"A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. Contented labor is an element of national prosperity. Ability to work constitutes the capital and the wage of labor the income of a vast number of our population, and this interest should be jealously protected. Our workingmen are not asking unreasonable indulgence, but as intelligent and manly citizens they seek the same consideration which those demand who have other interests at stake. They should receive their full share of the care and attention of those who make and execute the laws, to the end that the wants and needs of the employers and the employed shall alike be subserved and the prosperity of the country, the common heritage of both, be advanced."
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Presidents of the United StatesLawyers from New York (state)People from NewarkPoliticians from New JerseyGovernors of New York
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Letter to the Democratic Convention (17 August 1884).
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Grover Cleveland
1837 – 1908
US-amerikanischer Politiker
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