Show tcarlnir the Laborer The Tribune ia sad It is also a little perverse per-verse which is perhaps not altogether unusual un-usual The poor woruingmao is the object of its present solicitude and direful portents of the consequences to him of this political revolution are uttered to alarm and discompose him He is threatened with B reduction of his wages to onethird of the present rate the closing down of factories the shutting off of markets for agricultural products the influx of cheap goods with no money to buy them and a general time of trouble because the election elec-tion is declared to mean either lower wages or no wages at all Working people need be under no such apprehensions as our much disturbed neighbor desires to excite The assertion it makes that American wages are three times as much as English wages and five times as much as Belgium wages is one of those ridiculous exaggerations in which that paper not infrequently indulges And oven it its monstrous distortions were correct cor-rect there is no proposition to reduce American wages at all nor is there any intention in-tention to injure manufactures or force labor from one department upon another The whole attempted scare is but the hobgoblin hob-goblin of a fevered or softened brain Free raw materials are more likely to promote American manufactures than to retard them The cry of free trade after the election has not even tho merit of expediency No ono in the country is advocating it in the sense that the Tribune endeavors to convey It is vain for it to pretend that the tariff is to betaken be-taken away A reduction of high duties upon common necessaries is the announced policy of the party now coming into control con-trol and while this will undoubtedly In due time make the prices of commodities lower than at present there is no logical reason in it for any reduction of wages to say nothing of the absurd Tribune prediction predic-tion that wages will be cut down from t3 0 J i kl 1 t 1 to 1 a day or there will be no wages at allOur Our neighbor must be so worried over he surprise of the political avalauche that it has completely lost its balance And even if there were any reasons for Its terrible tale of woe to laboring men there certainly is no good in telling them tha this is all their own fault and that they have nobody but themselves to thank for it What laboring men need to do is to standby stand-by their position keep up their unity do a air days work for a fair days wages be just to capital as well as conservative to labor and by economy sobriety and perseverance per-severance lift themselves beypnd the condition con-dition of dependenco upon the money result power and there need be no fears 13 to the I |