Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-29

! ed the ports OF China to open 70 the
/ opium trade of India. She CONTROLS the
trade and compels the Chinese to-day by
virtue of her power to maintain that
odius commerce.
Does Mr.. Cleveland take the American
people for idiotsr They look around
and sec a country
PROSPEROUS FROM END TO END,
here and there, indeed, marred by few
conflicts between capital and labor, not
! the result of protection, not the result of
misgovernment, but simply the desire on
one side perhaps of too much gain, and
on the other perhaps occasionally a hasti-
ness to misjudge men who are large EN-
| ployers. But those questions can be
! disposed of by the exercise of the ballot
and without sweeping revenue reduc-
| tions, and the precursors of free trade.
Applause
LOGICAL ARC UMENT
of the free trader? What says that sweet
singer of Ohio, the Honorable Frank
Hurd? He says our wages are so high
that they tempt European laborers to
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com petition in the American market.
! That certainly is an extraordinary state
m.nt. Mr.. Hurd wants us to lower the
wages of the American workmen so that
/ the English artisan shall stay at home,
and on cheaper wages compete, with the
/ doors flung open by low tariff, with the
American lsborer reduced to 80 cents
| limit on his own soil. That is the prop
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/ every free trader. That is the prospect
/ low wages-held forth by our democratic
| friends to tempt the American laborer
from prosperity to indulgence.
He is told about his pair of blankets.
| In Gods name how many pairs of blan-
| kets does man wear out in a lifetime
/ Perhaps the average democratic free
/ trader may have nightmare and kick
his blanket all to pieces. Applause and
! laughter. But the we'll conducted Amer
lean nottingham does not have the
nightmare, and he doesn't kick more than
is necessary to keep himself warm and
| healthy. Laughter.
Afraid Of tempting the European la
! borers to our shores! Here we are with
An AREA.
nearly as larre as all OF Europe. Here
we are with thirty eight states and eight
or nine territories. Here we are with
Orly sixty millions of people on this vas
area, and yet they tell Us we are over
crowded! How then about their model
| Great Britain with about twenty sil
millions of English men, women anC
| children, cooped up in a narrow arey
leaving out Wales and Scotland-ot
| fifty-one thousand square miles; not a,
large as the state of illinois, and accord
ing to the free traders, England is no
over. CT DIVIDED but we are here with on
sixty millions and our illimitable terri
tory, and we are over-crowded! We ar,
afraid indeed to pay large wages for fea
that some less fortunate friends ma,
come from Europe and assist in BUILDING
up this magnificent nation of ours. Ii
former times, the democratic party Otter
dwelt on the evils of knownothingism
if we are to judge from their argument
to-day, we should say the democratic
party is now the knownothing party o
America. [Applause.
My friend, Mr.. Fairchild, in runnin,
over the free list of productions, passe'
by an interesting item. l shall read it
particularly for the benefit of the ladies
HUMAN HAIR.
laughter 1t is here in black and whit
listen to the rest, "raw, uncleaned an,
not drawn" is to be placed upon the fire.
list. Cheers and laughter. Now,
don't know where that hair comes from
but this much | am certain of, that no re
spectacle American lady would wear an
hair that comes to this country raw an,
uncleaned. 1t must be intended 20 max
wigs for gentlemen in the state depart
ment at Washington. 1t must be intend
ed, perhaps, to adorn the bare space tina
time and perhaps the vengeance of provi
denoe have left on the Uranium of our be
loved chief magistrate. Cheers an
laughter 1t may be intended for any @
these things, but to place this thing be
fore the American people as blessing
why, gentlemen, the attention of tn
National Health association should b
called TO it. The importation OF choler
rags, the importation IF smallpox rag
all these things fade into utter signif
canoe before the audacIous proposition o
Mr.. Mills, of Texas, to send raw and NJ
cleaned hair into America, free. And
for one protest against it. Cheers an
laughter. Bot this is not the only absur
thing proposed.
WOOL.
hes been alluded to, most useful thin
indeed; and the ladies have taken han
in wool. l was reading the Woman
, Magazine, published down east, toda
and had read my friend Mr.. Medil
, paper some days before. Mr. Medi
proved, or sought to prove, by column
Of statistics, and has been trying {
prove during the last few months, tbs
the sheep Of America have decreased
, Plumbers since the establishment of th
protective tariff as IL exists. The fac
shown by The Woman's Magazine
and | certainly would no5 be III
gallant enough to CONTRADICT it, nor
hope would Mr.. Medill-proye that zinc
the reduction of the tariff on wool
1883 the number of sheep in AmeriC
. has declined about four millions. The
may air as they please their columns {
statistics, buJ a short pregnant facs lib
r that Is worth a great deal more, becaus
statistics can be made to lie just as a
counts can be doctored. You can pic
: out statistics here and there to suit yor