The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-15

THE philadelphia Record OF
Wednesday speaks very plainly to
laboring men. 1t is one of the most
sensible articles that we have ever
seen on the subject. Ii fully meets
our views. and has the same ideas
that we have been trying TO instil
into the minds of the laboringmeno of
this section. We give the full arti-
Gle and hope all may read it. and be
proiited thereby:
( No one should be deceived by the as
sertion that mills and manufactures are
to be stopped in consequence of the cleo
ton Of a Democratic President or a Dem
ocrltic House of Representative The
business depression which exist in the
United States has not been brought about
by any change in the policy of the Gov
eminent or any apprehension of change.
No change has been accomplished, and
the Government is so constituted that no
change can DC accomplished for two
years to come. unless such change shall
De made with the assent of both parties.
For that length of time the Republicans
have an assured control of the Senate,
and the Democrats of the House. After
two years have elapsed the people will
again bc consolidated in the election of a
new Congress, and if they do not desire
to alter the fiscal policy of the country
they will asslIredly so decide.
| In the face of these facts it is Il mis-
chievous and impudent misreprcsenta-
tion to assert that any business opera
| ton either stops or goes on in conse-
quence of any political change which
may have been decided upon or brought
about. The business troubles in the
! United States are not more serious than
in other countries, and they admit of one
source of mitigation which is impossible
anywhere else. There is not another civ
| ilized country on the face of the globe
that collects more taxes from its prop
erty-owners than il can find means of
expanding. There is not any other civil
lied nation that taxes the raw materials
of manufacture. 1t is probable that II
measure reducing the taxes on raw ma
terals and the necessaries of life sutli-
GENTLY to cut down the revenue to the
sum needed for an economical admins
tratiOn Of the Government will meet
with the assent of both Republicans and
Democrats. But the prospect of such
beneficial legislation will not stop the
mills and factories. On the contrary, its
accomplishment will set them going
again upon II paying basis and give larger
employment to labor.
The persons who ascribe reduced out
put of manufactured goods or reduced
wages to political causes are either ignor-
ant or malignant fllsifiers. They seek Ia
turn the exigencies of business distress
to partisan account. The laboring man
who is misled by such spoken or written
assertions is tool in the hands of his
enemies.
1t is of the first Importance that the
hands of the Government should be
strengthened by an intelligent public
opinion, and that the laboring men and
women of the United States should
know that the direction of the future
policy of the Government will be guided
by a faithful regard for their rights and
interests.
The friends of laboring men are SLOWLY
acquiring the power to help them b,
shaping legislation to that end. They
must not De deceived by the outcrv o
disappointed politicians and bafifed mon
opOlists.