Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-07
UP NORTH.
How Northern Mechanics are
Intimidated by Republican
Managers.

Pittsburgh Post.l
The republican ring manufacturers.
who train with the Camerons, have
set on foot in western Pennsylvania a
syStemi2ed plan to coerce their work
ingmen into voting for the De Golyer
cOrruptlonist and free trader, Gar
field. They T great friends of the
Borkingmen, these wealthy manufac-
turers, about election times, but give
them a chance to reduce wages aud
they are quick to jump at it, even to
the extent of importing negroes from
the south to take the places of white
men. They talk of protection TO
American industry, and rush off to
Europe to lay in immense stocks of
foreign iron, which they are enabled
to import at a profit because Of redue
lions made in the tariff in 1S70-72 by
a republican congress, Of which Gar
field was a member and for which he
voted. These importations caused
mills to suspend, cut down wages, and
threw thousands out of employment
But what cared the operators. They
calculated on making money, although
sOme Of them were righteOusly bit.
and shrugged their shoulders and
winked knowingly when joked about
this manifestation of their devotion to
protection.
Not long ago committees of these
same manufacturers waited on all the
newspapers Of the city and begged
them to preach up panic and ruin 10
Pittsburgh unless the scale OF wages
was reduced. We plead guilty TO
being humbugged by the pite0us pleas
the manufacturers put forth, Of the
impending ruin and d~esOlatiop, and in
good faith printed in the Post, as other
city papers did, their arguments for a
new scale. But the workmen knew
the trick. They bravcly stood out
we're no more frightened than they
will be by present attempts to make
them vote the way the high and
mighty Frank Jones and Henry Oliver
and Schoonmaker says they must vote
or have their wages redUoed-and
what was the result3 The iron manu-
lecturers abandoned their ill-judged
attempt to reduce wages. 1t was all q
sham, their croaking of ruin and de-
%struetiol.
But not a greater sham than this
last dishonest and ~untruthful attempt
Of these ring manufacturer to frighten
the workingmen into voting for Gar
field. Ii. W. Oliver, the Cameron
lieutenant in this section, declares
we will not pay our men good wages
if the democrats win in November
What is that but the very bulldozing
alleged to be practiced on the negroes
Of the south, by their late masters.
We don't suppose they would pay
their men good wages now if they
could help themselves. Are Mr.
Harry Oliver and the other ring poll
ticians and manufacturers who con-
spife with him, such masters Of the
white mechanics of Piltsburg that BIZ
can intimidate them into voting tn,
way be, in his supreme iniallibility
think they ought to vote, by a throa.
if they vote otherwise they will hay,
their wages reduced2 If such intimi
datiOn can succeed, our mechanics
should apply at once to the lordly
Oliver for a collar wear. They WoulC
by the act Of bowling to such dictatior
renounce their manhood, and sink t
the level Ofserfs.
Vote for Garfield, "the free trader.
ESQ denounced by the Pittsburgh Ga.
zette)-for Garfield. the back paJ
grabber-for Garfield, the Credit No
bilier swindler-for Garfield, the Dc
Golyer brbeF, 'or we will not pay
you good wages
That's the imperial ukase of the
high and mighty republican ring man.
uiacturers, acting under instruction,
from Don Cameron to get up a scare
Obey, or tremble for the conse.
%quenees."
What have the workingmen to say
to the threat2