The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-11-03
no not forgrtthaf John s. Mclean is
the Republican candidate for sheriff


Have our residers ever examined the
record of the two great political parties
ot this country upon the question oi In
bor and laborcrs2 II not. we would call
their attention for few brief inoments
90 the period just preceding the late
Civil war. IL Is conceded that the dem
ocratic party early adopted slavery as
one of it's pllars--in fact II became the
foundation OF all the democratic plat
forms IL thus became the advocate of
free labor, and It's southern leaders open
ly declared that "all laburefs must
eventually become slaves, be they white
or black, or, ia other words, that all
labor should he performed 10y slaves,
and all laborcrs should be slaves. These
declarations alarmed the free laborers
of the north and resulted In the oIgani-
zation of the Abolition and Free Soil
democrat parties, which parties cventu-
ally combined and formed the grand old
Republican party. IL will thus bc seen
that the Republican party was founded
upon the principles OF free labor, as OPP
posed To slave labor, and their Efforts
have been constant and untiring Tor the
advancement oi the mental and physical
well being the laborcrs. On the one hand
we have the old slave-holding democrncy
Of the south who claimed then and claim
now, that slavery iS a great primOrdial
fact, rooted I'm the origin oi things. and
That free labor In organized society ~
the result OF partial. emancipation OF
slaves That lnboitrs when emanCipat-
ed from slavery, brAnchcd into four re-
curing sub-divisions--the hircling. the
beppnr. the thief aud the prostitute
Hence they claim that slavery is the
NATURAL and moral condition OF the Ia
bOrer and that slavery Is right, whether
white or black
On the other hand we have the Repub-
hcnn party, founded upon the rights of
free labor--the right uf every laburer To
choose his master and his occupation
and who have never proved rccreant TO
the cause for which they organized. IL
may be said the days OF slavery are over,
but arc they? The cause Of the rebellion
was the extension and continuance Of
slavery, and to-day the democratic lead
ers of the south claim that their catlse j.
mot dead, but only sleeping" and that
they will win at the ballot box whNz
they lost in the field. And they are fast
doing so. Already ex-fvhcls Oil such inn
portant positions a. cabinet officers and
heads ofnppartments Rebel soldiers have
replaccdU Union soldiers In all federal Offices
throughout the south and In Washington.
Rebel brigadiers already shape the legis-
lntiOn in the lower mouse olcougieSh, anu
fll majority of the seats filed by dem
Ocrats in the senate; President Cleveland
has SURRENDERED to them body and soul.
We are fast drifting back into the ante
bellum days. Tbefrce trade democracy OF
the south have attacked the chief in
dustries of the free laborers oi tho north
the great system Of protection 10 the
American laborcr. They know that 80
longns the policy protection exists That
the free laborcrs of the north can not bc
cnslaved. Laborers of the north will
YOU surrender 10 the ex-slavc-holderH oi
the south? To you we say, pause
Pause, before you cast your bailos next
Tuesday, and ask yourself what has
democracy done for your II upheld
slavery In the past and npholds IL still ;
10 upheld Mormonism; 10 rs the enemy oi
free labor; IL desires 10 pluce you on an
equality with The impoverished labor oi