Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-09-16
r. r. DEL VALE,
af Jos ApooIoa
a Curious Game.
of Los Angeles.

There are two farcical aspects to the
present campaign which cannot fail to
have excited the ri4ibility Of the average
newspaper reader-we allude to the re-
Gently developed concern from the
stump of the Republican mon and breth-
ren for our Irish. American fellow citi-
zens, and their very ellusive love for tho
wago earners OF the United States.
From having been apatbetic as to both
these groups OF our population they have
become pathetici from having been in-
different they are now diflerent-that is
to eay, they are abounding in crocodile
professions of good will In quarters where
their interest is altogether n simulated
one. Your average Republicans regard
for the workingman has always taken
the shape OF that hospitality which the
spider is supposed to extend to the
ingenious fly. lie has 80 eumeshed him
in subtle and bewildering scheme of
finance that, while the Nanderbilts
and Goulds count their wealth by tho
hundreds of millions, the poor man has
found himself growing steadily poorer.
lie has seen the public domain fade
away so rapidly that the prospect of be.
ing crowded into great cities without IA
vent is looming up very black
La, LaE- ii.
two hundred million acres of the
peoples lands lavished by Republican
Congresses upon half dozen corpora.
tions. Notwithstanding this damning
record, the Hon. Aaron A. Sargent is
not ashamed to stand before Los
Angeles audience and profess an ELUSIVE
sympathy with the American wage
Garner. Ho did this Notwithstanding
the fact that, while he was editor of
Republican country newspaper up in
Grass Valley, he at all times endeavored
to crowd his employees down 10 the low.
est possible scale of wages. The HER
AID in making this statement speaks
by the card This same Aaron A. Sar.
gent, at time when the printers of
Sacramento were making n fight for
what they regarded as living scale Of
wages, pulled off his coat and went to
setting type to enable the newspaper
publishers to triumph in tho struggle
lNn hot ha \
hominem counts for nothing in fair
disputation; but, in this case, Sargent is
simply typical of the Republican orators
who, all over the country, are Just now
engaged in beslaverng the workingman
before swallowing him bodily. All their
sympathics are with the controllers OF
capitalize employers-and they are
all about as hypocritical as Sargent, who
showed his true annus in this Sac.
ramento episode. When, some yeats ago,
the railway magnates all over the East
announced programme of wholesale re-
ductions in the wages of their employees,
the military were called out to ride over
the protest of the men who resented the
injustice, and the celebrated Pittsburc
riots ensued. OF course. from every point
of view, this was lamentable occur
renee. Millions of property were de.
stroyed and some human lives were sac.
riliccd. These riots, however, were fol-
lowed by an article in popular maga-
zine, written by the Republican, Col.
Thomas A. Scott, in which he advocated
the creation by Congress Of an army, one
hundred thousand strong, whose avowed
purpose it was to put down the men who,
thereafter, should dare to dispute the
capitalists right to dictate every condi.
tion Of the relations between the wage
Garner and his employer.
Tho Hon. Aaron A. Sargent, with his
coat peeled Of, aid working with might
and main to rat Sacramento newspa-
per offices, is not the right man to talk
TO working men about the rights of
labor. There is entirely too mueh of a
sardonic mockery in such performance,
and the voters he seeks to bamboozle re-
sent an insult which puts such slight.
ing estimate on their intelligence.