St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 24, 1886

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OME! y, Hats and Furnishings are rapidly disappearing 7 are worth. We're taking grices for what remains of s, Trousers and Norfo}; sands of them this Season, we have must go, and o make them go fast We fast. Those who Want 4, $3.50, $8 and $2.50, now $5.50, $5, $4 and $3.50, now ere $4 and $5, now $2.50, ¢3 inclusive) that were $3.50 and re Suits for every day wear, at ‘Suits for Extra Fat Men at cut Jackets at cut prices, ummer and Medium-weight pre $7.50, now $6.00, bre $5.00, now $4.00, $2.50, $8.00 and $3.50, ces, in Mohair, Pin-Check meres. wo-thirds former prices. xerchiefs in St. Louis, and place to prepare boys for Cassimere and Worsted & CO. AND BOYS, Pime Street, TT ro ROBERTS RETURNED. thario Punished—Shot in Jail—A Snooze—Missouri Matters. City, August 23.—Samuel B. Rob- bd by the Pacific Mutual Telegraph th embezzlement, was brought in Ville last night in custody. Koberts Since sent his wife and child away ta hotel witha young woman who led him to Leadville. The Sheriff arrested two men charged with with the Missouri Pacific locomo- ypress Yards during the strike. bf the laborers on the Chicago, Mil- St. Paul Extension at Excelsior ve struck for higher wages. August 23.—Samuel F. Thomas, a han, administered asevere beating to Singleton, a neighboring farmer, bd, whom he discovered in the act atly accosting his wife. TA. August 23.—Deputy shot and killed Robt. Davenport in ight. Davenport had been arrested ag @ disturbance and attempted to Marshal A, August 23.--lingh Brown, a n,on his return from an entertain- wn fell asieep on the railroad track an over and killed by a freight train. CK, August 23.—Rev. Louis Myson- @ revivalist, spoks vesterday atthe Park camp grounds. —_—_—— — a ee pbu'—sdttried «a loaf of Vienna Model ) milk bread? f _—— —— HOTEL PERSONALS, | per, Chicago; J.W. Morgan, Kansas Evans, Parsons, Kas.; Dan Mor- is, ‘lex., are at Hurst’s. iley, Wheeling, Mo.: Wm. Kagney, ty; H. M. Siater, Ft. Scott, Kan., jaton, Eureka, Ark., are at the St. elch, Hackett Citv, Ark.; J. W. sas City; M. G. Reynolds, Louisi- yoif, Fort Smith, Ark., are at Hotel Napoleon, Mo.; J. W. Sanders, b.; J. W. Grigg, Belton, Mo.; J. P. evada; M. J. Randall, Ft. Wayne, clede. Waiters, New York; J.C. Salmon, ; L. Salier, Philadelphia; W. L. by. N. Y.;L. E. lianson, Pittsburg, Southern. nston, Washington: I. New, New N. Gilbert, Clarksville, Mo.; Gus ladelphia; M. H. Beatty, Jefferson the Lindell. ; ley, Columbus, Mo.; A. H. Brown, an, D.C.: Edw. Goldsmith, Mem- Snow, New York; I. W. Thomp- , Tex., are at the Pianters’. Mleming and wife, A. F. Ackerly, Mo.;L. D. Cantrill, A Davis, Jerseyville, Ull.; J. R. Gib- ife, Missouri; J. Q >. Webb, Kirksville, Mo., and J. fe, Galveston, are at Hotel Hunt. ————— orsford’s Acid Phosphate. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. . and counterfeits have again ap- Be sure that the word ‘‘Hors- onthe wrapper. None are genuine Crushed by a Car. the 6-year-old daughter of Mr. Tru- t, while playing fm front of Mr, st’s residence ,4570 Easton avenue, as knocked down by ateam of shed to car 145 of the Citizen’s line, heels of the car passed over her lived only a few minutes after from under the wheels. John 7. the driver, was arrested to awalt of the Coroner’s inquest. -_—_—- _-—— 36 weeks five of them Wwe st Novelties and N vines ‘ST. JAMES MILITARY ACADEMY, - All ou Bumed b : Sea 2” 7 Re 2 THE POST-DISPATCH Reach 150,000 Readers. Osi Pe 1spatcly, 2 Pasr-aspaeH ) : TO-DAY! —_—”- a Et ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1886. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. VOL. 37—NO. 46. - ~~ BY CARRIERS, FIFTEENCENTS A WEEK. ROYAL GASOLINE STOVES, WITH CHARTER OAK WIRE CAUZE OVENS, Make Summer Cooking a Pleasure. They are the BESTin EVERY RESPECT. SOLD BY THE FOLLOWING DEALERS. CALL AND EXAMINE THEM: Wm. Milfeil, 1940 North Broadway. Reardon Bros., 1240 North Broadway. F. Schiereck, 819 North Sixth st. Pp. Stone 2082 Franklin av. Hawtin §20 N. Seventh st, . a bee Frankli ley House Fur. U0., n av. wales & Stevenson, 805 N. Fourth st. E. Marschnetz & Son, 816 0’Fallon st. (. Wuerz, 1916 South Broadway. A. D. Mattfeldt, 406 South Second st. Edw. Grevels, 1033 N. Broadway. Georgen Bros., 1218 N. High st. John Schmidt, 2249 Benton st. J. C. Steinwand, 313 S. Broadway. Jacob Glaeser, 3OL8 Gravois ay. Chas. M. Suda, 1919 State st. G. Zuber, 2606 S. Seventh st. J. G. Bluthardt, 202 N. Twelfth st. S. Meyers, 621 Market st. finother Terrible Blockade At Northwest Corner Fourteenth and Clark Avenue. antities on account of the granite paving, so much so that we must Goods are accumulating in endlest Jose of them REGARDLESS OF COST. © Farner Stove, Furniture & Carpet Co.'s Great Street-Obstruction Sale on Credit. MEST LLL, _ - al ee — Ss - ——— | ANOTHER REDUCTION ON Gasoline Stoves and Ovens We will sell for a short time only, Gasoline Stoves and Uvens at the followin * vtptaae ALL STOVES AND OVENS GUARANTEED: 1-Burner Low Stove........: 2-Burner Low Stove.......... 4.75 é-Burner Low Stove........: vty \\e 2-Burner High Stove........ a \Sin te) | eae o-Burner High Stove........ 10.00 era : is 1-Burner Lined Tin Oven.... 2-Burner Lined Tin Oven.... $2.50 7.25 8.75 1.25 2.50 WESTERN STOVE MFG. CO., 1118 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. ee eee Thed MWard Furniture, Stove and Carpet Co 1115 Franklin Avenus. ittt, tttS and Furniture, Carpets, Stoves end Household Goods of Every Description, BABY CARRIAGES, GASOLINE STOVES and ICE-BOXES, Sold on Easy WEEKLY or MONTHLY Payments at Lowest Cash Prices. SPECIAL RATES for parties going to housekeeping. Open every evening until 9 o’clock. —— s DON’T BE DECEIVED into buying poor soap be- cause it SEEMS cheap. The real test of value is what it will accomplish in actual use, and thousands of our customers will testify that FIVE cents’ worth of TIN TAG LAUNDRY SOAP will do more washing than TEN cents of any other Laundry Soap. EMPIRE SOAP CoO., and be convinced. Try it® 102, 104, 106, 108, 110 S. Commercial street, St. Louis, Mo, Alexander's Drug Ste N. W. Corner Broadway (Fifth) and Olive Sts. ALFEXANDER’S Medicat Preparations are unrivaled. ALEXANDER’S BEEF, IRON, WINE and PEPSIN,a Nutritive Tonic. Valuable in cases of Dyspepsia, Nervous Depression and Loss of Appetite. ALEXANDER’S COUGH MIXTURE, successfal for 26 years. ALEXANDER’S BALSAMIC CREAN, an elegant prep. aration for the face and hands, making them smooth and soft. ALEXANDER’S CORN REMOVER does remove Corns. PERFUMERY and FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. Prescriptions accurately prepared by competent apothecaries, under the super- vision of M. W.@Alexander, graduate of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. SCHOOLS. Colle of the Christian Brothers ST. LOUIS, MO. For a Classical, Scientific or Business Education. Studies Re- sumed Monday, Sept. 6, 1886. BROTHER VIRGIL, F. S. C., PRESIDENT. ST. LOUIS COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, 3008 OLIVE ~TREET. Opens September 15. MISS M. PROVINES, Principal. ST. LOUIS LAW SCHOOL LAW DEPARTMENT OF WASHINCTON UNIVERSITY law hore Annual Berston at Cite well-known ‘School will commence at Four o'clock, p. m., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER i3th, 1686" asses Morday, Framination for Senior or Advanced - For cotnlorees or information, A Onvd ee __ MILE AM OC. 4H ND, LL 6S8, ‘ ___. Dean of Seaton Tay Lucas Place. Sr Lown tid MACON, MO. Boarding School for Boys. Terms moderate. Dis- cipline superior. Location healthful. Careful per- 6onal supervision. Apply early to secure place. Num- ers limited. A few vacancies left. Kefers to J. W. ranch, RK. Billingsley, Mrs. Wm. J. Lewis, Chas. folgman, M.R. Udell and others. For eatalogue address REV. ETHELBERT TALBOT, 4. os ector. ‘T. LOUIS SEMINARY-—A Private Select School of High Grade for a limited number of gouns — Located at Woodland in yiew of St. Louis. he entire appointments of the place render it an ELEGANT HOME. Organized 1871. For years all the a have been taken early. Course of Instruction 8 very thorough. Music: Vecal and Instrumental. sanguaxes: Ancientand Modern. Art: Painting and rawing. Board of Instruction: Seven, all highly qualifie for their respective departments. ‘To secure room application must be made early. For Catalogues @ddress the Princ| al B.'T, BLEWETT, LL. D., Jennings, Mo. PEN NSYLVA N lA te al | 4 ) ACADEMY. Chester—25th year opens September 15. Costly IV at Thorough Instruction. Civil Engin nat aa 2 a yt En eerin “Aa- lish. COL. THEO. HYATY, President. nore TS eee: —— + ee ES = ae SUMMER RESORTS. ~ WE J pd guests the 15th provements, Apply for circulars, with prices, to Da- WEST END HOTEL, LONG BRANCH. Cottages and Restaurant will open June 10, the Hotel June 19, , D. M. &W. E. HILDRETH vopelsters. lew? ork Office, 52 Broadway, New . ~ ¥ 1 s* - * “4 : * > 1.7 Piseare : ot ‘ — sO A ie + Ss > \ y' . s\ » ey we Vi) " =, 7 « sa ‘ Nw i kta S. ‘s\ alte: ~ WY, lit ‘‘Itwas sometime during last January,’’ said Mr. Barney Pliemann, of 309 South Fourth street, ‘‘that I was obliged to quit working for the Cotton Compress Company on account of sickness. Ihad been ailing then for over two years. At that time I could hardly speak. I was sore in the breast. I had a dull feeling in the back part of my head. There was always a bad taste in my mouth, and I could not eat without throwing up aftermy meal. I could hardly sleep at all at night. I felt weak, nervous and down-hearted. I was always spitting and my nose was stopped up con- stantly. Ifelt especially weak IN THE MORNING and my hearing was bad. ‘*Suffering from all these symptoms I went to Dr. McCoy’s office. Iwas told thatI had ecatarrh of the throat and stomach, and that it might take three orfour months to cure me. Inave been under his treatment regularly since the 16th of June. My strength and ap- etite and met have returnedto me. There A no trace left of any of my disagreeable symptoms, andl am as well to-day aslever was.’’ —_ DOCTOR J, GRESAP NicCOY, Late of Bellevue Hospital, New York, HAS OFFICES AT 1516 LUCAS PLACE, ST. LOUIS. j Treats with equal success all curable cases, curing deformities generally considered incurable. Medical diseases treated successfully. Consumption Bright's Disease, | Rheumatism and ali NERVOUS DISEASK diseases peculiar to the sexes a speciality, CATAR CURED. Consultation at office or by mall, $1.00. OURS: 8:30 to lla.m.; ltoép.m.; IE firm of Mulford & Cheever is @iasohved from Dt liabilities will be as- ce receives mpt attention. uniess accompanied by four ’ Pure Food for the Children Impure food that may not seriously affect the stronger digestive organs of an adult will frequently cause the most serious illness in a child. Too frequently this important fact is overlooked, and children are made sick from eating articles that have been taken by adults without apparent injury. A child’s food is largely cakes and bread, and these arti- cles when light, sweet, and composed of materials free from deleterious substances are easily digested, nutritious, and wholesome. But there is a danger to our children lurking in their bread and cake apt to be lost sight of. When these articles are made from pure and wholesome baking powder, they are much more healthful and nutritious than when pre- pared from yeast or other leavening agent. But the danger arises from the fact—as shown by the tests made by the Government chemists, and by many State and Municipal Boards of Health—that most of these baking powders are so impure as to render the food unwholesome. In fact, chem- ical analyses have developed the fact that all the baking powders now upon the market, with the single exception of the Royal Baking Powder, contain either lime, alum, phos- phates, or acids of an injurious character. Therefore, when bread or cake is made with the use of these adulterated baking powders, the ingredients pass into the delicate organs of childhood, and are the source of very much of the disease with which our children are afflicted. . Persons who have not strong constitutions, growing girls, young children, and many ladies, are particularly liable to the evil effects produced by the adulterants found in these cheap baking powders. Heartburn and the prevalent forms of indigestion are often solely traceable to their action on the delicate coats of the stomach. Prof. Willard Parker, U. 8S. Surgeon-General Hammond, Prof. Alonzo Clark, and other eminent physicians all over the country, have spoken most earnestly of the evils arising from such food. The absolute purity and wholesomeness of the Royal Baking Powder are unquestioned. The official reports of the U. S. Government Chemists have put this fact beyond all controversy. Prof. Mott reported that the Royal was un- doubtedly the purest and most reliable baking powder made. Prof. Love’s report showed it to be of the highest strength, while Prof. McMurtrie, Chemist-in-Chief of the U. S. Agri- cultural Department, at Washington, D. C., found the Royal the only baking powder in the country free from both lime and alum, and absolutely pure. There should be as much care in the choice of a baking powder as in obtaining pure milk, or in having a prescription compounded from pure drugs and not from poisons. Pure bread and cake are assured only by the use of the Royal Baking Powder. Upholstery Department NEW IMPORTATIONS. Turcoman, Chenille and Silk Curtains, Silk and Mohair Plushes, Spun Silks, Petit Points and Ramies, Billiard Cloths in Standard Qualities. ‘ ‘ i | | S ty Tyee - ‘ ti ee 9 » " Lt . f e al ‘ q ‘ b t - - 2 < » + a % . . % “ ‘ yee * P, ‘ Fy “ : , - oh : ~ J p fa bis 7, eo a * » " 5 a Se i Ae ij be 3 % a 3 | LATEST EDITION BLAINE'S BUGLE. The Plumed Knight Sounds:the Blast for Battle. The Banner of the Republican Hosts Flung to the Breeze. Maine’s Wily Leader Declares the Issues of the Coming Campaign. Utterances Which Will Be the Political Yells of His Followers. James G. Blaine’s Opening Speech of the Campaign at Sebago Lake This After- Prohibition—Advo- cates Protection—The Labor Question— noon—He Indorses The Canadian Fisheries and the Mexican Imbroglios—First Gun of the Canvass Fired in Maine—A Which Will Serve as the Oriflamme of the Radicals. Partisan Speech SEBAGO LAKE, Me., August 24.—A Republi- can mass-meeting is now Being held here, and the first great gun of the campaign has been fired by the Hon. James G. Blaine, who ad- dressed the gathering on the political issues of the day. Mr. Blaine arrived here from Bar Harbor this morning. The regular campaign was opened yesterday and this is Mr. Blaine’s opening speech. He is expected to thoroughly stump the State and will speak twice more this week. There was a large audience to greet the distinguished Statesman. Mr. Blaine, who was received with great enthusiasm, spoke as follows: FELLOW-CITIZENS: A new Administration of the National Government is usually unvexed in its first year except by the importunities and the disappointments of its own support- ers. The people at large give small heed for the time to public affairs and the discussion of political issues is leit as a somewhat perfunc- tory task to opposing partisans in Congress. This season of apparent indifference is caused in part by the natural ebb of the tide which flowed so high in the preceding national elec- tionand in part also by the American in- stinct of fair’ play, which demands that the party freshly installed may have free oppor- tunity and full time to lay out its ground and mature its measures. This period of popular inaction is thus not only advantageous for rest, but it prepares those who are the uiti- mute -arbiters in all matters of public coneern to give patient hearing to fair argument when the time arrives for popular discussion. The Tariff Policy. Itis inthe first place especially worthy of observation, thatin the history of industrial questions no party in time of peace has ever been more united in support of a policy than is the Republican in support of a protective tariff to-day. Atthe late session of Congress a measure known as the Morrison tariff bill, designed to first weaken and ultimately de- stroy the protective policy, was resisted by so yact an organization of the Republican nembers that asingle vote from New York and two or three votes from Minnesota were all that broke the absolute unanimity of the party. And this was rendered still more striking by the fact that the organs of Repub- lican opinion in New York and Minnesota deciare that these exceptional votes were adverse to the wishes of a large majority of those who elected the dissenting members. On the other hand, the vast majority of the Democratic members supported the free trade side of the question; but a small minority, uniting with the Republicans, found themselves able to defeat the measure. There- upon the Democratic papers quite generally throughout the country denounced the recu- sants as unfaithful to the creed of their party, and the journal in New York which is said to reflect the views of the National Administra- tion gave formal notice to all Democrats, North and South, who lean towards the policy of protection, that they must revise their opinions or leave the party, because with their views they can find no sympathy in Democratic se and no standing room on ocratic platforms. These leading facts indicate that the policy of protection versus free trade is an issue shaped and determined no longer by sectional preterence—but has become general and Na- tional—affording a distinct, well-marked line of division between the Republican and Demo- cratic parties. Idonot recall these facts as preparatory to an analytic discussion of the protective system, but with the view of ap- plying them to eertain current movements 1d ct nt events. “Tne hostility of the Democratic party to protection has entailed upon the country a vast loss and has in many ways obstructed the progress and development of certain sec- tions. Since the financial panic of 1873 and the contemporaneous solidification of the South- ern vote, the Democratic party has, withthe exception of asingle Congress, held control of the House of Representatives. The power to originate revenue bills has been exclusively in their hands and they have used it to the confusion, the detriment, in many instances to the destruction, of new enterprises throughout the Union. Confi- dence once shaken is hard to restore, and the schemes of improvement which have been abandoned within the past ten years on ac- count of the uncertainty of our revenue laws, constantly menaced by the Democratic party in Congress, would have caused procpeey and happiness in many communities whic have felt the discouraging influence of dull orate THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY is constantly using the comparative dullness in business, which their own course in Con- gress for twelve years has largely developed, as an argument against the policy of pro- tection. But it is worth while to compare the condition of the country in this year of grace with its condition the year before the Repub- licans succeeded in enacting their first pro- tective tariff. In the nine States which still do the larger amount of manufacturin for the country, and which did it nearly all rter of a century ago, _ it is Tisoreatiog and instructive to com- pare their financial conditions at the n- { 1861 and at the beginning of 1566. e States referred to are the six of New England, with New York, New Jersey ard Pennsylvania. In 1861the country presented ai condition brought about by nearly an entire generation offree trade, and the aggregate amount whichthe people had accumulated in their savings banks during that long period was less than $160,000,000. In the same States on the first day of January, 1836, the aggregate amount in the savings bank was over $1,020,- 900,000. The difference inthe amount of savings in Maine for the two — =o anu . peo ess than ot ion and a half in bank, while in Janu- ary, 1886, the people had over thirty-six mil- lions in bank. During this period it must be remembered the increase of in the increase of deposits in savi banks has been at the rate of 800 per cont. It must be remembered that 75 per cent of this vast sum belongs to the wage workers. The vast number of depositors may be infer- red from the fact that in Maine, where the ag- gregate population is less than seven bundred thousand, the $36,000,000 of deposits are divided between 110,000 persons, showing that about } One in six of the total population is a deposi- tor, and that the average to each is about $320. The figures with which we are dealing have been confined to the nine States named, be- cause in 1861 the manufacturing done in this country was mainly confined to those States. But the thousand millions of savings by the workers within their borders become still more significant, as an economic fact, when we remember that since 1861 the great body of Northwestern States under the inspiring influence of a protective tariff have in turn developed an enormous aggregation of manufacturing industries. Ohioe In- diana, Michigan, lilinois, Wisconsin, are no longer devoted to agriculture solely, but have a mass of manufacturing industries larger in aggregate value than all the manu- factures in all the States of the Union on the day Mr. Lincoln was first inaugurated. AND YET ANOTHER COMPARISON may be made still more embarrassing tothe free-trade doctrinaires and more difficult for them toanswer. Whilethe American work- meén in nine States, working under a protec- tive tariff, have over a thousand millions of dollars in savings banks, the vastly greater mass of working men in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales—the whole United King- dom—all working under free trade, have less $400.000,000 in the aggregate both in savings banks and postal banks. These figures and these dollars are the most persuasive of argu- nents, and the conclusion they teach ig so plain that the running man may read. The Labor Question. The leading feature in the industrial field of 1885 and 1886 is the discontent among the men who earn their bread by skilled and unskilied labor. Uneasiness and uncertainty are found on all sides; there are wise aims among many and with not afewthere is aimlessness with its inevitable result of disappointment and discouragement. The man who could by any prescription remove this discontent and at once restore harmony and happi- ness would be philosopher, patriot and statesman. The man who professes to be able to do it will generally prove to be a compound of empiricism and ignorance. Butin the end, perhaps by toilsome paths, with many bilun- ders and some wrongs, no one need to doubt that sound and just and righteous conclusions will be reached. Perfect freedom to test the virtues and secure the advantage of or- ganization, to exert strong power through combination are certainly among the common rights of ail men under a republican government. Labor associa- tions have the same sanction and the same rights that any form of incorporation may assume—subject, as all must be, to the con- dition that the persons and property of others Shall be respected. It is well for every citizen of a free government to keep before his eyes and in his thoughts the honored maxim that ‘the liberty of one man must always end where the rights of another man begin.’’ I HAVE NO NEW NOSTRUMS to offer for the cure of the labor troubles. I have no quack remedies to propose. Lama firm believer in the efficacy of the protective tariff, and Ican look back with serene satis- faction to my record in Congress as never blotted by a single vote that was not friendly to the interests of American labor. I never promised anything when I was a candidate for a public office, and nowas a private citizen I have no temptation to flatter any man or state anything else thanthe simple truth as I see the truth. Itis in this spirit that I offer some suggestions which seem to me worthy of atten- tion under the existing situation of the lapor question. IN WHAT MAY BE TERMED the political creed of the various labor organ- izations I have observed some singular omis- sions of pertinent and, I think, controlling facts—facts which in a spirit of friendship and candor I beg to point out. I read, a few days since, in a creed put forth by an association of Knights of Labor, in another State, a recital of eighteen distinct ends which they desired to have secured or maintained by National legislation. Among these there was not the slightest mention ot a protective tariff. That might have been accidental; or it might have implied a periect sense of safety in regard to the continuance of the tariff; or it might have meant that those who proclaimed the creed are indifferent to the tate of protection. IN ANY EVENT it would be well for the labor organizations to diligently inquire and ascertain how the wages of labor in the United States can be kept above the rate of wages in England, Germany and France on the same articles of manutfac- ture without the intervention of protective duties? With the present cheap modes of interchange and transportation of all com- modities, I inquire of these gentlemen how, under the rule of free trade, can wages in the United States be kept above the general standard of ee tee wages? I do not stop for the detail of argument, I only desire to lodge the question in the minds of the millions of American laborers who have it in their power to maintain protection or to in- augurate free trade; who have it in their pow- er to uphold the party of protection or the party offree trade. ANOTHER PORTENTOUS FACT has been omitted—so faras I have observed— from the consideration and judgment of the labor organizations. They seem to have taken little or no heed of the existence of more than a million and a half of able-bodied labor- ers in the South with dark skins, but with expanding intellect, increas- ing intelligence and growing ambition. While these men were slaves, working in the corn and cotton fields, in the rice swamps and on the sugar plantations of the South, the skilled laborof the Northern States felt no competition from them. But since they be- came freemen there has been a great change in the variety and skill of the labor performed by colored meninthe South. The great mass are, of course, asatill engaged in agricultural work, but thousands and tens of thousands, and in fact hundreds of thousands, have en- tered and are entering the mechanical and semi-mechanical field. They are making igand barironin Tennessee and Alabama. They are manufacturing cotton in Georgia and the Carolinas. They are bricklayers and pias- terers everywhere; they are carpenters and painters; they are blacksmiths; they make wagons ana carts; they make cigars; they tan leather and make harness; they are fire- men and pilots on river boats; they calk vessels in Southern ports; they lay rail- road tracks; they are switchmen and section men on.the line and firemen on locomotives. In fact, they are generally en- tering all the ayenues and channels of skilled labor. Of course they are underpaid. They receive far less than has been paid in years past to Northern mechanics for similar work. Chey are able to take no part in making laws for their own protection, and they are conse- uently and inevitably unable to maintain a air standard of wages or to receive a fair pro- portion of their proper earnings. I DO NOT DWELL on this subject at length, though it could easily be presented in aggravating detail. I mention it only to place it before the labor organizations of the North, with this question addressed to them: Do you suppose that you can permanentiy maintain in the Northern States one scale of prices, when just beyond an imaginary line on the South of usa far dif- ferent scale of prices is paid for labor? The colored mechanic of the South is not so skillful a workman nor so intelili- gent a man as you are, but if he will lay brick in a new cotton factory In South Car- olina at half the price you are paid, if he will aint and plaster it at the saine low rate, he is nevitably erecting an industry which, if the same rate of wages be maintained throughout, will drive = out of business or lead you to the gates of his own poverty. THE SITUATION is, therefore, plainly discernible and demon- strable, viz.: First—If the Democratic y shall succeed, as they have been annually at- tempting for twelve years past, in destroy- ing the protective tariff, the artisans of the United States will be thrown into direct competition with the highly skiiled apd miserably paid labor of Europe. Second —If the Democratic party shall be abie to hold control of the National vernment, the col- ored laborer in the Southern States will re- main where the Southern Democrats have placed him politically, subject to the will of the white man, and unable to fix the price or command the value of his labor. The colored man, wlll therefore, under those conditions and influences, remain a constant quantity in the labor market, receiving uate com- nsation for his own toll, and ily - of white , it pensation labor ng down the com not to his own levei yet far below its adequate standard AT EVERY be in the TURN, bre ay Mee ene ae NO age tea —— a oe wl ae a a erm ~ 2 eee!