The Labor enquirer., 1883-09-01
rOLUME 1I.--NO. 3s.
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..shusetts Respscfabihfy
60 one has said with more than q
ss;o,,u, I of truthfulness that "hypocrisy
~ tribute which vice pays to virtue
s;ftbis definition be the true one, the
orxl and aesthetic dudes of the new
,rk Evening Post must contrioute
,oely to the elevation OF humanity. )
IN q recent issue that journal, in refer
70 to the chances of General Butler for
iecond term, says:
THE governors administration has
an 90 extraordinary thathis candidacy
another term would simply raise the
estion of whether respectability or
respectability were in the majority in
1t state.
Ifthat sentence stood by itself readers
ght be at a loss whether to construe
word 'respectabilityp as in bearing
h the Butler administration OF. re-
Sc, but the next sentence defines the
mus of the article, which says:
If the majority of the voters of Mass
iHsetta were 10 declare in favor of a
ond term of Butler, modelled upon the
t, it would 6e one of the most dis
raging blows which the principle of
government has received in a long
e"
II of which translated into plain
ylish means that if antagonism to
nopoly, economy of administration,
horror of speculating in human
es and dead babies are to be longer
tinued in the Bay State, Massachu-
8 responsibility and the principle of
government would be outraged. !
be question naturally arises as to
1t Massachusetts respectability means,
ethat can only be learned by turning
= history and thereby fuding what in
past was considered respectable in
state.
/ the infancy of that so-called COM
hwealth it was respectable to enslave
tans, whip Quakers, and drown
khes, and for antagonism to such re-
liability Roger Williams and others
assisted in propulsion in: emigrating
he wilderness of Rhode Island.
Massachusetts, respectabilily then but
sed itself by the African slave trade,
ling its ships one way with rum and
sionaries and bringing back negroes.
vas earnestly argued that by no other
Id the souls of such dark complex
ed heathens be saved from perdition.
Yhen the great infquity of the slave
de- was crippled by the constitutional
vision which limited its duration to
snty-fve years, Massachusetts, respect
lity employed its ancient slave feet
bringing molasses from the West In
8 to make into rum, and soon dis
iced all competitors in that traffic.
forget the pretty ethical term they.
II TO disguise TINS enormity.
Next the said respectablility posed as
MON savers" and "conservators of
ted right" in human muscle, impris-
ng and ostracising every daring inno-
or who protested against their bias
emies.
Va sueh conditions meant war, at the
t moment the said respectability
.nged its coat and passed as the earli-
and heart1est defender of the rights
man. Then it protested against
Ill volume of currency, branding itsg1
lated, but when Congress voted sol, ,e
100000 to Massachusetts, as her share
what was practically Tree gift OF
tional Bank none, she grabbed
1000, 1000 and no legisiatipeor jt viciary
,cedures have been sole to force such
pectability to disg fge the $4,000, 900
ich it practically srole;;
10, when the first magistrate of the
.te strongly protests against the enter
ises of tanntAg paupers, hides and
eculating OIL eadbabies, the said re-
ectability, true to its ancient instincts,
.ditions and antecedents,. raises the
me- old howl Of disnay and horror
at it yelped IL olden times against the
aptists and Qlakers, the opponents of
slave and liquor traffic, and with its
d time logic and rhetoric asserts that
will be obliterated and chaos
i'll ccmSagain if the war against vested
Zhts, u exemplifed by the humaD
dead baby traffic, is not
amslfly suppressed. The "Irishman's
= ny haslong since become an 'd'"n'