The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-04-30
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GATE.

1t Is claimed that q certain well
known minister in Canton Is going to
do some special work in the interest of
Mckinley among the order Of Ameri-
can Mechanics.
We have no objection to q minister
who takes part In politics. We claim
that a minister has the same right to
take part In politics as any other man
Hence we are not thin skinned on that
subject. Neither do we object to q
minister because he sees lit to work for
Major Mckinley. But we can see no
reason why the order of American Me.
chanics should take an interest in Nc
Kinley.
If Mckinley has ever done anything
for American labor, the laws of Con.
gress do not show it.
If he has ever fathered or favored a
bill in the interest of labor, the records
of Congress do not record It.
The snti-Chinese bill, to exclude the
rat eating pagans from our shores, was
Democratic measure.
When the bill first passed Congress
it was vetoed by Republican Presi-
dent.
The bill allowing American manu-
facturerS to contract for pauper labor
in Europe was originally passed as q
Republican measure, and was fathered
by Senator John Sherman of Ohio.
The agitation for it's repeal came
from the Democratic party, and its re
peal was opposed by the entire gang of
protected lords, who have commanded
the services of Mckinley in Congress
for the past fifteen years.
Look at the condition of labor in the
coke regions of highly protected PENN
sylyania to-day.
Who are ths men who struck against
q reduction in wages? Were they
Americans? No!
They were Huugarians and Italians
and Poles, and the cheapest pauper
labor of Central Europe.
Where were the American labor
ers? Why, they we're crowded out
three and five years ago, and are now
tramps and vagabonds on the face of
the earth, made such by the venality of
the very men who howl protection to
labor, and then proceed to drive out
American labor and import paupers
from Europe, of the most degraded
classes.
Why are these European paupers al
lowed to lard by the thousands every
day upon our shores, in violation Of
law, and to come in direct conflict in
all the labor markets of the country
with American laborers?
1t is because this Administratio is
owned by the protected lords, who put
up the corruption fund to elect Harri
son.
The laws are not enforced, and there
Is no solid protense that they are.
These are serious matters for all
American Mechanics to think over,
without prejudice.
Be not fooled with the palaver of
poorly informed partisan preachers.
Preachers may mean all right, but be
entirely wanting in the disposition to
investigate these economic questions.
A great majority of our political
preachers have not studied these eco
nomic questions and do not understand
them.
They are Republicans on the issues of
quarter of a century ago, growing out
of the war, and are still Republicans,
merely from habit and association.
We ask for an impartial investigation
of these great economic questions, that
touch the heart of labor.
With investigation, honestly and
faithfully pursued, with the lights that
are all around and about us, there can
be no mistake where the true friend of
labor will be found.