Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-17

M)ustty increases the cost OF artl-
cles Of necessity" aud in support of
our position present the facts that
the farmers crops and the laborer's
wages will buy more of the neces-
sites now than they could be ex-
changed for in the days of free
trade. We do not ask that the I'M
precedented growth and prosperity
Of the country during the quarter of
a century under republican control,
and a protective tariff, be credited to
those circumstances. But we pre-
sent the facts as the best evidence
in refutation Of the democratic
assertions that the republican ad-
ministration and the protective tariffs
have been or now are expressing
the people or retsrding the growth
and development Of the country.
Our neigbbor says: "With cheap
ened and improved machinery,
"and his products selling at better
"prices, of course the return which
" the farmer realizes from his efforts
els increased And the farm labor
d" er's work Is worth more when en-
gagged in operating machinery than
"when he had only simple tools to
"work with"
We dislike to further annoy our
friend with questions, but we really
should like to know; Why all the
blessings, and great prosperity of
the last rs years were withheld from
this country 30 long, to be found
out only while the rascally republi-
can party controlled the government
and the thieving tariff was doing Its
worst? Why did not some of these
Improvements and cheapness of
farm machinery; increase in value
OF farm products, and advance of
laborer's wages come while the
wise and benevolent democratic
party managed things and the adj
Nantages of free trade were being
enjoyed? Is it because the disGen-
ser of natural blessings is a re
publican protectionist and manipu.
lates things in the interest of his
party?
AS WILL be seen in our dispatches,
Hon Henry b. Payne has secured
the Democratic caucus nomination
and will be elected U. S. Senator
from Ohio to succeed Hon. Geo fl.
Pendleton.-Dcmocrot
This brief paragraph is all our
neighbor has to offer on the election
of a Democrat to the u. S. Senate
from the great State Of Ohio. Why?
Is it because the Senator elect punch
ed the free trade shriekers so vigor-
ously in a speech at q Democratic
banquet, in Cleveland, on Jan 9Th,
1883. On that occasion Mr.. Payne
said:
Gree trade has never been ac-
cepted by the government of any
civilized nation, and is improbable
and impossible, and those words,
For revenue only, unwisely inserted
in the platform of 1880, lost TO the
Democracy the presidency, and all
which that loss implied, and a like
fatality will assuredly follow q rope
tition Of the folly in any future cam
paign
Frequently we hear q Democratic
speaker timidly, in subdued voice,
as though fearing to compromise
himself, advocate a tariff for rev
enue with incidental protection.
Why such iudiscrotion and coward
ice, in view of the iuexhaustab.e and
Unreasonable recourses of our coun-
try in coal, iron, copper, wool, cot
ton and corn, abundant under the
fostering care Of the government TO
supply the wants Of not only a pres
emit population Of 5o,00O,ooo or 100.
100000 which many Of you may live
TO witness, bat Of the 100000 900 or
l,oo0,oo0,0o0, which, in the prob
able future, the national census will
euumerate, and of the populations
Of Mexico and the central aud south
ern republics, whose markets ought
long since II have been opened for
our manufactures It's difficult to
understand why cur statesmen
should Jet hesitate and vacillate in
the discharge Of their duty a ju
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