The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-09-08
SOME PLAIN FACTS.
An Open Letter from Mr.. H.. Il. Allis
TO the Men i'm His En-
pioy.
Benefits of Protection Put in Way
that He Who Runs May
Read.
Foreign Pauper labor, the Alleged
Treasury Surplts3, and importa-
tions Touched Upon.

anything they arc likely TO get Mr. l..
L. Allis, the head of the large machinery
manufacturing establishment which
employs nearly 1000 men. last evening
distributed to his men rs they left their
work an open letter, or address, of which
the subjoined is n copy. Mr. Allis has
been twice the candidate of the Green
back Labor party for Governor of this
state, and few employers stand as high
in the estimation of their workmen, and
of the lahoring classes generally. rs Mr..
Allis. During all the labor troubles in
this city the Allis works has been able
to keep its men going when others had
to shut down. There are very few
manufacturing establishments in this
country where, among so many employees,
spirit of loyalty to EMPLOYERS is main
tanned rs it Is in the Allis Works. And
this esprit du corps has been developed
by the persistent efforts of Mr.. Aliis,
through his many years experience as
an employer, to keep in view the wei
fare of his men as well as his own in
terests Mr.. Allis has never since the
war come out as fiat. footed for the re-
publican ticket as he has now done.
MIR. A.LIs' S LETTER.
To My Employees have been asked
by many of you for my opinion upon the
present political situation, and in view
of the great importance of the question
itself, whether my opinion is of value or
otherwise. it seems best to reply in an
open letter to you all.
As you know. | am believer in the
financial and industrial views of that
eminent American thinker and writer
upon industrial subjects, Henry G.
Cary, and have been a sincere worker in
the "Grccnbacli" and "Grccnback La
Dor" parties, which more nearly than
any other embodied his principles, and
if my vote and influence could establish
those principles at this time, it would be
10 given.
The underlying sentiment OF those
principles is that American labor is the
foundation stone of our National life and
future greatness, and that to encourage
and aid the working and producing
classes. whether on the farm. in the
workshop, or in the Office, should be the
first duty Of government, and that our
legislation should be for our own people
and country, and not for or governed by
other nations.
TWO LEADING FEATURES
of this belief are, first, that the govern
ment alone should furnish the cure ncy
of the country, whether metallic or pa
per, and that il should also establish
and regulate its volume in the interests
of the whole people, beyond the reach Of
| responsible or irresponsible causes,
| arising from individual or corporate con-
| troll, from the expectation or variation
| in the supply of the precious metals;
| and, second, that the good raw material
of our own country should be utilized by
and for our own people, without dam
| aging competition from the people of
different governments and diverse social
| and economic conditions. OF those two
| great principles, the labor party alone at
| the present time advocates the first, but
the success of that party in the approach
| ing election is an impossibilify, and its
! success even, with the loss of the second
| of those principles. which it does not
endorse, would. | fear be fruitless
victory. The two dominant political
| parties. one Of which must succeed in
| this election. while alike ignoring the
| first OF these questions. take distinct
| issue upon The second, and il is made the
pivotal question of tic day. and in the
triumph of one or tic other Of these two
parties rests the settlement OF this cues
tion for many years to come, and the
consequent good or i'll for long time to
our beloved Republic.
The workingmen of America have
| many difficulties TO contend with, but
under present conditions they are gradu,
ally acquiring the power to more sue
cessfully cope with them, and though
the process may be thought slow, ii is
! nevertheless certain that they are con,
| stantiy lettering their condition, while
| their brethren across the sea are vast
multitude so stepped in poverty and
! weakness as TO almost abandon hope OF
better future. This fact is beyond
successful dispute, that whatever ills the
American workman has to contend
against, his rate of wages is twice or
three times that of his European brother
and ii is this point of vantage that it is
his vital and lasting interest 10 maintain.
1t is also of vital interest TO the country
itself. that it should be maintained, for
If American workmen must be reduced
to the low rate of wages paid abroad
and to the want and misery that natural.
ly follows that
Low EBB OF PAYMENT.
as evidence not only by foreign reports.
but by the destitute hordcs of cmigrants
HOW IauiluS Hppl ShhttS, tACu our gov
ernment of and for the people is q fail
ure and fraud. The only possible way
that this difference of wages between
our own and foreign lands is and can be
maintained. is by the continuation OF
the policy that made the difference exist.
viz. the exclusion. TO Il greater or less
extent. Of the products of that foreign,
chea , labor from our shores. The policy
which does this is the policy of protec-
ton to home industries and it is this
policy which is now being threatened by
the present National administration and
which is 10 be passed upon in the APP
preaching election. For the time being.
this question dwarfs all other and every
other issue sinks into insigniticance be-
side it. The removal of this protection
which he now enjoys. would place the
American laborer upon the same plane
as his less fortunate foreign brother, and
take from his hands the great weapon OF
better wages which he now holds and is
using successfully to contend with the
giant and grasping spirit of the age. Ii
is quite probable that the rate of wages
paid. even in America, is not rs high as