The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-08-14

worker would be able to detect and cx-
pose the ridiculous sophistries with which
the average party hack often misleads
him TO his own injury and degradation.
In his present condition, why should
the workingman who has to- rise at
o'clock in the morning to prepare for
breakfast, So as TO be st work by 4, and
then toll ten hours, With one or more
spent ia walking home--rnaking in all
from thirteen to fifteen hours toll, and III
most making but scanty liying-why,
say, should the workingsnau be inhuen-
ced by the unmeanlng partisan cries of
knavish political hucksters? Will the
politician know you after the election?
No, no. Then Why lose time in voting
for any man or patty that seeks to de-
grade or enslave by forcing him to COM
pete with the pauper labor Of Europe?
Why should he support any party which
seeks TO reduce his wages by thus COM
pelling fight against pauperism? The
trouble now is that there is scarcely any
work in the country; it is all being done
in Europe. So long rs the workingmen
cannot say with any authority from their
meeting places to the makers Of laws
which compel them to compete with con-
yict contract labor, with foreign pauper
labor, and worse still; so long asthe
workingingman can not say to those pol
iticians who have sold their interests to
foreign nations by allowing The product
of their pauper labor to be dumped on
our shores to the value OF $500, ,0OO, 900
yearly, throwing thousands idle, ruining
our trade, and making homeless tramps
of honest men; so long as they caunot
say from their assembly rooms: NO
votes for you free-traders. No votes for
tariff reforrners or thinkers. We must
have tariff for protection, such u tariff
as will exclude everything from our
shores that we can make or grow, all else
to be free $50 long will the working
man be dragged about by the political
mountebauks in the pay Of foreign man.
ufactnrers who are ready to reward those
who are endeavoring to check or destroy
the republic. When the politicians be-
gin to understand that they will be for
ced to legislate for American interests,
which are those of tae workers, and that
the latter have no votes for free-traders
who have deluged this land with goods
that should have been made by American
workmen, then, sir. yots will begin to see
the opening of a long season Of prosperity
for our country.
The political qnacks now tell us that
the cause of the present depression in
business is oyerproduction, which is
silly lie. There is no oyerproduction. II
there is, why allow hundreds Of millions
of dollars worth Of foreign goods to be
dumped on our shores, and from there
distributed throughout the land, running
our trade and business. Wherever the
factory and machine-shop are, there the
tenement-house, grocer and small deal
ers follow, for there the money is. Now
that the tariff tinkers have ruined our
trade, as witnessed by the number Of
nntenantcd houses in Carondelet and in
every other manufacturing district
throughout the land, the workinsmen
should without delay put themselves In
position to say to recreaut law-makers:
.Retnrn! We will not be humbugged in
future; ne are united. The tobacco