The Forrest City times., 1888-09-22
A DESPERATE GAME
w~shods Resorfed to by Political Con.
 spirators to 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 10 make their operatives vote the Republican ticket. In anticipation of the election some large manufacturers have increased their oat-put and will close their establishments. giving to their employees the reason that tbe reelection of Cleveland and revision ef the tariff will ruin their business. and they will take warning in time. They are careful to stop business win a surplus product on hand, so as to avoid personal sacrifice nothing for their laborers except 10 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 if the Democrats were successful
 This establishment will be closed if Cleveland is elected was conspicuously posted in hundreds of factories. It was placed there to intimidate and coerce the dependent operatives It 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 fill orders.
 They will now repeat the experiment with their men, giving as reason for tkat sl.as st..ah cratic party had been defeated Tn it's ob- ject but that now the Presidents message and the Mills bill mean mischief.
 The workingmen who were cheated before the lying preteDse that Democratic ascendency would deprive them of re- muncratlve employment will not be so l easily fooled again. They will ascertain that the Mills bill makes only a 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 reduc- ing and equalizing the burdens of taxa ton and enlarging the market for their | goods. For sample, Edwin c. Sanford, the senior member of the great hat man. ufacturing firm at Bridgeport, Conn. with a capital of S1 900, 900. is outspoken and emphatic in his approval of the Mills | bill. He says that free wool and dvestuffs mean cheaper hats, steadier and more re- numerative employment for operators, and foreign as well as home market | for their hats.
 He asserts that with free wool the l American manufacturers can undersell every foreign competitor and pay higher wages to their help. This is common sense view of the subject. and the argu- ment will be appreciated by many who l have been fooled and deceived by partisan politicians. If this be true of the hat in l dustry, it must also be true of all other 1 industries in which wool constitutes an i important element But it will be said l that by the removal of the duty on wool, l the farmers who produce wool will be 1 the losers. as they can not compete with I other countries in the raising of sheep. 1 If there is an increased demand for wool l by matters, 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 1 open to us; more laborers will be employ. | ed, better wages secured and the number | of factories multiplied. The ''pauper labor" cry is scare crow. There is noth- l ing in it. With the vastly superior facili- | ties for manufacturing, with the skill, i push, energy and endurance of American workingmen they can flood the markets of the world with their product and un. dersel 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 woolen l 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 markels2 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 amasseI fortunes by defrauding labor, to c.ose up for 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 conspirators will be overwhelming.