Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-08-07

American workingmen ? His record
forces us to say that in the United States
Senate he would be an enemy instead of
friend to those interests. We find,
standing at the head of the column of the
Richmond Wing, the following regarding
the party of which Gen. Malone is the
head; it has liberal display of type to
call the attention of workingmen to it:
MANHOOD AND LABOR RECOGNIZED.
What the State Republican Platform Pledges
It's Party To For Workingnaen.
For Free Labor and it's just share in its
contributions to the power and wealth of the
Nation, against the Bourbon policy which
subjects honest labor not only to capital, but
to unjust and humiliating competition with
convict labor"
The real position of Gen. Malone to-
wards American labor is to be found on
pages 81 and 3S of the Congressional
Record of March OH, 1882, and should be
for in it he made an effort to introduce
character of labor into the United States
which in its own country works for two
cents day, ard in this country has
shown that it can by competition cut down
the wages of both white and black labor
ers to about one-fourth Of what 1t had
been receiving. The great employers in
America are always In search of che 'saar
class of laborers, for unlike As'3LYr is
Europeans countries, The -
the heaviests;4 THERE Expense account.
-1sinese labor In America, the road
to wealth for the great employer and
small employer as well. is short and sure;
with American labor he is compelled to
make greater division of his profits. The
great employers of the Eastern Chiefly
New England) States have for years-ever
since the first railroad was built on this
continent by Chinese cheap labor-been
on the watch to secure 1t in greater num-
berS. 1t would have been easy, but the
experience of it in California made Anne
rican labor take alarm. The Democratic
party as usual took up the cause of the
American laborer. carried his cause into
the halls of Congress and there made
fight for him. That party was in control
of the House of Representatives and
passed bill through that body prohibiting
the immigration Of the Chinese to Ameri-
can soil. The Senate. however, was Re-
publican, and when the bill got there it
met the opposition of Republican Sena-
tors. The opposition was led by the
New England element, and Senators Hoar
of Mass, Dawes of Mass, Hale of Maine,
and others were at the head. The Demo-
cratic Senators voted to man In favor of
it, and with them joined some of the Re
publican Senators of the Pacific coast.
where the blighting effect of Chinese COM
petition had been felt by the American
laborer. This combination made it ap-
parent that enough Republican Senators
would not vote with their party against
the bill, and the prospect was that it
would pass.
Seeing this. Senator Hoar, Of Massa chu
sets determined to save all he could from
the wreck, and also that If he couldn It ad-
nit the Chinese in mass, the American
mechanic at least should have a Chinese
competitor. He therefor offered an
amendment providing that Chinese skill
ed laborers' might come to this country
Here is his amendment:
Provided, That this bill shall not apply to
any skilled laborer who shall establish that he
comes to this country without any contract by
which his labor is the property of any person
other than himself.
And these are the Senators who voted
for the adoption of this amendment:
Yeas-Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Brown.
Conger, Davis Of Illinois, Dawes, Ed
munds, Frye, Hale, Harrison, Hoar, In
gals. McDill. Mcmillan, MALONE,
Mitchell, Morrill-17.
The Democrats, however, were solid
against it and voted it down.
AS last effort to accomplish his object
of introducing Chinese mechanics to COM
pete with American mechanics, Mr.. Hoar
introduced this amendment
drooided FURTHER, That any laborer who
shall receive a certificate from the I'm tied
States consul at the port where he shall en-
bark, that he is an grtis0s1 coming to this
country at his own expense aad Of his own free
will and has established such fact to the sat-
isfaetion of such consul, shall not be affected
by this bill.
The Senators who voted for this amend
ment were:
Yeas-Messrs. Aidrieh, Allison, Brown,
Conger, Davis of Illinois, Dawes, Frye,
Hale, Harrison, Hoar, ingalls,, Jackson,
McDilI, Mcmillan, MALONE, Mitchell,
Morrill,, Plumb, Saunders-19.
The Democratic Senators defeated that
amendment also. The bill was finally
passed, and then President Arthur. the
Republican confederate of Senator Ma
hone, petoed it. That was nice record
for the Republican party as friend of
the American workingmen! But the
Democratic party was not to be wholly