The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-13


The calm after the storm of the presi-
Dental election has come. 1t has been
called campaign of education; il might
be more accurately described as a cam
paign Of revelation and exposure. Its de-
cision has been against reason and against
evidence. The industrial classes of Amer
lea were never as well Off az they are to-
day. As q whole they never had as good
wages. never as full employment, never as
cheap living. never as much prosperity in
before brought it so much Of the comforts
and happiness of life.
Nevertheless the industrial classes In
our great cities have been persuaded to
vote down this policy Of protection
through which this prosperity has been
attained and maintained. They have
turned deaf ear to the sober argument Of
facts and figures and have preferred 70 fol.
low the flag of class prejudice Of labor
against capital which has been cunnlngly
stimulated by the Democratic and Popu-
list agitators. both in speech and print.
Cleveland, MacVeagh, Springer. Ignatius
Donnelly, Weaver and Jerry Simpson
have all helped swell the cry against the
Republican party as the party of monop-
oily, the enemy of labor. The working
man has been everywhere told that he is
ground in the dust; il wronged and OPP
pressed; that his employer is plundering
him; that Republican legislation is made
to enrich the rich and impoverish the
poor; that the rich pay nothing while
they grind the poor; that the employers
reap all the benefits under protection.
This incendiary faisehood has been e.
fectively told; the attempt to set class
against class, to excite the prejudice and
bitterness of employe against employer,
to make trouble and conflict between labor
and capital, has been crowned with vic
tory, and the Democracy are triumphant.
The mere political defeat, SO far as it
stands for change of party administra-
ton, is matter Of small consequence, but
1t has been won by resort to the dissem-
ination of false and dangerous doctrine
that Is likely to bear bitter fruit in the
future. The party that in order to win an
election breaches the array of class against
class. of poor against rich. of labor against
capital, is playing with fire. It is tipping
the wink of invitation to raise the red dag
of industrial riot in every political cam.
paign. The day may come when the
Democratic party that has won this cleo
ton by preaching the war of classes may
look in dismay upon their trophy and be
miserable because they have won it
The falsehoods and immoral logic I'm.
scrupulously used to defend and extend
the domination of the pro-slavery De-
mocracy in America came back to plague
their inventors and disseminators, and for
mora than thirty years the Democratic
party has been dIstrusted at the North be-
cause of its old-time depravity. Today
it gives the hand to the South, made solid
by the notification Of the Federal consti.
tuition and laws, and wins the support Of
the labor vote of the North by reckless,
lying and wicked appeal to class pre-
JUDGES. Out of this triding with the
worst passions and prejudices of human
nature nothing but evil can be expected,
and the success Of the Democratic bid for
the political support of labor by cheering
and condoning riot and disorder. by stimu-
lating ignorant class hates and prejudices
to a mood of malignant evaporation will
surely make for more trouble hereafter
Labor before another presidential cleo.
ton comes around will find their condi-
ton in many parts of the country far less
prosperous than at present; there will be
less demand for employment; wages will
be lower. and labor will become first dis
contented and then disorderly. Then
rioting labor will expect the Democratic
administration they have created to
sympathize with anarchy and take off it's
hat to lawlessness. but labor will have a
rude awakening; it will find out the diff
ference between Democratic denagogus
and critic lying his way to the presidency
and that same demagogue held to legal re-
spcnsibility for his executive action and
to public responsibility for his official
speech.
Behind the demagogue who DETAINED the
Republican party and its policy as con.
trolled by robber piutocrats in order to get
elected president. the labor vote will find
plutocracy composed of the rich import
ers. manufacturers and capitalists of the
East. Behind Cleveland will stand Grace,
Whitney, Willard, Cooper. Hewitt and all
the Democratic gold bugs" of the party.
Labor will soon find out that "plutocrats"
are not peculiar to the Republican party;
that the Democracy o. the East will with
the help of the South mt tariff to the
neck of the West that will make labor in
the field Of raw materials wish Harrison
had been elected.
The campaign, We repeat. has not been
one OF education, hut Of revealed igno-
rance and unressonins prejudice on the
part of labor; q campaign of exposure for
the Democracy which has recklessly
cheerei the red dag of riot and played
with fire to capture the White House. The
real campaign of education for labor will
come quick enough in object lessons Of
declining wages, reduced prosperity,
chilled enterprise and decreased demand
for workers: il will be that melancholy
kind of education by experience which
teaches man by making HIM feel the con-
sequences Of folly and the evil of faulty.
erroneous Judgment.
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