Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-08-23
THE woRKINcMAN's PARTY.


It Has Never Neglected an Opportunity
to Elevate and Protect the Laborer.
No charge more grossly untrue
could be made against the Repub-
lican party than that it Is unfriendly
to the interests OF the working
classes. Born OF a determination to
make all labor free, 1t has never
swerved from the pursuit OF that
goal. 1t has never neglected an OPP
portunity to shape legislation for
the protection and elevation OF the
men who work with their hands aud
who are the bulwark OF our national
prosperity and future greatness.
Without intending to revive issues
that are dead, says the Denver Re-
publican, we yet may recall the fact
that 1t was the Republican party
that struck down the slave oligarchy
of the South and made the labor of
all that vast section free. Neither
should we forget that it is the same
party that almost Immediately after
obtaining control of the national
government established that system
of protection which has built up
American industries, developed our
resources and made the employment
Of labor at profitable wages possible.
The enormous advance which this
country has made since this party
came into power has been marked
by nothing more conspicuously than
by the elevation of our laboring
population to plane far above that
upon which the same class in any
other country stands This is a.
fact which is open to the observa-
ton of every intelligent man who
gives even a mere cursory examina-
tion to our national history. This
country has been the Mecca of la
borers from all parts OF Europe. and
they have sought our shores be-
cause here they could find laws and
conditions moie favorable to their
advancement than In tho countries
of their birth. Whether some OF
these immigrants knew 1t or not, it
is fact that tho favorable condi-
tions which prevailed in this coun-
try when they came were the direct
results OF legislation instituted by
the Republican party.
True to the policy which in this
particular it has pursued since 1t
came into power, the Republican
party may be trusted To guard the
welfare and the interests OF the
laborng population in the days and
years that are to come. AS q party
it never has denied to laborers tho
right to organize. 1t never has
denied them voice in the directiO n
of public affairs. The party which
has sheltered the laboring class
against the oppression OF foreign
competition is the party which best
may be trusted to shelter the same
class against whatever form of OPP
preston may arise within our own
land.
The Republican party is not
party OF anarchy, seeking to ad-
vance the interests OF laboring men
by methods that would end In ruin
and disaster. But 1t is a party
| which seeks to encourage that har-
mony between capital and labor
which best would promote the inter
ests OF both. Nothing Is to be gained
for either capital or labor by war
OF determination, and whoever
breaches tho doctrine OF war to
laboring men is a blind guide, whose
teachings, If followed, would lead to
oppression, the like OF which never
has been known in tho United States.
The hope OF the working men is in
the party that freed the labor Of the
South, that gave protection to the
labor OF all parts Of the union, and
that guarantees to every man enjoy
ment OF his political and social
rights.