Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-18
POLITICAL SLAVERY.
The Impositions Of Our Times
Thoughtfully Portrayed.
The Unhappy Lot Of Negro Woman,
Forming the 1e1t for . Discussion
OF the Bondage Into Which Repubii.
can Rule PrecIrItates the People.

Editor ARGUS:
LYONS. Iowa. July Is The following
CONVEX sation was overheard between two
colored women on street in New Or.
leans: Said one to the other:
Il wish to God was dead"
The other in reply said. What in de
world is de matter wild you. Aunt Bet
sy? Why do you want to der
The reply was. II has got no comfort
in dis life-got nothing to eat, got no
place to sleep, got nothing to wear. I
wish to God l was dead"
The other in reply said. Aunt Betsy.
you have no right to feel that way. Do
you know that would rather live and
starve to death, than to dief"
The republican party soon after plac-
ing the negroes upon the plane occupied
by the white race, authorized the Mongo-
lisns to enter into competition with the
majority of the American people, the
white working classes. Cinnamon, il
they can be called men. are now doing
the work that by right belongs to white
women in the north. and the Aunt Bet
sizes of the south. The republican party
places all workmeD upon an equality.
The object of that party has been to de-
grade labor, SO that employers may easily
control it. For white men who have
attended the public schools will strike
when crowded to the wall by capitalists.
Why should laws be enacted as has been
done for the past quarter century entirely
in the interest of capitalists, and against
the welfare, happiness and preservation
of the highest degree of manhood of the
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majority of the people themselves
whether they shall be further degraded.
If they shall continue lsmb-like as here
tofore, they will have only themselves to
blame and the republican politicians of
the Sherman and Mckinley stamp will
never permit silver to have an unlimited
coinage. and the tariff upon jewelry and
diamonds to be as high as upon rice and
window glass.
For nearly century slavery existed in
a part of the United States and in all
Ireland. The slave in the southern
states was well fed. comfortably clothed
and protected in his cabin against the
| elements. In Ireland his master by ex-
acting nearly the entire crop that his
labor had produced, reduced him to semi
starvation when nature smiled upon the
husbandman, but when the elements were
against him and partial failure attended
his utmost exertions. death were then
relief from the pangs of hunger
at all times clothed in filthy rags,
the terrible eviction drove him from
his matched mud hovel to become
a Wanderer upon the face of the earth.
The Bon-capitalist in this country today
is slave to the extent of what he suf
fers by unjust taxation imposed upon
him.
By the legislation of the republics an
party.
| By paying interest upon government,
bonds that should never have been is,
sued.
| By paying interest upon bonds granted
| to the Pacific railroads after the govern.
ment was defrauded out of its first mort
gage upon the said roads.
By the millions of acres of the public
domain. the peoples lands, voted away
to railroad corporations. that should have
been given to the people or sold to then
for 81 per acre. the proceeds to have
been applied to redeeming the non-inter.
est bearing notes.-the greenbscks.
By the demonetiziDg of silver in 1878
By the limited coinage Of any meta
but gold since 1878,
By the repeal of the tar upon incomes
bank check etc.
By rates of tariff upon necessariel
averaging four times as high as upor
Injuries.
BY all legislation OF the present con
gress affe oting the interests Of the entire
people excepting manufacturers and mon
ey losners.
The absentee landlords reduced t
slavery the inhabitants of Ireland. The
republican politicians at Washington II
legislsting in the interests of manufac
turers and capitalists whose thoughts ar,
ever absent-never present-to the vel
fare Of non-capitslists, have deprived tn
general public of that degree Of fbert,
and enjoyment of happiness that the con
stitution guarantees them.
Aunt Betsies lot is indeed hard one
much happier was she before the "wsh
with only one master. than now witt
Mckinley and John Chinsmsn-thei
heels upon her neck robbrng her. and be
peccanninnies of a sufficiency of food an
clothing. E S!GIBBs,
LYONS, lows