The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-08-28
NUMBER 9O4.

LIE In " Nl DEN JUL
Again, offered in b-committee, resolu-
tions defining the duty Of the United States
to protect every crtizen everywhere, and also
that no American citizen should be tried for
any act done in this country except under its
was no power in the Government to send q
citizen elsewhere TO be tried therefor.
Sa whsn IN
eral committee, there being nothing in the
platform deemed by that committee to be a
substantial equivalent, they were adopted,
although there were some namby-pamby state
ments reported by the subcommittee on the
This viii account to those curious in such
matters, for two sets of resolutions upon the
same subject in the platform, to which call
attention, and designate for convenience as
tons as TO the rights of American citizens to
protection by their Government. These dec.
larations of principles seem TO cover most of
the live questions in politics In which the peO-
pie are interested.
Through the courtesy of the Chairman Of
the committee, and by personal intercession,
! obtained the boon OF thirty minutes to pre-
rights at an hour crowding on midnight, but
before it could be printed and laid before the
convention, ana with the refusal OF the con.
vote was taken upon them So eager were
the members to get at their work of probes
tlHcu nOmlQaLl0u. ana SltcH o. co 1lttuIt0H nO8
been called a dcttberdtiue bodui 1t is true, that
it spent days upon the unit rule, which re-
quired a uiaii's vote to be cast against his con-
science and Judgment, in spite Of his protest,
by others, and days in trying to settle the in
ternal dissentions OF the machine politics of o
single State; but it could give thirty minutes
government of the Nation. therefore could
substantially present but one plank, the most
important of all. the protection of the Amer
lean laborer and producer, without which, in
my Judgment, there can be no prosperity to
this country.
And this was voted down in the convention
felt it but right to warn the convention,
however unimportant such warning might
seem, of the course of my duty IL such vote
Of the country, for whose welfare it was well
known had stood from my earliest man
hood. The notice was in this emphatic Lam
guagei "If you refuse to stand by the work
ingmen. God help you, can not" In this
there was do mistake. Mr.. watterson, of
Kentucky, who followed me. took wa warning, ing
but the Scripture saith, "The prayer of the
wicked availeth not" 1t was due to myself
not to adopt the course which certain pure
minded and upright and highly moral politi-
clans deem It proper to pursue, take part In
the proceedings of convention to its end.
and and then, without without giving any notice NOTICE to any
port its d0ings.
win not omit the fact that in the platform
adopted there were certain sweet phrases used
certain hoteyed words, over and over repeat
ed, in order that their repetition might seem
like earnest advocacy put In favor of labor,
and upon some of the topics OF our platform.
But do claim, and submit to the Just judg-
ment of the people, that comparing the two
platforms and taking the action Of the con,
and of the National Greenback and Labor
men was SO contemptuously rejected or so
Wo@a or
mononopolist to subscribe to the majority
platform that IL is most apparent on the face
tioes 81 eapedents to catc yotes by ind
rection, deception and illusion, not declara-
tons of those high principles which should
form the basis OF the united action OF great
party of the people.
The country has had experience in Repub-
lican party rule twenty-five years, and knows
shall shall "i know NO Them" them" IS ; The anti.
monopolists can expect nothing from the Re
publican party for reasons before stated, and
because it holds both houses by the rich men.
who are the owners of monopolies, or their
paid attorneys.
to protect and cherish American labor, but
always only as an adjunct to American cap.
ital. Capital engaged in manufactures and
the American laborer is well paid and sur.
rounded with the comforts of life. But how
sreat 4 prove which
need only to reca to your minds how capital,
chatting under even partially fair division OF
lieve itself from this scant measure of Justice
even by the importation Of foreign labor
from every country whence It could ee
brought. from the Chinas to the western
Why have they done this? Because these
imported laborers can, and for q time do, live
man, and SO can work very much cheaper, fol-
it has ever been the rule, and IL the working
men do not take the remedy for this fearfu
state of things into their own hand, ever vii
be the rule that the wages of labor are only
SO much and no more as will support him ant
his wife and children in the lowest degree Of
comfort when all OF them are at work who car
work.
In addition to this imported cheap labor
and the use of convict labor at noff1ina
price wherever it could be had, ther by debas
ing and lowering the high standard of Ameri
can labor, the perfection of machinery, bJ
which so great share of production is effect
ed. has SO lessened muscular effort in labol
that capitalists have been enabled to utilize
the labor of women and children to q yery
large extent to do that work which mel
formerly did. Thus the workingman's wifi.
and sisters are made the instruments OF lower
ing his own rate of wages.
But it will be said, surely to efnploy the wo
men and children profitably can not b,
Objectionable. Certainly not if it is profitable
to themselves, their fathers and husbands
How stands the fact? women's labor 1
| less price than mems labor, even that poo
| quality of mems labor imported from abroad
class Of labor equally well with the best o
| men. IabOring men are thereby thrown on
| of employ, or else compelled to work at unre
muneratiye prices, afus f enplta, apt all gets oa stl
| articles, as is claimed, to enable the American
| producer to pay more to American labor thai
the foreign ia5o,e5 as tSs 4sn ~ va
| itself as rule from the poor mechanic, VIII
| invents them, all the good gifts of God give
| production, uses those very improvements fo
/ the purpose of still further lowering the wage
| of the American workingmen by the employ
| this improved machinery. To illustrate tn
1 extent TO which this has gone, there ar
ninety thousand females in Massschusett
alone, one-sixth of the wage people, workin
| at wages out of their own homes, at an ave-
are not more than fifty per cent of what
General Butler indicts the Republica
party for failing in its duly to women, an
continues:
to railroads and steamships, erected many an
expensive public buildings, spent many mi
lions in opening the mouth of the Mississippi
and leveeing its banks, and many millions
improving rivers and harbors. These gram
amount to sum equal to half the jsation'
debt Without criticising the .propriety {
these grants, although some of them are ope
to criticism, yet tn, Sc are all aids to the car
talist and land owner.
Point me to one grant or act in aid of tf
workingman. do not forget the eight-hot
law for government laborers and mechanic
but there never has been honesty and pow
enough in Republican administration to e
| force that law.
When in Congress 1 introduced bill ar
advocated it as well as could that COngre
grant aid to families of laboring men in citi
to settle on the public lands in the West 7
: | make homes for themselves, and as commur
ties be able to protect themselves against Il
/ Indians and thus dispense with the cost of u
army. 1t slept in the proper committees of
Democratic House and Republican Senate Il
sleep of all proposals in favor of labor tn
knows no waking.
: The Republican party has in its ranks mai
2 pona true and conscientious men, who Il
} lowed its fortunes and carried its electio
because it protected the labor of the South
its rights, and claimed to protect the labor
!, of the North in his wages.
call the attention of such men to the fs