The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-12-29


fore request that this legal and. ar
bitrary Protection be unqualitidely
repealed. AS workers we have no
fear of our European fellow work
ers. We are living in an age of
steam and electricity, agencies
which brings nations nearer to ma
tons and man nearer to man.
They are the factors of commune
cation and REORGANIZATION,
which constitute the fiat of the God
of nature, of Internationally of
trade and of life. We therefore
ask you to aid in Fastening the time
when Free-Trade, carried on by free
men, will be the ruling policy of our
nation, and when the custom house
will only be remembered in history
as having protected baron robbers,
through whom we advertised our
stupidity, cowardice and shame to
the world.
This passed by As to % votes.
The small vote makes the claim of
representing the organized labor
among million citizens question
able, but it is clearly seen that these
are men who do endorse its reckless
statements and fierce words. Let
us look at the statements first. The
talk of policy that preys on the
consumer, debauches conscience
and gets laws enacted by corrupt
men seeking to despoil their kind,
is refuted by the plain fact that the
consumer was never so able as now
to buy his goods, and that under
protective laws the wages of work
men. in proportion to their costs of
living. are the highest in the world,
and higher in this country than
ever before.
Is such legislation "a national
and social crime;" Were Washing
ton and jackson and Lincoln. all
Protectionists, upholding Il crimi.
nal system, or blind and foolish
mens
The talk of "gaunt-faced wo-
men," &C., at Homestead is absurd,
in view of the truth that the real
strikers were small company of
men earning from Is to $40 day,
while the host who Joined them had
no loweringof wages to complain of.
Is it stupidity and cowardicc
and shame" and subiections to
''robber barons" to earn by honest
labor the best wages in the world
under the Protection Tariff? IL so.
why not try Free-Trade England.
where wages are 80 to so per cent.
lower, and where the employer, the |
''robber baron," gets a larger pro-
portion than here of the proceeds of |
labor?
Had the Homestead strike oc- |
Cured in the old days of the real |
robber barons, instead of few
Pinkerton men, who had better |
never had been sent there, and were |
easily driven away, the strikers
would have been raided by knights |
clad in steel and riding on fine
horses, and by their fierce bench
men, their miserable homes burned, |
their wives and daughters grossly |
and they plundered and
bound and scourged into submis-
sion. That was the old fashion. as |
history plainly tells us.
Yet, granting the earnest sincerity |
Of most of the voters for this docu-
ment, it shows that they have been
cheated by Democratic Free
Traders. All the way from Bayard
Of Delaware, sitting in his elegan,
home and talking idly of the ssfall |
Of plutocracy," down to the whisky |
soaked demagogue at the dirty sa.
loon, the false lesson has been
taught that Projection was robbery, |
and the Republican party the tool
Of the pleutocrats, while the truth
is that the Homestead Land act, /,
the Anti-coatract Labor act and |
the>Auti-trust act were steps led by |
Republican legislators, voted for By |
Republican congressman and by !
some Democrats, all for the free
dom and uplifting of labor. no acts
of such Importance and of like
tendency ever having been passed