The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-28
CORRESPONDENCE.
Old Party Deception.


Editor Labor Enquirer.
WILLIAMSBURG, Colorado, June "a
Beirg one among the multitude who
fully indorse the nomination of the Ia
dianapohs convention, l think it be-
hooves every workingman to awake,
knowing the strife is at hand, as we are
on the eve of another important epoch
in the history of this country-that of a
presidential election. The great and
momentous question is, who shall be our
next president? Shall it be the same
old party president, to run the ship of
state to irretrievable ruin and destruc-
ton? We say no; the masses of the
people say no, and the workingmen of
all grades-the miners and mechanics
from Maine to California say no. Work
ingmen are determined to be no longer
deceived by the falsitY of the republican
platform, for they have proved the re-
publicans to be nothing but liars and de-
ceivers in deludlng the toiling and suf-
fering masses of the people, in advanc-
ing certain planks in their platform
which they never intend carrying out,
for the benefit of the workingman.
Mr.. Republican, the people of this
country are most determined not to take
the bait any longer, for past experience
has taught us that you are not the party
for the working people; that you are not
the party for higher wages and more
prosperous times; that you are not the
party for the hornv-handed sons of toll
who are hid away down in the bowels Of
the earth from twelve to fourteen hours
day, deprived of 81 the blessings of
nature, of the pure air, of the glorious
sunshine which God has placed in the
heavens te give light and life to all
nature, and deprived of all the beauties
that at this season of the year carpet
and cover the earth with splendor. AS
l have said, away down in the chambers
of death as it were, he has to contend
with all the dangerous and poisonous
gases in their most ugly and malignant
forms, and then there is the danger of the
falling of ponderous rocks and massive
blocks of coal, and in cases of ascending
and descending deep shafts every morn
ing and evening where thousands Of
mems precious lives are entirely depend
ing upon the brittle existence of wire
rope, and yet amid all this your party
says that 81 to $l.5O per day is enough
pay for workingman; if you haven't
sa id it IN words you have said it in deed
and action.
Republicans, consider we'll fora short
time look on your past, and experience
will stare you in the face and dare you
to say that you are the party of the peo-
ple but on the other hand experience
has taught the down-trodden masses of
the people, and that with high hand of
oppression, that you are not the party
for the people of this country to look to
for their elevation to higher and nobler
standard in life and society. You are
not the party for the veal and welfare of
the country at large, although you have
had the lever and the fulcrum for over
twenty years. You have had the time
and you have had the power to raise the
position of the country and the condi-
ton of the people to ahigh and lofty
standard. But your policy is bringing
the most damning results to bear upon
the people and the country in various
shapes and forms. We will notice one
feature as time and space will not allow
of more at present, namely, that of
bringing hordes of pauper laborers into
the country and turning them loose
upon society in half naked and semi
barbarous state, to be made tools and
serfs of, and bring the yoke of thralldom
and tyranny upon mine and my fellow
workmen's shoulders, taking the bread
from mine and my fellow-workmen's
mouths, in sending me and my fellow
men broadcast through the land, house.
less and penniless, seeking a place of
refuge from the iron hand of oppres-
sion. Republicans and moneyed rings
and kings, look out in November next,
for we are going to place the lever of this
country in the hands of him whom the
people look to as the father of the late
decision of the supreme court, B. F.
Butler, and the fulcrum in the hands of
West, of Mississippi, when the country
will be turned upside down and rightside
up imagine there will be great earth
quake, a great resurrection of the dead,
when old Ben begins to walk among the
dry bones of the two old parties.
Fellow-men, let the proclamation 20