The herald., 1898-11-08
Appeal to the Workingmen

To the Editor OF the Los Angeles Herald:
As workingman | can only look upon the
battle OF the ballots from the standpoint Of
industrial opportunity. The toiler OF ra-
tional proclvites cannot afford to waste
moment of his lifehood upon hollow hypoc-
racies. We have little mouths to feed and
important responsibilities to shoulder and
cannot at this juncture afford TO be polit-
ically hoodwinked.
Two hosts OF opposite opinions, aspira-
tions and motives are about to be drawn
up in battle. The one represents greed,
tyranny, injustice and corruption, and the
other stands for honesty, magnanimity,
progress, justice and democracy. On the
one OF the other oil the opposing sides the
workingman will be expected to cast his
lot today. If they vote for the supremacy
of the corporate greed, then farewell to
prosperity forevermore in California.
The single gold standard champions rep
resent greed, tyranny, injustice and cor
rnption. They, with brazen throats, call
the toiling masses to the polls to vote for
them, and give in return "a more absolute
slavery, beggary and bankruptcy than at
present prevails. Oh, my fellow working
men, for the sake of your wives and chill
dren, think twice before you take such a
suicidal step. The world is groaning to be
freed from the chains of monometallism.
Europe and India are fast crumbling into
irreparable ruin by the unyielding and
crushing curse OF the single gold standard.
The humbugging and traitorous rag, the
Record, tells you, my fellow workers, that
silver ought not to be an issue in this cam
paigp, as we at present are enjoying sea-
son Of unexampled prosperity. Such a
black and foul lie never parted the lips Of
the worst embodiment of Asmodeus. AT
this moment there are nearly twenty large
strikes in the United States and half q
dozen cities under martial law. Wages
have been cut down in nearly all the indus
trial centers of the country, and the mag
mates are still busy slashing the pittances
they begrudgingly give their exploited slaves
The fact is the present financial system has
inaugurated wholesale reduction of wages
as part and parcel Of huge conspiracy to
enslave and rob the human race and place
its entire assets in the hands of half dozen
families.
A vote for Gage and Waters is a vote for
Rothschild & Goa vote for your worst
enemies-the men who have planted plu-
tocracy in American soil.
The land of Jefferson, jackson and Lin
coin must be saved from this insufferable
plague, but you cannot redeem it by send
ing to congress man whose heart and soul
is imbued and permeated by the same as
pirations as the financial barons of Wall
street and Lombard street.
The only ''laboring man" in congress,
Barlow, stands for freedom and progress
sion; he has proved himself every inch a
man and patriot, and no workingman can
afford to vote against him.
j. G. Mcguire represents the hosts of
struggling humanity and in his election we
shall see the utter defeat of corporate
greed, at least in this state. Brother work
ingmen, stand by your champion and vote
for the blacksmith, James G. Mcguire
The noisy, time-serving charlatans of the
Socialist Labor party are on the side of
gold--avoid them and their ear-splitting jar
gon. have in my hand pamphlet issued
by the Socialist Labor party, urging the
adoption of the single gold standard and
deprecating bimetalism. Hearken not to
these unprincipled blatherskites, for | am
credibly informed that they are in the en-
pioy of the workingman's worst enemies
During recent big strike in New York the
Socialist Labor party supplied scab labor
in order to break the labor unions. It is
hidebound non-progressive organization,
destined to accomplish defeat and disaster
for all those silly enough to ally themselves
with it.
The unified forces of Mcguire and Bar
low represent the true progressive and en-.
lightened American policy. The principles
OF Jefferson are stamped upon their ban
ners. For God sake, identify yourselves
with the cause and lend hand to pull down
the flag OF monopoly and the gold standard
A WORKINGMAN.