Delaware weekly Republican., 1884-07-31
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IL Is very fortunate for the Democrat
10 party that Colonel Thomas Ford Il
the candidate of that party nominated
for Sheriff at the ensuing election. III,
is now the only bond that unites III.
large mass Of the Irish-Amerlcan work
ingmen that make up tha party to thu
Democracy. We're 1t not for Mr.. Ford
there would be no inducement what.
ever for this class Of voters to further
continue giving their support to the
Demooratic ticket. The Irish Ameri
cans of Wilmington are not radically
different from their brethren Of othei
cities, and the same causes which In
New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadel.
phia, Chicago and all other cities are
carrying this people over to the Repub.
hcan party are moving them in Will
mington TO the support Of Blaine and
Logan. Though there has been no
popular outburst amongst the Irish
Americans Of our city In favor Of the
two men who stand as the representa-
hves OF true American thought and
American manhood, IL Is well known
and conceded by leading Democrats
that hundreds of Americans in
our city will vote straight-out for
Blaine and Logan, and in such man.
ner as there will be no conjecture as TO
how they voted. II
IL must not be supposed, either, that
these men who have the manhood to
break away from the shackles of party
tyranny which have 80 long bound
them, Will vote for Blaine and Logan
iner9iy because they advocate a posi-
tive and distinctive American policy in
3regard to the rights of citizenship. viii
imington Ia emphatically manufactu-
ring city. Her large irgn works, slip
yards, caiksbbps, morocco manuffrvo-
\ ries, coach manufactures, canning bs-
ltablishments and woolen and cotton
mills are her pride. They give employ
npent to thousands Of workmen. With
out them she might still have been an
unpretentious borough. The men em-
ployed In these manufactures have
built themselves comfortable homes.
where they live in the midst of comfort
and plenty.
These thousands Of workmen are at
last awakening to the fact that these
manufactures are only kept In opera
tion by the protection afforded to and
thrown around them by the present
system OF protection TO American In
dustries, and that through this protec-
uon American labor is protected. They
see now as they never saw before that
the Democratic party Is the party of
free trade, and free trade means a re-
dnction In the wages in Wilmington to
q level with the wages paid In Europe,
that grinds labor into the very dust of
the earth.
These Irish-American laborers are
watching the course of events. They
have been watching for two or three
years past how things were going
They have noticed that as the tariff
agitation increased work became scarce
and wages less. They havenoticed, too,
that 1t was not the Republican party
that wanted to reduce the tariff. They
have noticed that the lower the tariff
was made the more British manufac-
tured goods were admitted to the
United States. They have correctly
concluded that the more manufactured
goods were admitted into this country
under low tariff, the less goods were
required to be manufactured here, and
the less demand there would be for
their labor.
They have concluded correctly that
to compete with the British manufac-
tnred goods wages In this country must
be reduced az low as wages In that
country from which such goods were
brought. Viewing everything in this
correct light these Irish American
workmen, and native American work
men as well, see that by longer casting
their votes for the Democratic party
they are emphatically voting In favor
of less work and lower wages.
They are beginning to see that they
are voting more to favor British work
men than American workmen. They
see that they are voting more in favor |
Of the British manufacturer, and seeing
ills they are determined to do 80 no
longer. They have also heard with |
surprise the laudations OF the Demo- |
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