The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-07-02
H WEEKLY TRIBUNE,
THE REPUBLICAN, PAKTY.
JULY ,. 1892.

WOrklngmen Will oppose WnlteiaW
Reid and vote the democratic ticket for
other reasons than are found in his long
warfare against organized labor. The
entire course of the republican party
since its return to power has been mimi
cal to w~age-earners 1t has legislated
for trusts and %monopolies. 1t has taxed
industry and poverty in behalf OF wealth.
1t has legislated for the building up OF
an arrogant p~lutocracy and for the con-
solidation of corporate power. The in
cident that a recognized enemy of or
ganized labor has been nominated on
the republican ticket for the vice presi-
dency is full of significance to the work
ingmen of the country. But there are
other grave reasons which should array
all wage-earners. all farmers, all who are
oppressed or likely to be oppressed by
corporate power and plutocratic privil-
ege, all who buy t~ax-enhanced necessar-
les with tax ,depressed wages. against the
republican party.
The republican party is the party of
the rich; it is the party of trusts: of
great ~monopolies and of corporate pow
err. 1t is not the party of the laboring
man. 1t simply uses him. as the master
uses his beast of burden, and then turns
him out to shift for himself. Its mission
is to make the rich richer: to manufac-
ture millionaires who contribute liberal
ly to keep the establishment running.
While building up great corporate pow
ers it also manufactures paupers and
tramps. 1t has made about 100000 Of
these latter. 1t has ~unequally dis
tributed the wealth of the county. .Ac-
cording to Statistician Thos. G.. Sher-
mar we have l1,jGJ,00O families in the
laboring class whose average possessions
are only SgGS to each. while we have
2SJ.S10 rich families whose aggregate
wealth is si3.OOO.WO or an average of
SlSG,J02 to each. In other words under
the policy of the republican party over
forty families are laboring to enrich one
family. The policy of the republican
party makes it impossible to check this
constant unequal distribution Of wealth.
1t goes right along Lil I rich rich
er and the poor poorer.
a strange feature of this whole bust
ness is that laboring men are blindly
led into the support of the policy. They
are told. and. it is sorrowful to confess.
large numbers believe it, that the repub.
iican party is their friend; that its pro-
tected industries furnish them work and
give them good wages, while the fact is
these protected industries are built up
and enriched at the expense of the Drawn
and muscle of the laboring man who
ekes out but "A miserable support for
himself and family while his employer is
rolling in wealth and living on the fat of
the land.
The republican party is "a corrupt
party. 1t yves its possession of the gov
eminent today to the corrupt use of
money. Its money lords and
barons bought blocks of five"
at the last presidential
election DIS the woolgrower buys sheep.
The money is freely given by the great
trusts and m%onopolies which the policy
the party creates. These great pro-
tected money powers make poor men
and then speculate upon the want and
poverty forced upon them. They now
propose to elect Harrison by the votes of
the very men whom they Cypress. and
there is only n thing which stands in
their way the Australian election law.
Harrison's election four years ago
many of the northern states have adopt-
ed the Australian system of voting.
This will shut out the herding and vot-
ing employees under the espionage of
bosses and give the people a fair chance
to voice their sentiments at the polls.
The republican party is an extrava.
giant party. Under the p%retense of adj
v~ancing the interests of the country it
makes appropriations of vast sums of
money which find their way in the cot.
fers of the rich who in turn pay fat as
to maintain their party in
power. Thus it pursues a never ending
Of giving and taking: gathering
tlthes from the poor and %bcstowing them
upon the rich: proIonging its power by
the corrupt use Of money wrung from
the laboring classes by ornerous tariff
taxation. How long must this continue.
4 FEW FACT, AND UIGIEEs