The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-11-19
BILLS PLATFORM.


Bill King talks plainly after election.
faFools and children tell the truth, .
and the childlike and bland William
says what Ramsey and Window and
Dunnell all believe and think, but arc
too cunning to talk out in meeting.
In his speech the other day in Mime.
apolis, in answer to serenade, Bill
thus announced his platform:
81 believe in good wages for workingmen
l believe in promoting the great labor in
terests Of society, even if necessary through
lean industries. believe that this govern
ment may properly, and should lend its aid
and encouragement to revive our national
| industries and all classes of Improvements
which are so closely related to our welfare. u
lApplause.l
The profound craftsmanship of these
noble utterances is apparent at once.
l. 81 believe in good wages for work
ingmen." Yes, at the erpense Of Other
workingnseaa. There wasn't a bugler or
trombone player in that crowd but was
taxed in the price of his instrument to
"encourage'' the manufacturers and
miners of the East; the very ''toots'
with which they proclaimed Bills glo.
ries were all taxed; the patches on
their clothes were taxed; the tailors
that put them on were taxed; the
boots on their feet and the shoemakers
that made them were likewise taxed !;
yea, the very razors with which they
trimmed their corns-aggravated by
standing in the cold while they played
'"Hail Columbia, happy land!'' under
Bills window--were all taxed.
2. ga tariff protecting all American
industries Lord, Lord, that such
worms should live in the minds of men
and those men be elevated to high
Offices Bill evidently thinks that when
the farmer sells his wheat at the worlds
price and buys all he needs at two
prices, that he is protected" to
the amount that be is robbed of.
That is probably the way Bill
intends to protect the general govern
ment. How in the name of thunder,
William, can you protect any part of
American industry except at the ex-
pense of American industry? If you
increase the price of domestic manu-
features, land that is what protection"
and encouragement mean, and no.
thing else,) who pays that increased
price, the American who buys the
goods or the Englishman who don't
buy thema And how will you increase
the prosperity of the whole population
by taking the money of one half and
giving it 70 the other half! We can
see that the men who get are richer,
and the men who give are poorer, but
the sum total of the wealth of the COM
it seems to US, remains the
same. Why, William, you might as
we'll say that the highwayman enriches
the traveller he robs, and protects and
him with his little pistol.
And Minnesota, nay, not Minnesota,
,ut the newly settled. grasshopper-
,aten, heaven-forsaken frontier coun- |
les of the Northwest, send you to
congress to proclaim that doctrine!
And that, too, when even Massachu-
etts, the brains efthe Protection party,
lies to the arms Of the Democracy for
afety from her starving workingmen,
'rought down to wretchedness by the
Iigh Tariff. And when all intelligent
nen weary Of the arch.humbug. Bill
ling IN cunts stump, in the heart Of
he continent, and blows his penny
thistle in IT'S favor. -. ,ss .r... ~
And what has Minnesota done that /
he should be held responsible by man.
lind for such performances as this =! I