Daily Republican., 1884-07-19

states that has been created or fostered
by the Industrial system which is up.
held by the Republican party.
| Compared with our foreign commerce
these domestic exchanges are incOnceiy.
ably great in amount, requiring merely
as one instrumentality as large mile.
age of railway as exists to-day in all
the other nations OF the world comb.
ned. These internal exchanges are esti.
mated by the Statistical Bureau of the
Sreasury Department to be annually
twenty times as great in amount rs our
foreign commerce. 1t is into this vast
field Of home trade at once the crea-
tion and the heritage of the American
Ipeople-that foreign nations are striving
by every device to enter. 1t is into
this field that the opponents of our
present revenue system would freely
admit the countries of Europe-coun-
tries into whose internal trade we
could not reciprOcally enter couutri les
to which we should be surrendering
every advantage OF trade from which
We should begaining nothing In re-
turn.
EFFECT UPON THE MECHANIC AND
THE LABoRER.
A policy of this kind would be dis
astr0us to the mechanics and working
men of the United States. Wages are
unjustly reduced when an industrious
man IL not able by his earnings to
live in comfort, educate his children,
and lay by sufficient amount for the
necessity of age. The reduction of
wages inevitably consequent upon
throwing our home market open to the
world would deprive them of the power
to do this. 1t would prove great ca
lamity to our county. 1t would pro-
duce conflict between the poor and the
rich, and in the sorrowful degradation
of labor would plant the seeds OF public
danger.
The Republican party has steadily
aimed to preservejust relations between
labor and capital-guardin ing with care
the rights of each. A conflict between
the two has always led In the past and
will always lead In the future TO the
injury of both. Labor is Indispensable
to the creation and profitable use of cap
ital, and capital increases the efficiency
and value OF labor. Whoever arrays one
against the other is an enemy of both.
That policy is wisest and best which
harmonizes the two on the basis OF alb
solute justice. The Republican party
has protected the free labor of America
30 that its compensation is larger than is
realized in any other country.
1t has guarded our people against the
unfair competition OF contract labor
from China and may be called upon to
prohibit the growth of u similar evil
from Europe. 1t IL obviously unfair 10
permit capitalists to make contracts for
cheap labor in foreign countries to the
hurt and disparagement of the labor OF
America citizens. Such policy (like
that which would leave the time and
other conditions of home labor ex-
clusively in the control fthe empioyer)
is injurious to all parties, not the least
so to the unhappy persons who are
made the subject Of the contract
The institutions of the United States
rest upon the intelligence and virtue Of
the people. Suffrage is made universal
az a just weapon of selfprotection to
every citizen. 1t is not the interest of
the Republic that any economic system
should be adopted which involves the
red uction of wages to the hard standard
prevailing elsewhere. The Republican
party aims to elevate and dignity labor,
not to degrade it.
AS a substitute for the industrial sys.
leu WHICH unuer bne htpuDltCan al
ministrations has deyeloped such extra.
ordinary prosperity our opponents offer
q policy which Is but series of expert
ments upon our system of revenue-a
policy whose end must be harm to our
manufactures and greater harm to our
labor Experiment In the industrial
aud financial system Is the couutry's
greatest dread, as stability Is its great
est boon. Even the uncertainty result
ing from tho recent tariff agitation in
Congress has huItfully affected the busi-
ness OF the entire country. Who can
measure the harm 10 our commerce, il
the uncertainty Of perpetual tariff agi-
ta,icn is 10 be iptiicted upon the coun.
try? We are IN the midst of abundant
harvest We arc on the eve of a revival
OF general prosperity. Nothing stands
In our way but the dread of change in
the industrial system which has
wrought such wonders in tie last TWEEN.
ty years, and which, with the power Of
increased capital, will work still great
or marvels of prosperity in the twenty
years TO come.
tCONCLUSTON ON MoNDAY,1