Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-10-23
SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. %.

AS the tltc!ion is row only seven working
Jays eff. 10 harm can b done By saying that
With such cards as tho national democracy held
in lheir hands they have played the worse game
on rtcod. The demo cratic party from its in-
oeplion to tho present time. by the fundamental
principles of lis crgan;z ,tion, by its power and
prestige, and by the class Of people who have
supplied i! with it's voting strength, has baen
essentially the poor mans party. aud yet It's
managers, By remarkable degree of stupidity.
have. almost without opposition. permitted the
radicals, BY crafty but transparent designs, to
make it appear to the poor people that the sue
o:ss Of its policy vii! b detrimental to their To-
terssts. The manufacturing. o:mpered With
the agricultural and commercial Interests OF tho
country, and viewed with referero, to tho num-
Der Of hands i! employs. is almost Insignificant,
and yet tho democrats have allowed tho radi-
c,ls to induce the belief, among thcs, whose
sources of Information arc limited, that it is
moro important than both the others combined.
and that all others should b. made subserViens
to it. But were it otherwise, and were the
manufacturing interest tic controlling oue, II
woul not alder he o.s', lJr tho protection that
is afforded it does not rebound to tho interests
of the poor man. o. contrary, is,like all other
radical legislation, tends, snd uojustlS, to make
the DOOR man poorer and the rich richer. The
tariff protects not tho workman 10 tho factories
but the rich proprietor, ard let it bs ever 30
high wages are not increased, though BY it the
workman has to puy twice as much for every
article he CONSUMES az he would have to do
withou. it. He is taxed 90 bis salt, 90 bis sugar,
on bis shoes, cl3thes sud hat. 10 fact en- every
thing he eats, drinks, acd wears 10 order thst
the few rich manufacturing ponopolsts may
be protected. Then, too. it restricts employ.
msnt, for were It renewed, foreign merchants, by
being enabled to psy for their orders 10 foreign
goods, would necessarily increase their orders
and thus necsssitate thu employment of more
hands to.supply the increased demand. A tariff
is essentially urjus: to the poor man, because by
it he is made to psy as much as his rich neigh
Dor toward tho support of the government
though no has DO property for the gcveromen!
to protect. Taxes are laid for tho protection
property. and tho rich having that properly
should bear tho expense cf protecting II. or, 10
other words. should support the government.
But by tariff Cd the neossssries OF lite.
such as now exists. az one man can not consume
more of those necesssries than another, whether
he be rich or poor, il is ssen OF glance that
the many Door people who have 10 property to
protect pay for tbs protection OF thst OF The
few ROB. The democratic party is free trade
party because free trade is 10 the interest OF
the Door man aud therefore il the interest OF
the vast majority OF the people of the ocuotry.
The democratic party is in favor of an income
tax, because Of all others that is the talrest
mode of collecting revenue, IS 1t imposes tax
upon those for tho protection of whose property
the expenses of thu government are Incurred.
and who can bear it withou. trouble and iccoD-
veuience. and is one to which every cilzsn OF
the country would long to be subject. The
democratic party IL in favor Of tree ships in or"
der that Americans may buy ships 10 the
cheapest market and be thus enabled TO estab-
lish new lines of trade, foreign and domestic. to
Increase the shipments of American products,
aud in addition keep at homo the millions OF
dollars now paid foreign ship owners, and all 10
the interest of the poor mao. The democratic
party was the first to remove the property quail
ification upon suffrage in order that the poor
man who does the fighting for bis country should
have an equal vote With the rich in selecting the
men who make add execute the laws. but the
republicans. even yet. 10 somo Of the N orthern
States impose this obnoxious restriction. The
democratic party vas the party that killed know
uothiugism. ana thus proclaimed that 9 man
should net be prescribed on ao,ouot of bis ma
tivity and religion. But. With all thess and
hundreds of other thing. that iustly enttle them
to the confidence and support of the Door peo-
pie of the country. aod that would have
secured them that support if the proper means
had been taken to disseminate and eluoidate
the principles of the party, the demo.
cratic managers hsvo allowed the radicals |
to 90 twist and distort plain and simple truths |
30 to make many of these people believe that |
The republican party, ruled and governed as it is
By the rich and shoddy ariste c'scy of the North,
s their best friend, and that their interests will
be best subssreed By continuing it in power.
If they lose the 6ght next Tuesday Baek, which !
God forbid the blame will rest solely and en-
tirsiy spon themselves.