Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-09-06
TO FIRST VOTERS.
AN ADDRESS TO THE YOUNG MEN OF
WISCONSIN.

BY unanimous vote the Young
Mems Republican Club, of Milwau
kee, whose membership now exceeds
200 has adopted the following adj
dress to the young men of Wiscon
sin, as submitted to it by a commit
tee appointed to draft it:
70 the Young Men Of Wisconsin:
The young men, we believe, are
not unmindful Of the great influence
they will exert in the coming cam
paign, and the Young Mems Repub-
lican club of Milwaukee, now 1900
strong, takes pleasure in submitting
to your consideration a few of the.
reasons for supporting the Republi-
can party.
Human experience teaches that a
political party, born of great moral
necessities, will far outlast the origi-
nal purpose of It's creation. We be-
lieye that the Republican party is
destined to live for the enlighten-
ment and welfare of generations yet
unborn. It's history is the history
of the patriotism that stood between
union and disunion, between the
slave and the master, between the
nations honor and financial ruin.
1t is with deep solicitude that we
call your attention to a candid con-
sideration of the policy of the Re
publican party, which would build
up our manufacturing industries
and thereby create a market for the
farmer and give to the mechanic
and laboring man the highest rate
of wages known to the world.
The issues of the present cam
paign is between protection to Amer
lean industries and American labor
and free trade. This issue is per-
fectly clear. The cry of "tarif re-
form" raised by the free traders is
an attempt to mask their real policy,
an attempt to mislead the people
and gain the peoples suffrages by
false presentations. That the
English well understand the issue is
indicated by the following quota
lions from three of their leading
papers:
The London Post says; "President
Cleveland's message will be regard
ed as a step in the right direction
by all who believe in the soundness
of free trade principles"
The London Nelos says: "Mr.
Cleveland is entitled TO credit for
having spoken out and laid before
Congress without reservation the
real facts of the case. The stone
now set rolling will not stop until it
has broken the dial Of protection in
pieces"
The London Spectator says:
"Grover Cleveland has done more
to advance the cause of free-trade
than any prime minister OF England
has ever done"
We believe that the American
people, As well as the English, real
lie that free-trade pure and simple
is the final object of the Democratic
party; and to us it seems the great
est wisdom TO stop this downward
progress at the first step.
Free-trade has always been
preached by the same party, and is
preached largely by the same men
who a very few years ago held that
slavery and secession were wise, and
still preach that slavery and seces-
sion were righteous in the same
breath that they denounce the north
for waving the bloody shlt. We
are far from impugning the SINGER
ity of these men, but the fact that
they were sincere in believing seces-
sion wise entities US to doubt the
more their wisdom and their states
manship.
1t is upon the advice of these men
that we are asked to reverse that
policy which has brought unequaled
prosperity to the working classes of
America and unexampled growth TO
the whole nation, which has relieved
, our country from the burden of a
terrible national debt and made it
one of the foremost powers of the
world.
For the result of free-trade look
for a moment at the deplorable con-
dition of Ireland. Free-trade caused
the almost instant death of her
great manufacturing industries, and
consequently no market remained
for the products Of the farm Ag-
riculture declined, famine followed.
While on the other hand England
desires the United States to initiate
her policy; Germany on the other is
following our example under the
lead of her greatest statesman. On
the l4th Of May, 1882, Bismarck, in
a speech before the German Reich
stag, said:
T6e success OF the United states IN material