Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-09-24
HE OBJECTS.
One of the Upper Circles Who Dis
agrees With the Mails Views.

lStockton (Cal) MALL
To the Editor of the Mail-Sir:
Your views of social and political
problems, as set forth from time to
time in the editorial columns of the
Mail are directly contrary to the
views of the better classes of civilized
communities. If carried out in the
actual conduct of affairs they would
destroy that prepond of in
huence and power which of right be-
long to the wealthy and educated,
and would inauguratc the rule of the
ignorant and vulgar majority-men
of no property and no solid standing
-clod- hoppers, artisans, bootblacks.
servants and the lower classes gen.
orally. Both political parties are
prone to cater to the vanity of the
vulgar herd, but the Republican
party is less guilty of consulting their
ignorant desires than the Democratic:
and even many Democrats are not SO
blind to the fact that the upper
classes are intended to rule over the
lower masses, as you seem to be.
1t is the business Of men of capital
to control laborers. The courts are
perfectly right in lending their aid
to the business interests in order to
put down the frequent mutinies OF
these misguided fellows, who are not
satisfied to have enough to eat and to
wear, but have the impudence to de-
mand share of the profits which
wealth rightfully claims for its own.
Without the power to grant lnJunc-
tions and to imprison for contempt
idle and rebellious workmen, the
courts would not be able to compel
strikers to obey their lawful masters,
and no business man could tell his
workmen that he would pay them
what he pleased. And yet this neces-
sary power of the courts, without
which workmen could not be well
kept in proper subsection, you, MI.
Editor, and the Democratic platform,
both denounce and would do away
with.
You may preach the absurd doc
trine that the ignorant masses ought
to control the country, but there are
thousands of the lower classes who
know that it is their business to be
orderly and obedient to their masters
and to look after their masters in
terests. They know that it is natural
and right that the wealthy classes
should control the government and
decide what is best for the common
people. For this reason they will
continue to vote with the Republican
party, which, with all its faults, is
still the party of the upper and bet
ter classes, particularly since it has
been guided by that able and far
sighted business man and born ruler.
the Hon. Marcus a. Hanna, whom |
regard as the foremost man of the
times.
Demagogues may seduce many
thousands of the ignorant masses
from the control of their natural ad-
yisers and masters, but in the main
the common people will continue to
vote as they are instructed by the
wealthy and educated upper classes.
And the wealthy and educated upper
class will see to it that no demagogic
agitator like Mr.. Mcguire, who puts
the so-called rights of labor above
the sacred rights of property, shall
ever occupy the gnbernatorial chair
in California. The upper classes will
exert their influence and their wealth
and power to put in the governors
office Mr.. Gage, gentleman who is
thoroughly in sympathy with the
vested rights of capital and solicit
tous for the safety of those great
moneyed institutions and corpora
lions which it is the first duty of gov
eminent to protect against the mob
and the attacks of dissatisfied labor
ers and farmers.
You will perhaps not publish this
frank statement, SO opposed to the
drmagogy now in vogue. but if you
do, may at some future time set
forth in detail the views-very differ
ent from yours-which make me an
earnest Republican, so long, at least,
as that party remains the friend and
protector of capital and culture. l
am. sir, respectfully,
a MAN OF MEANS.
Stockton, Aug. 81.