyers and
soldiers at West Point, the same as
those people whose forefathers were
born and raised in America. From
what | have seen in Ireland, Wales,
Scotland and England, and learning
from practical observations, l made up
my mind never to vote or aid any party
or any set who would be in favor of
abolishIng protective tariff, bringing
cheap and ignorant labor In competition
with the educated working classes of
this, my adopted country.
These experiences, together with in
vestigations made since his arrival
home, effectually cured Mr.. Morgan of
his Democracy; and he talks to the
working men of Cincinnati after this
f,.b,on.
Al such IS Europe, VIII you, work
ingmen Oh ClncinnatiIirrespective OF
party-vote 10 forge the chains OF a
slavery placing you on the same ground
.nas is srom eonona ". ne puopie Viii 1T's ro,' eo
loving your wives and children as YOU
do, vote to take OFF your only safeguard,
our present protecttce tortD, SO thas an
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