Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-09-21
THE Sixth DISTRICT.



iTrom the Toledo Bee. Ind
The position occupied by Col. J. II.
Brigham. Republican nominee for Con-
eress, Is very singular. BE PROCESSES TO
Represent the interest OF the Grange ele-
ment. who for years have attempted TO
cheek and counteract the exactions OF
middlemen, and the unjust discrimina-
ton of railroad monopolists. yet at the
same time he swallows entire the Repub-
lican hog-Protection. Head, tail, en-
trails, bristles and all are engulfed in his
capacious political stomach, and should
he have the opportunity to digest the con-
Rlomerate mass in Congress, it will nat
urally develop the tissues of corrupt par
tisian legislation which now curses the
body poiitic, and by It's very exorbitance
disgraces the statute book OF the nation.
As a mere PARTISAN. which he must
necessarily become, the Colonel can be Of
no practical benefit to the farming inter-
est. By the terms Of his compact, enter
ed into at Defiance when he was nomiDa-
ted, he is under the necessity Of digest
ing his party's hog. In his speech OF ac-
ceptance he expresses himself on that
subject as follows:
1T is necessary to protect the rights Of
property, but labor must also be protec-
ted. ! believe the Republican party can
guard the rights Of all. There must be
no communism, and there Is no COM
munism in the Republican party. be-
lieve in the protection of labor, and
would invite to America the laboring
classes of all nations. We have room for
all, and when they come would protect
them from the pauper labor they have
left behind. Applause.
| The statements of this paragraph are
merely sophistical and delusive. and it
goes to show that Col. Brigham's former
Opposition to discriminating taxation
was q farce, or the position he now holds
in behalf Of protection is a delusion and
fraud, committed on the great boby of
citizens with whom he is SO Intimately
| identified. q n HOS
The rights Of property are amply pro-
tected by organic as well as by statute
law. 1t needs no further protection.
How does the Colonel propose to protect
the labor Of men who hold no property
or il any but little OF it? He proposes
to uphold and perpetuate his party policy
| of taxing them an average of some A pei
C6ut. Ou tu1tk uCOCoodty 0tttStCo Va SOh'
sumption, and by promoting foreign EN-
igration bring about an active competi
tion in the labor market, by which to de
crease the wages OF labor, and its seque
follows-he will then protect then
against the pauper labor which they hav'
left behind.
We may understand the philosophi
demonstration as matter of party polio,
which was furnished by the exposure o
self-infiicted wounds by that amiablt
lady, Mrs. Eliza Pinkston, and history
records the important part which JohI
Sherman and Governor Foster played ir
that glorious farce; but when the Gran
ger candidate for Congress in the Sixtl
| District talks of the Republican party
protecting the farmer and the workin,
men of the United States from foreigi
pauper labor, his delusive sophistry, il
view of the facts, will excite the risibl,
faculties of mere donkey.
That which is needed is less of thi
tomfoolery about protecting this, tina
and the other classes, and things, and tn,
enactment of just laws which shall brin,
revenue to the Government. and witt
the cost of transportation across tn
ocean, furnish an incidental protection
of at least % or 30 per cent.
1t is, moreover, hopeless to expect an.
measures looking towards the attainmen
of such results from Col. Brigham or tn
party with which he is identified, and tn
hope of change is based on the election
of such candidates as Hon. W. d. Hill
who have avowed their intention, if elec
ted, to use all and every honest effort t.
bring about just system of tariff taxa
ton.