The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-10-23
A CRUsHER ON GARFIELD.

While the republican managers and howl
ers in New York, New jersey and New Eng
land were busy propagating the lie among tb
workiDgmen that the democrats were opposed
to all tariff protection and hostile to the work
ing people, they were filled with CONSERVATION
and dismay by the publication of the follow
ing letter from James A. Garfield
| HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES,, WASHING
TON, Ian. %, 1Ss0.-DEAR SIR: Yours in re
atiOn to the Chinese problem came duly Il
hand. take it tnat the question of employee
is only question of private and corporate
economy, and individuals or corporations have
the right 10 buy Id6or ,chere they can get i
cheapest
We have treaty with the Chinese govern
ment which should be reigiously kept until
its provisions are abrogated by the action OF
the general government, and | am not prepar
ed to say that it should be abrogated until our
great manufacturing interests are conserved in
the matter Of labor. Very truly yours,
J. 4. GARFIELD
II. l.. Morcy, Employers Union Lynn Mass
| The letter came into the hands of the Demo
cratic National Committee with such evidences
of its genuineness that they were unable to
doubt it, 1t was enclosed IN regular con.
grcss!onal envelope, supersCrlbed in whatscem-
ed to be indisputably Mr.. Gartelds handwrlt.
ing, bore the regular congressional post stamp,
and the writing of the body of the letter was
compared by the Hon. A. $. Hewitt and sever.
al experts with other letters in Mr. Garfield
handwriting which Mr.. Hewitt had in his
possession, and pronounced to be unqucstion-
ably the same. Then it was written at the
very time the house was discussing the anti
Chinese bill which Mr. Garfield opposed and
which Mr.. Hayes afterward vetoed, SO that It's
sentiments exactly accorded with Mr. Gar
fields expressed sentiments at the time
Yet if its genuineness was established be
yond all dispute, the republican managers saw
that it was a perfect crusher on them. Here
they were moving heaven and earth to instll
IN the working people the falsehood that the
democrats were hostile to them, and in the
midst of their hellsh work comes letter from
Garfield advocating the importation and EN-
ployment of Cinnamon by our manufacturers to
force down wages to the starvation standard
whelmng conundrum. They telegraphed to
Garfield and he sent back a reply that the let.
ter was forgery; but as Garfield had been
already caught in so many lies, to which he
had even sworn, in the DeGolyer and Credit
Mobilier business, this was felt to be lnsutficl-
clent. so they next sent band Of emlssaries
to Lynn, Mass, and these send back word that
no such man as H. l.. Morey ever lived IN that
town, was ever heard of, or that there Is or ev
er was such an institution or association there
as the Employers Union.
Upon these dispatches the republicans now
rest their case of the mons enuineness of the
epstlle. But when we take into consideration
the desperateness of their case, and their known
readiness to commit perjury, theft, or any 9TH
er vIllainy to keep themselves IN power, there
is every reason to at least suspect the honesty
of their pretended negative evidence from Lynn
The Democratic Committee will take care to
push the investigation of the matter to the
bottom, and if the letter does turn out genuine,
though it announces no sentiments for which
Garfield by his public acts and speeches can
not be held responsible, yet under all the cir
now surrounding the case it is fel,
that 1t would prove a death-blow to the hypo.
critical Pccksnif of Mentor