The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-10-19
LABOR'S OWN VIEW.
A PROMINENT LABOR CHAMPION AND
ORGANIZER
Gives His Views of the Industrial situa-
tion--He Does Not Take Kindly to Mo
Kinleyism.
CANroN n .Oot. ia. 1aq3

Kinleyism.
CANTON, o., Oct. ID, 1893.
EDIToR NEws-DEMoURAT; Having rev-
eled through part OF ONO and Indiana this
summer nave been able to catch some
of the ex pressions In regard 80 the string.
ency of the times. / could not help but
notice the ia yerness with which Rspubit.
can politicians took up and echoed the
slogan sent forth by tbe leading RepubliN
can papers. "rhe manufacturers have
shuJ down their works and will not start
them up because they are afraid Of the
Democratic party and have no confidence
In their administration of the affairs of
government This 10 very npecious
plea to put forth to the ihtelligent voters
OF this country, and IL q slap ia their face
for having the independence 70 GUST the
Republican party out OF power after thirty
years OF vicious legislation and mslAd.
ministrAtion of the Atfaits of our govern, I,
msnI
Grant that TO be the cause Of the
present hard times aud the reason why
workshops and factories are idle, and
what does Il mean2 II means that IL
manufacturers have the power and dare
TO use IL they are menace TO our govern
ment, and that this government will be OF
corpora lions and manufacturers by them
ana for them, and not for the people, as
Lincoln once proudly boasted.
II also meang a perpetuation of the Re-
publican party in power for all time, For
the Republican party has already, by
means of legislation In their behalf and
granting them the power to name candi-
dates for the various offices, elective and
Appointive, in which they have particular
interest. ached to itself the leaders of
the great corporations and employers of
large bodies of labor, and will
leave no stone unturned TO make II OF in
tereBt for all employees 10 become men,
bers also Of that party, They will then
have the government by the throat aud
tue people at their mercy. Let the work.
ingmen dare to domsnda q change by their
votes and elect anyone but Republicans
to office aud they will be Immediately
starved into submission and plainly told
that If they vote for Democrats or Popu-
lists or Prohibitlonists, they must 60 TO
them for work.
What a dreadful consequence this Ia 10
contemplate. For us, 10 "this great and
glorious land OF the Free" where
school houses dot every hillside and
the Wales echo with laughter and
Joyous shouts of the children of
free and intelligens citizsns on their way
to and fro; that, in this latter part Of the
19Ih century, the epoch of liberty and
freedom, and while we are celebrating
the discovery Of our country, the workmen
of the great state Of Ohio must bo coerced
by starvation, into voting for man with
ideas that the country AT large haa repu-
dated in two elections, and who was only
elected himaele as Governor Of the state
by the power OF Doodle, an article he has
belived in ever since he has entered poli-
ucs.
Shall this condition of affairs be per-
mitted to 20 on, and no one call the peo-
pls's attention to the dangerous weapon
being used in behalf OF the Republi-
can parry? l, for one, say never
For tLtE'y yeara that party has
been irgtslaSing and admiNisteriuR the
sHNIEE Uf government III behalf OF the
money power, corpo' a!ions and munopL-
lists and against the people, until the
money power has become arrogant
enough TO dem Snd OF the present edmin-
iEtrstion that their interests be looked
after, and $3.50, ,o0o,0O0 of bonds bo iosusd
to buy gold with. They, having the gold
to sell would buy the bonds and keep il
up lad inflnitum.r But on the psremp-
tory refus Al Of Carlisle to issue bon ds they
Immediately set about to bring on the
panic, See the following extract from
Senator Blackburn's speech, October 4th:
"But there had been prior interview
held in WASHINGTON between Secretary
Carlisle and the N sw York Representatives
of the Rothachilds, at which a demand was
made for the issue of Sl50, 900 900 In bonds,
which demand had bssn peremptorily,
fatty and Internationally refused.
That refusal had started the conspiracy.
II the President and Secretary OF tho
Treasury yielded to the demand for
bonds, the panic never would havs come"
The Republican party alone IL reBpon-
sible for this condition of affairs and
every other that has put tho money power
end monopoly In control. That nobleat
Roman of Ihsm all, Allen &. Thurman,
from his place In the Senate in 1879 MAIDS
Shis remarkable statement which wRs
uncontrRdicted at the time.
"Mr. Speaker. IL there has been any
legislation in behalf of the widows and
orphans and OF the great body of work.
ingmen OF this country while have boen
In the Ssnate have failsd to see IL, and
have been q close attendant"
Sparks, of Illinois, the followinr
day in the House OF Represent
tives said "Mr. Speaker. / not only
reiterate the abatement made In the Sem
eto by the grand old Senator of Ohio.
Allen G. Thurman, but defy the produce
tion OF any legislation for the pact dec,
sde that has not been in tbs interest of
and controlled by capitaliste." THE was
uucontradieted also and atands as the
record, and the same record has not bsen
changed from that time to the present.
With vivid recollection in our minds
Of the great panic of October, 1873, which
caused more bankruptcy than had been
known in the history of our country
before that, which threw out of work
nearly two million workingmen and made
a million tamps, thing that had never
been known before, all under the high
est protective tariff we ever had, and
uadsr Republican legislation and
administration, shall we let the
statement made by the papers and
the politicians at the present time
go unchallenged? II we do we are cow
ards. II we, who have such vivid rscol-
lection of that time, through our suffer
ings from want of employment, fail to
call the peoples attention TO II, who do
not recollect IL, and If we fail to call their
attention TO the fact that II was brough.
about directly by the party, then having
full control of the executive, judicial and
legislative power of our government, we
fail TO do our duty as citlzsus.
Yours respectfully,
T. 4. O'MALLEY.