Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-13

fQaQs are among tHt DtHtiltldt 1So VI this iniquitous and oppressive system of robber Government, but they. like all tue others, must be fought under and within the laws at the ballot box and not by fire and sword.
 Again, the fact must not be lost sight of that the working classes, who are the victims of this terrible system Of oppression, are themselves largely res esponsible for it's inaugura- tion aud perpetuation Without their votes Congressmen and Pres idents could not have been elected to put this scheme into operation. For many years the working men were almost unanimously advocates of protection They believed that. if the Government would make the manufacturers rich, the rich would in turn take care of the laberer; they believed that high tariffs would enable the employer to pay higher ! wages and that rhe employer would do 50; and so they turned deaf ear to all reasoning and deliberately
 voted this sytem Of oppression, un- der the belief and with the selfish motive of taxing the whole people for the enrichment of employers, so that their own wages might be en- hanced. And thus, in seeking to burthen the whole body of the peo- pie in the interest of their special classes, they have brought poverty and oppression upon themselves.
 Thousands of them have had their eyes opened; but many more thousands are still as blind as ever. Then, again; wheu the millionaire mine owners of the West raised the demagogic shout'for free silver and cheap money, tho working classes fell into the trap and echoed the cry for cheap money, which simply means more millioGs in the pockets of the kings of the silver camps, the debasement of the currency, the rise in the prices of all the neces- saries of Fife. with but a slight and l&9gard rise in wages.
 Such are the chief causes Of the evils from which the working classes are suffering and of other evils they are threatened with The remedy is not through such demagogues and charletaus as Debs and Sovereign. nor through insurreetion, arson and blood The remetlyis through the ballot boxes of the country Let the voters of the country consider the real causes ef the troubles that have produced discnntent and vote to send men 10 Congress who will leeislate in the interest of no class, but on the principle of equal rights for all. special privileges to none, and in brief time matters will be mended. Let them wipa out of DO. litical existence every traitor Demo- crat who has sold out to the pluto ierats and aided in bringing the vic, tory of the party of equal rights and free trade to naught, and there will soon be a wider demand for iabor and tho purchasing power of the wages eflhe 1ahorer will beincreased at least thirty per cent.
 "The reform ofcvils, we caution the working men, is to be secured only through tho ballot box; when il is sought through violence and rapine. through revenge and murder and ar son, the form and substance of q des potism, not of reform, will emerge from the smoke of the fires kindled by the inccudiaries and the blood of both the aw-breaker and the law-en- forcer.
 Men like Debs and Sovereign are the worst enemies of labor. They are not it's representatives. They are the advance heralds of the Man on Horseback 2