Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-22

than in any other country in the world.
Laboring men and women in the
United States have their homes better
furnished than in any other country in
the world. The working people in
this country have moro and better food
than in any other country in the world.
but because this is true, why should
the millions Of our people be taxed for
the benefit of few eastern monopolis ?
The tone of Republican argument is
always to the effect that because these
things are true, therefore the millions
in this country owe something to the
Republican party. They try to make
the laboring man feel that because in
this country he has the opportunity to
get him home, therefore he must vote
the Republican ticket When this
continent was discovered millions of
acres of land, with all its resources,
were opened up to the homeless. des-
titute, tax-ridden, king.ridden people
of the old world, and the poor, the dos
titute, the tax-ridden, the king-ridden
come here seeking homes. They en-
dured all hardships, suffered all things
that we might have country where
working men and women might pro-
cure homes and might have them we'll
furnished. This is, or it ought to be,
a country of working men-the king
dom of labor 1t is not expected that
we have anybody here but working
men and women, and all this effort by
the Republican party to create the i'm
preston that we have working class
distinct from any other class is moth
ing but trickery. 1t is repugnant to
the spirit of our institutions. Because
one man may have more money than
another makes him, or should make
him, no less a working man, and be-
cause one man tolls with his head and
another with his hands should make
no difference. All should stand equal
before the law, and all efforts to create
the impression that we have classes IN
this country divided on the basis of
labor and capital is wrong and done
for Il purpose. But the Republican
party goes farther THAI this, it not only
tries to create distinct class of lador-
ing people, but it also tries to make
that class believe that fit were not for
the Republican party the laboring men
and women could not take advantage
of the opportunities God has given
them. In this country we have thou
sands of acres of land. but there it
would lie idle, while right by the side
Of it thousands starved. We have
vast forests of timber, but right by the
side Of such forests thousands would
be sheterless. We have vast mines
of all kinds Of ore and the most con-
venient for use of any in the world,
but there they would remain unworked
while the world needed the product
of the mines. This is Republican doc
trine, and it is pure nonsense. If
man is poor and destitute and he knows
where he can 60 and get land and 60
to work, why should he not have
home, and if he works have it well
furnished. and how should he owe any
thing to any political party because of
that? The political party did not
make the land, nor the forest, nor the
mipe, nor the lakes and rivers. Par
ties do not create sunshine nor cause
it to rain, and yet according to Re-
publican argument the people are in
debted to that political party for all
these things. Hundreds of years be-
fore that party was born the poor of
this country had homes, and hundreds
of years after that party is dead they
will still have homes Saginaw Globe.