Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-29
CHESTNUT!

Mr.. Blaine, in his pious and peripatetic
wanderings in search of the home OF his
boyhood's days, takes occasion to still
cast that anchor to windward in hopes of
its catching the bottom and holding his
political bark in position for the storm Of
'8S. All good men cannot but admire
his love of the memories and associations
OF childhood, but they must stop in won
der to consider how he can reconcile such
statements as the following with the
early prayer lisped at the maternal knee
and the early teachings of piety and truth.
Mr.. Blaine is ostensibly on pilgrimage
to the home of his youth, but in reality
he is on first-class red-hot political
mission, as the following proves. In his
address to the workingmen OF Williams
port on Wednesday last occurs these
statements.
The laboring men of this State and the
Northern States are about entering on an
other question. They are to consider a
question of great and imperious magnitude,
and that is with the power of the National
Government in the hands of the Democratic
party, there is no possible hope for the rise
or progress of nearly two millions of colored
laborers in the South. They give them no
vote. They allow them no voice. They give
them no influence. They keep them living
in huts on starvation wages and they are
hurrying them by the millions into COMPETE
ton with the Northern men. Now. if the
Democratic party holds the Government of
this country, and keeps that labor servile as
1t was when the chains of slavery were
fnRN A
white labor OF this country will grow more
and more fierce, and more and more will
they have to confront this direct and i'm
portant truth that either the great mass of
laborers in the South must be raised in the
scale of intelligence and compensation, or
they will pull the Northern men to their
level on wages. Gentlemen, this is no catch
work of the campaign; it ia not the mere
source of political necessity; it is not the
cry of party defeated or party that ex-
poets to be victorious-it is n solemn,
undeniable industrial fact, Pray reflect
upon it."
II we reflect on Mr.. Blaine's own
figures we shall see at once how dema-
gogic learned man can become when
blinded by prejudice, and all his feelings
toward his political opponents are tinged
with hatred and malice. He says the
rise and progress OF nearly ttVo millions OF
colored men are hopeless. Further on
he says that the Democrats OF the South
are forcing millions OF colored men
against the laborers OF the North. II
such were true as at first stated, how
can the latter be true? Mr.. Blaine was
foolish enough to give his first political
falsehood location and name, and the
press OF that location gave his falsehood
very black eye; in this case he makes the
charge general, so that he cannot be
reached from any one point more than
another, and he knows that all the
papers OF the South combined do not es-
TEEN his silly braggart pleas as
worthy game Tor their powder, at
least not until he makes them
rs the authorized head of his party,
hence his wonderful nerve in misrepre-
senting what intelligent men all know to
be the facts in the case. Why does not
MIR. Blaine instance case where negro
labor is held seryile by Democrats? Why
does he not cite the complaints of these
men? The colored men OF the country
have several organs OF power and ability
in which they could set forth these
wrongs, il they existed, but strange
enough they are all silent 1t is the old
and wormy chestnut in politics, used as
the bloody shirt has been used, until its
repetition has failed OF any effect other
than that OF the boomerang, and, in due
time, it will rebound upon its author
with telling effect. The New York World
sizes up the great magnetic man as fol-
lows:
There has not been since the days of
aDsolom more perfect specimen Of the
demagogue than Blaine, of Maine.
The spectacle of the perennial candidate
kneelinR at the grave of Thad Stevens and