The herald., 1894-04-29
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Atlantic to the Pacific.
Statistics show that during the year
ending with April, 1893, more than
SOC, 900 foreigners landed in America. II
is safe to say that 200, 600 of these were
wage-earnsrs. These 200, 1000 have dis
placed that number OF American work.
ingmen who are now tramping across
the continent In the Industrial army.
Pass an act positively prohibiting the
entrance of such foreigners for 10 years,
and immediate relief would be felt.
These are suggested 90 some Of the
enterprises which the government might
undertake, not as q permanent poliey,
but to meet the great emergency which
today finds utterance in the tramp,
tramp, tramp, of idle men towards the
capitol.
The Republican party, having brought
on this great robbery of the people, ie
now crying, "Thief, thief," "a they are
leading the robbed workingman on to
Washington to ask redress for wrongs
which that party has by legislation in
ficted on him.
II these public works could be inAug'
urated by the Democratic party, thus
giving national aud individual quiet,
while . revised tariff Was being put into
practical operation, the laborer would be
satisfied during its experimental stage,
and III tariff for revenue only, should
prove q panacea for the laborer's ills,
then the curees which are now in the
mouth OF every workingman would be
turned into exclamations Of praise.
While it should be the ambition of
every lover of his country to allay aa
quickly as possible every cause OF dis
content between capital and labor, it is
the imperative duty of the Democratic
party, having received this legacy of
death from former administrations, to
80 utilize and control it that the party
may have the credit of having plucked
from the nettle, the flower safety. and
so adjusted by legislation the relations
of labor and capital that they can here
after work in perfect harmony, each
helping the other in building up the no.
bisst manhood, and at the same time the
freest country on the face of the earth.
These are merely outlines OF what
practical statesmanship may seize upon
to avert what thousands of thinking
men, whose patriotism Is not limited by
party lines, believe may lead to solu-
tion OF the present distressful condition.
AZ the government is now in the
hands OF the Democratic party, history
will hold it responsible for the manner
in which it mests and settles the PRES
ent grave questions.
The Commune held Paris for many
months in its bloody thrall. and during
that reign of terror nearly all the beau
tiful works of art, and nearly all the his
toric monuments of'France's martial tri-
umphs were destroyed. but at last law
and order were restored, and the rights
of property we're vindleated.
Is it necessary for Americans. who
have been educated in the right of every
man to accumulate all the property
which he can honestly earn, to GO
through the bloody baptism of Paris
In 1870 to rc-estAblish it?
Danger signals hang out on all the
roads leading TO Washington. Do thsy
give no warning to those who are at the
helm OF government? You may AJAX
where the money 10 to come from to
carry on thess great government works.
IL can be gotten on the credit of the
government. One nights carnival of
hungry men led to desperation would
cost the government more than it would
take to impound sill the waters necessary
to irrigate our arid lands, and more than
it would take to build the Nicaragua
methods which are considered extra
constitutional may have to be adopted to
avert an impending danger. 1t was by
q stretch OF constitutional authority that
Mr.. Lincoln carried on war against
seeding states, yet he did it, and by
doing it he saved the union. Ii Mr..
Cleveland would rise up to his great
opportunity, and, while denying the
responsibility of the Democratic party
for this unhappy esndition of things,
accept 1t as fact, and thea by proper
legislation inaugurate these public
works. giving employment to thousands
now on the march to VIZ Fhington, their
growlings OF discontsnt weuld soon bs
changed to songs OF thanksgiving for
deliverance, and tho Democratic party
would be enthroned in power for many
years to come. But il the Democrats,
with all the departments of government
in their hands. lie supineiy still and dc
nothing to relieve the situation, ther
their days are numbered. and an indig
nsnt multitude will write above thei
grave, weighed in the balance anc
found wanting"
JOHN SHIRLEY WARDs