Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-02
ANOTHER ROusER.

ANOTHER ROUsER. Ringing speeches at the NoOmdaY Meet.
 ing of the Business and Working.
 mems Club-Rev. MT. Poster speaks
 and Says That Cleveland Was Elect
 ed Because 6he SanetIty of the Ballet
 Was Not Preserved = ESarnest and
 Able Addresses by messrS. HI. Es BeR.
 ton and 0. g. Bushnell.
 You couldn't get any more people in No. 99 Orange street yesterday noon at the meet ing of the Business and Workingmen's club. A right vein in the hearts of the working and business men was struck when these monday meetings were started.
 Herbert E. Benton, our candidate for sena- tor, was the first speaker. He spoke in Mad ison the other night and 6 correspondent of the Register criticised him for waving the "bloody shirt" He did say that in the South, Republicans were not allowed 10 vote, and in many places there were no Republican organizations because it was of no use. Dem ocratic fraud would prevail any way in counting the ballots. If that was waving the ''bloody shirt" then he intended to wave it as long as he lives. Besides disfranchising southern Republican voters, the Democrats, twice in the lower house at Washington, have voted not to admit Dakota as Q State, thus dis frsnchising the voters of that State. Why did the house do this2 They knew if they voted to admit Dakota that 1t meant eight more electorial votes and two more senators to stand by the protective system. It is just as much waving the bloody shirt in saying that Dakota voters are disfranchised as to say that the Republican voters South Caro- lima practically are. You business men know | = + l. l.. the polls and working on Tuesday next. If you can get @ doubtful voter to cast @ ballot for only one of our men 1t is your duty to do so. I have confidence in the American people. think they will not vote to adopt the policy that the country across the water is trying to force upon them. Do you know why England was so closely sl- lied to the Confederate States during the war? Because in their platform the Confederates said that there should be no tax on imports and that home industries should not be pro- tected by 6 tariff But think the American people will stand by the policy that has given them happiness and riches. Why has the Democratic party abandoned the leadership of Samuel Randall and of ". W. Eaton of Hartford and gone to Texas for Roger Q. Mills as leader2 Because it has fallen under the ban of Carlisle, Watterson and others who have always believed in free trade. These persons have declared protection fraud and
 
 Sargent, for instance, who have been built up by the fostering care of protection, and are now ready to say: "I defy the world; I'm ready for free trade" But are the small manufacturing firms ready to compete with the world? If we are going to look out for only few large manufactures, vote for free trade; but if you want to look out for all in dustries, vote for protection. I know of the son of certain ex-Governor of Missouri, the manager of second-class opera company, who said at the Hoffman House few days ago that he had to pay tax of from $75 to tend to any more if bis vote take his company to Liverpool and there he will how many workingmen will pay to see his show. He wouldn't get enough to pay for his clothes, while in this country these the box office so that he can buy as expensive clothes as he likes. My friends, it depends upon the work you and I do between now and next Tuesday, and the work we do on Tuesday, whether we shall continue this pro- teetive system.
 0. s. Bushnell said that he would correct a statement of Mr. Sargent's that we had good times between '50 and '60. The speaker said that in that time he was on charitable com- mittee, and among the 20, ,000 or 30,000 inhabitants this city had then there was more suffering than there is now among our 80, 900 people. The wages then were only half what they now are, and living was much dearer. This better condition of affairs is due to protection.
 President Easterbrook called upon Rev. I. NJ. Foster, pastor of the St. John street Meth odist church. There was great applause as MT. Foster came forward. I'm not 6 politi- oian, he said, but an American citizen. The work I'm engaged in has never deprived me of that right and when it does there will be a revolution in it. I am Republican, not be- cause it favors protection; don't let us turn aside from the matter of vaster importance, it seems to me, than protection, I am a Re- publican until die or until every Republican vote is counted. The Republican party has had and still has great mission. It lifted up the American flag and made all the other nations see that we are a patton of giants and not of children. The mission of the Repub- lican party was not finished when the war was over. The great question of protection is now in its hands, but it will fight, until death, for the protection and sacredness of the ballot l am a protectionist, forsooth, because our churches are supported by work ingmen, and when their wages are out my salary is also and you knew that his Ia cler- gyman's) salary is the first to be decreased and the last to be increased. Self interest makes me protectionist. I have nothing to say against President Cleveland. He is, you know, not very small man Qaughter). I have thought, ever since the result was announced, that MT. Cleveland was not elected by the ballot of the people. I have lived in the South, and know that they count the ballots behind locked doors, and no Republicans are allowed to enter The result is ''fxed" to give just such Demo- cratic majority as is needed. In some of the States there is an organization of but one party. The Republicans know too well that there is no need for them to organize. Their votes will not be counted And in some of the States no Republican candidates are put forward. Let us believe in the protection and sacredness of the ballot box