Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-10-21
-NoErHERN

NORTHERN
: Nothing more revolving to man
hood can be imagined than the meth
DDS resorted to by Republican en-
ployers in the recent elections to
compel their dependents to vote
tickets supposed to be favorable to
the interests of monopoly and capital.
No matter what conceptions such
Republicans may have had of their
necessities and their right and duty
to use their money and power, a con
stitution, such as ours, is dangerous
" assailed when voters are forced TO
act against their wishes and judg-
ment. All who thus coerce their
fellow citizens under the insoIent as
sumption that they know best what
the people want are revolutionists Of
the most debasing and ruinous char
aeter, and traitors of the darkest and
most dangerous type.
It is, indeed, a sad day, when con-
siderable numbers of worklngnen can
be brought by any pressure or
treachery to surrender the most prec-
ious Of all rights, the exercise of a
free ballot. The extent to which this
has been done recently is an alarm.
Better. things were expected from
even Communists and flatists; but,
alas! after all their braggadacio, they
had neither the grit nor the martyr
spirit to assert their political prefer
ences; but the men that have sue
combed are men for all that, and
have memories as well as resentments.
They bide the time when those that
have been storing up wrath against
the day of wrath will be visited with
the legitimate consequences of their
short sightedness.
The punishment of these tyrants will
be the more certain because neither
the North nor the South, the East
nor the West is ripe tor the return OF
the Republican party to the full ex-
ercise of governmental authority.
The conservative policies of the pres
ent executive and the enforced fnan-
cial and other reforms of Democratic
legislation have been and are too
highly rellshed to be speedily and
tamely surrendered for renewal OF
Grantism and Inauguration of the
doubtful Republican policies OF call
ing in and c~ancelling g~reenbacks and
remitting the control Of the currency
10 the national banks.
Republican business men of all
classes seem to have forgotten that
the present measure of national pros
perity is due to the honest and un-
controlled pressure of a vast major
ity of the whole country on congress
and the executive through the Dem
ocracy. This persistent spirit, which
has been manifested IN the North and
East as we'll as at the South and
West, which has surmounted the con
sequences of the rebellion and OF
Republican misrule cannot be arrest
ed by monopolists. If business men
were wise they would recall and con-
slider these facts and seek better and
more profitable employment for their
money and influence. Senator Conk-
ling's theory of property rule and his
effort (too successful, perhaps) to
convince Republican employers of
their right and duty and power TO
control the votes Of their working
mel a have no other result, if per-
manently practised, than to reduce
those, who shall submit to such die.
tation, to a worse degradation than
African slavery. With bank notes
redeemable in gold, would the condi-
ton of the workingman be bettered?
With all the protection that govern
ment a heap on monopoly, would
his wages be increased, or his per-
sonal and political rights made more
secure?