The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-03-22

Convention undertakes to make the
issues for that party, for--Aext year. The
call is addressed a., ITO the Repub-
lican electors of the several States" "
and (2), ITO all other voters without
regard to past political differences"
who are in favor of several PROPOSE.
tions, which are expressed in language
as follows: Eevating and dignifylng
| American labor s'extending and pro-
tecting home Industry, giving free
I people; securing free suffrage and an
honest counting Of BALLOTS" " effect
uafly projecting human rights, In
every section of our common country"
promoting friendly feeling and per-
manent harmony throughout the land. :"
All of these expressions, commit what
Sydney Smith regarded as, u serious
otense. +. They ''overwork the par
ticiple. ;" Some of them are toosgen-
eral for praise or assault f0td
I What is meant by "elevatlng and
identifying American labor,r by the
party which is on record for the uni
versal importation of Chinese laborers?
Will any aNion by any party, in q Ma
tional convention, have any relation to
the law of supply and demand in work?
Will it affect wages, hours or work in
any wayp AS good old DR.. Johnson used
to say: s'Gentlemen, clear your minds
of humbug." The most pitiabIe fall
lacy is the humbug of supposing that
you can humbug others. The men who
brain, in this land, know that that kind
of talk in the call is humbug; that it is
uttered by men who take them to be
fools. Sobfiety, industry, skill, honesty
and courage enable men to hold their
own, at breadwinning, unless hordes
Of heather are brought in, to crowd
them out, or thousands of convicts are
put at, work which completes with the
vocation and arts of law-abiding citi-
zens- The party of cheap Chinese labor,
and the party whose legislators are
charged by every Republican paper to
defy and disregard the great demand
for the abolition of the present method
of convict labor, talks about 'selevating
and Identifying American labor 1t is
the same party, whose leaders in 1880
forced the policy of threatening thou
sands of workingmen with dismissal If
ma .ority of the names signed to this call
are those of men who never did an hon
est days work in their lives Those not
gorged with monopoly gains, made by
robber law, are political trsmps, glued
to the Treasury. and kept from jail or
exile by the fact that they preserved
the grand old party" by frauds worthy
of the gallows or the prison. in tho
South. ~
Extending and protecting home in
dustry" means the increase of high tar
iff duties, Already they make every
man who has to buy the necessaries of
life pay more than price and half for
them. They close the markets of the
world to the manufactured products of
America They have wiped out Amer
lean commerce and destroyed American
ship-building. They have caused a
large portion of our factories to stop
and large portion Of our foundries TO
shut up-because they are 9orged with
reproductions that can, not be sent
abroad and are not needed at home,
where there is glut. Stopping or
shortening upon work means the dry
rot of bankruptcy to the manufacturer
and the quick distress Of enforced idle
ness to the Workingnlehs & A prohibition
t$xif is conStipation - commerce, par
alysis to MISUNDERSTANDING starvation 10
labor, and oOnfiscation to the money of
producers and consumers-all because
more stuff is made than can be sold at
home, and ihigh duties cut of. o. mar
ket abroad. The stuff rots unsold ia
the stAre-houscs.s The wofkmen 90
idle in the streets, To- find hunger and.
hopelessness at home. Tie honest man
ufacturer is taxed at a ruinous rate on
the raw materials needed BIZ bin in his
work. He has to stop; his, hands, are
discharged. The few monopolists
grow richer hourly on the common cor
ner they have made on the Energies. in
genuity and miseries of fnesi'sih these
States. Knowing what projection
really means, knowing the prOfigacy it
works in taxes aHdc the ruin itworks in
trade, prices, labess production, man.
ufaetaiAfg ana buying, WI say: sssWel-
come ithS Issue ~ tivinadti6ns con-
sciefice,, events, opinion, sneeds and man.
ifest destiny make for fevennB reform.
The Democracy stand for it, and stand
or fall with it. = al TgfIsl .seaxi5e9
To "&1viffe ftce popular education to
the massesaofs the people mo one OPP
posed. The democracy say do It
by States. ass Every State mas its COM
mon school SYSTEM sFrUgfess FROM IL
norancd to Knowledge s'is n going on 6V-.
erywhefe! The R6publicai3s say: @IJo
this work through paupef Schools set
up in States by the central Government,