Middletown transcript., 1892-09-08
A Word to the workingman.

The workingman has always found
O champion in the Democratic party,
and because Of The Democratic party
always standing up boldly and defiant-
" for the best interests Of the labor
ing classes it has had the solid and
united opposition Of the trusts and
combined capital, ready with its money
power to debauch voters and defeat
the Democracy at the polls. The
very principles of the Democratic
party as expressed in its state and
national platforms, and its declara-
tions infavor Of tariff reform, indicate
the position of the party toward the
nottingham. Our mechanics and
laboring men are oppressed by the
trusts, monopolies and the combined
money powers of the country, and if
these people had their way the condi-
ton of the workiBgmen would be
little less than that of slaves compelled
to pay tribute to capital. The work.
ingman has nothing to expect from
the Republican party, and hence If
this much abused class of our fellow
e -af H !
citizens would throw their full strength
with the Democratic party. and help
it in its warfare against trusts, mono
poly and the centralizing of power in
the hands of monied aristocracy,
they weuld reap a rich reward and
secure the rights of which they are
now deprived by the Republican high
tariff party under whose system Of
tariff taxation the rich manufacturer
becomes richer and the poor poorer.
Tariff reform is certain to result this
year if the laboring classes will only
rally around the Democratic standard
and help to fight the battle. The
work must be begun now, and the
fight kept up until the great victory
is secured. Our workingmen known
full well Of the large corruption fund
that was raised in the Harrison cam
paign Of 1883 to elect Harrison for
continuing the oppressive system of
tariff taxation which we now have in
the form of the Mckinley law, and
which fills the overfowing Golfers Of |
the rich manufacturers and grinds
down the wages of the workingmen |
lower and lower. And how well the |
workiDgman knows that very shortly
after the election Of Harrison was
over, these combined manufacturers
who raised the large campaign fund
for the Republican party, in order
70 get back the money thus raised, cut
lown the wages in the iren mills and
and wrung from the me-
,hanics and laborers of their hard
earnings sufficient money to reimburse
hem for what they expended to Sc
,ure Republic an victory and to per-
,etuate their tyranny over labor, does
lot need to be repeated. Where can
he workingman look to have his wrong
edressed, and the persistent and sys-
ematized robbery of himself and
amily arrested, but to his only cham.
lion, the Democratic party, the party
f the poor manf
In this connection it may be we'll to
sk how many Of the Republican
apers of the country have said a
God word for the locked out work.
len at Homestead? It would take
areful search to find halfa dozen in
II fthe Northern States. The Re-
ublican party does not believe in
rganized labor, believing that only
apitalists shall combine for their own
enefit. The candidate for Vice Pre-
dent on the Republican ticket is a 4
i
Iir sample Of the intolerance of or 4
anized labor. BE fought the printer
MON for fifteen years, and only toler- !
;es it now because he is forced to do
}. Since the passage Of the Mckinley
III more than 200 trusts have been
-ganized. the object Of each one of ]
hich is to rob the people with the {
d of the Mckinley tariff. Within
e same time there have been as
any hundreds of lockouts and strikes
fused by the attempts of the work.
en- to secure an honest days pay
r an honest days work. These are
cts. There's no theorizing as to the
lly Of strikes about it. The work
gmen who read the news of the day
low that these strikes aud lockouts
I'VE occurred, and all the sophistry ,
ID false reasoning Of the champions {
monopolies cannon convince them
at these trusts and these strikes are
{ due to the efforts of the rich to t
b the poor Of their rights. And /
ore. The workmen will do well to I
that candidate Harrison {
0 neyerlyet retracted his infamous I
d inhuman utterance as Senator
the United States that "a dollar a :
y is enough for a laboring man."
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