Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-08-13
Gen. Woodiori to the WorkinZnan.

An ADDRESS TO TIE WORKING cLAss-wHT
THE LABoEISG NAN Should BE RE-
PUBLICAN.
Shortly before noon, Tuesday Gen. Stewart
L. Woodford spoke to the workingmen of
the city, at the Central Vermont depot, on
tie issues of the campaign The great manu-
featuring firms and corporations along the
lake shore shut down their mills for the pur-
pose of giving their employees an opportunity
to hear Gen. Woodford and the audience
which he addressed was very large one and
composed almost wholly Of members of the
laboring classes Gen. Woodfo-d was hap
PLY introduced by Capt L. A. Woodbury.
and spoke substantially as follows
GEN. wooDFoRD's ADDRESS.
am glad to meet you my friends. | see
from the brown faces and bronzed hands that
youare working men. You produce the wealth
of the country. You have a deeper interest in
good times than other class in the commun-
ity. / am glad to see here so many men of
foreign birth When see such men know
that they are the best of their Nation, for
none hut the best would have the courage
and the daring to leave their native land to
seek new home in an unknown country
For what did YOU come to America? To get
better clothes and better food and better
homes and better schools for your children.
You have deeper interest in the present
campaign than the merchant or the banker
or the capitalist. You have got 10 save
something from your earnings every day in
order to give your children a start in the
world. You are interested in saving and in
getting good wages so as to be enabled to
give your children Il start. | have come
here to ask you to vote for Garfield and
Arthur as a means to this end. What has
the Democratic party ever done for YOU The
Democratic party is the the free trade party
and its candidate, General Hancock, accepts
its doctrine What would free trade do
for Burlington? Its lumber and cotton in
dustries would 60 to Canada. Without the
protective duty your lumber would be
dressed and cotton made abroad The coal
industry on the shores of your beautiful
lake would be killed. There is no kind of
work i'll Vermont but is sustained by the
principle and policy of the Republican party
With you, my friends, it is q question of
bread and butter or bread without butter |
hear workingman sometimes say, The
bosses are all Republicans and SO it is for
the interest of the workingmen to be Demo-
Gratis" But what could capital do without
you And what could man with no money
but with a strong arm do without the capital
ist Capital is only the difference between
what you earn and what you spend.
See what the Republican party has done
in its candidate. AT the start General Gar
field had nothing but stout arm and
manly heart. We find him on the towpath
at the carpenters bench-in college-in
the ranks of the army-and now a noble rep
resentative of what the American working
man may become. The success of the Re-
publican party means an honest dollar, the
continuation of business and prosperity, full
work and full wages for the workingman.
My friends, vote for your wives, your babes,
your homes and for yourselves Since COM
ing into Vermont it has been my good for
tune to meet thousands of the workingmen,
of the representatives Of the bone and sinew
of your State. 1t is always and everywhere
q pleasure to Inc 10 sec them and to talk to
them. thank you to-day for your kind at
tention. May God bless you. May your
lives be prosperous and your homes happy
and your careers successful,
At frequent intervals and as he closed
Gen. Woodford was cheered to the echo
and his remarks must have made most
favorable impression on the great throng
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