Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-04-01
Labor ana Democracy.

Labor and Democracy.
After all the great foe to protection,
"a Senator Freye said on Wednesday /
evening in his address at the Brooklyn
OF Music, ON "The Tariff"
10 the Democratic party, because that
party has been 90 body, head and shout
ders for afty years past In the South.
was Indigenous to the growth
Of free-trade because 1t fed 1t with
cheap labor, and cheap labor and free
trade 20 hand In hand to-day rs much |
~ they ever did. Slavery, It 10 true,
died o violent death, but the poison I
of slavery still lives and works and
formulates Democratic free-trade plat /
forms. At NO time In the history Of the
Democratic party was 1t ever square
cut protection party. Forced by pub
lilo opinion 1t progressed from an openly
Avowed free-trade platform TO " q tariff
for revenue only" and from that II
wanted "a tariff alone for revenue
and In the last platform 1t got 30 tar as
to ask for tariff for revenue exclu-
sively." The following passage from
Mr.. Freye's speech will be read with
interest and duly appreciated during
these existing troubles between labor
and capital;
"Protection does not mean prote ction
for capital. Capital can very we'll take
care OF itself 1t can hide in the savings.
banks, or even the stocking II need be.
But capital In timid. 1t must be en-
Outraged to leave the bank and the
stocking and 20 into the bowels Of the
earth, the factory and the machine
shop, to men and women, and pay them
good wages that they may properly
educate their children. Bone and sinew
and muscle need protection. It can't
hide 1t can't starve; it can't shift at
will from place to place. Encourage
capital, but protect labor, that's my
doctrine. Applause. Contrast the
cost of manufacture in England And
America. What makes the difference
Bone and muscle are cheap In England
Bone and muscle are dear here; they
are protected. But what would becom,
of our bone and muscle IL the good
that are made no much cheaper In Eng
land were allowed to be sold here with
out tariff. It would have to be sus
tanned on bread and potatoes instead
ofsmeat, and the children would hav
to work in the mills instead of goip
to school. But when the Englishmal
steps into our Custom House he help
us TO pay our own wOrkmen well AM
educate.our children"
In the face OF all these fasts, tn
number of workingmen in this oountr
who have up to this time supportel
the Democratic party may be counte'
by the million. They have been tn
bone and sinew of the Democrat
party. Making living by hard labor
at times poor living, scarcely llvinI
ut all, they have regularly come q
near voting for free-trade rs the
possibly could do by voting with tn
Democratic party. All they cared TO
was to know that the ticket they vote
was q Democratic ticket. The ipla
form and the principles Of the part
were nothing to them, but tickt
headed with Democratic Ticket" wa
everything. But there has been
change. Labor became educate
through the hard logic Of circun
stances and sees now what fool 1t hi
been. 1t has been demanding woI
and good wages, while 1t has bet
voting for free-trade and Euglil
wages. This has been going on 30 lor
that labor troubles ooRvrlse the cour
try. Mercsnary men have taken q
vantage Of the times and have farth
degraded labor by importing paup
labor from Europe.
Cheap labor has led to the attem]
to compete with English capitalists
manufacturing. This has degrade
labor still lower. While England hi
lately shipped $50, 900, 900 worth q: If,
and steal rails to this country, our ov
manufactured have tried to compe
by making iron and steel rails a. Il
rs England puts them in the Americ
market. This is degrading labor. B
during all this time what have '
seen at Washington? A free ira
committee on Ways and Means, ii
kering at the tariff in order to let
more cheap-labor manufactured goo(
But labor has got its eyes open
last, and it has resolved that whatev
1t may have done wrong In the past
will endeavor to amend in the futu
1t does not want another Engla
made Of America, and it has learr
that the only way to prevent this
to protect American labor by Oh
ting out the cheap labor Of Euro
The turning point has been reacl
and the setting Of the tide in the dir
ton Of protection has caused frict
between labor and capital.
There are not wanting those v
deny that labor is degraded in K
land, but stubborn statistics prove
contrary. England with populai
Of $4,000, 900, has 1000, 900 paup
while the United States with So, 600,
has only 81, 900 peqpers. England
free trade cFeap labor nation,
United States is 8. protected nation
Was 30 untilfhe Democratic party
persistent effort turned the tide
the direction Of; free trade. Let "
ingmen reflect upon these things.
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