Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-04-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IFrom Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April II, 1884.

committee and the witnesses, ana
some of them are something more
than exciting. The evidence OF Mr..
Dezendorf last Tuesday, and that OF
.itizens Of Copiah county last week,
will furnish Mr.. Lamar with all the
pabulum requisite for an interesting
:.peech. He has been watching these
Investigations with eager interest, and
lie doubtless intends to give us the
results of his observations. He finds
that most OF the northern people are
ignorant of the real condition of that
sentiment in the south among the ne
groes that interprets Democracy to
mean that slavery is to be restored
and negroes again reduced to bond
.tge. The Democrats in Mississippi,
while in numerical minority of 3d.,
900, go on year after year securing
victories, to the surprise of those who
take it for granted that the 10000
negroes, in excess of the whites, are
I'll Republicans, and that Democratic
success must therefore come through
fraud. This theory is not by any
means correct, for the negroes are not
organized as are the whites, and they
are apathetic at elections unless i'm
PEELED by some strong sentiment.
they conceive that their interests and
those of the men who, possessing the
wealth, the learning and the govern
ing experience and conservative opin-
ions, have striven for the control of
power, the collection and expenditure
of the taxes, and the maintenance of
good order. In the elaboration Of
these points, Mr.. Lamar will invite
long and it may be most interesting
controversy
The end, aim and object of the
Democratic party is to protect labor
from the reaction of enormous and
grinding monopolies. The argument
that is urged against tariff reduction
rs that it will tend to reduce Ameri-
can labor to the condition of the
"pauper labor" of foreign countries,
which if true should put an end to
any debate on tariff reform. Tut, see
il it is true. To- day the spinners of
Fall River, to the number of 10000,
are working on two-thirds time, while
every loom in England is running full
Zine, and while our cotton manufac-
turers enjoy the protection of aver
age fifty per cent duties, the wages of
American operatives are no higher
than those of the English spinners.
Mr.. Shaw, the consul at Manchester.
England, in his last report says: COP
eratives here are the best paid and
most comfortable working class in
England, and their influence and
wealth are increasing at a rapid rate.
Mr.. Shaw is Republican, and yet he
gives this unbiased evidence in re-
gard to what we are pleased to call
''pauper labor" in free trade England
The Manchester operatives are happy
and contented, while the Fall River
spinners are fighting, and fighting
continually, against reduction of
wages that has aggregated in three
years more than sixty seven per cent,
and more now threatened. The con-
srast is one worthy the study of the
politician as well as the political
economist When properly studied
out, it is possible that the American
operatives may desire to shake off a
system that robs them of their earn
ings under the swindling pretence OF
protecting them.
Everybody remembers that when
the old public funotionary, Jas. Buch.
anan, was President, his beautiful
.iece, Harriet Lane, presided at the
White House, and never, since the
days of Mrs. Madison, have the hon.
ors of the EXECUTIVE Mansion been
administered with more grace. She
at once became SO popular that a
revenue cutter was christened after
her, and once upon time she accept
cd an invitation to take passage in
the vessel from Washington to New
York. This simple act, which was in
violation of all precedent in the his
tory of the Republic, called forth a
most stern rebuke from the President
about whose ears came .animadver.
SONS from all parts of the country
How different things are in these days
though hardly two decades have pass.
ed since this simple social innovation
The successors of Mr.. Buchanan, witt