Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-09-08
A DESPERATE GAME.
Methods Resoried 20 by Political Gems
sptrators 10 Get Votes.

sphrators 10 Get votes
Cincinnati Enquirer.
There is no DEVICE which the large cap
italists, who have been robbing labor
through the operations of the tariff, will
not adopt TO make their operatives vote
the Republican ticket. In anticipation
Of the election some large manufacturers
have increased their output and viii
close their establishments, giving to their
employees the reason that the reelection
Of Cleveland and a REVISION eff the tariff
will ruin their business, and they will
take warning in time They are careful
to stop business with a surplus product
on hand, so as to avoid personal sacrifice.
nothing for their laborers except to secure
their votes for the Republican ticket, and
thus perpetuate the robber system. This
was tried pretty effectuallY four years
ago, and tens of thousands of working
men voted for Blaine and Logan for fear
that they and their families might suffer
il the Democrats were successful
This establishment will be closed if
Cleveland is elected was conspicu0usly
posted in hundreds of factories. 1t was
placed there to intimidate and coerce the
dependent operatives. 1t was the basest
kind of bribery. Cleveland was elected
and no factories were closed, because
business was better than ever We could
name instances where Republicans re-
sorted TO this dishonorable and rascally
method TO influence voters, who have ac-
tually doubled their producing capacity,
employed more hands and were even then
unable TO Oil orders.
They will now repeat the experiment
with their men, giving as a reason for
their enlarged prosperity that the Demo
cratic parry had been defeated IN its OBJ
ject but that now the Presidents message
and the Mills bill mean mischief
The workingmen who were cheated
before the lying pretense that Democratic
ascendency would deprive them of re-
muneratlYe employment will not be so
easily fooled again. They will ascertain
that the Mills bill makes only moderate
reduction of tariff taxes, and that the
reduction is made upon those articles
chiefly which are necesssaries of life; that
manufacturers are not interfered with to
any appreciable extent.
There are many who are largely en-
gagged in manufacturing industries who
are frank and honest enough to admit
that the Democratic policy will benefit
both employers and employed, by redpc-
ing and equaliZing the burdens of taxa
ton and enlarging the market for their
goods For sample. Edwin g. Sanford,
the senior member of the great hat man
ufactnring firm at Bridgeport, Conn,
with capital of 81 600, 000 is outspoken
and emphatic in his approval of the Mills
bill. He says that free wool and dyestuffs
mean cheaper hats, steadier anc more re-
numeraiiye employment for operators,
and a foreign as well as a home market
for their hats.
He asserts that with free wool the
American manufacturers can undersell
every foreign competitor and pay higher
wages TO their help. This is a common
sense view of the subject. and the argu-
ment will be appreciated by many who
have been fooled and deceived by partisan
politicians If this be true of the hat in
dustry, il must also be true of ALI other
lndusUies In which wool Constitutes an
important element But ii will be said
that by the removal OF the duty on wool,
the farmers who produce wool will be
the losers, as they can not compete with
other countries 10 the raising of sheep.
IL there is an increased demand for wool
by batters. by the manufactures of wooden
clothes. carpets. ect., the price of wool
will advance, and the home and foreign
markets for all wooden fabrics will be
open to us; more laborers will be employ
ed, better wages secured and the number
of factories multiplied. The ''pauper
labor" CRY is a scare crow. There is moth
ing in it. With the vastly superior facili-
ties for manufacturing. with the Skill
push, energy and endurance of American
workingmen they can flood the markets
Of the world with their product and un.
dersell all competitors. In this age of
machinery the manual labor employed in
manufacturing is an insignificant item.
We can make ten hats or ten yards of
cloth while the paupers of Europe are
making one.
When our manufacturers of wooden
fabrics are required to pay duty on the
raw materials greater than the cost of
converting them, what possible chance
have they of competing with others in
the worlds markctsS The leaders of the
Republican party will play desperate
game to get back into power. A con.
spiracy of immense proportions will be
organized by those capitalists who have
amassed fortunes by defrauding labor, to |
close up for a few months their establish. |
ments TO induce their employees TO vote |
the Republican ticket pretending that |
Democratic success means ruin to home |
industries. If the facts are known to the |
masses, the reaction against the political |