The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-09-12

, selves killed that question by theil
votes in the last congress. Let the Dem
ocrats have the length of the rope Oh
any vital question and they will hanf
themselves. / suppose that is one rea
son they want a Democratic sheriff fol
president.
But right here will give few rea
sons for protective tariff. First, 1t has
stood the test of time. Eighty hour
after Washington was inaugurated.
Madison arose i'm his seat in the House
and introduced the first protective
tariff bill. 1t was passed July 4th, 1889
the thirteenth anniversary of our indie.
pendence, and has been for nearly eigh.
ty years the policy of our government.
We have only had fourteen years OF
free trade-from 1916 to l86O-at the
end Of which period our treasury was
bankrupt, and our bonds drawing IL
per cent interest. So complete was the
failure of free trade that the Democrats
In 1860 passed the Morrill, tariff and
abandoned the experiment. 1t Is u
fact not generally Eis0cn that the first
Morrill, bill was passed by the House
in May, 1860, and was agreed to by the
Lincoln rds i,,auguruted. This is in
/
we are working to-day. This protec-
tive tariff has built up race of work
ingmen, the like of which there is not
in any nation on earth. In this coun-
try the wages of worklngmen are
double, and the workingmen them
selves are better educated than those
of any nation on earth, more intelli-
gent and self-respecting. And this is
as it ought to be. There ia no nation
on earth that the wives and daughters
| of the labOrer are as well housed and
clothed as in the United States. In
Europe workingmen's wives carry
hods, dig bitches, unload coal cars, and
60 barefooted. Why? Because the
wages of labor will not permit them to
do otherwise.
The Republican party believes it is
best for the nation that its joint pro-
prietors, the workingmen, should be
men self respecting and intelligent, even
If we do have to pay little more for
hats, shoes and coats. Free trade looks
solely ut one question-"How cheap
can you make goods?" Protection,
while not ignoring this question, looks
farther and asks, "How can We make
worthy and happy citizens?" "Is not a
man more than Sheep" asks Holy
Writ. "Is not man more than food
or clothes?" asks the Republican party.
Cheap goods and cheap men 60 hand
in hand. Fro trade gave us serfs; it
was the ideal doctrine of slavery. Ar
ticle LIST, sec. 8, of the constitution of
the c. S. A. reads: "Nor shall any du-
ties, or taxes, or imports from foreign
nations ever be laid to promote or fos-
ter any trade or industry" Tariff for
revenue only is the thin edge of the
wedge, the butt end of which is free
trade. Can you buy shoes or cloth any
cheaper this year than you could
last year? And if you cannot it is the
Democrats fault, they have had the
power. tell you it is all bosh. The
Democrats have no other hobby and
their leader, Randall, killed them ON
that. A few weeks ago Democratic
congressman who had just returned
home was asked by his twelve year old
son, Papa, what is tariff" The NJ.
c. looked at his offspring and said,
"My son, in the language of George
Washington, Il cannot tell a lie, / don't
know what it is" My Democratic
friends have your lamps trimmed and,
burning, be prepared for the "hand-
writing on the WALL" and it reads:
every man by the name of James
who was candidate for President of
the United States was elected" Stick
another pin right there.
We are on the eve of great cam
paign. Let us have plenty of songs
and newspapers for our musketry; dis
tribute them judiciously. We must be
aggressive; the dog that bites first is
seldom bitten. The Democrats have
thrownup their breastworks and mount
ed their two guns. Let us now advance
upon them-let us show up their his
tory. Let US preach to them the Cos
pei of James and John. The gospel of
James, Salvation by works." the gospel
of John, "Repent or be ID" Let us
enter the campaign with the battle cry
of freedom, the Plumed Knight and
the Black Eagle.
Mr.. Carney was loudly applauded,
and the audience INDUCED in many a
peal of laughter at his witty hits.
The Glee Club then rendered the re-
vised campaign song, "Dinna Hear the
Slogan" which was followed by STIR
ing of hand speech by Hon. Ira P.
Shissler, who prefaced his remarks
with a few words of exultation over the
Maine election. He said that it was
our purpose to ratify the nominees just
made for legislative and county posi-
tons. Everyone could readily do this,
and it is the duty of our people to place
them in Office in November. The
speaker wished it understood that
when he used the word Democrat, he
did not wish to be understood as con-
Meeting the Democrats of the North
with those of the South, for he believ-
ed that northern Democrats were
loyal to the country when their
Southern brethren aimed to severe the
Union, on the principle that these
United States is compact, and not
Union. He could not enter into a
minute account of Republican history,
put would review a few general points.
In 1861 Abraham Lincoln took the
country on his hands with bloody war
imminent, and when he looked about for
munitions to enter into the service, he
found them all stolen away, and upon
further examination he found that the
public monev was also gone. With
this state of affairs and this dearth of
weapons, he emancipated the slaves
and broke the back of secession. This
was the beginning of Republican rule,
and every citizen can point with pride
to the progress of the government
since. 1t has no parallel in the history
of nations. The Republican admins
tration, with its high tariff, has paid off
800, 100000 of the war debt in
the last year, and to-day the rest
is outstanding at the lowest rate
of interest ever secured by any
nation, while at the time the party
succeeded Democracy, this nations
bonds bore II per cent. interest, and
yet the Democrats are not satisfied.
Mr.. Shissler here referred to the Demo
cratic nominee, who is expected to
lead the party to victory in November,
and reviewed some of the principal
acts of his official career, showing that
these should discourage his election,
rather than enhance his popularity.
In reviewing the record of Mr.. Hend-
ricks, he stated the fact that that gen.
tleman had been instrumental in vot-
ing away more lands from Minnesota
than all the representative the State
had ever sent to the National legisla-
ture. The Democracy says, we should
have change because the party now
in power is robblng the country of
too much money. They say that our
representatives have stolen $63, 900 from
the navy department alone since the
Republican party got into power, OF