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its purpose and effect. 1t won't do, gen.
tlemen, 1t won't do.
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was threatened, that farmers would get
nothing for the skins of their cattle, that
the wage workers in our tannerles would
be thrown out of employment. The same
argument was used then as is used about
wool now. But hides were placed on the
free list. Now, what has been the result?
American hides increased in price as the
foreign article was cheapened. The
American tanner was enabled to give more
for the American product because he did
not have to pay SO much for the foreign
material. We used to import leather; we
now export it. We now import wooden
goods; remove the tax from raw material
and our manufacturers will export wooden
goods. Why, the principle is SO plain
that the ver1est school boy can understand
it.
ON II REPUBLICAN FREE LIST.
There is one article on the free list that
has been imported into this country in
large quantities, that has and does effect
the earnings of the wage worker here.
Republican manufacturers have brought
it over in droves; their candidate for vice
president has been an importer of the
article. A Republican congress passed
the law; a Republican president signed
the bill legalizing the importation of for
eign contract labor. John Sherman in
troduced it; a Republican congress passed
it; a Republican president signed it. A
Democratic congressman moved its repeal;
a Democratic congress passed the repeal;
a Republican senate dared not defeat the
repeal; a Democratic president signed the
repeal.
Under the law legalizing the importa-
ton of foreign contract labor, the pauper
labor of Europe has been brought to this
country in swarms and under contract.
This class of labor has almost wholly dis
placed all other labor in the mining and
in some of the manufacturing sections of
the East, and made those localities a
stencil in the nostrils of civilization. a
disgrace to the nineteenth century. The
Importation of Asiatic labor to our West
ern shores has rendered California, that
should be the garden of the Union, the
pest house of the nation. The only pro-
lection that has been given to the Ameri-
can laborer against such competition came
from a Democratic congress and a Demo
cratic administration. Even the Chinese
exclusion bill bears the signature of
Grover Cleveland.
THE BORE TAGS.
Two weeks ago l saw a number of men
at work on a railroad. Attached to the
waistband of each man was a leather
strap fastened to a large brass check sim
liar to those used by railway companies
when checking baggage. Every check
bore a number, and the man who carried
it, or to whom it was fastened, was known
by the number on his check. On the pay
rolls of the company he was known by
his number and if he had the misfortune
to lose his check, he at the same time lost
his wages unless the foreman would iden-
tify him fer a consideration. These men
spoke a tongue unknown to me, and the
same story was told of their habits as was
told of the men of eight years ago.
Shanties of the toughest boards made up
the homes of these poor fellows, and
fare of the coarsest and flthiest kind
tractor. Fancy the future of the Amer
lean laborer, whose name is forgotten,
and whose only means of Identification
rests with a brass check, which may be
substituted for another while he sleeps.
OUR STANDARD BEARER.
Perry Organ represents the Democratic
party in this territory. A vote for him is
a vote for the principle he represents.
He stands upon a platform opposed to
trusts, opposed to monopolists; opposed
to cheap contract labor; opposed to Chinese
emigration, opposed to the war tariff. He
supports Grover Cleveland; he endorses
his administration; he stands for tariff re-
form. Are you opposed to what he an
tagonlzes? Are you in favor of what he
endorses? Then vote for him. Vote first
for a principle-then for a man. Aside
from the principle, however, Mr.. Organ
in his person represents that noblest work
of God, al honest man. He is a typical
Western man, sturdy, modest, u%nassuming
and brainy. He comes from the ranks of
the people. He represents all classes and
not a particular class. All that he has, all
that he is, has come to him through his
own industry, his own honesty, his own
perseverance. He has never yet been
faithless to a friend or proved traitor to
any trust. He has lived here for years;
the book of his life is an open volume.
Examine it you critics, and tell US if there
is a line there that indicates aught but an
honest. an upright and a correct life.
Workingmen, he is Of you and with you.
He is no stranger to toll; he has gone hand
in hand with it from his early youth to
mature manhood. Of him it can be said:
THAT rising from the pavement erevice as the
His has been the nobility of labor, the long
pedigree of TOLL
There is no valid reason why any hon
est Democrat. be he man or woman,
should be opposed to Perry Organ: there
is every reason in this territory why he
should be elected. A delegate has about
as much use for eioquence in congress as
a lady in Panama has for a scalskin
sacque. He has no opportunity to exhibit
it. He doesn't enthuse listening COLI
gressmen. He can write out a speech and
he will be permitted to have it printed in
the Congressional Record.
H QUESTION OF oRAToRY.
A gratuitous fling has been made against
Mr.. Organ that he is not an able man:
that he cannot make n speech. This
statement has been iterated aud reiter-