Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-22
"PAUPER LABO K'' FROM EUROPE.

A homely adage about the proof of the pudding being ill its masticAtion fits in very snugly with the interest that the re publicans are proclaiming nowadays ill the wage earners. One would think, from their deep solicitude. that the democratic party, threc-fourths of which is made up of workingmen themselves, is the deadly foe of labor and is anxious to crush it down to earth The workingmen know better than this. They know that whenever the rich manufacturer found favorable op- portuuity to cut down the pay of his em- ployes he hastened to do so, and if ever he showed any particular interest in his men it was in respect to the smallest degree of remuneration at which he could purchase their labor. Things crop out occasionally to illustrate this, and some of the vNrlu pliheations furnish melancholy reading for the toiler.
 Carnegie's interest ill his workmen, from whose sweat by means of ten per cent reduction, he was able last year to wiring Sl, 500, ,0O0, is a very fair specimen of that which other rich republican 1nanufac- turers feel for their help. The Barbour brothers who conduct large flax mills at Paterson, N. J., are ill much the same boat as Carnegie and Candidate Morton, as was shown by the evidence taken before the Ford congressional committee a few days since. These men have been loud in their professions of concern for the workmen es- pecially about election time, and urgent in their denunciations of the democratic policy of tariff reduction. From the testimony given before the Investigating committee it came out that these same Rarbours, rich and highly protected, have been engaged, contrary to the United States laws ill i'm porting girls from Ireland under contract to do their work at lower rates than prevail here. The 'pauper labor of Europe' has used by them to undermine the standard of wages here. The hypocrisy of their claim that reasonnbl" reduction otthe tariff means an influx of foreign pnuper labor is mirrored clearly in their con duet. They care nothing ful the workingman beyond frying the fat out of him for all he will render. Tho benefits of high protection accrue to them and it is because of this that they are $, earnest and urgent in its advocacy. SC far as the workingman is concerned they would see him in sheol before they woUlt share with him the profits of the system "Foreisn pauper labor" is good enough fo them, and they "Assist' the immigrant here in order tha; their cheap labor ma. be used to the disadvantage of the hom
 laborer. The Barbours and the Carnegie and the heartless capitalists who like then would wiring the very heart from the labor hardly the ones to cry wolf when the dem ocrats are honestly striving t. improv
 his condition.
 The ForG committee will find plenty 0 cases through the country just like thi
 one of the Barbour brothers. The histol
 of capital ill its relation to labor Is full O just such instances of hypocrisy and dt
 ceit. The bloated monopolist who sets II
 the wall of distress for his dollar da
 workman will hardly expect to be locke
 upon disinterested advocate of d sys tenn from which, olding, to Foster, | f verves all, or at least the greater part, ( f the benetits.' The workman will hay , something to say at the polls next Noven 7 system.