Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-08-30
A SHORT SUMMARY OF FACTS.
Who Are tIle Supporters OF Free TPa<lo
and What is Their Relation to
American Labor.


Judge Tourgee in a recent letter asks
whether n short summary of indubitable
facts might not be devised which would
enable the intelligent and patriotic voter
satisfactorily to determine for himself
whether the interests of the country are
likely to be subserved by the predomin
ance OF party fayoring the Mills bill
and committed to other legislation of
like character Who are the advocates
and supporters OF this legislation, and
what is their relation to American labor
and National prosperity?
The answer is easy and significant:
/. Every foreign manufactures and
dealer in articles competing with Ameri-
can products.
g Every foreign statesman who
faces in his own land the problem of TN
employed pauper labor
g. Every government which is jealous
of our unprecedented prosperity.
H. Every enemy of republican govern
ment in the world
8 Every opponent of equal rights
end opportunity to the laborer.
6 Probably nineteen-tweutieths Of all
those who engaged in rebellion and
sought to destroy the Union.
T. Practically. all of those who com
PEELED the Nation to incur an indebted
ness of 81. 900 600, 600 and who now ask
to be accounted the only true economists
in her councils and the real guardians
of our National honor.
8. Two-thirds of those by whose votes
the Mills bill passed the House of Re
representatives. were bred to the economics
of slavery and believe, as one of them
declared during the debate that "the
cheapest labor is the best labor for the
country"
8. Two thirds of the support the bill
received came from States which con-
tain only one-eighth of the manufactures
of the country, pay less than one-eighth of
the aggregate mechanical wages, and
produce but one.seyenth Of the manu-
featured products.
10. Two-thirds of ito support comes
from a region whose ideas of public
policy are based on the economies of
slavery as a corner some and who deem
a manageable labor of all things most
desirable
II. In the sixteen states where seven.
teen out OF every one hundred of the
white voters can not read their ballots,
aud where the black voter is not allowed
voice In the government, there were
only sixteen votes against the Mills bill.
~ Two-thrds Of the support OF the
Mills bill and OF the party which makes
il the ground on which it asks the voters
preference comes from those states in
which the laborer has hitherto had few
est rights; whose prosperity has been
least, and whose purchase, conquest,
and control have required the govern
ment to incur more than nineteen
twentieths of all the bonded debt it has
assumed in its hundred years of exist
enCe.
10. The major part of those North
and South VINO insisted upon the sancity
of our National obligation to nOurish
and maintain slavery believe in the policy
of the Mills bill and Of the party respon-
sible for it,
IA. The party which declared the war
for the Union failure and the green
back unlawful; which opposed recon-
struction, justified the Ku Klux, opposed
the resumption of specie payment, OBJ
structed the building of q navy until 1t
came into power, prefers conscript TO
a soldier. and a Confederate cavalier to
"A federal hummer, which holds power
bv bloodshed and rerror-this party
stakes its claim to the voters preference
on the policy the Mills bill inaugurates.
IS. 4 party which has a representa-
tive of the Standard Oil IN the CABINET,
and another at the head of the Executive
Committee. cl4mor5 for the Mills bill IN
order to destroy the evil of unlawful
trusts.
rs. Every dude who imports his
politics and lingo is an advocate OF an
En5lish policy for American labor
Il. Every so-cailed political econo-
mist. who believes that true prosperity
consists in n condition Of affairs under
which the rich grow richer and FEWER
and The poor poorer and more numerous
is vociferous in his advocacy OF TINS
policy begotten of slavery and nursed Ia
rebellion
10. Every man who flies the red fae
Of anarchy, who appeals TO dynamite
and the dagger TO make society what Ing
would have it. sports also the red ban
dana, which is the emblem OF coming
disasters TO American labor.
10. To all these things must be added
a minority Of intelligence, patriotic ana
sincere Americans, whose belief IN tbs
universal theory of free trade Is so IN
tense as 10 compel them TO train IN the
motley company which muster IN tbs
train Of that ''uoblest type of American
manhood" who occupies the White
House. scolds the Senate, and oblurgates
the soldier.
No coubt all Of these elements are Il
the main sincere The Bvstander de
sires to be clearly understood. asnot only
admitting. hut insisting on that. Neafit
an men are sincere IN their Tol'ica4 -
hefs The political badge usually =
/ empi6es an honest conviction, even
though Il be
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