Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-03
LABOR TO THE FRONT.
THE ARMY OF WoRKlNaMEN MUST
STRIKE AT DEMOCRACY.

Mans Vote, and Protection at the Polls
of Every Rightful voter-The Solid
South
Tho workingmen of America, said Mr..
Blaine, cannot be placed upon the Euro
pean level without their own consent.
They have the right of suffrage, and can
vote to lessen their own opportunities
and reduce their own wages. Capital
takes good care of itself.
The ocean Is less than a weeks journey
wide nowadays, and laws of protection of
yearly increasing Importance.
The manufacturers care for themselves
always, They have inside news and are
market according to their surroundings.
Will the American workingnen, informed,
enlightened, armed and equipped with
equal rights, do less for themselves and
consent to the overthrow of the protec-
tive laws?
This, in Mr.. Blaine's Judgment, is the
precise question that the Cleveland adj
ministration places before the people, and
anything that. tends to obscure it weakens
the case of those who protect the country
by the restoration of the friends of the
United States to power.
Nh. Blaine's programme Is, III a word,
to put labor-yotes of the labor army
themselves for themselves-to the front,
and carry the whole field by striking the
Democratic line at it's weakest point with
massed columns of the men of labor
whose instinct, as well as education,
warns them that the day has come when,
FOR their own sake, they must be practi-
cal politicians. This is according to the
military maxim that the way to win o
battle is to find the right spot to make
the fight, and get there first with more
men than the enemy has.
The point is well taken. and consent
ing to it, we contend that it is not thrown
into obscurity-not o~vershadowed but
illuminated-by impressing upon the
people the facts that we array and emu
merate In this order:
l. That if all the workingmen in this
country had freely voted and their votes
had been fairly counted according to the
constitution of the United States four
years ago, James g. Blaine would have
had a popular majority for president of
the United States of at least half a mil
lion, and he would have been chosen
officially by q majority of more than fifty
electoral votes.
3. If all the workingmen of this
a WIN AASStJ foVOs hl1SA q biSil NONSS
fairly counted in November next, there
would not be 8 film of doubt of the cleo
tion of Harrison and Morton or of the pos
by the Republican party of both
houses of congress after the 4th of March
1t is the disfranehisement of black
Republicans in national affairs after their
emancipation and enumeration-the es-
tablishment of caste rule from Pennsylva-
MIA to Mexico, with the exception of afew
congressional districts-that makes the
Mills billpossible, and provides the posi-
bility Of the continued defeat Of the will
of the people at large.
8. The menacing meddling with the de-
fensive system-that projects our indus
tries through o tariff that discriminates
in our own favor-originates in hat Sec
ton and those states where class govern
ment is established; where labor is sub
ordinated and degraded; where the latest
and most important provisions of the.
Constitution are nullifed; where public
opinion is not formed by freedom Of
speech; where manhood suffrage is not
sustained, and where 1t is the popular
teaching that raising raw products for
exportation is the only reputable employ
ment of 1.-THE lords OF creation" In other
terms, the Mills bill is representative of
communities that are not advanced In the
arts of prosperity and comfort and the
mechanical appliances that distinguish
the latest development of u civilization.
4. The Democratic majority in the
house is made up from the southern dis
tricts, in which there are enumerated, for
the purposes OF representation and dis
franchised, the Republican majorities. In
nineteen of the districts no Republican
candidates are permitted to run.
The representatives of every one OF
these districts, where the Republican ms
~iorities are intimidated, and counted az
cattle to increase the voting power O.
their masters-or, If you prefer the term
herdsmen-were present and voted for thu
Mills bill. That measure, therefore, be
comes the business expression of the polit
ical power gained in the south by the null
LITIGATION, which amounts to the abolish
ment of the war amendments to the con
stitution.
1t is the solid south holding the hous
unconstitutionally that threatens the pro
tective system with revision by hostil
hands, and the message of Presiden
Cleveland, made part of the Democrati
platform, Is In precise accord with tn
Confederate constitution; and the Confed
crates had in the days when they wer
trying their memorable experiment c
Democratic government, the sympath
and support Of the British in their effort
to return substantially to the old colonit
system-and the Democratic party no
enjoys the same significant and sympt
theaic alliance. The solid south ha
, British c~ountenance in~. assailing the mai
ufacturing industries Of the more high
: developed parts of the south, as tt
: Southern Confederacy had it when wa
. ring to destroy the Union of the states.
:. There would be no sectional politics
this cosntry If manhood suffrage we,
fully established. The southern troub
is government by q class. We have 81
old slave power in a new shape, but it
3 not less offensive than Of old.
2 Will it offend any II we ask: Why a
g there twice as many votes cast for 90
gressmen In Hamilton county as in tt
whole state of Georgia.
\ Georgia has ten members of the hous
and we have two from this county. He
is the penalty of the inequality Of ci
a zen If 1t were not for the existence
8 q ruling class stronger than the constit
, ton In the south, the tariff would not
: threatened, the higher would not be
tackled by the, lower civilization on Il
looking at the spectacle Of the exclusi
it thousand Republican votes thereto pl
vent the narrowing of the margin
which southern fraud grasps nation
a. power, and the attempted dictatorship
Representatives of Texas and Arkansas
legislation hostile to the industries
"a Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York a
sr New ENGLAND. We cannot. escana FRI