The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-15
TIE LAeoRER.s FRIEND.
A Biii OF Particulars Wanted 10 show
wherein the Republican Party Has Ever
Been such s.Frirnd."

A Biii Of Particulars Wanted 70 show
wherein the Republican Party Has Ever
Been such ..Fri~nd."
The Cincinnati Commercial publishes
under long and flaring headlines ,u-
prcmely silly article upon 'Democra.
cy's deceit in is attitude rs the friend
OF the worSingman, in the course 81
which we are told that '.thc Republican
party i always the party Of the work
ers as opposed TO the friends Of the
workingman. The difference i so plain
that one may run and read it. The
friends Of the workingmen hold him
in bondage and thus protect him until
the party Of the laborers break the
bonds. make the serf citizen and pro
vide him with homestead. Ii the
condition Of the workingman has i'm
proved in the twenty five years during
which the Republican party has had the
political charge Of his Interests. II
would h. intere sting and instructive 10
be furnished with a bill OF particulars.
The nottingham has not found II out
The general public has not found il ont.
On the contrary the troubles and dis
content Of the working classes
or. rather. the laboring classes.
for the great mass OF Americans
are workers-have grown into
formidable proportions only a the Re
publican party has been in power Dur
ing that time we have had before Us the
strange and significant spectacle Of for
cign labor that supposed Il was settled
for life in this land Of golden oppor-
tunities pulling up stakes and going
back 10 Europe to better its condition.
We have had free trade in labor, but in
| nothing else. We have seen a whole
empire that should have been reserved
for settlers given NV nv to corporations.
and the free laborers. whose bonds the
Republican party claims to have broken
have been driven to the polls like sheep
and made to vote the Republican ticket
or forfeit their situations. This and
much more 10 the same effect has been
the record Of the Republican party.
under whose fostering care great
plutocrcy has been established. having
/ Tor It's cornerstone American labor But
the writer. who propounds the absurd
propositions to which we have made
reference. attempts, in very incon-
si~tent fashion. 10 establish them. He
SAYS: Now that the party which i the
avowcd friend Of the laboring man l. in
power. we hear about family and
.blooi' and coats-of-arms and family
crrsts and heaven save the mar (.
pcdirrecs.' Hitherto in this free and
glorious country pedigree talk has been
mostly confined to horses. bulls and
dogs. Now We get plenty ~ i ~ con
nection with Cabinet and other officials
Secretary EEdicotts pedigree take
about half a column in the Democratic
newspapers. putting beyond the posi-
bilay OF a doubt the ardent character oi
his friendship for the workingman
We do not see why coat-of-arms need
impair mans usefulness or hi DE.
mocracy any more than the possession
Of niece OF old family plate. Or an
ancestral sword. or his grandmother :
spinninr-wheel. We presume The gen
tieman whom the new Minister 70 In
gland succeeds. mas coat-of-arnis-
and that every representative 70 tn
court Of ST. James appointed ~
Republican administrations. mas been
equally favored. IL we should
remove from the history Of Amer can
development and progress the par
taken by men who had possessed Z. at
Of arms. and been justly proud q them.
we doubt whether there would be A,
American Republic to-day to be repre-
sented II man makes fool Of him'
-elf on account Of this family dlsiinc-
ton. rs Mr.. Edwards Pierrepont DID "a
employing the time that >houl'
have been given TO his country to AZ
tempting Ia trace out through the spir Y
blood relationship with British nopil-
ity. II j. time to say that the family
business y being carried too far bur on
general principles man y no wor.e
for having had even great grandiath'
er. Ills humanity and democracy ar
, more likely to BE- Of a kind to Dc trusted
than ar. those of the men or part, VINO
have made gold their god and look upon
laboring men and women a. 50 mus,
raw material to be ground mp and sIi''u
out for their enrichment and vulgar ~
rrandizement INV BOSTON Post.
! The California orange-grower
haxe discovered new process Tor r.