The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-30
Labor,s Republican Friends.


Labor's Republican Friends.
The Democratic National Commit
tee ought to hire the $500 mechanics
locked cut by the protected Carnegie
Iron Works to go through the country
on a campaign of education. These
men might visit every local assembly
of the knights of Labor and every
labor union in the country and ex-
plain the blessings of the Mckinley
tariff as enjoyed by the mill workers
of Pennsylvania, under the bosship OF
high-tariff Republicans, the friends of
Blaine and Harrison and Wanamaker,
and the leading subscribers to the Re-
publican bribery fund.
1t would be a picturesque and effec-
tive historic event, the tour of these
$500 unemployed sons of toll, plain,
humble men. going among plain hum
BILE men to spread the seeds of truths,
garnered from actual experience.
We think we see the Pharisaic pre-
tence of the lords of the trusts and
monopolies, the protected aud the
subsidized, wither and blister in the
scorching light of the plain talk which
these poor men would address to the
people.
What would DIR. Depew, the anti
unionist of the New York Central
Railway, and Chairman Campbell,
the tool of the labor-grinding Ar
mours, have to plead in answer to the
thrilling facts of slave labor under the
domination of Pennsylvania Republic
canism?
The popularity of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cleveland is, politics apart, a beauti-
full and cheering thing. 1t shows that
honesty, simplicity and good hearted
ness are cordially admired by u
people, and bring love and respect
with them, altogether apart from
official station Or political power.
Who would not rather be Grover
Cleveland, merely the idol of his
neighbors. than Benjamin Harrison,
the hated boss of a machine?
The Ballot Box Suffers and the Law.
Certainly the latest story about the
Ballot Box Suffers is not calculated
to excite any sympathy for them
among right-minded people. 1t is
said the four scoundrels who are the
subject of the test ease are :" keeping
dark" until the United States Courts
interfere. Then, having got a long
stay, they will parade their liberty as
a means of exciting sympathy for the
men who are suffering at Trenton.
Now this dodge should not work.
Not one of these men should be re-
leased until all are either inmates of
the prisons to which they were SEN
fenced or else fugitiyes beyond the
process of the Court which sentenced
them. Absolute submission should
be the price of clemency. The State
can afford to be merciful to a handful
of repentant and submissive men who
have merely erred, who confess their
error and promise amendment. The
State cannot and must not compro-
mise with defiant and aggressive Grim
inals, seeking by their immunity to
set an example for new generations of
corruptionists.
We frankly and plainly tell the
leaders of the Democratic party, if
they fool with this question of the
ballot box suffers, they will stand a
big chance of losing the State of the
fall. If they think the people have
ceased to care about it, they are in
sane. They should have noted the
chorus of jubilation that followed
those five carriages down Montgom-
cry street. Sorrow for these men may
be the prevailing ton in the political
club rooms; but, frankly and plainly,
the only expression among the tens of
thousands of voters is simply joy,
somewhat marred by the knowledge
hat SO many guilty men escape.
We speak for the good of the party,
and we say it is time for the defiance
of law and justice to cease.