The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-09-24
RESPONSE MADE
TO QUESTIONS PROPOUNDED TO
GEN. I. X, SHERWOOD.
A Friend of Labor Who Does Not Hest
tate to Clearly State His Position
on Questions of Interest to

on Questions of Interest to
Labor.
"a Voter" recently had communioa-
tion In the Canton Morning Journal ad-
dressed to General 1. X. Sherwood, and
touching upon his conduct II elected to
congress. To "a Voter" General Sber-
wood has made the following reply,
which app ars In today's issue of The
Morning Journal:
Editor Morning Journal: My stten-
tion has Just been called to some ques-
tions, asked by "a Voter" and printed
In the Morning Journal of september 12.
was not In the city that morning, and
only saw the questions today. 1 am in
favor of fully restoring the wages of
printers In the government printing
offices to what they formerly received,
and it would give me great pleasure to
so vote II "Voter" and enough other
voters give me an opportunity.
am opposed to the rule OF the classes
against the masses. %he working pro-
ducers that have produced all the wealth
in this country, should, under a just
system of laws, have now in their posses
sion fair share of that wealth. But we
all know they have but little
For the past two decades the rapid ac-
oumulations OF the most productive
nation on earth have been absorbed.
almost exclusively by few who now own
and control the chief executive, the
supreme court and the so.called popular
branch of congress The first vital ques-
tion is to arrest power from this class
and restore 1t to the people. After that
the minor reforms Of government will
come to the people as natural result.
In republic, such as ours, was in
tended to be social order, prosperity and
morality, should rest on that security
and justice that flows naturally form the
humane fraternity Of approximate equal
ity of effort or opportunity, protecting
the weak and restraining the strong. 1t
was never intended by the great spirits
that framed our federal constitution and
set the young republic on its career, that
we should have either patricians or
plebians in this country. Washington,
In his farewell address, announced the
true doctrine of humane rule, when he
declared that all combinations, under
whatever plausible character, are destruc-
tive of the fundamental principles of true
republican government, and have fatal
tending. quote from his farewell ad-
dress:
"They serve to organize faction and
give it an extraordinary and artificial
force, to put In the place Of the delegated
will of the nation, the will Of party,
often a small but srtful and enterpirsing
Of the community"
Washington, in the same immortal
document, further predicts that these
combinations in the control of causing
and unprinoipled mer will be
able to subvert the power Of the people
and usurp for themselves the reins of the
government"
For the past two decades we have ex-
perienced the very conditions and control
that Washington feared might happen.
am therefore in favor Of any legislation
that shall take the powers of govern
meDt from the control of monopoly and
restore all legitimate functions and
powers 80 the people, to be utilized by
the people for the common good.
Every branch of the public service that
touches the popular heart or affects the
we'll being of the people, should be utilized
for the general welfare and is the legiti.
mate subject of legislation for the gen.
ersl welfare. Isaac r. Sherwood.
Canton, O., September 10, '96.