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brings . better price. the factory
populations make q better local mar
ket for perlsh&ble farm products.
and the better transportation faeii-
tiles make truck and fruit farming
profitable"
Now let us consider the differ
enee In the wages TO the Iaboring
man In those States that have adopt
ed the Republican policy Of protec-
ton and OF those in Democratic
States that have rejected IL. speak
from the statistics given by the De
paTtment OF Commerce and Labor.
The common laborer in Massachu-
sets receives an average Of IS cents
an hour for his work: in Richmond.
Va, IS cents; In North Carolina Il
cents: in South Carolina, . cents: in
Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Z TO cents.
There are in the savings banks of
the United States s3.500.000 rep
resenting the savings from the earn
ings of the laboring class Of people.
OF this sum, so per cent is in eleven
Republican State; the six New Eng
land States, with New York. Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Califor-
mia. Less than per cent Is IN the
States south of the Mason and Dixon
line.
Again, the Republican party, true
to the principles under which it was
founded, desiring TO elevate human
ity, had a wonderful record which
should appeal to every laboring man
in the country, in the way of legis-
lation looking to the betterment of
the conditions of the laboring man.
In the New England States and Re-
publican States north of the Mason
and Dixon line we find from 100 to
$50 pages of laws on the statute
books of each of these States enacted
directly in the interest of the labor
ing class; while south Of the Mason
and Dixon line we find nothing of
any consequence upon the statute
books of any State looking to their
welfare, but on the contrary we fine
the laws of these States on this SUBJ
ject principally directed against their
interests. The result is that in the
New England and Northwestern
States it is an exception for a labor
ing man not to own his home. In
the Southern States it is an excep-
ton for him to own his home. In
the former States his hours of work
are shorter, the conditions surround
ing him are better, and he upon the
whole is made to feel proud of the
fact that he is a skilled workman.
Why should the laboring man of
the South, especially of North Caro-
lima where we have something like
10000 men to-day working for
wages, tamely submit to a continue
ton of the conditions that have made
this great contrast between his con-
dition and the condition of his Re-
publican brother In New England
and the Northwest.
The Democratic leaders Of the
South have long realized that in Or
der to maintain their system of aris-
tocracy they had to keep the labor
ing man down and thus enable them
to live in idleness and OFF of the la
Dor of somebody else. 1t was neces-
sary to feed the people upon senti-
ment and prejudice.
I am sorry to say the Republicans
of tho South have not altogether
, been freed from the influence of
Southern aristccracy aristocracy.
, For the first time in the history of
Southern rolitics, the Republican
| Convention declared:
| I'VE believe in the dignity OF
, labor and the elevation of the wage
Garner, and pledge ourselves to the
: enactment of laws that will best pro-
2 mote this end.
/ No political party, Republican
r Democratic, Prohibitionist, Populist
, ever before had this idea embodied
I il its platform in a State south o.
: the Mason and Dixon line.
We propose to keep this war III
/, until the workingman is recognized
: and the farmer and all other classe.
q who by the sweat of their brow en-
e joy the fruit of the earth, are allow
j ed equal justice with others and thi
: old aristocracy is no more.
SAVED A SOLDIERS LIFE.