Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1886-09-12
NJ ES>AGE TO LA BOR
HENRY G. BALDWlN'S WORDS
TO WORkINGMEN.
Tribute To An Honest Man Scoring
the Sh, locks -" Hired 10 skin
Skunks =" h. Of l.. De.
mandS and How TO
Enforce Them.

cdjtoriAlly IN the Naugatuck .1giIo-
tor, and will add to the boom for an
honest man
10 Hr II,wLjoqmc4 Of the >ccow
CoUgrc>NioDW District.
We have u message to you, and
trust it will he carefully and conscI-
cntiously read.
\ on have nominated for Your rep
rcsrntatIyc in Congress Il man out
side of the tainted air Of robbery and
monopoly that has absolute control
of the party machinery Of the two
old parties, mlsrnllcd "rcpmbican"
and "dcm0crNtjc.
This man from childhood, almost,
has, while toiIjng for his daily bread,
faithfully and frarIesSly fought for
the right of labor to eat its own
fruit. Not with sword and gun, but
"wjth mental armour and with spirit
sabre.
He is u man who can be neither
hribcd nor frightened from his duty.
Asa "thnrtist, in Old England, he
stood by the tailor; as IN "Aholi-
Zionist" III this country when to be
such called down upon the head the
snccrs and wrath of the so-callcd
"respcctabIo" people, who then rs
now Worship nt the y shrine and ut
no other Later still he stood in the
ranks of the party that has done
more to prevent the absolute en-
slaycmrnt of labor than all other
agencies combined the past ten
years, yIz.: "'Thc National Labor
N'rcrnback Party"
It's spirit speaks in every demand
and every declaration Of the "k. OF
I~,' the noble Order to which 81
many Of You belong. So much for
the man whom You can, II y0n will,
elect to represent YoU in the law
making body Of the nation.
The vast ma jority Of you have for
years voted the tickets Iabc)Icd rs
we have indicated, and we have no
right to ask YOU to abandon the hab-
it, unless we can show good reasons
for 50 doing, and with that purpose
in view We give some reasons and
arguments herewith that seem con
elusive to MS:
You have said in your public dec
IaratIon that ''it is imperative, if We
desire to enjoy the full blessings OF
life, that Il check be placed upon
unjust accumulation and the power
for evil, Of aggregated wealth."
In what way can yon put on "thc
chcrk' you spoke of? CcrtainIyn not
by voting for such men rs Charles
L. Mitchell, the abjcrt and plant
tool Of the Shylocks, who manage
the thumb-scrcws Of usury for the
express and only purpose Of getting
"un Just accumuIatlons. " ConncctI,
cut two years ago this fall elected tC
Congress four men: two were label
cd democratic and two republican,
and all four voted as a unit on every
measure to aid the "unjust accumu-
! lHtIoms, and against yoH whose labor
creates the wealth they enjoy.
The majority Of you voted for Mr..
| Mitchell, and let us ask you has he
done in one particular different from
what his pretended opponent, Col.
! Allen, would have done had he beer
elected: You know he has donC
lust as his masters. the natiOna
LaQks hjEad BIN 70 DO, and his ser
| timcnt and every other man S snnti
mpnt who owes allegiarne-t to tbs
money power, is "labor he damned;'
and if YOU longer vote for such mcI
Won observe no better fate. Every
wrong under which labor now Justly
complains is intrcnchcd behind som,
! ia1r that was made by men elected
bv the votes Of workingmcn like you
/ As rule. now. neither of the OLD
! parties pretend to nominate a candi
/ date for any exalted position without
/ comting up his bank or raiIroaC
! stocks and asking how mucl