San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-11-03
NOT THE woMAN.s FRIEND.

hands of the democratic party is most
apparent. The democratic party has
always found Its strongholds In the
large cities, and has depended on the
vote of the cities for its victories. 1t
has prated so loudly of It's care for
the workmen, has so loudly con-
demned the republican party for it's
administration of affairs, and has
so pandered to the prejudlces of labor
against capital that the workmen of
the country have grown to'consider
the democratic party as their cham.
pion without carefully inquiring in to
the real grounds of such acceptance.
The fact is that the repu blican party
is responsible for the national legisla-
ton, as it has held possession of the
government almost continuously
since the war, and the democracy
have taken advantage of the natural
dissa tisfaction of labor with it's cnndi.
ton to prejudice the workmen OF the
country against the republican
party, claiming that 1T is
responsible tor the uufavor-
able conditions of which the work.
men complain. These charges of the
democracy, though without shadow
of foundation In fact, have found
ready hearing among the dissatis fed,
who are always in the majority in
the large cities where vast bodies of
laborers congregate. AS q conse.
quence the labor of this country has
regarded the repu blican party as its
enemy and it is only of late that this
opinion is being changed. It took
some little time after the war to dis
pose of the questions that arose in
consequence OF that controversy, and
d uripg those years the republican
party, to whom was committed the
task of making that settlement, had
very little time to devote to tbs con.
sideratlon of purely industrial mat
ters. They had not fairly entered
upon their collaboration before the
country was turned over to the gov.
eminent Of the democracy. TIE
workn,en OF the country natur.
ally looked for an immedi-
ate improvement in their condition,
having been taught to believe
that all their disabilities arose from
the policy of the republicans. In
stead Of the promis es of the democrats
being met the very reverse was the
case, and the democracy came in for
more condemnation at the hands of
the labor of the country than the re
publlcans ever had. The educational
methods of the republican campaign
managers for the past ten years bore
fruit, and the democratic statements
were found not in accordance with
fact, and the democratic performances
not in accord with their promise. So
glaring has this discrepancy become
that the leaders of the labor hosts of
this country are turning their backs
on the democracy and. declaring 1t
the enemy of the American workmen.
Terrence V. POwderly, the head and
front of that powerful labor organi-
zation, the Knights of Labor said in a
speech in the city of New York, and
to an immense gathering of work.
| men:
"We have made Flower the demo-
cratic governor of a republican state. If
you workingmen do your duty here,
| you will teach the democratic party
that they must treat you as men and
American citizens when you ask JUS
| tice, you will teach Flower that you,
as sovereign people, must not be in
| suited and scorned. You will teach
men like Harrity that you possess in
| telligence, and cannot be deluded in
to voting for your enemies. / cannot
| cay one good word for the democratic
| party, and am unable to understand
how any wOrkIngman can vote for its
candidates"
This is a very significant utterance,
and it foreshsdows the day when the
American workmen ale going to vote
and act with the party for protection,
fully persuaded that in that direction
lies their only hope of lettering their
condition. When that time comes and
Che protection policies of the country
are no longer endangeredit the republic
can party will turn its attention to
other necessary measures of indus
trial reform, and with the support OF
the labor vote will carry those meas
ure into the national congress and en-
act such laws as will make them OF