The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-28
THE DALLAS HERALD SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER g. 1884,
IDLE THREATS AND PLEDGES.

Usually in Pennsylvania the repun'lesh
pirtv needs no outside help. Heretofore
the machine has been able TO take care OF
itself, but still outside assistance mas oeeh
Obtained from those who had nothing 10 GO
at home. One Of those who have always
freely responded to CAaEEoN's call IS ht'e
FRYE, of Maine. He was there in lso'l, and
made speeches, and he is making more IN
the present campaign. In 1880, by oold
ami unconditional promises, he assured
the workingmen of Pennsylvania that
their wages would be raised through
increased prosperity should they
ca 1t their votes tor Garfield, - They rs
tened, voted, waited in vain to see the
pledge redeemed and experience the
higher wages, and struck this year loo,'
ODD strong, AMI lost by the strike so,o"Ooo'
Now FRYE has the etfrontery to go back
to these old auditors aud declare to them
that every mill in Pittsburg would be
closed should the democrats carry Pennsy1-
vania." When We are once deceived we
are always suspecting, and in this instance
Mr. FRYE's predictions will meet with as
little confidence beforehand as they would
OF iulillment after the contingency he
refers to had happened. The laboring
classes of the United States are everywhere
beginning to declare their distrust of re-
publican pledges, so long have they been
unperiormed, though so often repeated.
Whatever tafly such men as FRYE may
give the mechanics of the country, there
fore, or the toiling thousands, about
higher wages" under republican protec-
ton or starvation and slavery under demo-
cratic rule, will fail, hereafter or atthepres-
ent, to have but little influence. They are
beginning to think. for themselves, as the
now great bolt in Pennsylvania,
sweIled to 100000 men who have here
tolore been voted like sheep by the
CAMERON ring of that state, indicates. And
dong this they are recognizing the terrible
burdens under which they have been labor
ing, whore toll has been made to compete,
without protection, with the cheap labor Of
Europe and China, while capital has been
protected by duties ranging all the way
from 20 10 100 per cent. 1t is but natural,
therefore, that such facts should produce
reaction, should weigh largely in the efforts
being made to place the country under
new rule, where Il changed state of affairs
will ensue. The unusually active efforts,
also, of such men as FRYE, BLAINE,
HARRISON, SHERMAN aud Others in their
fights tins tall, and we may anticipate II
repetition of them on even II more extern
siye scale two years hence, to hold up mo.
nopoly or protection and put down or keep
down the democracy, may not be feared to
anything like the unusual extent of the
efforts. Expressions may continue for a
long time under repeated fair and glitter.
ing promises, but unless the promises are
conscentiously fulfilled nottingham ration
ally be expected but disgust, and disgust
manifested in most practical manner. We
are now entering the period OF disgust,
and the party in control must fee
the disastrous effects, SENATOR FRYrs
speeches and predictions in Pennsylvania,
rs consequence, therefore may and do
amount to but little. They only serve to
illustrate the frequent repetition of prom.
ises and threats TO the people which are
only meant to gull the voter, and the work.
ingmen's and independent movement there,
on The other hand, operate as a str,ng
and natural sequence to the hollowness of
the oihcr-the fact that there is time
when the popuaoe recognize, that it has
been deceived and does not ike that man
ncr OF doing,