Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-26
For workingmen to Think OF.

For WOrkinSmen to Think OF.
To the workingmen OF this country
striking against reductions of wages; to
Mr.. Carnegie 5 employees, who voted for
"protection to American industry last
fall, and are now out because they can t
stand the last ''cut;' to the starving
miners of Illinois and Indiana; and to the
multitudes, in like case. the New York
Globe commends the following from Hon.
William l. Scott's speech in the house
on the Mills bill: owe are here, sir
we, the majority of the ways and means
committee, and of this8 hOuse-in. defense
of American industry. We alone offer it
protection; we alone seek the independ-
ence and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of domestic
labor by IiberatinG it from unnatural re-
straints and allowing it the undisturbed
possession and the complete enjoy
ment of It's own earnings. The other
side offer it-what? mouOpolized
market in which TO buy the
necessaries of life on the one hand, and
on the other a labor market subject to
the caprice of trusts! In short, they
promise it the inestimabIe boon of work.
ing in the protected industries, where no
share of the bounty alleged protection
affords is allotted 10 labor, and of bear
ing in common with the rest of the peo-
pie of the United States the terrible eX-
actions of the protective system to enrich
the privileged classes.
'Will labOring men accept that gener-
Gus tender and vote with the monopoly
party under coercion OF the employer? If
they do, the hideOus disaster, foreseen
by Jefferson, as the natural result of the
restrictive and subsidy policy, Will rush
down upon US, and the government of
the union will pass into the hands of
those VINO openly propose to peTveTt its
powers and employ them to plumber the
people for their own enrichment. l Go
not believe, sir, that American liberty is
destined to be eXtinguished in this ignO-
minOus fashion. Surviving, as If has,
armed assault, and every form OF in
trigue, it will not perish of the base cor
ruption of subsidy, it viii not be throt-
tied by mere greed or smothered by vile
monopoly.
Gas 20 the spirit of this side of the
house, the spirit in which we enter this
struggle for the very life of the consti-
tuition and the emancipation of American
labor, I cannot better express it than in
the language of Andrew Jackson, the il
Iustrious Democrat and beloved patriot,
who, like our presidential leader OF to-
day, summoned the people to the rec
lamatiOn of precious rights, slowly
and almost imperceptibly flched away
by the money power in a long course of
years. No, said the immortal hero:
g No; the ambition which leads me on is an
anxious desire and a fixed determine ton to re-
turn to the people, unimpaired, the sacred trust
they have confided 10 my charge-to heal the
wounds of the Constitution and preserve 1t from
further violation; to persuade my countrymen,
so far as I may, that 1t is not in a splendid gov
eminent, supported by powerful mOnOpOles and
aristoCratical establishments, that they viii find
happiness, or their liberties protected, but in
q plain system, void of pCmp-protecting all
and granting favors to Eone-dispensing its
blessings like the dews OF heaven, unseen and
unfelt, save in the freshness and beauty they
TO produce. 1t is such a government
that the genius of our people requires-such q
one only under which states may remain for
ages to come, united prosperous and free"