Daily Republican., 1886-05-08
senator Beck squelched.

Senator Beck lie never more ct home
than when acting the demagogue. he
tries to turn everything that turns upI
to the advantage Of his own political
party. He thought the labor troubles
OF the country afforded I'll opportunity
for denouncipg the manufacturers Of
New Eogland as bloated capitalists
and the oppressors Of labor. To . GER
tain extent he may have been right,
but he seemed to forget that there were
two sides to the question, and that
when n comparison 10 made with his
own State OF Kentucky. those down
trodden iaboring classes over which he
shed 90 many crocodile tears, were
worth more money than was invested
In manufactures in the State OF
Kentucky. II was on Monday last
that the Senator delivered himself Of q
harsngue against the tariff and as
sailed the manufacturers OF New En-
gland for much Of the poverty preva.
lent amongst the laboring classes, and
demanded that the bloated manufac-
turers should divide their ill-gotten
gains with their starved employees.
The Senator was right in principle
but mistaken in applying his COM
munistic logic to the cotton manufac-
tursrs Of New England, for, although
there have been strikes and counter
strikes In that section, they were not
because they had been reduced down Il
starvation points. In no section has
capital been 30 liberal TO mill labor 81
in New England, labor and capita
both having enjoyed the joint profit
of thei= operations Had Senator Becl
looked st home at the condition OF
labor In his own State, for the sake o
consistency, he might have saved botl
his credit and his harangue.
Bat rs he, by his ill-planned attack
invited an answer, he got, IL not whA
he wanted, what he deserved. Senate
Hawley, when he heard the sweepin
condemnation, Immediately looked ri
q few statistics and showed the Blu
Grass Senator that the down-troddeu
poverty-ssricken factory employees O
Connecticut have 500, 000,0 safel
slowed away In the State saving
banks, and that 900, 900 people, or sbou
one-third the population Of the State, ar
the owners Of these savings. This sun
10 more than double the whole capits
of Kentucky, invested In all kinds {
manufacturers, and the State Is nearl
eight times as large rs Connecticut, an
contains nearly three times the popr
lation.
Senator Hoar also spoke q wor
for the WAgeearners OF Massachusetts
He showed the astonished Kentuck
Senator that this class of people ha
$270, 000, 900 In the State savings bank
ree-fourths OF which were the saving
of mill operatives exclusively. Thi
sum would indicate that the Ne
England mill hands stand in little nee
of Senator Beck's supertluous symps
thy. A body OF men and women VIII
have been atie to lay aside, out {
their earnings, sufficient sum to bu
out all the manufacturing industries {
Senator Beck's own State, does nc
need his especial championship. Tt
Senator had better lavish his symps
thies upon the down-trodden labor
hs own State. There are sever
hundred thousand laboring men
Kentucky, both white and black, wi
are eking out q precarious existence
the tscit forbearance Of their nomin
owners. Why does not Senator Be,
look after these people? When be pu
the laboring people Of Kentucky up
the same solid level of the laborIl
masses of New England, then he CT
consistently condemn the oppression
New England labor.