The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-07-15

Laboring Man.
The following pithy, true and logi-
cal editorial we clip from the Fair
mont Indes Of last week and would
commend it especially to the work
ing man.:
The gentlemen who spoke SC. Iogi-
cally and eloquently at the Fair
Grounds on last Tuesday said many
truthful things, and Of some of
these remarks we desire to say few
words:
1t was asserted that the legislation
enacted by the general Government
for the past quarter Of a century has
been, with bnt slight exception, al
most wholly in tire interest Of the
capitalists and the richer class of
citizens, and against the lab oring and
poorer class of people; that this vi
cious and pernicious class legislation
has the tendency to and it does make
those who are SO unfortunate as to be
poor get lower down in the scale of
poverty in proportion to the increase
Of the wcalthier class. We heartily
agree with the distinguished speak
ers. Many of the laws row in force,
indeed we might say all of the I'M
just, Ubiquitous laws now in opera
tioh, are the direct creation and off
spring of a Republican Congress,
seconded by corrupt Administers
ton of the same political ilk. For
more than twenty years the Demo
cratic party, though at times greatly
in the minority, has been stubbornly
fighting for the rights of the people
against the Entertainments of the
dominant party, whose career has been
steadily and efectually in the. sole
interest of the moneyed class and the
aristoeraey. The efforts of the de-
mocracy to regain control of the gov
eminent have so far failed, but one
Of the chief causes, perhaps the only
cause, has been the coalition, either
open or concealed, at the supreme
moment, of the various labor organi-
cations throughout the country with
the Republican party, and by thus
aiding and abetting this party, the
evils of which our laboring friends
now SO loudly complain, have grown
to such size as to be almost I'M
bearable. Will the men who consti-
tute the Knights of Labor, Greenback
and other labor organizations never
learn that until they renounce the
leadership of demagogues, whose am
bition seems to be no higher than to
lead their honest but confiding fol
lowers into the ranks of those to
whom the laboring classes are in
debted for the laws that now bitterly
Cypress them, and throw their moral
and political strength to the Demo
cratic party, they are battling in a
hopeless struggle, one in which money
and intrigue will always triumph?
The great principles for which they
contend and the relief which they
demand are identical with those en-
grated in the platform of the Democ-
racy, which is after all the party Of
the people. With the aid Of our
laboring friends throughout the en-
tire country, the Democratic party
would easily defeat and supplant the
Republican party in power, land speed
lily remedy the ills under which the
laborers as well as others now groan.
We extend an earnest and hearty in
vitation to all who desire to see true
reform, a wise and just government,
where the laws are for the poor as
well as the rich; where the principle
that "the laborer is worthy of his
hire is recognized and carried out;
where jobbery and robbery are not
smiled upon as evincing smartness,
and where positions of trust and hon
or are not conferred for political SER
vice alone-to all who yearn for such
condition Of affairs as we have here
described, we say come into the Dem
ocratic fold. Within this grand old
party there will be found all the re-
lief desired or possible.