Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-09-14

ter. the Republican belLwsther 81
the campaign, Is going about the btats
ignoring labor questions. but making q
great ado about Scheidam Schnappsi sHd
lager beer. fs -. fi'fDf
Ths Republican, party. once led by
Lincoln and Chase and Stanfonlard
Seward and Morton and Tod and An
drews, Is sunk so low that Il Is hunting
an issue. Could there be mors humila-
ting confession? Governor Foster has not
one word TO say against monopolies. Not
one word suggesting how best to cireum.
vent the conspirators who buy, up and
control the necessaries OF life, creating
an artificial scarcity, thereby robbing the
poor.. Perhaps the gentleman inagines
that in this country the law OF supply
and demand regulates prices. When
capital buys and controls ell the wheat,
corn aud beef in the country. creating a
corner" in these articles, ss 1t is genef.
ally termed, how can the natural law Of
supply and demand have application
When Vanderbilt, or Gould, or a COM
bination OF money sharks can control
hundreds of millions of dollars, and ele-
vate or depress prices at will, what be-
comes Of the natural law Of supply and
demand? Do not these great wrongs in
fiicted upon the people BY organized oapi-
tai furnished an issue with which any
party might fight its way to victoryf But
Governor Foster, ignoring all these
things. in his hunt for Republican issue,
encounters old King Gambrinus, forth
with launches javelin at him.
In the fierce contest now waging be-
tween King Gambrinus and His Excel.
lency, the Governor, the Prohibitionists
of the State take but little interest. The
logic of their position is, that the liquor
traffic is d criminal business, and should
therefore be suppressed. They have NOR
al courage equal to their convictions, and
see in the tsxation and protection Of sa-
looms only the encouragement OF crime.
Then again, they do not consider the
Governor veteran in the Temperance
cause. Many of the old ladies who have
for years crusaded the saloons outrank
him. with his statistics, they are as
familiar as with the appearance OF the
moon. 1t takes less brain to the square
inch to make speech on temperance
than on any other subject. because the
field has been so assiduously cultivated.
And right here desire to say to gentle
men hunting issues for the Republican
party, who drink their beer and wine at
public dinners and in public places, that
the temperance poeple of Ohio do not
consider them especially qualified to hoist
water-fag.
The Republican party has no right to
expect the workiugmen to support IL ct
the coming election. The leaders of the
party in Ohio have conducted themselves
| in such manner as to merit rebuke, and
they will certainly receive it. s.ssts NJ VI
| Look at the appointments made by
those in authority. Has the labor inter
est received the slightest recognition
None whatever. The sons of the rich
have been the recipients Of office. both
State and Federal; but no man who has
ever publicly expressed. his sympathy for
the workingmen of Ohio has had the
slightest consideration. s
Governor Foster, who has taken very
little interest in what the workingmen
was to eat, is suddenly very much con.
cerned about what he has to drink. He
may lash himself into a fury, and i'm
agine himself the leader Of great Iefor-
nation, but the workingingmen OF Ohio
say to him: you have been our friend
heretofore; we can not trust you now.
Go to your capitalistic friends; lean on
your rich mems sons for aid; but do moi
expect the workingmen, whom you have
heretofore ignored, to follow in your
lead" n
One Of the most prominent Federal Of.
ficeholders IN Cincinnati had the unblush.
| ing effrontery to refuse a agentleman who
| applied to him for a position because the
applicant was connected with the Work
ingmen in 1877. This Federal figurehead
was indlscreet, ,it is true; but he expressed
the feelings of class of men who have
crawled and wriggled into high places Of
trust and power, and then chang kissing
at the nobler men below" II
remember how, in 1877, the year
when the county was plunged into the
deepest financial distress, hundreds 0l
thousands of the idle men tramping over
the country, without work and unable
to, obtain it; women and children dying
for want Of proper food and clothing; and
thousands Of men utterly bankrupted BY
the depreciation of values, that, In my
speeches. ] urged the appropriation OF
money by the State and General Govern
ment for improvements throughout the
country, to give men work and enable
them to at least exist. My appeal was ut,.
needed, and thousands OF industrious
men sank to the condition of vagrants,
for lack OF opportunity to better their
condition. Now; however, in time 81
much lesss stingency Congress can lavish
its millions on improvements that the
President Of the United States has offici-
ally proclaimed unnecessary and.unwise.
The workingmen of Ohio would have
short memories to forget all this. .s,s,
The American workingnan Is kept
constantly in warfare against the en-