Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-19

women Of the nation from deterioratlng It's
a tariff which gives to capital protection
upon the ground that thereby American laoor
may be protected has too often turned out by
some of which have mentioned, TO De
simply the enhancement of the profits OF capt.
tai. while labor still remains substantially
uurewarded, and certainly without any just
share of the profit.
Herein. as experience has shown. the labor
ing classes have nothing to hope from the Re
publican party. The first and only object OF
protection in laying duties should be to pro-
tect labor, and never TO protect capital, Whlch
can pc let TO protect itself, as II is amply aoIs
to do. 1t should, moreover, be restrained
from getting more than its fair share OF the
profits of production and transportation.
The Republican party has IN It's RANKS
followed its fortunes and carried its elections
because ii protected the labor OF the south IN
its rights and claimed to protect the laborer
of the North in his wages.
call the attention of such men to the fact
that that party has failed to do either. Labor
ing men are out of employment and starving.
after quarter of century OF Repu6lcan
rule. Nay, more! 1t is well known in Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island, and how far in
other parts of the North leave the good and
just minded of those localities to speak,
capital has cOerced the votes OF the laborlng
men tC its own purposes by threats, lntlmlda-
ton, and in some cases worse means. The
negro OF the South, also, cannot go TO the
ballot box for fear of the shotgun. and II he
does the ballot-box suffer puts in two votes
to neutralize his one.
To the substantiation of these facts, call
upon the laborlng men OF both sections 70 pear
witness. Is 1t not so? You Know as l know;
you feel as l feel upon this matter. | submit
to the producer, whether the farmer, the me-
chanic or the laborer, whether he has any
hope as against the inroads OF capital upon
the rights Of labor or the grasp OF mOnopoles
which absorb all the profits OF production,
until we have in this country, even in its
youth, almost infancy as regards the length OF
life of nations, richer men than IN any Other
country in the world, and as poor men as any
other country in the world, however enslaved
that country may be, for man cannot De
poorer than starvation,
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION ON FINANCE
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRESENT DIS
TRESSED STATE OF BUSINESS.
| In the matter Of finance there is nothing to
ILpe from the Republican party, any more
" n from the Democratic party. The bank
ere nd capitalists Of both parties uniting to-
getn- have controlled for twenty years the
nnan al legislation of the nation. And the
Isstle. What have we just SEEM With
itb cough in the country for all its wants;
!" ~ a no ,sS)stantial drain from abroad; with
never hos 9tiOn of wealth such as the world
wheat aImopi with a crop OF corn ana
EioGa' a ~ % untouched, and another one
iayI,, ~ ~ Ted with stock of petrO-
louII a. ~ Jced sufficient for the con-
a years stock alres lor year, WIN ~ nea ttS
goods; with more thai ~ montbs, stool Of
wooden goods as ticv viii AVERAGE:
with a production of .ro WIN that f'gIa asSes
its further production 'mnossibIe mn
til greater consumption t dpoTas noesi-
BILE; with provisions IN such aG,ndspca that
the means of sustaining life are 6eener than
before for fifty years; yet becaLd of our
financial system, in every class of <,,siross
embarrassments and failures to an Uba9rd
Of extent, with banks locking up their h9nev
in millions upon millions. and allowing tor
customers, who by our financial system ha-e
been made dependent upon them, to be ruin
ed; the producing labOrer goes about the
street unemployed; and the farmers wheat
which with our fathers was a measure of
value, is a drug in the market; and that
which he raises to-day, produced by the sweat
of his face. is without profit to his Industry.
GREENBACK REMEDY FOR FINANCIAL
ILLS.
We. the despised Greenbackers, offered a
remedy for all this which no rejecting, keen
sighted business man will now say would not
have been effectual.
The time has come when the greenback is
sustained by the Supreme Court as a consti-
tutiOnal currency against the opinions of the
paid attorneys of every financier of the cOun-
try. The time will come if the people of this
country can get the clutch of monopoly Of its
currency off its throat, when such a system
of finance as l have sketched will give free
dom to the industrial and business interests
of the country from the terrible fluctuations
which the people now suffer.
THE PEOPLE GET NOTHING FROM THE
OLD PARTIES.
Experience. the best teacher, therefore es-
tabishes the fact that commerce, the indus
tries, the labOring man, the anti-mOnOpolist,
the greenbacker, the farmer or other small
producers, all of whose interests are ldenti
cal, can get or hope nothing from either or
both the present organized parties.
The Republican party is bound hand and
foot to capitalized monopoly.
The Democratic party IS governed in It's
conventions by a combination of a solid South,
xrh no la m n W M
is a delegate, and where the arlstOcracy of
capital alone is heard, and the political ma
chine cOrruptiOns of substantially single
state of the North, which cOnfederacy dOUl-
mates its platform and nomlnates its caadl-
dates, and holds them firmly in its grip II
elected.
WHOEVER WINS, THE woRKINGMAN
GETS ONLY CURSE.
Whichever party carries on the government,
laboring men and women are permitted TO
enjoy only the benefits Of The primeYal curse:
I'm the sweat of thy ace shalt thou eat
bread" You enjoy oEe of Gods blessings
Why not? You earn and produce them all
all that He youchsafes to man, save the air we
breathe They are yours in the sight of high
heaven! Stand together and just share of
them is yours.
THE BALLOT IN DANGER FROM THE BRIT
ISL PARTY.
How long will the precious ballot be left to
every freeman.
power, or they may lose it forever.
Already the British party in this country,
those who ape the British aristOcracy, wear
clothes which are imported, largely without
paving duties because they feel that an
American mechanic cannot make cloth good
enough for them; can only be waited upon by
British servants, and cut their whlskers, even
British fashion, so as to appear as un-Amerl-
can as possible, are saying to each other:
Why should the lower classes have the bal
lot, and thus the masses rule the country
against u-2 Or as one OF their magazines pub
lished in Boston expresses it, "a few old fam
lilies have the traditional right to govern the
politics of Massachusetts," So that IN Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island, as a beginning,
we find each Legislature striving in its turn
to throw every obstruction, hindrance and
impeachment in the way to prevent the poor
man exercising freeman's right to cast his
ballot, and to drive him from the polls by re-
curing money qualifications and all other
devices that ingenuity may invent
THE MONOPOLIST ALWAYS WINS IN
ELECTIONS.
The cunning of the monOpolists and capital
lists has taught them that if they can only keep
the people of the country voting according to
party lines, they then can govern the
country which ever party pervalls. Dld
/ need evidence of this, it would be in
the declaration ascribed to the largest
and ablest railroad king in the country,
Mr.. Gould, WHO'S said to have testified before
committee, in substance, that when he had
Democratic legislature 10 manipulate he was
a Democrat, and whenever Republican leg
islature, he was Republican. That is to say,
to carry his measures. he helped elect. by his
money, Democrats and Republicans indiscrlm-
inately; but both sets of his members were
always Gould men.
No monopolist cares which party wins. He
is only anxious that the nominating conven-
ton Of each party should nominate a candi-
date whom he can control.
LABOR NEVER WINS, AND WHY?
Might we not learn something from the fate
of the African negroes? In their own cOun-
try, each tribe had its Fetish and they fought
each other for its supremacy, and both sides
sold the prisoners captured In those battles to
the white man as slaves. So the labOring
man votes for his Fetish, the Democratic
party; and the farmer votes for his Fetish,
the Republican party, and the result Is that
both are handed over as captives to the cor
ruptionists and monopollsts whichever side
wins.
Mark this: the laborers and the people
never win!
Let no man say that desire to array one
Not so. / wish to set ali ella a*t gainst the
corruptioDists, the plunderd xaSnd the alb
sorbers of other peoples 1gs wrong
fully by bought legislation, ann eaking for
against such men only.
VOTE FOR A THIRD PARTY-YOU WILL
NOT LOSE YOUR VOTE.
The cry has already gone forth: s1f the
people put a third candidate in the field those
who vote for him will throw away their
votes" Be it so. The voter will do worse
than throw away his vote If he votes for
either candidate of the monopolists. Such
vote thereby perpetuates the ru e of his OPP
pressOrs without protest, if by his vote he puts
or keeps either in power.
Fear not. The people will not have to wait
eight years for their triumph. Everything,
including politics. travels faster now, as there
are more railroads and teleQraDhs to dis