Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-15

Dancing was engaged in until the smiSll
hours and delightful time was en-
joyed.
McCOR p TO THE WORKING MEM.
Ii we were to believe what the dem
ccratic newspapers and democratic
speakers say we must conclude that the
republ lean party and its candidates are
the sworn enemies Of labor. 1t does
not seem to me that amy man in his
right mind can believe any such thing
as that. How can the republican party
be the enemy CT labor when it is
almost wholly composed Of man who
earn their daily bread by their daily
toll? The man who stands behind his
counter sci ing wares ana merchandise:
the man who stands as hi. desk keeping
books for his employer; the doctor who
call sat all hours on the sick and afflicted;
the lawyer who burns the midnight oil
preparing bis briefs that many times
are in the interest CT justice law and
order: the minister CT the gospel who
works with his brain to prepare his SER
mons to instruct people how to do right
and make them do better; the clerk
who renders faithful service to his en-
ployor and the man who invests HI
money in manufacturing or merohandls-
ing should all be classed as laboring men
as much as the mechanic who worl1e at
his bench or the laborer who works at
his daily toll. There are, it is true,
dudes and other useless human beings
who vote the republican ticket but
there are no more Of this class that
vote the republican ticket than there
is that vote the democratic ticket; but
the great bulk of the brain and Drawn
that constitute the republican party are
laboring men.
If anybody tells you that the repub-
lican party are antagonistic to labor,
ask them how anthing can be antagon
istic to itself Il any man who thinks
the republican party is against labor
will come with me While turn back q
few pages OF history will show him
how plain g tale shall put that Islander
down. | will tell him some Of the
things the republican party have done
for labor within the last thirty years
and if any democrat can tell me OF any
thing the democratic partd has done
for labor for the last thirty years {
would be glad to have him DO SO for
know of nothing it has done myself.
70 90 back exactly thirty years I
find that in 1862 the republican party
passed a Homestead law, and that it
was signed by republican president
Abraham Lincoln-after a similar law
had been vetoed by a democratic presi-
dcnt-J James Buchanan. BY the extreme
liberality and generosity Of the proyis-
ions Of that law more than two million
men own farms and are comfortable and
happy while living upon them, given by
the wise and beniticient policy of that
law That is one thing the republican
party did for labor and then [ will
take my friend with me twenty-seyen
years back and show him that the re-
publican party enacted law known as
the Lien Law by which q laboring man
/ works in the woods or on the river is
j given lien upon the product OF his
] labor. so that he cannot lose his pay.
| In 1879 and again in 1881 this law was
strengthened simplified and the collect
ion of debts for labor made more easy,
cheaper and more speedy. | happened
to be in the legislature in both these
years and voted with my party for these
changes. This is another thing the re-
i publican party has done for labor.
1 While in Congress I voted with my
party for q law that ssloald constitute
eight hours as q days work ID al dep
artments of the government on lIor
work paid for By the government