Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-29

When industry IS very pr 0ductive wage
will be high. For instance. in Montana
mining region. .one man put, in 10 acres Of po-
tatoes and gets rich from his crop The next
year he can afford to pay IS q day for labor
when the product from that labor will bring
him $40. Blaine has another argument. He
supposes q tube extending across the Allan
tic ocean and spiggot in the middle. IT
wages are at different level In Europe and
America, and you take out the spigot
wages will soon come TO q level. Why bless
your soul, the Senate lately appointed a COM
mittee that, ON investigating the labor ques.
ton, finds that all these years cheap Italian
and other labor has been coming In ana the
spiggOt has been out.
(Not so fast. Your logic don't prove
that wages will not come to level soon
er with the tariff spigot out, than they
have with comparatively small over
flow some other way. The Republican
Senate proposes to stop the inflow of de-
graded labor; not to pull the spigot,
Well, the Republicans say there are other
questions. There is that Of a free ballot. You
had the reins for "A years and did nothing for
it; now get out of the way and let us have a
whack at 1t.
(Taylor forgets that plans of suppress
sing and miscounting the Republican
vote in the south have prevailed only
during the last 10 years: that we have
had Democratic House during that time
except in 81 and 80; that in those years
the Republicans were IN q minority in
the Senate, except on those questions on
which David paYis and Malone would
act with them.)
Why il there no trouble in counting the
; iohibition voter There is already . divis-
ion in the south and let the Prohibition party
come into power and the Democratic heeler
will cease to count out the negro vote in the
south and the Republican heeler to count
out the Prohibition vote In Ohio and Michi.
gan. What nonsense to complain OF the
Southern Brigadiers who removed the dis
abilities from them; the Republican party! !!
(Cheers.)
(Singular that because the Republicans
thought best to give their enemies q
chance to vote. they have no right to
complain of their suppressing the vote of
others.
The speaker next had a great deal 10 say
about a clean campaign and the wickedness
of the Brooks afRdavits. Brooks was never
in the Rebel army. He said, II prayed earn
estly for the success OF the Confederate
cause" And then the connection in which
he said he thanked God that he had never
been a Republican. was not given in the afh-
davits. He said just before that. that he had
been Democrat and was sorry for it. The
Republicans had sent Lonsstreet a minister
to a foreign country and Geurilla Mosbey
minister to China and General Malone sits In
cushioned seat in the Senate. The Repub-
licans were ready to honor these men when
they had had change of heart. Brooks had
been converted, but not into Republican
but to Prohibition.
The tariff was not a question of discrimina-
| ton to protect national labor against foreign
| labor, but of fostering one industry. AGAINST
| another. The Democrats wanted to protect
sugar and the Republican wool. Then there
was no division of parties on that question.
Among the Democrats, Hurd was almost free
| trade and Randall as much for protection as
any Republican. And 1t was 80 in the Repub-
Iican party The Pioneer Press well said 1.-THE
tariff never can be made clear cut issue be-
tween parties" The Brewers Journal said,
| "Ninety days hence the discussion Of the tar
| III question will obscure that OF the liquor
| traffic." The speaker proceeded to discuss the
| liquor question and added to the 100000
| said to be spent for drinks. indirect loss and
| consequential damages. court expenses, etc..
! till he got the sum total of loss up to four
| billion dollars per annum. 1t would be I'M
possible to follow all the reaso nings and hgur-
ings of the speaker and the reporter would
t;midly suggest that as the total of manufac-
! lures was five billions and included the value
Of many agricultural productions In the -four
| cotton and woolen goods and tobacco manu-
| factured and as the leading agricultural pro-
ductions including those already In as manu-
factures amounted to only billion more.
there may be some mistake that We lose two
thirds of the whole by the liquor trafiic. II
not as the total value OF the farms Is ten bill
| lions they must be pretty rapidly mortgaged
to supply the necessities of life. The speaker
next examined Horr's statement that all the
temperance legislation came from the Repub-
lican party. Aud showed that the frst crude
attempts at prohibition In the New England
States and Iowa were older than the birth of
| the Republican party and passed by Wings or
Democrats
| (Several of these states had repealed these
laws, and In Maine New Hampshire, Y Vermont,
and Iowa, other and more stringent laws had
been re.enacted. Kansas was not attended to-
BY concealing the fact that all these states
had been uniformly and overwhelmingly Re-
publican since 1850, and that all the stringent
and elective features of the present laws
were enacted with the Republicans tn power;
and by saying that the Republicans repealed
| the prohibition law in Iowa and Maine and
several other more closely balanced States
without stating that the repeal was effected
in each ane stating that the repeal was erect
cd in each and every instance by the vote Of
q few republicans from cities Joining with
the bulk of the Democratic vote. The speakel
conveyed the Impression that tho Republican,
had pretty uniformly opposed prohibitton.)
The speaker continued, some say prohibi.
ton does not prohibit. Well it never will bt
a success till party stands behind It, There
10 NO hope that the Republican party will evel
become q prohibition party. In its first or
ssnization it was machine for fighting
slavery, but not machine for dealing will
the next question that might arise. II maj