Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-30

We nave a 1Ouf-nOrBe team 81 CdnuludtcS
for governor hitched to a one-horse wagon,
sailing around, loaded to the axle with dirty
sentiment and cheap tafy for the people.
The team il too large for the wagon, and the
freight carried is Of too inferior quality TO
be consumed by any but those of a depraved
sentiment or dwarfed intellect.
Mr. Hawkins, a Republican, and Mr.. Fus-
sell, a Democrat, are both on the same plat
| form favoring and sustaining the present set
| Element. Mr.. Bate, Democrat, and Mr..
| Beasley, National, are both opposed to the
present settlement. The former agree as to the
State debt, but disagree IS TO who shall be
| governor, and the latter agree in opposition
! to the present settlement, but disagree as TO
| the details of a settlement. Both of the former
or both of the latter cannot be elected, and
as a fact is of more importance than the de-
| tails of fact, it behooves all to pool their
| details and consolidate on facts.
The present condition of the State debt, as
stated before, does not admit in point Of fact
| but of one proposition, and that is, to pay If
| or not to pay it. A proposition TO change
| the conditions of settlement, or to repudiate
| any more of it, or all of it, does not amount
| to decent nonsense, for the question is now
closed unless the entire question is referred
| to the people, to whom of right it belongs,
| for they alone have it to pay; hence l am in
| favor of dividing the debt into two classes.
| What Is known as the debt proper, and all
| other debts in the other class, and then SUBJ
NIT both divisions to the people TO pay or
not to pay. But the politicians say that will
not do, for the people will rePddiate all OF
it. The politicians are in favor not only Of
The minority TO rule, but of robbing the peo-
| pie, under the forms of law, by the tricks of
/ political legerdemain. Politicians can never
| settle the Slate debt, in law or with the cash /;
l in law, because they cannot and will not har-
monte; in cash, because they are not able.
Hence, l repeat it, it is the peoples question,
| addressing itself directly to every mans
| pocket-white and black, Democrat, Repub-
lcan and National. Them in the name of
common honesty, common sense and fair
| dealing, refer the question to the only tribu-
| nal that can settle it.
| II Nh. Hawkins and Russell cannot pool
| the minor details in these platforms and let
the strongest man run alone in The interest
| of the present settlement, then it is the duty
of their friends to pool them and only run
one. If Mr.. Bate and Bessley cannot pool,
hen their friends should pool for them, and
1 only run one IN opposition to Its settlement.
| In my judgment, Hawkins is the leading
| man TO hold fast hst has been zone, and
that Bate is the leading man to undo what
| has been done; hence all who are willing to
pay the railroad debt and receive no stock,
interest. or profits from, to, or in hem, and
| are willing to be robbed and see their neigh
bors robbed under the forms of law, should
vote for Hawkins, and ali who are not in
| favor of paying the railroad debt and who
are not in favor of being robbed and seeing
taeir neighbors robbed should vote for Bate.
As a Greenbscker l willing to pool
everything in State politics to defeat the
| present settlement of the State debt, and 80
| advice all other Greenbackers in the State.
| But in national politics pool nothing, stand
to your colors, preferring continued defeat to
.Us~vry. J. L. HARRIS.
WOrkingmen's strikes and Wages.
To the Editors of the Appeal:
| AS you request me TO answer what you are
please to call conundrum-the question,
What causes so many strikes for higher
wages if high tariffs secure high wages?-I
| will do so with the greatest pleasure after
| calling your attention to the fact that, in
| stead of many, there have been very few, il
any, strikes of skilled labor during the past
twelve months. The strikes heretofore Il am
| speaking exclusively of those of skilled labor
| have in no instance been caused, what your
| question seems 10 imply, by starvation wages
out because the workingmen did not receive
| their proportionate share of the profits made
| by the manufacturer to which they (the
workingmen) were entitled, as they, to large
| extent, contributed to it. Formerly the en-
| ployers and employees acted antagonistic
| toward each other, but since the existence
OF trades unions they have come to a better
understanding. They have learned by ex-
| perience that strikes are injurious to both
! capital as we'll as labor, and now, when the
| workingmen have a grievance they lay it,
through the officers of their unions, before their
employers, who in every instance concede to
their demands if convinced that they are
just. On the other hand, when the manufac-
.urer loses money he communicates the fact
to the respective unions, which in the same
spirit of concession advises the workingmen
to submit to a reduction of wages, if found
TO be true. To prove this will state that
last week an amended and advanced scale
of wages upon which they had agreed with
their workingmen after fully discussing the
matter with them. In conclusion would
| request you to answer the following ques-
ton: Was this country more prosperous, our
manufactures more hourishing and did the
workingmen receive better wages before the
war when we had low tariff than after tine
war, or since we have a high protective
tariff? C.NE.