The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-11
BLAINE'S ARRTFAL-HLS SPEECH
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BLAINE'S ARRTVAL-HLS SPEECH
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1t is difficult to understand how any
number OF intelligent citizens Of New
York could listen with any degree Of pa
tionce to the speeches delivered by Mr..
Blaine yesterday; the first on his arrival
and the second at the political dcmonstra.
ton held at Madison square last
night In face Of the testimony
adduced before the Congressional
Committee still sitting in the metropolis
and still probing and inquirng into the
importation OF contract labor from the
slums OF Europe by manufacturers, who
are loud in their demands for the main
tenancc OF the robber war tarH'-in the
face of such crimes against American labor
il is difficult TO understand how Mr.. Blaine
was permitted uninterrupted TO repeat the
stale ialsehoods Of the Republican party
that protection affects American labor and
guarantees It's wages. Nothing can be
further from the truth than this. The
case of the Ammidown Mills in New
Jersey is In point. There the Amcri.
can labor was discharged TO make
room for Hungarian labor ut half
the wages that had been paid tho Amer.
cans Mr.. Ammidown made this reduc.
ton and employed these lIungnrians while
enjoying the protection Of the robber tariff
which the Republican party has strength.
cncd from time To time in the past twenty.
iiveyearsin the interest solely ofthc monop.
olisls, whom II has served rs il did the
great money power OF Wall street by fnan.
cial legislation that today prevents the
government from using tho enormous sur.
plus in plethoric treasury to pay of the
bonded debt that is still exacling is yearly
tax OF interest from the labor Of the coun-
try. One can easily understand the en-.
thusiasm Of the money sharks aud monop.
olists for Blaine, but II Is impossible TO un.
dcrstand how workingman. being ever
~ Ignorant, could be caught In the Blaine
trap LOT an instant unless compelled thereto
by his employer for his bread and butter.
Mr. Elaine has learned, he says, great
deal during his fourteen months abroad.
lie will find before hc has been here many
days that lac has great deal to learn
ut home, a great deal as to the
disposition OF wool growers and wool
manufacturers TO gladly accept tho mode
rate reductions OF the Mills bill, and no
will find that American llborcr- know
that, tariff or no tariff. their rate Of wages
depends upon the supply OF labor, and
that, ns In Pennsylvania, labor from tho
'lums OF Europe paupcrizcd and de.
graded 10 almost bcsiial conditions counts
'or rs much with the protected iron and
coal mino owncnas theirs, because Il can bc
had Tor hall price. They know tina, while
the mine owners Of many States arc like
no many fccksniis yelling themselves
hoirsc for protection for American labor
they are putting tho protection In their
pockets, aud arc employing leased con.
Nicts nom tho pcnitcniiarics at 20
and - cents per day, about one.
9Th the SUN that is paid in
some places TO white miners. Mr..
blaine has this 10 learn. aud this add.
iionally, that his grand reception Is no
guarantee that hh way is 10 100 made
smooth. lie enters this canvass rs the
defender and npologisi OF tho Car.
ncgics, aud these are better known
to the working people Of the Union
than they arc 10 Mr.. Blaine, standing
rs they do for all that Is dcspicablc in
greedy monopolisls % whom labor Is but
means 10 the ono cni they have in view,
The appearing Of colossal fortunes upon tho
sweat and blood and ncryc.killing agony
Of The millions who toll.