Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-24
Gov. soies on Capital and Labor.
DEs MONIES, Ia, Sept. 10. --Spe-
cial Correspondence Chicago Tribune.

DEs MONIES, Ia, Sept 10. --Spe-
cial Correspondence Chicago Tribune
Gov. Boies remarked in his address
at Keokuk Labor day that with us
slavery is abolished forever, but the
disposition that established 1t still eS.
ists.'' The governor did not trouble
himself by sustaining this assertion
by proofs, but II he had needed any.
thing OF the sort he could have estab-
lished his case by pointing TO the
great belt OF Democratic states extend
Ing from Virginia to Texas. Through.
out that vast scope OF country the
rule of the Democratic party is abso.
Lutte, and hence with the disposition
that established slavery still! prevail
ing, equal rights and manhood SUI
frage are crushed out. The laboring
classe throughout the solid Demo
cratic section OF the country Is
stripped OF civil as we'll as political
rights and completely subjected to the
will OF the capitalized whites-the
men who claim to possess the prop
erty and intelligence OF their states
and assert that for that reason they
have the right to rule them without
any regeed to the will OF the majority.
These men, needing agents and stool
pigeons in the north TO aid them in
subjectiug the entire country to their
arbitrary and lawless control, find In
Gov. sBoies a serviceable and accepta.
BILE tool. lie may we'll say that al
though slavery has been destroyed,
the disposition that established it still
exists.
II by any confusion OF issues the
Democrats should win in Iowa this
fall the Michigan plan" would at
once be adopted here and this state be
made to assist next year in strength
ening the grasp OF the southern oil
garchy upon the throa. OF free labor
in the south. How long would Gov.
Boies expect northern workmen to re-
main unaffected by the subjugation OF
labor by capital in the south? When
black workmen in the south are de-
prived OF any right 10 participate in
the making or enforcement OF the
laws they are virtually outlawcd from
the protection OF the governmct and
must accept such contracts and wage,
as their masters force upon Ia m.
Gov. Boies and his party do not object
to this wrong and robbery OF black
labor, and it remains for them to say
whether they intend northern work.
men also to be affected by it.
1t made comparatively little differ
ence to northern white workmen how
the southern blacks were treated so
long as the latter we're employed in
industries that did not compete di-
rectly with the north tho raising OF
sugar, cotton, tobacco, semi-tropical
fruits, etc. That day has gone by,
however, and with the establishment
OF outside capital and manufacturing
industries in the south, the negroes
are becoming artisans, factory, forge
and mill hands in increasing num-
bers. Turning out the same products
they are being forced into direct com.
petition with the northern white men.
Does Gov. Boies expect that white !
men can obtain high wages along the
Upper Mississippi while for the same
work the disfranchised blacks along
the lower river receive only One-halt
or one third as much? Can northern
industries endure such competition
from the SOUTH Under such circum-
stances will not capital be drawn to
the field where low wages prevail ard
no trouble is encountered through |
strikes or other efforts Of workmen to
assert or protect their rights? The
southern Democratic ex-slaveholders
are attempting to build up in that
section a system of competitive cheap
labor which must have most dam |
aging feet on capital and labor in
the north, and yet they have no more |
efficient tools than men like Gov. !
Boies.