Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-25

derpaid. They receive fAf less than has
been paid In years past TO northern
mechanics for similar work. They are
able to take no part In making laws for
their own protection, and they are con.
sequsntly and inevitably unable 10
maintain fair standard Of wages or to
receive . fair proportion Of their proper
earnings.
do not dwell on this subject ct
length. though it could easily DO pre-
sented in aegrsvating detail. ! men,
ton il only to place it before labor or
CARNATIONS Of the North, with this
question addressed to them, Do you
suppose that you can permanently
maintain in the northern States one
scale Of prices, when just beyond an
imaginary line on the south Of US q
far different scale Of prices is paid
for labor? The colored mechanic OF
the South is not so skilful a workman
nor so intelligent . man as you are,
but II he will lay brick in new cotton
factory in South Carolina at half the
price you are paid. If he will paint and
plaster it at the same low rate, he Is
inevitably erecting an industry which,
if the same rate of wages be maintained
throughout, will drive you out Of
business or lead you to the gates OF
bis own poverty.
In conclusion, the speaker took up
PROHIBITION
and third party. He said
The pending contest is marked by
the presence Of third party, organized,
IS It's leaders say, to-snforce the prohi'
bition of the liquor traffic in Maine.
There are some singular features per-
tanning to this movement. The Repub-
lican party in Maine from the day Of
its organization has been pledged to
prohibition-enactipg the principal sta
tute now in force in 1878, and since
amending it from year to year as the
leading Temperance men requested. The
changes to make it more effective have
averaged nearly one for every year since
the original law was passed.
The third party in their convention
cheerfully testify that prohibition has
been so we'll enforced by the Republi-
cans that in their judgment Maine is a
quarter of century ahead Of the Ii
csnse States in all that pertains to the
temperance reform. The Republicans
have this year with special en-
phasis in their State Convention re-
affirmed their faith in prohibl
ton and nominated for Governor 8
pronounced supporter of the law. But
all this does not suit the third-party
Prohibitionists. They desire party
Of their own just small enough to have
no effect at all, or, if possible, JUS
large enough to throw the State int
the hands Of the Democratic party
which has been IS constant in its hos
tility to prohibition as the Republican
party of Maine has been constant in it!
fidelity to prohibition.
The position and platform of the thirc
party might in fact be thus abbreviated
Whereas the Republican party Of Main'
enacted prohibitory law thirty year.
ago and has since amended it as ma
iority of the friends Of temperance de
| manded, and has in consequence ad
vanced Maine in all matters Of tempe
rance a quarter of century ahead o
the license States therefore, be it re
solved that we, members of a thirt
party Of Prohibitionists, will so vote a
to defeat the Republican party and turl
the Government Of Maine over to to
Democrats, who have through all thes
years opposed prohibition by every in
strsmentality in their power.
Democrats, Of course, with scarcel
an attempt at concealment, regard tn
third party as their especial ally, an
the coalition is so evident that al
sure no man can be deceived in regar
TO the result except him who desires
be deceived. Every voter knows th'
be must choose between the Republica
and Democratic parties-and ever
voter knows that in joining the thir
party he indirectly but effectuall
throws his political and moral infuenc
in favor of the Democracy.
The supporters Of the third part
adopt a. their shibboleth that 18Th
Republican party must be killed,
and they have secured the &C
operation of the Democrat, of the Free
Trader, of the saloon proprietor, of a
men who wish to keep six millions G
colored people in the South dis
franchised and oppressed. 1t
an insincere coalition, an unhaI
lowed partnership, an unholy ALI
ance. Against it the Republican part
Of Maine presents its uniform supper
of prohibition, its splendid record
devotion to the protection Of America
labor, its long and patient effort in be
half of those who are down-trodde
and deprived Of natural rights. Tn
Republican party has always fought it
battles siDgle-hsnded against great odds
and now, with principle untarnishe
and courage undaunted, it will agai
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