New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-19
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market and crashed down by discriminating rates OF
tranSportation finds his corn, wheat, and wool lower
than It has been within the present generation I'm
The people therefore trust the machine Democracy WIN
mower upon q shifting, eyasiye, and deceptive pat
form
wv KNOW THE REPUBLICANS. HOW THE MIGHTY
HAVE FALLEN.
The country has had experience in Republican party
,ue twenty five years and knows its results We there
fore have need 10 look at its platform, fol- by their
fruits We shall know them
The Republican party in its inception emphatic
ally the party of the people 1t had in it substantially
neither monopost nor capitalist. 1t was as poor as
was the convention of delegates who framed the pec-
laration Of Independence Taking out ave men, INC
rest could hardly pay their board bills. -, ,
The Rel ublican party formed upon granu ana
noble idea. 10 do for class of N0rking'heu N"s'
the Democratic party. under Jefferson any jazz
SON had failed To do Their Democracy dealt only
with the white man. The Democracy 9i Ine t
can party dealt with the black man, ana acu :" s,T
hi. freedom and equal rights. For that purpose au1
fh9i alone was that party formed IL was the IauiCa
party. and radical party OF the people tna tns
arstocrac patt Of the Wing party the old adNcrsseS
of the Democracy of the days of Jackson merged mem
seves in the Democracy without drop OF S G
blood as they hoped in their veins, or thought LOT
the people except the lower classes IN their party
and such Of them quarter of century has spared
are found with the Democracy oi TO daY largely gun
ing it's councils in the manner we have seen
now REPUBLICANS BECAME THE PARTY OF MO-
NOpOLIsTs.
The necessity for money TO carry on the war drew all
me bankers and capitalists into the Republican party
The immense fortunes almost necessarily growing out
of the vast expenditures Of the war fell into the hands
of men who attached themselves to the party that fed
them as the iron is attracted by the magnet ana mo-
nopolzcd industries and enterprises.
The necessity 10 bind together the eastern and
western shores of the Republic by methods OF quick
transportation giving reason for immense subsidies,
granted make three systems of railroads across the
continent with all their branches and feeders created
wealth in corporations and individuals to degree De
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brought all those interests substantially into the Ike
publican party And if any stayed in the Democratic
party they in confederation with the same class
TO so arrange politics that whichever party came III
power capital in all its varied aud powerful forms,
would be Of control and the people ground up as
I" between the upper and neither mill stone nus IL
will be readily seen. and lac who runs may read that
the Republican party is the party of monopoly OF cor
poIae interests IN every form of industry ana every
department of business and finance
The AntiMonopOlists expect nothing from the
Republican partv for reasons before stated and because
it holds both houses by the rich men who are the
owners of m0nOpolies, or their paid attorneys
CLAIMING TO PROTECT LABOR THEY ONLY PRO
TECr CAPITAL
True il has in all its tariff legislation claimed to pro
tect and cherish American labor but always only as an
adjunct to American capital Capital engaged in man
ufac,ures and other industries only be successful
when the American laborer is well paid, and
rounded with the comforts Of lite But how little has
the greed of capital allowed c1mprehended this
great fact; to prove which ] need only to recall TO
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fair division OF its great profits with labor has sought
90 relieve itself from this scant measure OF justice even
BY the importation Of foreign labor from every country
whence it could be brought from the Chinas to the
western shores Of the Atlantic.
why have they done this Because these imported
lahorers can. and for time do live on what would
starve the American workinc.meu and canwork very
much cheaper for II has been the rule and II the
worknrmc do not take the remedy for this fearful
states of things into their own hands. will br the
rule that the wages of labor are only so much and no
will support him and his wife and children in
the lowest degree of comfort when all of them are at
work who work.
In addition to this imported cheap labor, and the
Of convict labor at nominal price wherever n could be
had thereby denaNng ana lowering the hgh s'"hdaip
of American labor, the perfection OF machinery 10y
which great share Of production Is ELECTED has so
lessened muscular effort IN labor that capitalists have
been enabled TO utilize the labor of women and children
o. very large extent 10 go thai worn "h,cn men
formerly did Thus the working mans wife aud sisters
made the instruments Of Towering his own rate OF
wages.
hut II will be sod. surely 10 employ The women and
children proftahlv cannot he Objectionable Certainly
not. If II Il profitable 10 Themselves their fathers and
husbands and the country.
How stands the factI Women's labor is employed in
tuauuiactUie- nt a very much lc'- pcr man men -
talbot even that poor quality Of mems iaboI imported
from nirold while women and even children can do
that class of labor equally well with the beet Of men
Inb0iiug men thereby me thrown ont oI employ, or
else compelled ~ work 1T untcmuncmtNe prices
1hns capital gri9 SIM iuilh'l "dtn'hR'"l y U"iI Pl
on imported articles a. is claimed 10 enable the Amen
can pioducct 10 pay mpfe 10 American Labor uh tho
foreign lab'ftt receives hs wages VIII u'l'i"I' p'
seen that capital thus tnllhR ~ Itself 49, tnlc IRON
Che poor mechanic, WhO utcuts them h iho Epol gus
of God gf cn 10 mankind n lWpio' emohi IA machinery
ff production uses those very improvements for the
PURPOSE Of still further lowering The wages 81 the
American workman bl the cmplOy mcnt ~ women ANA
female children To- tend This improved machinery 10
illustrate ihe ertcn to which this has gone t9ete are
Che vngp popplo working Vt wages ont of thclr own
homes a aH average not moro than % per cent OF what
h paid to males
yursr wnOSGs IAtSr 1Hr why Lrr MOOD of
1it rtorLr
This condition Of things s not ono affecting economic
questions alone bat II goes ~ tho very vitality Of The
Nation do not sny that nottingham employed nj
Tho bench or tho machine cannot be- the father Of
healthy children both ia body aud mind as # not 20
employed. ON the contrary, mink him far moro
capable in that direction than is the idle aud eeminale
consumer Of other mems works without labor who has
inoapactatcd his manly powers, perhaps by MS wees
aud therefore the infusion OF fresh blood from The lhh
aud the workshop has been found necessary to sustain
the businos, prosperity OF The cities. But do say that
wife mother, from whom physiOlOgiss tell IN the
child must receive largely its mental endoWments
intended by the Almighty to spend her young wears or
mature age in standing for many hours day behind
a counter, confined in tending machine
If the sbOrng woman had the ballot she would be
able with the assistance of her husband, father and
brother TO right this great wrong, but being denied
she becomes virtually a slave
The same remunerative wages when they do the same
work men, that they may al the earliest moment
release themselves from thraldom.
Tie Republican party has released the coored man
from bondage and given him the ballot Tor hs Proec
ton. Why in the score OF years sncei has MOI that
party by the species Of class legislation saved the
white women of the Nation from deteroratlng It's chill
dTen
With an overwhelming majority, Republicans have
spent months and months in devisng laws for the
elevation of womanhoOd in the Territory OF Utah BE
il so Why has some Republican statesman given
few hours in these later years when Southern troubles
have passed away. been overlooked, TO the question
whether the women of the Nation, not protected by
other gsaton should not be allowed the ballot with
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