Show c I PUBUG OPINION Baited by Sam A King OGDEN Oct 7th S94 I To the Eihtor thePuuuc OPINION The hard times have been caused I by congressional legislation enacted by a republican majority during the past thirdof a century The immigration laws which they passed have invited and admitted to our shores wither restriction millions of paupers from foreign lands under contracts underbidding under-bidding the labor of our American workmen thereby reducing their wagi to the limit of starvation and then protecting the manufacturers while thev turned the American laborers and their families into the streets and gave their employment to foreigners j the unconscionable and oppressive tariff laws which have prevented competition com-petition from foreign countries and enabled the mill owners of America to form trusts and then charge exhorbit ant prices on all of their manufactures have in many instances compelled the consumer to pay for his purchases 300 per cent more than they were actually worth or 4 for 1 worth of goods These unjust prices have averaged in excess of what the people ought to have been required to pay from 17 to S65 on 3 each 100 worth of merchandise purchased pur-chased The amount of money thus wrested from the people has been equivalent to 20 per capita per annum or 120 per annum for the average fam ly of six persons a tax of S20 each month the year round While this money has all been kept at home as republicans say it has not been honestly and equitably distributed tributed among the people it has been forcibly taken from the masses by republican re-publican legislation ard paid over to the few wealthy owners of mines and mills With a billion and a quarter dollars dol-lars per annum thus taken from the whole people and given to a few manufacturers man-ufacturers is it any surprise that the many who have bee so giving for more tnan thirty years are now poor and that the comparative taw who have received are now millionaires We have had a liberal supply of both gold and silver money in circulation but republican legislation has so long compelled the masses to surrender to the money kings one half of their hard earned wages that nearly all of the money is now in the hands of the fav ored few who also own and hold the mortgages on the homes and farms of the people and the bonds of their cities counties states and the republic Under such a system it would seem to matter but little how much money may be circulated as it is forced from the eraap of the laborers and quickly turned over to the millionaires But under the new democratic tariff which will save to the consumers and permit them to retain of their crops and products pro-ducts hundreds of millions of dollars annually a change will soon be nutic ible the financial depression will be of the past new business enterprises will be established old ones resumed farmers farm-ers and mechanics will be able not only to pay their interest but also to pay off their mortgages foreclosures will be fewer and the country will enter upon an era of permanent prosperity pros-perity Hail to the day and to the democratic party Yours Respectfully C C RICHARDS |