Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-31

| two knitted SnlrtS, one made IN Europe
and one in America; the European one
costs go cents and the American shirt 80
cents laid down in the city of New York.
The difference of 80 cents is the differ
ence of the sum paid to the operatives
who made them. When we removed
the duty on coffee that duty was divided
between the Brazilian Government and
the Brazilian producer. In the days Of
Henry Clay labor was unorganized, with
out knowledge of its rights or its capaci-
ties but since then the gold of California,
the civil war and the accumulations OF
twenty years of prosperous peace has
educated labor into an organization whose
motto is, zone for all, and all for one."
You have seen how the Knights of Labor
have fought against any intrusions Oil
their rights, how much more now should
they combine when their very homes are
threatened.
Our Democratic friends are like child
with watch. They want to open it and
see how it works. l do not think that
they intend harm on this tariff question,
but they are anxious to undo something
that the Republicans have done. The
Democratic party is drunk with Cleve-
land, and Cleveland is absolutely de-
bauched with himself. There is no known
force in nature that will disturb Grover
Cleveland's good opinion of himself.
AS President he has vetoed more bills
enacted by his own party friends than all
the other Presidents have, from Wash
ington down. l give Mr.. Cleveland
credit for good intentions on this tariff
question, but he has not informed him
self enough and is erratic in his ideas.
TAKE THE MILLS BILL.
1t is proposed to reduce raislns one-half
cent pound. If this is accomplished,
it will compel the vender of California
raisins to sell his boxes of raisins 10
cents a box cheaper SO as to compete
with the prices of the European importer.
Who will this affect? The wholesale
man will not lose that 10 cents; neither
will the vineyardist; but the laborer will
find that his wages will be reduced, for
we are all trying to unload onto somebody
and the bottom man must in time be
reached. Labor takes the load, and it is
therefore the first to feel the effects of
reduction and the last to feel the effects
of imitation. If the Mills bill becomes a
law, the direct result of its doctrines
would be to reduce the wages of logger,
lumberman, skilled mechanic and worker
in orchard or vineyard from $5 to SIS per
month, and if Grover Cleveland is re-
elected then that Mills bill will become a
law. Is your Democracy that much
to you? | ask Of our opponent working
men. There is no compromise that can
be made with free trade; you must
destroy it or it will destroy you; it must
be strangled now that it is in its infancy
and before it has time to place itself up
your hearths - it has no home
in this country, it is the
child of European philosophy.
1t has seized the Democratic party and
chained it like dog to the doorsteps OF
the English and the French importers.
In Europe the great stream of people
affords no elbow room, but here all is
different, for everyone can aspire to
honor and competence. 1t is the differ
ence of condition that gives hope and en-
couragement to our people. Protection
has clothed our people; do you think
that they will rend their garments and
60 to the rag bags of free trade. Will
they cheerfully step out from the ave.
nues of prosperity into a condition of
poverty because they can purchase tin
plate for five cents cheaper or a pair of
eyeglasses for ten cents less? have
used the term free trade because it is
what is understood to be the policy of
the Democratic party, but I must
admit that they say that they
are not believers in free trade.
Neither is Omaha, Chicago, but Omaha
is long way ON the road to Chicago.
The Democrats are trying to influence
the farmers of the country by going
among them with hayseed in their hair
and pretending to fraternize. but when
you drive them off the green field of
argument, they will stand in the dusty
highways and gibber out something
about
HARRISON'S CHINESE RECORD.
1t is reasonable to suppose that every
fully the Chinese situation. No, they
had to be educated to it and l will admit
that the Democrats were the more apt
pupils. The Chinese question is practi-
cally settled and the Democrats and Re-
publicans have stood shoulder to shoulder
in the work. Any man who would at
tempt to bring it up again for mere
partisan advantage deserves to be con-
for lost dogs. But when all
tucSo drSuluoutS di0 CAuauoeOu
the Democrats come to us with tears in
their eyes and say: "There is the sur
plus; what shall we do with it?" can
tell you in four simple words. Well
blow it in. We can put mighty lakes in
the Sierras from which rivers can flow
down onto the arid plains and make
them magnificent meadows; we can en-
bank the Mississippi from the Falls of
st. Anthony to the Belize; we can estab-
lish national telegraphs that will break
down the monopolistic barriers of the
Western Union Company; we can man
hundred steel cruisers and send them
out on the ocean with the American flag
flying at their mastheads; we can clear
out the bayous, and then if there is any
thing left, we can give grand donation
party and pour gifts into the hands of
every grey-headed Union soldier and
into the lap of every widow whose hus-
band fought to save our freedom.
The thralldom of Cerdicth Saxon is on
the Englishman, though the iron collar
BIZ removed. 1t is the same in France
and Switzerland, Republics only in
name, for the governments control every
thing, and man who is peasant can
scarce hope to ever become Prime Min.
lister. Ours is the only country of oppor-
tunities; for here each man knows that
his son, though he be peasant born, will
as likely become the President of the
United States, as the child who sees the
LIGHT in a gilded chamber.