The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-01-06
The American Laborer a. New
England.


England.
n y said Nv one who knows ne n .
Hall River Nss--t&lker that The Amer
lean iahorer v worth more ~ certain PEE
sjod< than =, oth.f~"~ and these periods
come once i. fnar ears. and beginning.
NV ~ July. ,utinues until the SECOND
Tuesday in November Daring these
brirf periods the American iaborer in
New England becomes immensely i'm
por'anf 70 thc 'cspisslist pfcss." which
spells labor with cslisal L. and slways
places labor Ia advance -; capital, be.
rsnse the ''rarit~iist press" ~ New En-
riand believes such recognition OF H..
hor will tickle lshorefs. After the sec-
ond Tuesday In Novembcr labor II SPELL
Ell with = small I. aud capital Il again
plare.l In the lead during these periods
the demand Il that American labor
shall hr prnsecled" Then shr working
nsn's hosne il set on tho l,iii. II u made
~ represent The citadel 81 American lib
rrty II 10 psinied IL gorgeous hnrs
I:nt election oser. The workingman and
che workingman'~ home receiv. no fur.
thrr attention. and ~ Tor protection "a
amonnts 10 about As much a. faith cure
when man has broken his leg or his
neck
The American workman IN New Eng
hnd Is arxciy thing OF the past He|
ii mighty scsrce. his vocation 10 gone
Ills place - filed BY others. SAyss Fall
River writer:
There wa time W hen the work. shop.
of New Englsnd were filed with Ameri-
cans, but thst was good while agn, he.
iore American labor gave the politicians
any bother. and v hen II was able 70 take
care Of itself. The men were taken from
the farms TO iii the workshops GOOD
wofkmen these sturdy farmers and sons
Of farmers. these Americans. made
They had one peculiarly they insisted
upon being paIi fsir price FOR shei,
~o,k When ~ manufacturers heg@
~ ev de ire ~ "a sze their Am :.
an " ftne hf after llid not 90 on
SIX in-9 sntls cooked for work
ei~tN here. ana. they we're bright, sc-l
tive. steady fellows. iney got IL. The 81
tempt Oft manufacturer who favored
: high protective tariff. simply thst bel
might increase his roff', moi only the
expense Of his customers. but OF /. .
workmen, too, only failed 20 injure thsl
American workmen. because he was TOO
brainy and too independent 10 permit
such injustice. lie either sought other
fields than New England or entered
some other vocation
The New Enylapd cspitsliss. while
eease'essIy demanding protection Tor hi-
wares, high tar on imported gondsl
coming in competition with his manu-
featured articles, never seeks 10 sxtena
lhe blessing Of protection 10 the Ameri-
can workingnsn III New Engl<nd: on
the contrary. The New England cspirali-i|
hunted the world over for worksnxmenI
20 take the place Of the American work |
ingman. He imported the heather
Cinnamon. and taught him to make |
shoes. while the American workingman /
was thrust out TO find employment orl
starve. The New England capitalist.
who, for two or three months. every fotri
years. shouts himself hoarse in the inter-
est Of he American workingman. spends
the remainder Of bic time il searching forI
cheap labor. and he found il il Csnada.
and. to-day, says the Fall River writer.
~there ere . half million Canadian
French 10 New England. Are they
Americans? Not single one, except IL |
the sense that some OF them have votes. \
A thought and purpose they are Ameri-
cans not = whit more than the people
Of Tibet. In many places they have
schools OF their own in which the French
language i taught Among themselves
tbey talk 10 French. Their children
and the children Of French Canadianl
family generally number from one TO
TWO dozen are taught the traditions oil
new France. The parents cay 10 the
children, Never forget the New France II
Canada. These French Canadians are
among the most ignorant and degraded
creatures on the face or God's foot -stool.
says the writer. The canadian IL
densely ignorant. % ignorant, that il or /
der 70 prevent the incursive and vora-
rious potato bug from entering his fields,
Ne planted crosses on the roadside that
bordered bis little farm. when he |
found that the potato bug had paid no |
attention 70 the crosses. but had crawled
through the fence or climbed over Il, orl
had simply 'growed' on the premises, the
habitant concluded that In some way re |
had offended bis patron saint, and then
thought no more about t." such are
the people the New England capitalist
imported 70 take the place OF American
workingmen, scarcely one remove shove
dumb driven cattle, and these creatures
she New England capitalist votes in his|
Interest, . il they were machiDss.