Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-20
AGiTATEI EDucATEn
The Great Duty Before tho Democratic
Party OF the Country.

AGiTATE1 EDUCATED
The Great Duty Before tho Democratic
Party of the Country.
The political canvass OF 1888 is end
ed with the election, and the canvass
of 1890 and of 1892 is begun and will
be prosecuted by the Democracy with
vigor from the past election until the
next id 1890. and the next thereafter
in 1892. It will be an educational can
vass. To educate the voters of the
country should be the mission of the
party unremittingly from this time for
ward. With no election pending. no
candidates in the field, party political
strife and asperities cooled off, voters
will dispassionately read and think.
They will be ready to hear reason and
facts. and give them fair consideration.
There is no high pressure, which, not
unlike coat of mail. shuts out DELHI
crate thought. Let the discussion of
tariff reform, therefore, proceed, and
their reputable logic of facts and fig
ures be presented to the voters con-
tinually as they are developed in ac-
tual transactions. 1t is not extrava-
giant to say that many thousands of
rs-laborer5--were scared into
voting the Republican ticket by the
cry that tariff reform, the Mills bill,
the Presidents message, meant abso-
lutely free trade. and the pauperiza-
ton of American labor. They were
told, and made to believe that manu-
facturers could not pay operative Amer
lean wages, should the Democratic doc
trine of tariff reform be carried out. And
all such like false clamors were sounded
in their ears, and thereby their votes
carried for the monopoly party. The
Democracy had not the time, nor was
the voter in any good mood to hear
true facts and arguments forwarded
against the questions involved. And
during the late canvass, it was upon
the Republican policy of deception
and falsehood toward the voters on
the tariff question. that every propo-
sition looking to joint discussion was
summarily refused. Now that the
election is passed, and the shouts of
Republican victory (such as it is)
have scarcely died away, the falsity of
their clamor is already becoming ap-
parent. From every quarter comes
the information that manufacturers
are cutting down the wages of their
laborers. A registry of all such cases
should be made and kept before the
wage-earners. Surely no other fact
would be so convincing to them as
such a showing. And already the
utterances of leading Republicans
show that their cry to the voters, to
alarm them and get their votes, was
shamefully false, and known to be so
by them. Now, that no election is
Immediately impending. the truth will
this utterance of Gath on the 14th of
the present month. Speaking 5f the
late canvass, this distinguished Re-
publican, writing in pretended
Democratic paper, says: IS The Re-
publicans were engineered by both
and sacrifice. The issue be-
ing made against the manufacturers,
they put their hands in their pockets
for self-deliverance. Provided with
funds, Mr.. Quay and his associates
studied the ground and made their ar
accordingly"
There it is plainly stated. The man.
ufacturer shelled out a part of his
profits; made ''self sacrifice" fur
nished the corruption funds, debauched
the voters for his own benefit to save
the monopolies. Per contra. the VIC
tim-the wage-worker is told that he
must vote the ticket or his American
wages can not he paid, that he will be
pauperized, and then when the mo-
nopoly succeeds in the election the
boss at once tells him that his wages
are too high and must be cut down
thirty per cent. And he has the pleas
ing information vouchsafed him that
he must submit to this or quit. He
quits, and this same manufacturer
puts in his place his Italian or Poland
Or, who will work in this country for
pauper wages, upon which the Ameri-
can can not live, and thereby the man.
lfacturer secures the greater profit on
MS goods. He, the manufacturer, is
ready to have the s'fat fried out of |
him, +" to preserve the monopoly, and
he party under it has and will con-
,inue to grow and wax fat. And by
he aid of this Republican party the |
laborer-is made to be- |
ieve lie and thus aid the monopoly |
party to power and SO accomplish |
lis own slavery to the manufacture |
II and monopolist. Before the cleo
ion the laborer is told that to secure
good wages he must vote our ticket,
30 that we may be able to pay such
wages. On this false clamor his vote
s secured. As soon as his vote is cast
lie is then advised tn at he must submit
o reduction of thirty per cent. or
quit; and if he quits, this deluded
roter sees his place filled with the i'm
ported pauper laborer. He is further
informed by Republicans that they,
he manufacturers, put their hands
n their pockets for self-deliverance,"
Ind that the Republican National Com
nittee being provided with funds,
dr. Quay and his associates Dudley
md others) studied the ground and
made their arrangements accord
ngly.'
The Democracy should take no step
backward. It's position on the tariff
s right and that of the Republicans
wrong and false. Keep up the discus
ion. Error and wrong may have a