Year: 1876

Of public estimation ana worm "ole Jus'
in its conclusions than outspoken words.
FACTS FUR The wORKINGMKN


The workingman can find no greater
interest in politics than in that part which
most directly affects himself Ifhe casts
his vote in this State for the Republican
ticket, he casts it to continue the same
state Of affairs that has kept him in idleness
until he has been driven almost to the
.xtremes of desperation. If he votes the
Democratic ticket he votes tn change this
The workingmen of Wilmington have a
greater amount Of personal interest at stake
in this election than those Of any other
city Of the same size.


The idleness of our manufactures means
he idleness Of the majoaity Of the work
ngmen of Wilmington. We will show il
a very short space how the election Of
rilden will benefit, them. One Of the
eading members of the firm Of Harlan
Holliugsworth & Co. has stated that when
he South was prosperous that they fur
nished ships to the waters Of Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi,
Georgia and Florida.


Now. he sale, the Southern trade amounts
% practically nothing. But if we had it,
we could double the force of hands we
employ and wages would be higher. A
carriage maker Of Wilmington, one Of the
leaders here in that branch of industry,
remarked to representative Of this paper
hat the carriage trade Of the South to Viii.
mineton had fallen off more than fifty per
cent. ..1


Before the war hands in this branch of
trade were paid ten dollars per week. Now
the very best Of them do not receive more
than eleven and twelve dollars per week,
with work only one-half Of the time, and
unknown numbers of them are willing to
work for nine dollarspe week, not as much
as they got before the war. Are these not
starvation wages? And in TIMES when
provisions are double what they were when
he received the same amount Of wages be-
fore the war? The best coffee at that time
was only twelve cents a pound; pork was
six cents; and all other articles of consump'
ton were proportionately low compared
with what they are now.


The leading grocers Of Wilmington state
that if you take the prices ofprovisionsnow
and divide them by two, you have the
price of provisions before the war, wher
you were getting the same wages that you
do now, and, in some instances, more.
The Southern market was then supplied
with some Of its most valuable materials
Trains and steamboats, bore the results o
our industries into that country. In re-
turn money came to us. The working
man got his wages regularly. He went tt
n home made happy by peace and plenty
And no wonder when he goes to it now
and finds the Respondent wife and suffer
| ing children, that he wishes for the goot
old days when money and work wa
plenty and the hum of industry was heart
| in the land.


The way to get this again is to vote TO
that ticket which will secure the solit
South. The ticket that will unite tn


shattered forces of Southern industry, tina


will revive the confidence of the people il


those who are their leaders, revive hope


stimulate ambition and relight the fires G


encouragement that have been smothere'


in this war.bat'ered country by the op


pressions and taxations that its peopl


have been placed under.


| The ticket to do this is the Democrat


ticket. 1t promises these things in it


platform. If it is elected they will b


faithfully carried out. If it is defeated
four more years of what we have just pass


ed through must be endured, and the fat
oftbe wo kingman, in that time, must res
. entirely with charity, for our industrie


will be even deader than they are nov, ,an


there can lie no relief in delusive hop


for revival in trade.


Workipgmen, think Of this when 20
vote.


PRESIDENT GRANT gave good DEF
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