Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-09-18

emp cy meLt to = thousand workmer
The Democratic party in its platform
principles has declared in favor OF
: tariff for the sake Of revenue only. Thi
means that the Democrats care nothir
! soout protection to American industIis
: and the laborer, but they just want
raise sufficient by q tariff to carry o
the Government to q limited extent an
raise the balance from the people by
direct income tax. Having shown tn
difference between the two parties
far as protection to American industrie
are concerned, We would 60 q ste
farther and attempt to illustrate VII.
Democratic working men should volt
for the party that protects their EN-
pIoyers. We had thought Of naming
prominent Democratic workingman il
the employ OF the firm for the sake o
giving force to our illustration, but w
ian as we'll bunch all the Democrats
who work in the Harlan & Holdings
Sorth yards and shops, and our illus
tration will not lose force. These sec
Democratic workipgmen, for there are
at least that number employed in these
works, are given employment because
the firm needs their labor. The firm
has work to give them because the Re-
publican administration protects their
manufacturing interest. II they were
not protected they would have NJ
work.
When q man has to work for . firm
or for any other man, he agrees to do
all he can for the interests Of his EN-.
plOyers, that all may be mutually bsne.
fitted. But says ZONE honest meaning
Democrat, do you mean to say that !
must give up voting the Democratic
ticket for the sake Of getting job Of
work. No, we have said nothing of the
kind. Blu. we do say that no working
man should'accept Iwork aud then SO
far As his vote goes throw 1t all the
time against his employer getting work.
A man who lives by the labor Of build
ing ships, should net a,cspt an engage.
msnt 10 labor and then.do all he can
afterwards to keep his employer from
getting ships to build. Does the work.
ingnan see the pointf Every man has
a right to be Democrat. il he wants to
bo one, and no employer has a right to
control that mans political opinion 8.
Blu. there Is a sense in which the Gu Fl
p loyer would bs justiiable in protect
ing himself by requiring his working. |
men that they shall not do all in their
power to keep him from securing other
Auy manufacturer would deserve
,ensure If he should see that a portion
If his workipgmen were liable to vote
not only aga inst his but their own in
arrests without taking steps 10 warn
hem CT it, and II they persistently in
list on doing SO in the face of such ad-
nonition, f.bey really have to sacri.
ice their own and their employers in.
.erests for tbs sake of what they con-
,4ive to be Democracy, three certainly
,ould bs no harm in their employers
cling them that while they acknowl.
dSe their right to enjoy and carry out
hsir Democratic ideas such ideas when
arried out were inimi,al to their bus
ness interests and that while they had
perfect right to be Democrats they
ad better seek some other place for
where the exercise OF free I
rade Democratic opinions fully carried
ut would not break down the business ,
ftheir employer. t
For twenty years Republican victory @
as meant property for American la 7
Or, and there is better reason than )
YER before to expect that increased {
will follow another triumph r
7 the Republican party. Sensible O
nployes and sensible workingmen .
now that this is SO, and they would
Of be true to each other if they did
OF adopt every honorable means to r.
AXE their convictions known. Il