Daily Republican., 1884-05-13
ymm,grat, on anu Democracy.

Tuesday. MAY Is, 1854.
Jmmigr AT ON ana Democracy. '
The Delaware Democrat seems sur
prised that we should have ever i'm
agined that it was to say the least in
consistent, ty advocating immigrated
labor to the State while it was at the
same time advocating policy of reve-
nue. reform that dogrades labor by leav-
ing the laborer without remunerative
wages. Calling it a free trade paper
seems to give offence, while we might
have used the milder name OF "revenue
reform" that is the advocate of tariff
for revenue with incidental protection.
Wer.allv cannot help the disturbed
and rutiled feelings Of our down State
rmtem porary who takes such exquisite
delight in calling US {" old fogies, and
for want Of argument flies to the old
exploded theme of Carpet-bagism, no
doubt to remind us that some forty
wears or more ago we came from a tar
iii protected State whose manufacturing
industries are the pride of the nation
and where laborer that handles the
tongs, wields the sledge, and drives a
plough, is the peer of g tariff reform"
editor of a tariff reform newspaper.
We use the name " tariff reform for
" free trade as the latter seems objec-
tiOnable and rs tariff reform" is bu,
the cat in the meal tub and means pral-
tically the same as free trade" we use
that tenn in Difference to the feelings of
Our Gown State contemporary. The
Democrat is very much mistaken when
i'll general sense it accuses us Of OPP
posing the industrial development Of
the State--indeed we will be so free as
10 say that it knows better.
We intimated that cheap labor was
more the object Of the Democrats eager
ness to bring immigrants to Delaware
than any desire to develop the
material resources of the State, and we
venture the assertion that we were not
far wrong
Cheapness of transit from England
10 Delaware seemed 10 be leadil Oh
ject, and NO matter how cheap, the
Democrat thought that these imm-
grants could pay it back by and by at
the poor miserable wages they were to
receive. We repeat that the whole
scheme looks like a revival of old
slavery times, with the poor immi-
grants as slaves III substance If not in
name.
We do not wish to be misunderstood
as opposing immigration. Indeed, we
favor it, bIt for the good of the imm-
grant and for the expansion and devel-
opment of the latent material resources
of our country. We have had immi-
grafton 10 this country such i.s no other
country has ever experienced Immi
grafton has built up and populated our
large cities that make IA market for the
produce of the agricuturisr Immi-
grafton has opened up the mighty west,
made Kansas and Nebraska the COM
petitOrs Of New England and Virginia
in agriculture, and made ST. Louis and
Chicago the rivals in trade OF Philadel-
Fhia and New York. immigration has
developed the resources of Delaware, has
filled the metropolis of the State with
ship yards and machine shops, and has
gridiroued the State with railroads.
Why have these tens and hundreds of
thousands of immigrants f1ocked to
this country? Will the Democrat an
swer that question
The stale charge is reiterated in our
Ears by the Democrat that the Republi-
can party, by tariff measures, has re-
s1uced the prices Of labor and degraded
the laborer. Was there ever such a false
charge? The immigrant knows better,
the manufacturer knows better, the
Democrat knows better. If wages are
poor, why do these immigrants come
here, We mean those who come volun-
iarily and find employment wherever
they are paid best. There is a great
difference between voluntary immigra-
tlon and immigration that is hunted up
III Europe, the passage prepaid over,
and followed by years Of seryitude un-
III thr passage money is prepaid. The
Aatter is tlte immigration that theDemo-
Gratis believe in-cheap labor employed
upon the farms of large land monopo-
lists, to luke the place of lie discarded
slave, set free by the emancipation pro-
cllmation.
We are not disputtng with III" Demo
nrat in regard to the authcn,irity Of the
Delaware immigrant law. We admit
tha' if is D"mncratic, intensely Demo
cratic. Ii nothing else were wanted
~ prove its Democracy tn stamp OF
cheap labor and IL kind OF semi uucon-
scious State Of slavery is amply sutfi-
Gient
1t is Democratic all through, passed
BY Democratic Legislature, e,.,.rrscd
by Democratic Governor, committed
to the care of Democratic Board OF
immigration Commissioners, and true
10 Democratic instincts foreign labor
- sought BECAUSE it Is cheap. All the
glory and praise Of this ctwlp labor
Srh'M" Belongs to the Democratic
party, SO Of the ASSESSMENT laws, so Of
'aXation, 50 Of rcUrrSclIlati,n 50 Of an
tttetc and worn UUt judiciary system,
81 OF "A Water Commission, 50 Of a
Municipal Court, th" Democratic party
1I Delaware is covered with aurh .lOry.
But thoSr carpet baggers lhu,c tel-
lows who came from other States to
Delaware, why did they r"rr come
40" they haunt the lmagmatIUnS Of
III" DiuOrrMs. Such men us the
EauaeS, the Gibbons, the .jark$ous, the
New England fellows who built the F.,
". * T., and the delaware aircads,
why did they ever come 10 Delaware ?
but tn" most active man in the Board
o1 immigration commissioners is u
bemocrMiC carpet Bigger. How in
Consistent is lhe Democrat again
democracy wa-hes out every stain of
carpct-bagiSln
We would simply remind our down
State contemporary that the wages of
labor only commenced to lower since
the Democratic party By its prepondcr-
nnce i'll the pOUIllar branch Of Congress