Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-16

can orators of this campaign are no
lacking in audacity and some of then
will say almost anything. but havt
you ever heard one make even
feeble effort to prove that their predic
tions were verified. / think they have
entirely forgotten about them. Ii they
haven't they had better do it. Anc
what new horror are they attributing tc
us now? Why, they say that we pro.
pose by our wicked free trade schemes
to bring our workmen into competition
with European pauper labor. The most
direct effort which was ever made by
any party to bring the pauper labor OF
Europe into competition with American
workingmen was made by Republican
Congress when they passed Sherman's q
act to encourage immigration which was
intended to make it possible and easy
to bring over hories of cheap
the wages from our native citizens.
And who first discovered this terrible
evil and rooted it out, repeating the law
and preventing such barbarism in the
future? 1t was the Democrats of the
Forty-eighth Congress. That is how the
parties stand on the pauper labor ques-
tion. dey any one to show me an in
stance where the question of real protec-
ton to the American workman was
brought to an issue between the parties,
where the Democrats were not squarely
on his side and the Republicans insid-
iously opposing him.
The appalling need for action in the
matter OF tariff reform shows itself in the
existence of surplus which is rolling in
on us at the rate Of four or five millions
month. Do you appreciate what this
boarding of the peoples money means
Our money is called the circulating
medium, and it is the blood of the body
polite. What if mans blood were to
be stopped at the heart and ceased to
come through his veins and arteries =?
The Republicans are not insensible to
the danger. A few of them have
the impudence to propose that we
should make a present of the
surplus to the bankers and
moneyed men OF the country by purchas-
ing the outstanding bonds at what So
ever premium they choose to ask. The
Democratic party has formulated its
views in the Mills bill, and is now wait
ing to hear from the other side. For a
month and half this measure has been
in the hands of the Republican Senate,
and they dare not act. Can it bs that
they are not equal to the undertaking, or
is there some sort of influence at work of
the sort that was brought to bear in 1882,
when the party tried, in accordance with
its frequent promises, to correct the in
equalities OF the tariff schedule? You
will remember that a commission was
appointed, all Republicans and all pro-
tectionists, and that mere sense OF
decency forced them at the end of their
investigation to report advising reduc-
ton OF 25 per cent.-18 per cent. more
than the Mills Bill. But a veritable pill.
grimage OF men like Carnegie, the class
who, ,as the Republicans admit. ARE getting
practically the sole benefit OF the tariff,
began between Pennsylvania and Wash
ington, and the proposed measure of re-
form was smothered at its birth.
My friends, the protected manufac.
turers have gone too far, and they are
soon to be made to understand that the
tyranny will be tolerated no longer
Gradually they have been soaking ur
the wealth of the country. Who has
been getting rich in this country since
the war; the farmer? Not he. The
value of farm land has fallen. The work
ing man? See what state OF things
prevails among the laborers in the pro-
protected industries OF Pennsylvania il
you wish to know how the workingman
is getting rich. The worst state of things
which can exist in country obtains
when the poor grow poorer and the rich
richer; and that prevails now in this
country, and the tendency opens out
into countless evils of despotism and the
suppression of personal liberty. Against
these evils the election of Cleveland will
offer an insuperable barrier.