The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-08-21


standard uf AwHNI"Hu labor, ihr Irrirr.
l'uu pI NtrhiuUrY, m which su great I
share ut IrrIu lIuu ~ f.lU"iUi, lts fu
lJ.s.lHd irusrl'u r.lurl hoe ltIluf That
tHr. ii'l#fs hH,U IHru uUHHlru tu uiil|fH
Ne. labor uI WuuUu lul children Zoo re-
NurN largo uNlDui a. ip tIIlt NurE which
mHu fufmrTly did, Thus lhH working
man. vito AMI sisters are made the Iu.
-irumuuts ui HN,,,ug ris uNu rate "i
/ Wages,
/ But, II will ,,c said, surely a. employ
. the women and children pru,tihlN uuu'
/ not be- objectionable, Certainly not n 10
] IL pruiiluh o. themselves, their fathers
unl hu,, auds uud thr country,
. How stand, tho iacta Numvn's lahur
7, employed Ia manufactures at a very
murh Tess priru than mems labor, oven
that poor quality of mems labor inn
pstri from abroad, while women aud
oven ruldrun ran do that elias, al labor
equally we'll with the best of men,
l.uhuring men thereby are thrown nut at
/ empiu,, pr els compelled Ia work M I'M
rrutuurTg,iN" prices, Thus capital gets
/ still further advantage Of a tariil nut an
+ imported articles ~ n claimed Ia enable
tho American producer In pay more Ia
Amrrirtu lauur lhgu the inrrlsn lnhnrtr
rr,ulv,~ - wVg., A. wi, therefore lee
seen that capital, thus taking u il,'ll ~
DO .ul, t4,,,l, sac pupr mechanic, who In
vents tntul, all the gnd gills
q u'ul given a. munkind m
Improvement Ia machinery Ter pruiur-
/ .,a,I, use lhu-u very improvements for
. thr purpose ut still iurtlrr lowering lhc
wages of Tho American Workman hN
the employment ui women aud female
/ children Ia tend this Improved Uiu-
chiupry. 10 illustrate the cNlcut iu
: which this hN~ gone, there are UluIl !r-
males In Massachusetts al uv, one sixth
OI the wage people, sing at wage,
uul ol thuir own lnulvs at uu average
not more than a1 per cent, of what l.
paid 20 males,
Tam So VIZ NN"> INiN| rIE VERY lIfE
D.. uup or mG rEurLa.
This condition uf thing, i not one
/ aIiCs.ms economic questions alone, nat
u goes a. the very Vitality Of the nation.
,iu not say that n wOrkiusnn cm-
ploycd at the iouCh or the ulurhinc can
not Ice the father vi rs healthy children,
both in body and mind, - / not 81 cu'
! pluycd. On the contrary, ! think him
lar more capable IN that direction than
Is the idle. and Cilvmiuutc consumer oi
other mems works without labor, who
has incapacitatcd his manly powers,
nrrhauS, hy his Wees; and, Therefore,
Inc infusion of fresh blood from tho
farm and the workshop has been found
necessary To sustain the business pros
pcri,v ofthc cities. Bat du say that no
I wife or mother, from whom phYsiulo-
giStS tell Us the child mast receive
largely its mental cuduwmcnts, was, in
tended by the Almighty 10 spend her
Young years or mature age In standing
for many hours day behind II counter
or confined in tending II machine.
! II the ahoring woman had the ballot
she would he able, with the assistance oi
her htlsbHnu, father and brothcr,tO right
this great wrong, but being denied II
she becomes virtually slave!
Employ women II you Will and must,
but let ii bc NJ the same remuncrativc
wages when they do the same work ~
men, so that they may at the earliest
moment rc,ease themselves from thral-
. dom.
The Republican party has released the
colorrd man from bondage and given
him the ballot for his protection. Why,
in the score OF years since, has not that
party by the same species of class legs
lutiOn saved the white women oil the
naLol from dcteriOrating its children?
With an overwhelming nliIO IL ,
, Republicans have spent months and
months in dcvlsing laws for the clcya-
ton of wOmauhDol in the territory OF
Utah. b. il so! Why has not some Re
publican statesman given Il few hours in
les have passed away, or been over
looked, to the question whether the
women OF the nation, ii not protected by
other | gISlatiOn, should not he allowed
the ballot with which To protect them
selves, rs that party gave il for like pun
poses 10 the negro,
For these reasons, tariff which gives
to capital protection upon the ground
that thereby American labor may he
. / al t., fan
.means, some of which ] have men
TONED, to be simply the enhancement
Ogthc profits of capital, while labor still
remains substantially unrcwardcd, and
curvainly without any just snare OF the
profits.
Herein. as experience has shown, the
laburing classes have nothing to hope
from the Republican party. The first
and only object OF protection in laying
duties should be 70 protect labor, and
never TO prulc"t capital, which can be
lett to protect itself as it is amply able
to do. II shuuid, moreover. be restrained
from getting more than its fair share OF
the profits Of production and .ranspor-
ta,iOn.
NOR HAS LABOR ANY HOPE FROM THAI
PARTY To AID ITS ECENSsIriEs Oh
rHJrGCT IrS NIGnT
The Republican party has granted sub,
Sidics to railroads and steamships, erect
ed many ana expensive pubic build
ings, spent maly millions in opening
the mouth OF the Mississippi and lcver-
ing its banks, and many millions in inn
proving rivers and harbors. These
grants amount to Il sum equal to hall
The National debt. Without Criticising
the propricty of these grants. although
some of them are open 10 criticism, yet
these are all aids to the capitalist and
land owner.
Point me to one grant or act in aid OF
the workingman. I do not forget the
eight hour law for Government laborers
and mechanics, but there never has been
honesty and power enough in Republic
can administration to entore that law.
When in Congress | introduced "A bill
and advocated it as well as ] could that
Congress grant aid to families OF labor
ing men in cities to settle on the pubic
lands in the west and make homes i9i
themselves, and as communities be able
to protect themselves against the In
dams and thus dispense with the cost OF
the army. 1t slept in the proper com
mttees of Democratic House and lie
publican Senate the sleep of all propo
sails in favor of labor that knows ne
waking.
This bill would have begun another
much needed reform, the reduction to q
skeleton of the regular army, which is
extensively useless in time of peace.
Let Congress expend half Of the vas
sum, thirty millions, now appropriated
to the army for its varied expenditures
in organizing and disciplining the mill
tia, to he trained under the authority o
the States, instead of the paltry two
hundred thousand dollars heretofore
given, and we shall have a military
force as a reliance in every emergency
like the trained and organized militia
of Massachusetts and tile Nationa
Guard, OF New York, the first armed
bodies at the capital when in danger il
1861.
Tho Republican party has in its ranks