THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE ENEMY OF HONEST LABOR.
No, it did not. On the contrary, during that period every measure of the Democratic party was directly against the interests of laboring men. The homestead law was repeatedly defeated by Democratic Congressmen, and was never enacted until the Republicans came into power. Every attempt of the Democratic party to legislate on the subject of the tariff was made in the interest of foreign capital and low-priced labor, and against home enterprise and American workingmen. The Democratic party formed an alliance, offensive and defensive, with an aristocratic oligarchy which held to the monstrous doctrine that capital should own its own laborers—own and buy and sell them as cattle are owned, bought and sold. The stronghold of the Democratic party was and is to-day this community of great planters, and the favorite candidates of the Democratic party are men with “bar’ls”—monopolists and millionaires, who are expected to buy their way to place and power.