Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-02
THE BUSINESS ISSUE,

f All classes have a deep interest in one ot ! the issues of this campaign, namely, the bus 1 mess issue Hancock's election and Demo 1 cratic supremacy mean change (which there | is no reason to think will be for the better) while Garfeld's election means steady main 1 tenance of the prosperous and successful policy that has characterized the present Re publican administration. In 1874 the people did want change because matters could hardly have been worse than they were, in g business sense, and any change held out hope of improvement. To-day the one thing the merchants, bankers, manufacturers and la. boring classes do not want, the one thing they most dread and have reason to protest against, is change in the policy of the admin istration at Washington.
 This feeling is cropping out all over the country. The Newark Advertiser says seNewark, of all cities in the United States, can least afford to confide its manufacturing interests to alien hands. We are for home rule. We want the protective tariff that makes our city a beehive of prosperous in- dustry, our farms around the most prolific and profitable in the world. We are not par ticular about the resolutions of 179S." One of the largest manufacturers in Connecticut said recently that as a business investment the manufacturers of this State could better afford to spend half million dollars than have their present prosperous condition dis turbed by Democratic victory in November. Hon. Smith Ely, president of the Vermont Copper Mining Company, lifelong and active member of the Democratic party, has just identified himself with the Republicans,
 and has sent his check for $500 to the State
 committee for campaign purposes. He says
 he would rather give $5O,00o than have the
 such result would be to his business inter
 ests. MT. Ely's mining company has over Il, 900 men on it's pay-rolls.
 Many more illustrations of the feeling of the
 business part of the community might be given, but we will be content with calling attention to an address to laboring men signed by leading manufacturers in Vermont. What it contains is just as true and the advice it gives just as good in Con-
 necticut as in Vermont
 Men and FaSe,ads-Feeling deeply the im-
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 contest upon the future welfare of our coun-
 try, and upon our own and consequently upon
 your interests, subjoin a few of the many
 reasons why we support the Republican party,
 and we earnestly invite you to calm consid-
 eration of these reasons, uninfidenced by any
 thing except your intelligence and reflection.
 And we urge you so far as you can do so to assist us in placing in power for the next four
 years the party whose policy it has been and
 will be to protect us in our material prosper ity. Your interests and ours are identical; neither of us can thrive without the support
 of the other. A policy of government that is
 best for us is also the best for you, and gsce
 gersg.
 First-We shall support the Republican
 party because it is the true Democratic party, as 1t asserts that the laboring man ,the same as the wealthy citizen is entitled to all the privi- leges of citizenship as guaranteed by the con- stitution.
 Second-We shall support the Republican party because it has always been the loyal
 party of the country and we think can more safely be intrusted with the control of the government than a party three-fourths of whose strength is composed of citizens who too recently tried to destroy our country by rebellion, and made it Q land of mourning. and created debt which has been and is still grievous to bear.
 Third-We shall support the Republican party because it's policy is to protect our business by protective tariff, without which we are confident that our business would not only be injured but absolutely ruined, and we should not need to employ labor.
 Article of the Republican platform says,
 'We affirm the belief, avowed in 1876, that duties levied for the purpose of revenue shall so discriminate as to favor American labor" And General Garfield says in his letter of ac- ceptance, sIn reference to our customs laws, policy should be pursued which will bring revenues to the treasury and will enable the labor and capital employed in our great in dustries to compete fairly in our markets with the labor and capital of foreign produ- cers. t'We legislate for the people of the United States and not for the whole world, and 1t is our glory that the American laborer is more intelligent and better paid than his foreign competitor.''
 The policy of the Democratic party is free trade-a tariff for revenue only (the exact and only words of the Democratic platform in reference to the tariff) no protection for labor or manufacturing interests
 Fourth-We shall support the Republican party because it is the party of honest money "a party that has made. it possible for us to pay you for your labor in gold or it's equiva- lent party that has by it's financial policy restored confidence and largely assisted to bring 8 return of prosperity for which we all so anxiously longed. Why hazard change in the midst of such prosperity?
 The danger which is pointed out in this ad- dress is very real one, as the record of the Democratic party shows. Most of the Dem ocratic members of every Congress for the last ten years, including the present one, have been radically unsound on all financial and industrial questions. That party has consistently stood in the way of the success ful financial and industrial legislation of the Republican pariy. Should it get the control of affairs we could expect nothing but a con tinuation of it's blunders, to use no harsher term. There is everything to lose and noth- ing to gain by making change now. Every business man and manufacturer who desires a continuance of "the good times" and every laboring man who wants work at good wages will make no mistake in voting for Garfield