Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-26
HE STUNNING ANSWER OF THE
WORKINGMEN.

The stone-bllndness of the Republican
press and speakers during this canvass
to the sentiments of the workingmen of
the country, has been one of the most re-
markable features of the campaign. They
seem to think that they may tax The work.
man 3 clothing from his shirt !" bis hat,
and that the mere statement to him that
be is being protected from "foreign pauper
labor" will quiet all his complaints. They
forget that the Workingman of this day
has his eyes open; that he reads on pub
lie questions; that he can't see where the
advantage comes to him in letting in the
pauper labor free to work against him
and yet denying him the free raw material
which will enable him to compete with
the other pauper labor that is left behind
In Europe. The "Valley Virginian"
talks this way to the intelligent American
workingman, who, If he read the Mills
Bill. knows that it not only gives him
, protection against foreign manufacturers,
but at least 20 pei cent. more protection
than the difference between American and
European wages. 1t says:
''It is proposition to break down the man.
ufactures of the Nation; to throw out of en-
ployment the army of wage-earners, or force
them to level with the pauper labor of Eu.
rope, to take from the family its comforts,
and bring about condition of want and pen
ury in every industrial district in the Nation"
That appeal is 10 line with another one
which has received an answer from the
workingmen that is stunning one, and
ought to induce the eircuIators Of the we'll
worn chestnut to think before they try it
again. The city of Newark, New Jersey.
had at the census of 1Sso-and has mnch
larger number noW-1 .3l9 manufacturing
establishments employing 1000 hands, of
+ whom Is Isl are above sixteen years Of
: age. The Republicans have invariably
carried the city election there, every Pres
idential year. In 1854, they carried it by
l ,65l. This year, in view of the fact that
the Presidential election is almost purely
an economic isSue-the reduction Of
tariff taxation, relying on Mr.. Chauncey
DepeW's .'free-trade cyclone of fear'
among the workingmen there, the
Republicans have looked to the result
with intense interest. An increased
majority in that exclusively manufactur-
ing town would bs good thing to use iu
panicking the worklngmen of other towns
before the Presidential election. The New
York 'Tribune" the day before the cleo
ton, said its result was watched for with
great interest throughout the State, as af-
fording some indication of the political
drift, and for its moral effect in the cleo
tion. next month"; They had not let the
grass grow under their feet. The Nation
al Republican Committee lad envelopes
which they have furnished the great Re-
publican manufacturers, North, free, in
which to enclose the paw of each working
man every Saturday night. On it's face it
is an appeal, under the surface it is moth
ing more nor less than threat. On each
envelope was printed an enlargement of
the ''Valley Virglnian's" appeal. Here
Is an exact copy of one of them received
,, by workingman in Newark-the 81 ,63 is
the amount of his wages:
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