Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-02
Saturday, August ?, 1884.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
 FOR PRESIDENT, .: JAMES G. BLAINE, of Maine. F. FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
 JOHN A. LOGAN, of Illinois.
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION,
New Haven, August DO, 1sg4,

6tate convention 10 be neld In the Grand Oper | House in New Haven on Wednesday, August 9O
 1884, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpos
 of nominating candidates for the State offices ant presidential electors and appointing State centra conmittee. In accordance with the rules adoptet
 by the Republican State convention in 1876, the fol ! lowing additional notices are given:
 1 ]. All caucuses in the several towns for the ap pontnent of delegates to the State convention Hha
 be held Ut least five days before the meeting of t' | 2 The chairman of each town committee shaI send copy of the credentias of the delegates iron his town to the chairman of the keEnIban Stat4 | committee at least four days before the conven | tion rg-yy .-.
 | tiOn will be held at LOomig' Hail, New Haven, Tuesday, August l9. 1884, at o'clock p, m.
 4. Each town is entitled to two delegates for eaci By order Republican state central committee. Hartford, July 29 IsS9. ' [ THE CHEAP LABOR THEORY. There are many free traders in the South though since manufacturing has become an important part of the industries of that re- zion the protectionists have been increasing in number. The free traders of the South believe in cheap labor. As the Washington National Republican well says, they got their political training in the days when nearly all the work in the South vas done by male and female laborers, who received their victuals and clothes in return, and nothing more fsThe southern planter wanted to clothe his slaves in the cheapest fabrics that he could buy, and he regarded it as a great hardship that a duty should be levied on inn ported goods for the benefit of class of la borers in the North with whom he had no sympathy, and whose voting power he regard ed as menace to southern society and south ern institutions
 The two Senators from Alabama-Messrs. Morgan and Pugh-believe in cheap labor, but the Alabama delegation to the Demo cratic convention at Chicago was not selected by the Alabama Senators, and it was com posed entirely of protectionist. General the committee on resolutions and did what he could to prevent the convention from committing itself to free trade in its plat form. MT. A. S. Colyar, editor of the Nash vile American, and strong protectionists, was so impressed with the fight made by the Alabama delegation against free trade that he referred to the matter in his paper, and incidentally remarked that Senators Morgan and Pugh feared that protection to the iron industries of Alabama might ''put up the price of labor" This stirred up MT. Pugh (who served with MT. Colyar in the Confederate Congress) and he wrote MT. Co1yar letter. MT. Colyar publishes MT. Pugh's letter, and also reply for himself, in which both MT. Pugh and MT. Morgan are sharply dealt with. In MT. Colyar's reply occurs the following passage, which is as accurate and impressive statement of the tariff issue as we have seen: The theory of cheap labor, which you and Senator Morgan seem to be so much in terested in,s if you shall succeed, is to be the curse of American civilization. The better wages paid in this country, and which capi- talists alone are able to- pay by reason of a properly adjusted tariff S.is tthe basis of social fabric which has no parallel. If men were born equal they are only kept so by living wages being paid to the toiling peo- pie. Free trade is a sound doctrine for Eng land that is q government of the aristoera- Gy, and the theory of the government is an impossible gulf between the aristocracy and the masses. The theory of our government is no gulf at all; hence from the masses from the laboring classes-we, take presi- dents, senators, and judges. As long as the better wages are paid in this country, so that the laboring people can have some comforts and give their children an education, this happy and phenomenal state of things will exist. .E.r ....-.--- ss. g Editor Colyar tells the truth and tells it we'll It will be a sad day for the American workingman when the free traders come into power, if they ever do. Fortunately, there are no indications that that day is near