The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-08-25
laborine people because this question is.

laboring people because this question is,
from first to last, from skin to core and
back to skin again, question of labor.
IF you agree to live in as poor
house and eat as poor food and receive
as low wages as the people in England
receive we can produce as cheap goods
as democratic administration wants to
see. But it will be otherwise if you
wish to better your condition and if you
want the industrial system of protected
interests that prevail in this country now
to be maintained. The savings of the
wage workers of England, Scotland, and
Ireland, rs | said to-day to a Massachu-
setts gentleman, are not nearly rs great
as lie tonight in the savings banks of
Massachusetts, to the credit Of the wage
workers of that small state; and if you
turn the administration of this republic
to-day into free-trade channels you may
not expect those great savings, for you
will put our laboring men throughout
the country into competition with the
laboring men of Great Britain, and in
the course of five or ten years you will
make them as poor upon this side of the
water as they are upon the other.
II will not in this campaign stop to
argue the question upon any other basis.
| have no personality to indulge in;
have no sores to heal. and would rather
have your cordial and heartfelt and sym
pathetic welcome than any office you care
TO bestow upon me- But in this canvass
in which shall take greater or less pa,t
I shall hold this question from the be-
| ginning to the end as a question that in-
| terests every man. woman. and child in
this country that depends upon daily
| labor for daily bread. There is no need
| to make any laws to protect capital.
| Capital always takes care of itself and
| gets full share. but there are laws that
| can elevate the condition of the laboring
man and there are laws that can degrade
| him and the republican party has stood
| for twenty-five years. and it will stand L
believe, with the blessing OF God and the
will of the American people, twenty-five
wears more unfolding and maintaining
| the laboring man, for the government
| which takes care of the bone and sinew
and working muscle of the land Is taking
care of the men who created the wealth
| in the country and who are therefore en-
titled to the patronage and protection oil
the government.
Now, gentlemen, you represent q
critical state; you represent the state oil
New York. Your votes are to tell in
that issue. Your votes can be decisive
upon the one issue Do not be diverted
from that one question by side issues.
Do not be mised by petty squabbles up
on this or that small issue or upon per
sonal questions of abuse on the ono
hand or the other, but give your vote:
as independent laboring men and give
them for the interests OF your own
homes. of your own tiresides, and there
by for the great interests Of the great re
public.
II never, Mr.. Chairman, thought o
this republic as | do tonight. | have
seen the other side; have devoted man,
of the last fourteen months to seeing th'
condition of labor and laboring men il
the other hemisphere, and say withou
fear of contradiction that in no country
, of Europe, or part of any country, i
the condition of labor comparable Il
that which it holds in the United States
Are you willing TO give up that position
or are YOU willing TO maintain it? 1o
, can maintain i: by strong pull and
long pull altogether for Harrison an
| Morton"