Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-08-19

| Thing plants himself Tor lie. ana see II We
can find its meaning. That it is purposely
worded to mslead, must be admitted. But
some things are said therein, that let Us into
the true meaning and intent of its authors.
It denounces protection to American
industries. 1t declares for cheap mar
kets and cheap labor. Buy where you
may buy the cheapest, means absolute
tree trade; nothing less. I ask the
.aborers, mechanics. artizans and producers
to a careful analysis of the phrase buy where
you can buy the cheapest" Yonr labor and
skill are for sale. They are commodities
much as any article of merchandise. Now,
your labor is the measure Of value Of all
merchandise. IL makes the chief value of all
fabrics. This cannot be denied. And when
the democratic party in its resolutions re-
solves down protective tariff, and resolves
in favor of cheap markets. it resolves against
you. Look at these facts. not disputed but
admitted. On the continent Of Europe a cam
mon house carpenter receives for a
weeks work So 80. In Maine the same
work commands $1,000 per week.
| In England, puddlers at the furnaces receive
| but 81 So. for the same labor that in our
country commands $3.50. and 50 on. When
| the democratic party resolve in favor of
cheap markets they resolve against sl2 per
week, and in favor of s3.50 Does any one
deny this? Let US see. Mr.. Hewitt of New
| York a democrat and member of Congress.
| in a recent debate in the House, was forced
| by undeniable facts to admit that labor in
Europe commands less than ohe-half the sum
| il does in the United States. Let US demon
strate By a few simple facts which any labor
| err mechanic or producer will see at a glance
| to be true. how the repeal of a protective
| tariff and the adopting of this democratic
| policy Of cheap markets and Of buying
where you may buy the cheapest" would be
| destructive of all our industries or reduce
our laborers to the condition of the pauper
labor Of Europe. Does any one deny that
labor is the chief element that enters into
| and makes the commercial value of all mer-
chandise? Look at few simple facts: The
timber in the forests. the iron, steel, copper
and brass in the mines, which enter into the
construction of ship, a locomotive, a steam
engine. or plough. are of quite small value
Ii is your labor that begins in the forests and
in the mines, and step by step. by ingenious
and cunning processes, moulds them into
these grand and useful structures, that
makes four-fifth or more OF their commercial
value. The same is true of all merchandise
And submit to the thoughtful consideration
of the laborers. mechanics and producers of
| Maine, whether or not the democratic policy
announced at Portland, of free trade, and
cheap markets, of Buy where you NAV buy
the cheapest" and the other democratic pol
icy of repeating our navigation laws. if car
ried into effect, would not close every ship
yard. furnace and rolling mill in our country,
and destroy our home markets. And to this
party and this policy Mr.. Thing declares him
self committed, not for this campaign only but
for all the wears of his natural life
DO you desire this, Then vote for Plaisted
and Thing. To buy where you may
buy the cheapest. means to buy the pauper
labor Of Europe, or to reduce your labor to
the same level. 1t is a declaration in favor
of capital and monopoly. 1t reverses the
sentiment of the lamented Garfield. ''Let
Americans devote themselves to the welfare
of Americans" II saws let American labor
ers, mechanics, and producers take care OF
themselves. Ii spurns this principle held by
the republican party and thus announced by
Garfield. 1T is our glory that the American
laborer is more intelligent and better paid
than his foreign competitor" and is in &C
cordance with this of Huskinson, announced
in the English Parliament, ''To enable cap
tal to obtain its just reward, labor must be
kept down; must be cheap"
| Repeal our protective tariff and adopt the
democratic policy announced at Portland.
"buy where you may buy the cheapest, would
be to aid England in doing what Lord Broug
ham in Parliament declared she could afford
to do destroy foreign manufactures by sell
ing cheap" Against such policy she re-
publican party does now and ever has stood
firm The policy of its statesmen is to day as
it has been in the past, in the language of the
London Times, mot the largest amount OF
wealth, but to keep up by whatever means
the standard of comfort and education among
all the people"
| Do the laborers and producers of our State
know that this policy f"buy where you may
buy the cheapest" is in sympathy with the
acts of the free traders of England? That
the Golden Free Trade Club of England
sent its documents broad cast through our
country during the late presidential election
Was that done in the interest of American
industry and laborers--to build up wages ?
Or to break them down? twas direct inter
ference of foreign capitalists and monopo-
lists in our elections, and in the interest Of
that sentiment of Huskinson, 'That, in order
that capital may receive its Just rewards,
labor must DE kept down" Buy where you
NAV buy the cheapest" is in harmony with
the sentiment of the old slave holders, that
labor was the normal condition of the laborer.
and that capital should own the labor.
Buy where you may buy the cheapest"
saws the democratic party of Maine. Let
Lewiston. Saco, Auburn, Biddeford. Water
vile and Brunswick be abandoned, or the
operatives reduced to the condition of the
operatives of Manchester, England, of whom
the late Horace Mann of Massachusetts, said,
in lecture delivered in this city, that five
thousand of them came out of the mills at
night. who had no place to lay their heads
but in cellars, on the ground without bed or
pillow. That in such, they lay down to-
gether in one common herd, men, women
youth and children. their pay being scarcely
sufficient to afford clothing to cover their
nskedness. and food of the meanest quality
Here Huskinson's idea. was realized, Labor
was cheap" capital was receiving its just
reward.
On this democratic platform. Plaisted,
Ladd. Thing. Murch and Dane plant them
selves. down with protective tariff. ="
"Buy where you may buy the cheapest" Are
you ready for this? If so, you will vote for
these men. If not, then you will take as your
platform the motto of the republican party as
announced by Garfield, at is our glory that
the American laborer is more intelligent and
better paid than his foreign competitor. !"
There is no greenbsck party but the one
headed by Scion Chase. II Plaisted, Thing,
Murch and Ladd claim to be such. il is for
the purpose of betraying honest men into this
democratic free trade Cheap labor party"
And submit to the intelligent and thought
full men of Maine, that this man Thing in thus