St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-24
IN FAVOR OF WEAVER,
Powderly Thinks Ee Has Been
Misquoted by the Dem
oeratS.
He Favors Protection for Both
Manu- faeturer and Work.
ingman.
Neither of the Old Parties Is
Conducted to Suit
Him.
He Declares Himself in Fa-
vor Of the Populist Can
didateS.

h1LAOELfHIA, sept. 90 l he JOul
nal of the Knights of Labor of the 22d
inst. had special article from the per
of /. V. Powderly, containing an alb.
delphia Ledger of the 10th. The alb.
stract is as follows:
The Carnegie Steel company and
ike corporations owe their prosperity
TO the protective laws of the United
States. These laws were passed in the
interest of labor. During the discus
sion on~the tariff laws it was never ads
vanced as reason why they
should be passed that capital
would be protected-the argument
was always that labor would
be protected. The workman has not
been protected from the competition by
the government. He has had TO fight
the battle for himself through the labor
organizations. Not only has he had 10
night against foreign competition, largely
attracted by our deluslve tariff laws,
but he has had to wage
War With The Employer
for share of that protection which his
government desired bv the law that he
should have. Our government has
enacted protective legislation in the
interest Of labor, if we read arguments,
but it quieseently allows the manufact-
urers the bulk of protection. and then
throws its arms around the establish
ment at the least pr0vocation when the
workman asks for what he deems
right to enjoy"
MIR. Powderiy goes or to say that in a
measure he was instrumental III making
Mr.. Harrlty secretary of the common
wealth of this state. This was accom-
plISfed by his support of Mr.. Pattison
for governor. Mr.. Pattison was elected
on a ballot-reform issue. He was
pledged to a constitutional con-
vention. He sought our votes
and got them on that issue'
Mr.. Powder1y. after speaking of the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Harrity. then shows
that Mr.. Harrlty has been instrumental
In deferring the will of the people by
opposing the constitutional convention.
Which would dethrone the imperial
Reading combination, which insaIently
laps the state into silence through the
cowardiy acts of its officials; it is
An Enemv 10 American labor =
and peril; it is supported andapheid
by the chairman of The national Demo
cratic committee, who now makes use of
my words to help the cause in which he
is Interested and which he would have
people believe friendly to American
labor.
In my North American Review let
ter have not discussed the merits of
protection. One phase OF it alone is re-
ferred 10, andin saving that it does not
ingrnan state truth which can in no
way aid party which dare
not avow itself in favor of free
trade-the opposite of protection.
When member of the committee Will
make use of mans words and state
ments, it should be In possession Of
sufflcient honesty to assert that it in
tends TO carry out the intention of the
author. l said that the American work.
lngman has not been protected from
foreign competition by the government.
Will the national committee of the
Democratic party dare TO assert it is; IN
favor OF protecting the Workingmen in
the way had III mind when | wrote
that? l believe that if it is
Right 10 Place a Duty
on the manufactured article in order TO
protect the workman on this side of the
Atlantic, it cannot be right TO allow the
foreign WorkmeD to come here
in droves to take the places
at reduced wages of Americans.
Will the national committee declare
in favor Of the natural restriction of i'm
migration TO such an extent as will de.
prye the American workmen OF tha
crushing burden which makes 1t utterly
impossible to stand up and give
him what he should have? There
is no member of the commits
tee who does not know that the
great railroad interests of this country
stand more OF menace to the manu-
featuring Interests of this country than
the tariff. They, the circulating medium,
should be under the direction of the
government, and that it should issue
ana be controlled by the government.
They should know that their escape of
just taxation is an Injustice to the work
ingman. They Will not say on their
platform remedy for these evils.
lhe Republican party is made up Of
wealth and monopoly, but the Demo.
cratic party has the supreme gall to as.
sumo, with an air of
Patronizing Ownership,
the privilege of debating Just how the
should vote. II claims to
be the party of the poor man. | grant
that If ought TO be, for the poor
have given it the strength to live
long enough to see its candidate
for the presidency wlite against free
silver at the dictation of Wall street:
ong enough to see its national conven-
lon frame dishonest declaration in
ldNoI Vi WlIdcaI banks: long enough to
see the principal actors on its boards
'quirm and Shift on every wind to catch
he votes of the poor man. If the Dem
ocratlc party is the party of the poor
nan. if he continues to vote that ticket
le will never be anything else but a
)ocr man.
Il have written no campaign doeu.
nent for either the Democratic or the
Republican parties. will not write any.
md viii not support the candidates Of
my party but the one which had the
honesty and manhood to lay claim to
he votes Of labor by adopting the pre-
Imble Of the Knights of Labor as its
rational platform-the Peoples party
andidates-Gen. James b. Weaver and
len. James Field