The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-21
He Is of Reid Stamp.


Mr. Charles Emory Smith, who was
chosen by President Harrison to rep
resent the United States in Russia
when Mr.. Allan Thorndike Rice met
with his untoward death, was the
principal speaker at the Republican
mass meeting at PIainfield last
evening. We say the principal
speaker, for. though Johnny Kean
was there, his mothers money never
talks in public, and Johnny himself
has not much to say.
Mr.. Smith made the dear working
man the principle theme of his re-
marks. To hear Nj. Smith talk. you
would think the American laborer
was dear to his heart. He could not
bear to think of him being oppressed
as his British brother is said to be by
Republican orators. To save him
from such a fate, Mr.. Carnegie and
other millionaires must have all the
protection they choose to demand.
You would neve think, to hear this
benevolent twaddle, that Mr.. Smith
was one Of the most persistent and
virulent oppressers of American labor
to be found in the country. He just
takes rank after Mr.. Whitelaw Reid,
the Republican candidate for Vice
President.
Like Mr.. Reid, Mr.. Smith runs a rat
printing office. He is the proprietor
of the Philadelphia Press, a rich and
prosperous newspaper, which could
afford to deal with its employees with
just the same liberality which its
neighbor, Mr.. George W. Childs'
Ledger, displays. But Mr.. Smith is
too innately Republican for that. His
hatred of the toiling classes is
bred in the bone with him,
and though his paper is the
administration organ and he is over
and owe again a millionaire, his men
are u~nderpaid, and are kept under
the slavish subsection which char
acterizes n%on-union Offices. The
Press is spoken of by printers as the
tribune of Philadelphia. 1t was
rated to keep the scale down, and
now it is kept out of the Union as a
matter of economy. Though nomi-
nally the same rate per thousand is
paid as in union Offices, a large saving
is made every week out of the mems
pockets by the various cabbaging
processes known to ''rat" foremen.
The Press is always against working
men in their struggles. 1t was all for
Carnegie through the Homestead
troubles.
1t is essential workingmen and fair
minded people generally should know
these facts, when men like MI. Charles
Emory Smith stand up before them
with honeyed words. 1t is we'll the
country should realizs the true value
to be placed upon Republican profess
sions and Republican promises by
comparing them with the realities of
Republican practice.
Liquor Dealers. Wise and Unwise.
Some of the liquor dealers showed
much common senseSand sound prac-
tical judgmentaaiin theirisspeeches at
the H6bokenil as icon o9t1 en8sionalsS9!yessstt,esrdasy
afternoon The re- resasIl stance made by
the wiser B / Them kbl hay ahtte mpt to I
agitate f6airs OK 2tB BAL ss Ed Saai oan6laoof the. IL
cense feels nadsc1h 9 Is skbs 81 .eaodiinnlmalesandesa
from the public 4ppooiinitt. Of view. II Is,
besides, shire wd, BUSINESS The fewer
saloons tqhspetBHr0fa e Naaaafd tue
less the odium, the bigger the bust
ness of each. and the richer the profit.
We should think that. of all people,
those who should want the license fee
set highest would be the ~respectabl 9
saloonkeepers. Just think what a
blessing it would be if we had ju st
half the number of saloons in this
city, and all these of the high est