Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-23

sympathy, by the way. took shape last year in ten per cent reduction in the wages of the workingmen in his employ.
 And now General Harrison is accused by the Boston Herald of giving expression to socialistic ideas in his speech on Satur- day to the commercial travellers when he said that ''the true American policy is that which shall maintain not only living rates of wages, but one with a margin for savings and comfort for our workingmen. Such policythe Herald deems distinctly socialist one in that it would impose on wages otherwise than by giving to every citizen the right to freely earn whatever his industry and talent can command, and concludes that the labor organizations would have right to demand that General Harrison, if elected president, should urge such national legislation as would fix the minimum rate of wages in all of our in dustrial occupations.
 Be this as it may however, it is certain that socialism has spread in this country l do 1t 1SSulO OA ySlChA OA AASA PAoSS> tion which discriminates in favor of the rich as against the poor. A system that l lays burdens on one class to benefit another, that provides maximum of profits to the employer as against minimum of com pensation to the employe, is hewing close to the common purpose of socialism. The end and aim of socialism is the distribution of wealth through govern mental instrumentality, with the design, however, of transferring acquired riches fromthe wealthy to the poor. The purpose of high protection is to use the power of tax ation for the transfer of wealth from one class to another. In so far, therefore, AS the ultimate end of socialism and high pro lection are the distribution or transfer of wealth through the medium of government the systems would seem to be identical. But whether as metaphysical question the two systems are identical III methods and purpose, as matter of fact the continuance of high protection is ia vorable to the growth of socialism. II could not we'll be otherwise. Our work ingmen have seen enormous fortunes bui.' up as direct result of the tariff they have seen their own struggle for the comforts o1 life made harder and more grinding they have witnessed the irrepressible conflict ot organized labor to sustain wages to a poin
 of responsibility; they have seen corpora
 tions reaching out on every hand and cen
 tralizing the wealth of the nation the,
 have seen the monopolies and protected in
 stitutions influencing legislation by Hobbies
 and corrupt lawmakers, ant , when any attempt is made t.
 lessen the tariff in the interest of the con {. sumer setting up howl about American . industry, foreign competition, paupe
 labor and high wages It could hardly be with such a spectacle constantly befor their eyes, that the American workmel would not take kindly to the doctrine o
 socialism which holds out panacea fo the existing and apparently accommodating
 evils
 Do the American people want socialism i'll this land !! Do they want policy tha
 is congenial to it's development and inev
 itably promotive of it's ideas :! If so the
 can sustain General Harrison and the re
 publican party in their purpose of taxin
 the nation even beyond the point of en durance But we do not believe tn country is yet prepared to accept socialism or to submit to any policy that is favorabl to it's growth.
 It will be repudiated on the 9th of No vember.