The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-26
GARFIELD AND WORKINGMEN

When the republican party failed on the
bloody shirt issue, the "rebel claims" and
the solid south issue, with which they
started the campaign, as last and desper-
ate resort they appealed to the workingmen
of the country 10 save their rotten and dis
solving parts. Although this issue was
| held back to the last weeks work Of the
campaign, in the hopes that there would
not be sufficient time for its discussion, it
now seems certain that their failure in this
last resort to capture voters will be more
ignominious than that of any Issue they
have yet brought before the people. The
republican party appealing to workingmen
to vote that ticket to conserve their inter-
ests, is as if the devil should appeal to sin
| ners to come to him for Christian instruc-
ton. The republican party has never
failed to embrace the opportu-
nifty to legislate against the peo-
pie and the poorer classes and the laboring
men of the country. When the working
men of the country were driven to despera-
ton by republican plundering and msrule,
that party put upon the statute books of the
country laws that were disgrace to bar
barism. If the party had a safe majority
in the country to-day they would place such
restrictions on suffrage that it would virtu-
ally place the control of the government in
the hands of the monopoistand the enemies
of the laboring and toiling people of tie
land. Garfield, if possible, is more bitter
and despotic enemy of labor than his party.
In his letter to the Employers Union, no
longer ago than last winter, he showed his
intense hatred for the laboring men when
he wrote that he was friend of the Burlin-
game treaty which had brought 100000
coolies to this country to compete with
American white labor. In the same letter
he uses this language
"ITakeitthat the question of employment
is only a question of private and corporate
economy, and individuals or companies
have the right to buy labor where they can
get it cheapest"
The official record of Garfield shows that
he has always been the friend of subsidies,
and that he has invariably advocated and
voted for every monopoly measure, every
bill in the interest of powerful moneyed
railroading and steamship corporations,
every proposition to advance the condition
of the wealthy manufacturers, and in every
way promoted the desires and demands of
the rich to the detriments of the toiing
classes and the poor, of the strong over the
weak. He voted for the enormous land
subsidy to the Northern Pacific Railroad
company, for the land grants to
all the Pacific railroads, for the
annual subsidy of one and half millions
Of dollars to the Pacific Mail Company, and
for the subsidy to the Brazilian line Of
steamers. But while he thus voted away
hundreds of millions of acres of the public
lands and many millions of dollars of gold
from the public treasury to these monopo-
lies and corporations and wealthy persons,
he voted to impose duty on tea and coffee
and salt, which bears with heavy force upon
the poor; and he also voted against paying
pension to the surviving veterans of the
war with Mexico, to the widows and or.
phans Of those who fell in the war, and
against the bill to pension General Shields
in the closing days Of his life, when he was
sadly in want Of home and help in the
country he had fought so bravcly to defend
and protect, and for which he had in Mex.
leo and in the civil war 80 fr, civ shed his