The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-04-28

THE GOOD TINE COMING.

There is no civilized country o,
the globe whose rulers would dare tt
perpetrate directly the wrongs tina
are inflicted by indirect methods OF
the working masses of the United
! States under the specious and delu
sive plea Of fostering home indus
tries.
| There is not civilized people or
earth who would not rise in stout re
bellion against All attempt to take
from their pockets, by taxation, any
portion of their earnings to enrich
any class Of their fellow citizens.
This crime against labor is so art.
fully cohtrived and so cunningly
managed that the victims do not re.
a'lze the nature and extent of the
wrong. The money fiIched from the
hard hand of honest industry makes
clrcultous passage before it lands
in tile Golfers Of the rich beneficiary,
but it does not land there all the
same. There is not a working man
in the United States who does not
Fart with very considerable por-
ton of each days earnings for no
other purpose than to increase the
profits of the business prosecuted by
capitalists.
Ii the gross amount Of this gigan-
tic robbery were stated, and each
contributor made to understand how
much is taken from him, the protec-
ton party would be swept out of ex.
lstence by a wave of popular excite
nent compared with which Kansas
cyclone were but a balmy zephyr.
Slowly but surely the people are
getting educated up to a comprehen-
sion o: the facts lying at the base of
protection, and an understanding of
its effects. They can't much longer
be deceived Ivy the fallacy that the
money of which they are robbed
comes back to them in the shape of
increased wages or larger prices for
The products of their toll. They see
great industries taxed for the pro
lection of smaller ones. They see
millions added to the cost of articles
of general consumption manutac-
tured by a few men. They see that
by an Ubiquitous systc,n OF bargain,
dickering of votes and co operation
Of monopolists we have a tariff that
curses the poor, adding immensely
to the cost Of their substance, but
giving them no reciprocal benefit.
They understand that this mighty
plan for plundering the poor is the
device of the party that has always
bowed III humble reverence before a
money bag, the party whose legisla~
ton has been always in the interest
Of the rich, the party that has been
affiuent in promises and loud in pro
fessions of regard but has never
omitted an opportunity to rob labor
of its just reward at the demands of
monopolies.
The time is coming, and it will
show up at an earlier date than most
politicians anticipate, when every
other issue in our National politics
will he subordinated TO that of Free
trade versus Protection. 1t will not
be possible for rampant sectional
ism, or anything else, much longer to
exclude this paramount question
from its rightful place.. The mil
lions robbed are already asking the
hundreds Of robbers to show their
authority, and are learning that
there is no better right than a fimsy
tissue of sophistry and false preten-
ses. And when this time comes the
Republican party will find that it
can not 60 on further in this uni
form, unvarying course of trucking
to wealth and deluding labor with
false promises. 1t will part with
many of the brightest intelects. 1t
will see its progressive element max.
ing common cause with the Democ-
racy in a determined war on that
system of human slavery which has
escaped destruction so long because
it has lived under a false name and
been disgusted with lying pretenses.
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