The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-28
THAT WAR OF CLASSES"
The Democrats Recognize the Fact that
Wa.Lin1men Haya Political Ri1hfs

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The Democrats Recognize the Fact that
workingmen Have Political Rights.
The Leader has a new whine. 1t is
afraid the Democrats are Crying to
foment a war Of classes" 1t perceives
ga desperate attempt to get up a class
movement in politics. and is Mortified.
What has the Democratic partydoneP
1t has recognized the fact that working
men have political rights. 1t has de-
clared that a working man should not
be debarred from office or from taking
an active part in public affairs because
he is poor. 1t has declared that the
wage-workers ought to have representa-
ton in legislative affairs. 1t has de-
clared that a workingman, if he is in
telligent and capable, has just as much
right to seek Office, be elected to Office,
and take part in public affairs as any
millionaire has. And it has given its
principles practical form by placing
representative w~orkingmen on its tick
cts, State, Congressional and county.
If this is ''trying to foment a war of
classes" so be It. 1.-The war will
probably go on, very much to the
ACttuC1 . SOIIOW dlIu Vic ulSSu0l u 1tC-
publican politicians. who think they
own the country.
If>any thing has been done tending to
5oment a real war of classes it has been
done by the Republican party through
Ss policy of legislating in favor of mo-
nopoly and its eternal toadying to
wealth and grasping corporations. 1t
has done all it could to make the con-
dit:on of laLor intolerable and goad it
into "a wal of classes" The wretched
policy of the Republican party, a party
chat has ever favored the rich and
powerful as against the poor and feeble,
Is in a great measure responsible for
these very '.classes'' that the Leader is
afraid nov will go to war. 1t has
fostered monopoly. 1t enacted the law
authorizing the importation of pauper
labor. Under its rule gigantic corpora
lions came into being and a few men
amassed millions, while the poor grew
poorer. 1t has sold its organizations
lime and again to millionaires and mo-
nopolists, grinding down, crushing
down the poor, the %toilers, the wage
workers into abject and helpless pau
perism. And now when labor asks for
recognition, asks for its political rights,
asks only a chance to make itself felt
and heard in public affairs to the end
that its lot may be bettered, and when
the Democratic party, always the friend
and champion of the posr and oppress-
ed, takes up the appeal of labor and
makes its cause its own, the whine goes
up that the Democratic party is '.trying
to foment a war of races"
Let the Leader look to its own party.
Let it remember how it sold itself to
Jay Gould and the shylocks of Wall
street when Blaine was is candidate fol
President in 1884. Let it remember
how it put a millionaire at the head Of
its national committee that year. Lei
it remember that there are four million.
aires on the Republican State Executive
Committee now. Let it review the
whole purse and career of it's party,
and finding it always on the side o.
wealth, of monopoly, of great corpor
ations, its leaders millionaires, its leg;s'
lation dictated from Wall street, it,
policy making the rich richer and the
poor poorer, it will not have to lool
further for the causes of that politica.
uprising of the masses that it is pleased
to consider a war of one class upor
another.--PlGin Dealer.