The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-30
Mr.. Blaine's Teaching Enforced.

lives by insisting upon taking COL
ored delegate to the theatre" So |
said Knight of Labor who had been |
at Richmond. 1--WE" meant white
knights of Labor. He put it too
mildly when he called the mob spirit
"prejudice." Mere prejudice never
puts lives in danger. 1t Is lawless-
ness, the most dangerous form of dis
loyalty. that the man had to fear.
The mob, he found, was in the habit
of ruling in spite of law, and deter.
mined to rule in spite of law, and
meant to keep the colored race in
subsection. Instead of prejudice he
should have said theft. Deliberately
robbing another of his rights and his
means of livelihood for ones own
gain is not called prejudice where
just laws are supreme. but it is pun
ished az crime.
"Our lives were in danger" That
was a case of bulldozing white men,
not colored citizens. Mob violenre
threatened white laborers, and they
then began to realize that it was not
right. Suddenly it flashed upon them
that the colored man would havs
poor chance of putting in a free hal
lot, or getting an honest cunt. II
confronted by the same blosdthirsiy
and lawless mob. If he Ould not
vote freely, how could fe defend
himself against injustice q employ
ers No local official couli be found
to care for the vote he could not cast,
and therefore not one to stand w for
his rights as free laborer. 4 strike
however peaceabe and reasonable,
could be treated as conspiracy in
itself, and punished by offiials vir.
tuelly controlled by employers. That
has been done at the SMth more
than once, the Knights will find if
they inquire with open yes. The
trouble is that they have been going
about with their eyes slut to the
grave duty which the Republican
party has been trying toperform, but
now they begin to see tat if South
ern labor is not free, am defended by
lust laws, Northern laior cannot be
prosperous.
A great statesman j. one who has
the faculty of so fittiag his teachings
to the needs of the day that the pas
sing events, which stir tie hearts OF
men and open their eyes. shall serve
as commentary on his words. With
barren theories which d, not touch
the lives of the millions, the states
man has no business. Ills task il to
guide the thoughts and efbrts of mil
lions to the best government that can
be secured for them. and that can
only be done by considering the
needs of the millions, when thy re-
alize them and as 'I---- -e--''ne hie,.'.
WI DioilC - opCCSh III tilHSyIVdtlla
presented the teaching events at
Richmond force that teaching home
to the understanding of Northern
workmen. Their rights and their
happiness are involved in the main
tainance of lawful authority and
equal rights to the South, The poll.
ticians who try to befoOl them Ivy
sneering at the bloody shirt are the
men who will rob them of their own
rights and prosperity. if possible, by
establishing at Washington free
trade tariffand throughout the North
level of compensation for labor not
higher than can be maintained in
direct competition with ignorant and
virtually enslaved labor at the South.
That is what Mr.. Hewitt and Mr..
George, and all Democratic candi.
dates for Congress in this great city,
would do for Northern labor, and
that Is what the Republican party.
her as in Maine or in PennsyI vania,
strives to prevent.-V. Y. Tribune.