The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-27
BEWARE OF THE REPUBLICAN, PLU.
T0ORAOY.

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together. They claim that the so-called
protective tariff 10 to protect working
men, whereas if it vas true that the
system advanced or kept up the price
of labor they would be the first to vote
against it.
Look at the lsborers in the various
industriesl Have they not all had
during the past few years to fight
against reductions OF wages at the
hands of the very mon who now pre-.
tend to be so anxious for q system to
keep up the scale OF wages? Why, OF
course they have. Were there any
strikes and lock-outs before there was
q SO called protective tariff Certain
ly rot; they were unknown then, aud
they are the product of q abnormally
high tariff, which has the tendency to
attract too much capital into certain
industries, with the result of overpro-
! duction, s%tagnation trusts as q remedy,
which in turn enable the combined
capital to control the supply, turn
labor adritt, and force the public to
pay interest upon idle factories.
But the laborer, where is her Why
more and more at the mercy of his
employer.
Is it any wonder, then that the latter,
out of his millions, is willing to have
the STAT fried out" OF him in order to
keep in power a party which belongs
body, boots and brooches to the money
power of the countryr Why it is the
most natural thing in the world; and
II he should succeed II would be then
as it has been for years, that every
advance secured by labor would be
the result of organization on its part
and not at all a consequence OF tariff
protection which protects the article
only and not the workman.
1t is q %plutocracy that the republicans
want to give US. Already we read in
their csmpaign,not an effort to enlight-
en- the voter, but always and always it
is money, money, money.
Fat must be tried out of the manu-
f~acturer, who as Senator Plumb says,
is solely benefited by the tarifi. A
rich man and an a%rislocrat must be
named for president, a man who four
teen times voted to admit Chinese i'm
migration into the country; a man
who defended a railroad company
which was sideavoriDg to force honest
men with families to work for a dollar
a day; a man who when these sons
OF toll exercised their right as Ameri-
can citizens to refuse to labor for that
remuneration advocated driving them
back to work at the point of the bayo-
net; a man who never In oil of his
life before this canvass c~ondescended
to unbend his inordinate personal yani-
ty and pride. A prince of Wall and
Lombard streets, an American Cana
diam English bondholder must be NOM
mated Tor vice-president. The tempo
rary chairman of the convention which
named these two, Mr.. Thurston, him
self a highly salaried officer of one of
the Pacific railroads, once ran " a. TO
Canada TO prevent an examination of
the books of his company by a con-
gressional investigating committee.
The permanent chairman of the AIN
convention, Mr.. Estee, another pro-
minent millionaire officer of a Pacific
railroad, And, finally, Mir, Depew The
man who held the convention in the
hollow of his hand, and who dictated
the nominees and the platform, also a
railroad magnate. The platform, q
scheme 10 put millions upon millions
OF dollars more into the pockets of
what Senator Plumb called, "a ring
y = a collection and combination
of interests located upon the eastern
frontier of this country"
All for what?
Because the republican party was
beaten before the country; because it
had no chance to succeed by argument
against the pure, patriotic, courageous
course of President Cleveland, and
hence it resorled to all attempt to de-
bauch the people with money.
1t cannot be done. The people are
too intelligent and too patriotic.
We do not underestimate the power
of money; we appreciate how it can
corrupt and deceive; but we still have
confidence enough in the American
people not to believe that they will
take such a man as Gen Harrison in
preference to q born leader like Cleve-
land, who has had the courage to
autsgonize to himself every land thief
among the Pacific railroads; every tim
Der thief from the government reserva-
tons; every grass baron driven from
the government reservations; every
trust monopolist whose combination
he has denounced as q dangerous
conspiracy and 'hsteful" in the
sight of right and justice; every unfair
highly protected monopolist, who
despite his own admissions In 1883
that the tariff could be safely reduced
from 20 to % per cent. now claims
that it cannot safely be reduced at all.
These hate Grover Cleveland, and
they are for Mr.. Harrison.
Who can believe that the laboring
men of this country will vote for the
political nouentity, Levi. p. Morton.
over the political giant, Allen G. Thur.
man; tor the millionaire Wall street
shark, Levi. P. Morton, over tha
patriot friend of the people, Allen G,
Thurman
They will never do It. A few Of
them may be deceived, but the great
majority OF them everywhere will stand
by the party of the common people
tue party always OF the laboring mass
%, whether tillers Of the soil, worker,
ia the shops or elsewhere, the party O.
Jefferson and Madison and Jackson
aud the party now of Cleveland anC
OF Thurman.
Seriously, now, republican friends, !
won't do to elect Mr.. Bullene to con.