Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-15

In whose name he has gotten it from ths
Government. Why, fellow cit 'zsns, hert
is the great friend OF American labor
according 10 my recnll.ciion,-I don't
know that am exactly correct in my
recollection but on certain fourth day
OF July, stout twenty-four or twsGty. five
vars ago, q certain party, I won't call the
name, but it was the party that had the
Presit ency and both houses Of Congress,
passed law to encourage the importation
of foreign contract labor and that law re-
maired unrepeeled until q Democratic
House Of the Forty-eighth Congress pu'
upon the statute snd forced it upon tie
Senate, a Inv making it q misdemeanor
punishable by heavy fine to import for.
eign contract labor to take the place Of the
American laboringman. Applause.
Now, fellow ctzsns, what race is il
among all the others that most threaten tc
bring down the price Of American labor:
THE CHINESE.
Why, we know what popu'ous country
that is. and we know what wages are in
that country, because that country has the
perfection of protective tariff. Here is
General Goff's speech that says American
markets for the American workingman.
and that has been the motto OF China for q
thousand years. Chins's market for
Chinese workipgmen," and he gets
So a month and all the wealth
is in the hands of one claw. q
it ia getting to-day in thi, conntry. Ap'
plause Ten or twelve years ago, the
workipgmen of this country found these
Morg ,liaDs piling in on them; found them
cutting down wages, and found tt EN- pour.
ing il to the factories, on the farms, in the
diff.r.nt lines of labor, cutting down the
wages of American workingmen, and ihs
American workingman
BEGAN TO CRY OUT TO THE GOVERNMENT
for some protection against Chinese cheap
labor forcing down the prices Of American
l. ihor. Now l want to read you how the
Republican party responded to the request
of the American workingman. Here
is the platform of tie Rs
publican psrsy in 1876. When
the American workingman in every direc-
tion was calling on the Government to
savs him from Chinese cheap labor; here is
the platform that the great friend ofthe
AueIican lsboring man adopted in 1876:
"It is the immediate duty of Corgrs,
fully to investigate the effect of immigrs
ton and importation of Mongolians upon
the moral and material inteIet3 of the
country" Fully to investigate" Here
WAS ydur laboring man calling on the
Government for relief, and the Repub-
licau party, the dear friend of the labor.
ing man, says: "We will investigate the
matter, we will deliberate, confsbu-
late, hesitate, expectorate and do
everything else except legislate.
Applause. Now let u, show you the
De nocrauc party. They didn't hesitate
and utter this kind of language on that
occasion. Talk about the Democratic
pmty not being the friend Of the working
man; why
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS THE WORK
INGMAN.
A Republican Uolted States senator in the
last fsw months has applied t. tie Demo-
cratic party in Congress the epithet quoted,
as he ssid, from somebody else, a, "the
dirty sock Dem cracy" Now let rs zee
whst the dirty sock Denocracy''said about
Chinese cheap labor in 1875 1t dido't
have to stop and investigate; it didn't
have to come down from the Mansion
House and the palace Of the en-
plCyer to investigate. 1t spoke out from
luu 5np p, IF---- a. n~SSVsy, f."s.- 49, --su. .
where 1t was being crowded by The Chinese
workingmap, and in its platform the De-
moc.scy said, reform is necessary TO COT
rect the omissions Of Republican Con-
grsss and the errors Of our treaties ard
diplomacy, which have stripped our fei-
low citizens of foreign birth ard kindred
race, recrossiDg the Atlantic, of ths shield
of American citizenship, and have exposed
our brethren of the Pacific coast to the it,
cursions of race not sprung from TIE
great parent stock and, in fact, nov by
law Ge,ied citizenship through nat
uraliz4tion, as being neither accus-
toned to the traditions Of q
progressive civilization or exer-
cising liberty under equal laws. We
deaounce the policy which thus
dlscards the liberty loving German snd
tol era es revival of the coolie trade in
,Mongolian women imported for immoral
purposes, and Mongolian men held to per
form ssrvile labor contracts, and demand
such modification Of ihs treaty with the
Chinese empire within constitutional
linn t,tioas as shall prevent furtfet inn
portation or immigration Of the Mcng ,lian
race" Applause The Republican
party say, we will iuvestigst, this ques-
ton. The Democratic parry siys, "Drive
them out By law" That is what 1t eaid
and that is the difference in ell the his
tory between the party Of tho mases and
the party Of the classes.
Here the speaker referred extensively
TO the duty upon weolen goods, comparing
the workipgmsn who must buy bis goods
in protected market with the employer
who buys his labor in free market
Now my fellow citzens, there Is inst
ONE QUESTION
I want to propourd to General Golf, and |
want him to answer it when he takes his
position on this stand. He rays be is
in favor of raising import duties and abol-
i.hing the internal revenue, releasing the
tax upon whisky, releasing tae tax upon
tobacco, and releasing the tax upon oleo-
margarine, that slippery stuff upon which
nv friend Flick came so near slipping into
Congress last time [applausel, but General
GOH IL ROiuB W auOhen sheet ~ bo W."
get there this time. Applause. He is
going to get you free whisky, free tobacco
and free olsomargarine, and is going
to raise the tax, 20 as to keep ont
foreign Imports and save the American
market for the American workiDgm, IN;
and now let him tell rs where he is going
to get money to run the government and
pay the National debt, and pay the PEN
sions to bs paid by the government II
takes 1920, 600 900 or $3.50, ,00O, $50, aud
sometimes $40 900 900, year 10 run this
government, and if he is going to relieve
all there internal revenue taxes, and save
the American markets for the American
vorkir nan, and I have got his word for
it,
-wHERK Is THE MONEY COMING PROM
10 run the Government You c.n raise
il on luxuriss from abroad-on tes aud
coffee, and Q few things that come from
outside that are not made in this country.
Now. fellow cit zens, the Republican bill!
which I have lying here is framed on
General Goffrs idea; it sbtlishes the tar
upon tobacco; it opsns the bupgho!e BY
which the whisky tsx Is TO leak out BY
giving il free use in the arts, and rsits
tie tax on woolen goods for the working
man. Now, fellow citizens, here IL the
Democratic plan: The Demccra'ic parts
looks out into the country and eees sur
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