Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-08-16

@. What is the chief end of "ex-Con-
federate" control?
A. To keep the South solid, tear down
Northern industries-pauperize Northern
wage workers.
@. Who chiefly desire to destroy
Northern industries by turning them
over to British workshops?
A. The same who desired to destroy
the Nation and set up a Southern Con-
federacv.
Q. Who did the sex Confederate sol
diers" make their Speaker in Congress,
the more effectively to make war on
Northern industries?
A. A Southern free trader whose
seat was contested and fairly won by an
honest workingman.
Q. Who did the Southern free-trade
Speaker place in charge Of thirty-one
important Congressional committees out
of a total Of tifty-fOur, to make sure of
tex Confederate" control?
A. Thirty-ono Confederate" help
ers Of British workshops.
@. Who did the Southern free trade
Speaker make his chief instrument to
cripple Northern industries
4. An "ex-Confederate' free trader
from TeXas--ignorant and bitterly hos
tile concerning Northern interests
blind and selfish in his devotion to
Southern interests.
q. Who did the Democratic National
Convention select to build it's platform
of principles
8. An ex-Confederate" free trader;
the most radical of his kind
Q. Whence did this Confederate"
free trader obtain timber for the main
plank IN his platform?
A. From the constitution of the tex
Confederate" States in these words:
"Nor shall any-duties or taxes on impor-
tations from foreign Nations be laid to
promote or foster any branch of in
dustry."
@. Who was compelled to swallow
the platform Of the "eX-confederate"
free traders?
A. Grover Cleveland.
Q. What are the main principles Of
the Mills bill, prepared by the eek Con-
federate' free trader from Texas;
A. Protection 10 Southern interests
destruction to Northern.
g. What results are the tex Con
fedcrate' free traders working for?
A. To keep Southern iliIterate labor
itbdttl -NtN lftlf -NDilltIli t'lutultu Ia
Dor TO same level.
q. Who forced upon us the tariff of
'4G and fourteen years of "tartf reform
in the interesJsO OF British workshops and
slave labor?
A. The Confederate free traders,
and their slave-holding ancestors, aided
by Northern dough-faced Democrats.
@. How did it leave US?
III. N,ti,p.1 fTr,,ettrt, Iay, Iy,.,ty,t
National debt ncreasing-Go
shining for money at 10 per cent. phi
waite interest 10 to % per cent furnaces
closed - workingmen idle Industries
crippled-wages oue-haif TO one-third of
what they are to-day-plenty of British
goods--nothing to buy with!
Q. Who gave us present tariff system
and twenty-five years of protected in
dustries in the interests of Americans!
A. Northern Republicans, aided by
anu-English Democrats.
Q. Where are we now?
A. The richest nation on the globe
greatest manufaCturing-twerve hun
drcd and fifty millions IN savings banks
nineteen hundred millions IN other
ban ks-gOvernment interest 2 per
cent-priyate interest to 6 per cent
Treasury full-workshop busy-best
fed, best clothed, best educated best
housed people ever lived--all necessaries
never so cheGp-nobody complaining but
Eek Confederate free traders, English
importers and pro-British Democrats.
Fellow Workingmen--in days gone by
some of you faced the Rebel Yell"
then it was aimed at Northern soldiers;
once more it is heard; this time it is
against Northern industries and North
ern wage-workers. Shall it triumph in
'SS or 20 down as i'm IS?
In Glasgow, the families of 10000
workngmen live in one room each.
That's where the theories and efforts
of Southern free-traders and their Demo-
cratic allies, if successful, will land the
families of Northern wage-workcr5.