The Labor enquirer., 1883-07-14

an opponent whose cause could only be
strengthened by a fair discussion OF the
merits of the question upon which the
parties differ We know nothing of the
wild uproar and excitement of the anti
monopoly conference beyond the account
of one of thevery monopolies they pro-
pose to attack, but if we are not much
mistaken we have frea eauently read in the
columns of the Post Dispatch descrip-
ton Of the proceedings of democratic
conventions, and even democratic legis-
latures, beside which the widest antics
of the anti-monopolists may be called
mildness itself. The Post Dispatch
seems to be paving the way for an op-
portunity to crawl back into the demo-
cratic party in order, that Pulitzer's
papers, "both daily" may at the proper
time be in a position to defend the
interests of his very. silent partner, Jay
Gould.-St. Louis Union. + >. ...a.H.
At last Irish patriots and their friends
are on the right track. They are collect
ing means for providing for those left
helpless and Destitute by the British
hangmen. This is right. 1t is wise.
Let it be known all over the world that
those who fall in the progress of our great
struggle need not fear that those depen-
dent on them will be left friendless. Let
them all be fairly well provided for.s We
advice no extravaganza in any case. A
good home, am education and fair
chance in the world is about what we
can afford to each and all. We must not
give too much to one or to few, since
many may hayeto be provided for. We
hope that this idea may spread The
Italian, German, Spanish and Russian
are alike deserving with the sons of Erin.
1t is the cause of humanity against mon
sters and tyrants. Every poor man can
give his nickle or dime on each of those
occasions. Such a contribution by each
of million lovers of the right made
once a month will give an am ample
fund. In unity there is power-San
Francisco Truth.
The adoption of a protective tariff for
Canada in 1878 was admittedly an ex-
pedient, resorted TO as an offset to the
policy of the United States, our rela-
tions to which country geographically
and commercially must more and more
influence Canada's action in all matters
social and political. 1t has never been
argued by the conservative press or
politicians of this country as a body
that protection per Sc was the highest
political ethics. 1t was. presented to. us
at time when we were willing to try
anything that gave promise of relieving
our distress, and even then it was ad-
vanced as an expedient, to be relin-
Quished as soon as our neighbors could be
induced to return to reciprocity. But
Mr. Bright seems to have forgotten one
thing in his prediction, and it is strange
that he should do so when he took part
in the struggle for free trade in England
he forgot the power of money to sustain
any position when once we are COM
mited to it.: If it was hard to convince
the well-to:do classes of England that
free trade was really fair trade for both
rich and poor, it will be good deal
harder to change like legislation in a
country where lobbying is reduced to a
fine art as it is in America, and where
the opportunities for getting rich by
monopoly are seen and taken advantage
of more and more every day.-Labor
Union.
1t is not enough for the British nobil-
ity and capitalists to own every square
foot of lard in Great Britain, to the
entire exclusion of the masses Of the
people. The privileged classes must
needs go further, and fare Contrary to
the old law even better. They have
now fixed their fatal gaze, and are plac-
ing their harpy hands upon the fair
lands of the great republic-the So
called free soil of Hree America, and
there is to-day growing up under the
very shadow of the Bunker Hill monu-
ment, and in the face Of the declaration
and the constitution, an evil greater
TRAN ever was dreamed Of by tire bye-
fathers of the revolutionary period-a
cancer which is striking its root to the
very heart of the American body polite.
The wealth of a nation is, after its men,