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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
DONE WITH GROVER.
Bolt of the Ex-Speaker of the New jersey
Assembly.

John T. Dunn, ex-Speaker of the New
jersey Assembly, prominent Demo-
cratic politician. has came out unflinch-
ingly for 'Tippecanoe and Protection,
too" Yes, l am going to vote for
Harrison" said he to-day, because
am disguised with my party, and have
been since it became free trade organi-
cation. If the party managers imagine
they can bamboozle the workingmen in
to calmly accepting dollar a day in
stead of three because mob of Southern
aristocrats and that Buffalo gentlemen
who occupies the White House wish to
put English clothing on themselves and
English wages on us they will find Nov.
that they have made a bowling error.
They will be hunting wildly around for
a hole to crawl into and favorable op-
portunity of pulling the hole in after
them. 1t is toss-up of copper cent
with me whether or not / shall stump
the State for Harrison and Morton. The
Irish Americans at Elizabethport, where
l live, will vote the protection ticket
almost to man. As you know that is
the manufacturing part or the city, and
if the Democrats think the mechanics
and laborers there are a parcel of fools
they are nightly mistaken. l am a
Dem ocrat, but when those famboyant
Southern aristocrats and Anglomaniac
aping dudes join hands to pull the coun-
try down, |, for one, intend to pull
against them. mo, sir; I'll have no
English in mine''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
Working for Less Than Yankee
Wages.

While in Brussels, Belgium, last sum-
mer," (said w. II. PerkIns) [ saw some
skilled laborers making spiral steel car
springs, such as we use on our freight
cars. They received 60 cents per day,
while our blacksmiths receive 81 to So
for the same work. [ asked the Belgian
proprietor why he didn't pay more. He
said: 1 am handicapped. When I get
500 worth Of car springs into New York
harbor for | sell my car springs in
America) [ have to salute your Yankee
flag and give up $50"
Where does that come from?' I
asked.
cit comes off my mems wages" he
said.
But suppose America had free trader"
Gree trader; he exclaimed: "why I
would flood the Yankees with car
springs. l would treble my works to-
morrow"
But wouldn't that break our steel
car-spring makers up?" [ asked.
Eyes, for a WHILE
Chow long?"
''Why, till your men worked for sixty
cents per day, as our men do"
"But there are politicians in America"
/ said, who advise laboring men to
vote for this same free trade"
''And the men listen?'
Some ignorant ones do"
"Well, said the Belgian manufac-
turer, INSTEAD of listening to a dema-
gogue who would decrease their high
wages down to the wages of our poor
people, your American laborers ought to
drive such a demagogue out of the
country. San Francisco Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
WORklNCMEN'S CkTECHlSM.
BY "a WorkinSnan,

Question. Who controls the govern
ment of the United States at present?
Answer. THE govern ment of tbs
United States is now controlled by ex-
Confederate soldiers" Speech of Brad
ley I. johnson, ex-Confederate.
Q. What is the chief end of s'ex-Con-
federate" control?
A. To keep the South solid, tear down
Northern industries pauperize Northern
wage workers.
Q. Who chiefly desire to destroy
Northern industries by turning them
over to British workshops?
A. The same who desired to destroy
the Nation and set up Southern Con-
federacy.
@. Who did the sex Confederate SOL
diers" make their Speaker in Congress,
the more effectively to make war on
Northern industries?
A. A Southern free trader whose
seat was contested and fairly won by an
honest workingman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

experience and judgment upon
this problem, with view to
e-assuring the wage-workers and
all patriotic citizens who may be influ-
enced by sophistries of those who regard
with contempt legitimate efforts of work
ing people 80 better their condition and
maintain higher standard of wage. and
home comforts than prevails in Europe,
There has not been during that period
an openly avowed determination by auy
political party to overthrow the protect
i've system until the present administers
ton threw down the gauntlet.
MR. BLAlNE's REPLY.
In reply Mr.. Blaine said the demonstra-
ton was not to him personally but rather
signifed the great popular Interest IN the
tariff question. That great issue is to be
settled in the coming contest. The
contest before the people is whether Mr.
Cleveland and his administration
shall be sustained in the effort 70 change
the industrial system. The speaker then
eulogized the republican candidates, and
pronounced q severe invective against
the democrats. In England he found
public opinion united that President
Cleveland embodied in his person the reg
ular form of revenue and free trade
for the United States whicn they
like. The American people find
their interest in policy which England
wants to change so as to make it better
conform to her interests. This is the
question before the people, to be settled
next November. He was glad the meet
ing was called in the name of laboring
people, as this question was one of labor
Mr.. Blaine then told the workmen in
substance that all they need to make
them prosperous and happy is high
protective tariff while a reduction
of the tariff would cause them
suffering and degradation. He will
take an active part in the campaign
and will preach this doctrine. The re
publican party has stood for 25 years
and it will stand, he believed, % year:
more, upholding and maintaining tn,
laboring man. He told the laboring mel
that they represent critical state, ant
that their votes can be decisive up
on that issue. He urged then
to hold to the principle and not be mis-
lead by side issue or personal question
He bad found the condition of the Ia
boring class in Europe far below that il
America and he urged them to main tair
their present position by voting fol
Harrison and Morton. Mr.. Blaine Their
returned to the hotel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
British Gold for Cleveland.

Ii is a well authenticated fact that
British gold has been subscribed in large
sums to help re-elect Cleveland. 1t is
the belief Of many who are well posted
that the Democrats will virtually have
barrels Of money sent over from England
within the next few weeks to scatter
throughout the country in the interest
of the free traders A gentleman who
arrived from England recently declared
that he never saw Englishmen so inter-
ested in American politics before, and
nearly all were anxious to see President
Cleveland reelected, because he repre-
sents the true British idea of free trade.
He heard. and fully believed, that Eng
lish manufacturers had already subscrib
ed nearly So 000, 900 towards the Demo-
cratic campaign fund Thousands of
Cleveland badges and buttons, he assert
ed, had been manufactured there and
sent to this country 10 be distributed
free. The Golden Club, in London, was
bestirring itself and doing all it could to
assist President Cleveland financially and
otherwise. Secretary Fassett of the Re-
publican National Executive Committee
was to-day asked if he had heard any
thing about British gold being sent TO
this country TO help the Democrats. He
said he had heard a great deal about it,
and rather thought that where so much
smoke prevailed there certainly ought to
be some fire. The Golden Club of Lon
don, he averred, was, according to di-
rect accounts, doing yeoman's service
for the democratic cause in the way of
sending over badges and buttons. II Is
believed that the fund reported to have
been subscribed by the British has
reached this country and is now at the
disposal of the Democratic National
Committee, with and by the advice Of
President Cleveland.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
Wisconsin Pensioners.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-The following
pensions were granted Tuesday: In
crease-Benj amin Parish, INLAND; Hiram
M. Morsy, Avooa; John G. Nelson, Osce-
ola Mills; Leonard Scott, La Crosse;
George K. Drake, Pardeville; VIM. O. ID.
Reilly, Berlin; JOHN Davis, Plover; Ru-
dolph Boege, National Military home
Original widows, etc.-Minor of VIM. FL.
Jacobs, Whitehall. Widows arrears--Lydia
E. widow of Marion Saunders, Eddy
vile; Mary A, widow of Horace S.
Rice, Shawano; Abigail, widow of David
Shepard, Boscobel; Susan, widow of
Haiver Olsen, Modena; Mary A., widow of
Joseph NJ Hood, Lone Rock; Elite E.,
widow of James L. Sapping ton, Lynxville;
Julia A, widow of Stephen l.. Bristow,
Milston; Louisa H, widow of Erastus
FL. Pratt, Baraboo; Mary, widow of
Thomas Conoboy, Beloit; Mary j., widow
of David Culley, North Clayton; Frances
p, widow of John B. HUT, Milwaukee;
Elizabeth NJ, widow of Horace FL.
r. Cox, Centralia; Bridget E., wild
of Danisl Seaman, Oregon; Bar
bara A., widow of SalathieI Nichols,
Angelica; Eliza L., widow of Isaac S.
Brace, Wonewac; Mary, widow of Hugh
McCannen, Darien; Marriott, widow of
John l.. Taylor, DarlingtoI; Jane H.,
widow of John FL. Scott, Brotherton;
Edith, widow of Saml. r. Cnilders, La
Crosse; Hattie j., widow of as. Wisner,
9araboo; Mary a., widow of Richard B.
Kittle, New Lisbon; Agnes, widow of Jno.
Smith, Tomah; Hannah, widow of Henry
Nettleton, Neshkora; Esther NJ. widow
Of VIM. Halstrom, Appleton; Eliza NJ,
widow of Arthur G.. Ellis, Eau Claire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
A Trif1e SacrileSious,

Yes, I've been Democrat, and a
Shareholder, and prayed for the rebel
cause, but, thank God, I've never been
a Republican, is the way the Rev.
Brooks, of Prohibition fame. states his
politics. He had said that God did not
seem to answer his prayers for success of
the rebellion, and, reasoning by analogy,
He had answered the prayers of the Re
publicans, all of which serves to make
his present thankful condition of mind
trife sacrilegious. But you can never
tell what man will not do when he
tries to force God on his SIDE instead of
putting himself on Gods side Brooks
probably hates the liquor traffic, but it
is certain that his chief hostility is to-
ward the Republican party.-Decats4r
lIW.l RepubEican.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
They are not so Strained as Formerly bu
Trouble may Arise.

Trouble may Arise.
BERLIN, August 1.-THE most dis
cussed event of the week was Lord Salis
ourys speech at Lord Mayors BANQUET in
London. TIE confident tone of the
speech was welcomed as confirming the
natlonal Aeltung statement that Prince
6ismsTck believed the meeting between
emperor William and the Car woaId
result IN long period of peace. The only
por'ion Oh Sallsburys speech that is
.nousn1 TO De open TO criticism is
MS reference to Bulgaria. Advices re-
celved from st. Petersburg today in no
way tend to confirm the prime ministers
optimistic remarks. On the other hand.
it is stated on reliable authority that
Russia adheres to her original programme
of oustIng Prince Ferdinand, excluding
Prince Alexander, and sending a Rus
sian commissioner to restore all
the diplomatic relations, without
interfering with internal affairs, preiim
mary to allowing the Bu'gerians to elect
any prince they think fit, provided he be
legally elected, and member of an Or
tnodox church. Salispury's speech met
with greater criticism in Vienna than
elsewhere, his apparently improved
feeling toward Russia being I'M
palatable to the Austrian people.
The cabinet at Vienna has no intention
to abandon Prince Ferdinand and con-
tinues to favor 4 settlement to be agreed
upon by all powers. The Massowah in
cident is here considered definitely closed
by M. Coblet's note Of protest. Herr
Won Schloezer, the German representa-
tive at the vatican, who brought
letter from Cardinal Rampolla
the papal secretary of state
has had several long interviews with
Prince Bismarck during the week. There
are rumors that the results of these con-
ferences have caused hesitancy in com
plotting plans for the kaiser's visit to Italy.
The Italian government is arranging rail-
way excursions from all parts of Italy in
order to bring together large concourse
of people, with demonstration in honor
of the royal visitor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
SHEEP IN IOWA.
Some Facts and Figures that Democratic
Free Trader Failed to See.

The following paragraph has gone the
rounds of the Democratic papers in this
and other Western States:
In travelling from Council Bluffs to
Davenport across the great State of Iowa
one viii not see flock of sheep. This is
one reason that Iowa is b Coming demo-
cratic. 1t wants free wool, while abso-
lutely no comfort is to be found in cheap
whisky.-Omaha Herald.
This implies that there are no sheep in
Iowa, that the farmers are clamoring for
free wool, and that the State Is be-
coming Democratic; all of which i'm
piled allegations are untrue.
The census of 1885 showed that Iowa
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

TUNE "Uncle Ben"
There was an old Yankee and his name was
Uncle Sam,
And he farmed long ago, long ago.
He raised lots of wool, on the back of sheep
and lamb,
On the place where the wool ought to grow.
But lay down the shuttle and the reel;
Hang up the spindle and the wheel:
There is no more wool for poor old Uncle
Sam,
Gone to grass" so the good farmers feel.
A confidence man named Mills, he came along,
Got Uncle Sam to pass tariff bill.
That hereafter wool would be sold for song,
Protection and profits for to kill.
So knock the mutton. let it drop;
Cut up the shoulder and the chop;
There's n more money to be made il
raising sheep
Let them fatten to fill the butcher shop.
S. D. Richardson in Rochester Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
HANGMAN'S DAY.
Maxwell and Landgraf Expiate Their Horrible
Crimes

crimes.
ST. LOUIS, August, 1O.-Maxwen the
murderer of Arthur Preller was hanged at
sos this morning. The doomed man
slept sound'y from L O'Clock until nearly
when he awoke with sudden start and
at once arose and dressed in his funeral
clothes. There was a sickly paller on his
face which grew deeper as the death hour
approached.
At $50 a. m, Father Tehan, having
finished administering extreme junction.,
breakfast was served to the prisoners in
cell47, where Landgraf had been confined
for the past three months. At 6 a. M,
Sheriff Harrington announced at the jail
door that, at the request of the attorneys,
the exectctiOn had been postponed two
hours.
At 8:45, deputies cleared an opening
for the passage of the sheriff. A double
line of deputies formed an avenue from
the cell to the middle of the jailyard.
Sheriff Harrington entered and read the
death warrant to Maxwell and Landgraf,
who was also hanged for murder, inside
the cells. The gates leading to the gal
lows were then opened, and the detail of
police came into the yard.
The procession at once proceeded to
the gallows. Both men were cool and
collected. They were quickly placed be-
meath the ropes, the black caps adjusted
and in lees than two minutes from the
time they left they Jail the trap and ropes
had been sprung and the bodies were dang
ling in the air. The necks of both men
were broken. Landgraf died In thirteen
minutes and Maxwell four minutes later.
Maxwell's body was embalmed and ent
east to night. Wednesday next it will be
shipped on Cunard steamer to England
for burial. His mother and sister will
accompany the body.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.

The President Would Not Sign or Veto it.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE river and
presidents approval. The president
states that while the bill contained items
to which he could not sign his approval,
the great bulk of the work provided for
is so important to the best interests of
the country that he is unwilling to OBJ
struct it by a veto.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
Who did the Southern free-traf

@. Who did the Southern free-trade
Speaker place in charge of thirty-one
important Congressional committees out
of a total of fifty-four, to make sure OF
Confederate" control?
A. Thirty-one Confederate" help
ers of British workshops.
Q. Who did the Southern free-trade
Speaker make his chief instrument to
cripple Northern industries?
a. An ''ex-Confederate' free trader
from Texas--ignorant and bitterly hos
tile concerning Northern interests
blind and selfish in his devotion to
Southern interests.
q. Who did the Democratic National
Convention select to build its platform
of principles
q. An Gex-Confederater free trader;
the most radical of his kind.
Q. Whence did this 'eX-COnfederate"
free trader obtain timber for the main
plank in his platform?
A. From the cons titutiOn of the eek
Confederate" States in these words:
'.Nor shall any-duties or taxes on impor-
tations from foreign Nations be laid to
promote or foster any branch of in
dustry"
Q. Who was compelled to swallow
tue pldClOfLH VI LhS SA-COluOucldto
free traders?
A. Grover Cleveland
@. What are the main principles Of
the Mills bill, prepared by the sex Con-
federate" free trader from Texas?
A. Protection to Southern interests
destruction to Northern.
@. What results are the 'ex-Con-
federate" free traders working for?
A. To keep Southern illiterate labor
debased-degrade Northern educated la
Dor to same level.
@. Who forced upon us the tariff of
'46 and fourteen years of "tariff reform"
in the interests of British workshops and
slave labor?
A. The 'sex-Confederate" free traders,
and their slave-holding ancestors, aided
by Northern dough-faced Democrats.
Q. How did it leave us?
A. The National Treasury bankrupt
National debt creasing-Governme
shining for money at 10 per cent. pri-
vate interest 10 to % per cent.-furnaces
closed = workngmen idle = industries
crippled-wages one-half to one-third of
what they are to-day-plenty of British
goods--nothing to buy with!
Q. Who gave us present tariff system
and twenty-five years of protected in
dustries IN the interests of Americans?
a. Northern Republicans, aided by
anUi-English Democrats.
Q. Where are we now?
A. The richest nation on the globe
greatest ufacturing-tweive hun
dred and fifty millions in savings banks
-nineteen hundred millions III other
ban ks-government interest 2 1-2 per
cent.-private interest 4 to per cent
Treasury full-workshops busy-best
fed, best clothed, best educated, best
housed people ever lived-all necessaries
never SO cheap-nObody complaining but
ex-Confederate" free traders, English
importers and pro-British Democrats.
Fellow Workingmen-in days gone by
some of you faced the "Rebel Yell"
then it was aimed at Northern soldiers;
once more it is heard; this time it is
against Northern industries and North
ern wage workers. Shall it triumph in
'SS, or go down as in SO?
In Glasgow, the families of 10000
wOrklngmen live in one room each.
That's where the theories and efforts
of Southern free-traders and their Demo
cratic allies, if successful, will land the
families OF Northern wage-workers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16

They included the conservation
of the group and the simple rites of the
Catholic church. At the conclusion of
the religious services tbs light artillery
hrsd a military salute of fifteen volleys
OF musketry, the bugle call for 'stapsm
rang out on the clear air over the heads
OF the hushed assembly, and the services
were over
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
THE EMIGRATION INvEsTiG ALTON.
O'Donovan Rosa Testifies of England Thieves
and COuyicts.

ODOnovan Rosa Testifies Of England Thieves
and COnvicts.
New YORK, Aug. 10.-O'Donoven Rosa
was a witness before the emigration in
vestigation committee this morning. He
told what he knew about the sending of
ex-convicts from English prisons. He
said that the worst thieves and cOnvicts
of England were anxious to come to
America, and the governors of prisons
persuaded them to go.
After recall of witnesses relative to
the immigration of Russian Jews, Mr..
Ford said that official duties called him
to Washington, and the committee would
adjourn until Tuesday next.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
The Tariff Issue in Connecticut.

Charles A Howard, one of the great
est cutlery manufacturers in Connecti-
cut, a Democrat all his life, and at one
time a candidate for congress, in a recent
interview said he would support Harri-
son, and that he had no doubt Connecti-
cut would go Republican. He had
travelled all over the State in the last
three months, and he had formed this
opinion from actual observation. He
added:
''My brother was elected to the Iegis-
lature by the Democrats. Ny father has
been lifelong member of that party,
but our three votes will aid in electing
Harrison this year. We are not alone,
but there are thousands of other Demo
cratic merchants, manufacturers and
laborers who will do the same. They
utterly refuse to indorse free trade or
anything resembling it.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat: Has any
body heard or read of any member OF
the combine" or trust anywh here in the
United States saying WORD against the
Democratic party recently! The mo-
nopolists know who their friends are.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Spring wheat in Portage county ls al
most total failure. Some fields are
not considered worth cutting, even for
fodder.
Burr Prouty, farmer living near
Brandon became violently insane and
was committed to the Northern Hospital
at Oshkosh.
A. NJ. Leigh, resident of Sheboygan
since pioneer days, is dead. Mr.. Leigh
was 80 years old, and for many yelrs was
u the grocery business.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-08-16
Settled an Old Election Debt with Bullets.

GALVESTON, Texas, Aug. 11.-This af-
ternoon John Loveioy, prominent at
torney, shot and instantly killed Aaron
Williamson. The difficulty originated
over an election debt of $50, owed Will
Hanson by Lovejoy since the fall Of
1884.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-10

rezysera teatru niemieckiego p. ia
ma .Bockel. Watepne dla pandw SO
centow, ola dam 50 c. Pc pred
stawieniu wielki bal. Tykiet6w
MONA dostac W W aptecie p.
Lauera oraz u Bertha & Son.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1886-1893, 1888-05-10
KWIATY.

Ma polskiej ziemi kwiecia tax wIele
Pc lasach, gorach, puszczach - pc btom'
Wszedzie sic kwieciem murawa sclele,
Wdziekami barwy wont.
A wszystkie kwiatki ma polsk:ej ziemi,
Miafy poczqtek, majq swe dzle]e,
I swa podstawe, co Bog pred niemi.
Stat ware, milost, nadzieje.
z r%asienia WARY, lila w%yros}a,
Stopy PREY ziem1, g{owa wysko,
A tax pokorna choG tax wynios}a,
Re w niebo unosi oko.
I przyodziala szaty snie2yste,
Kt6rym cd Boga car TAXI danny,
lie oalsamiczne wonie ich czyste,
Najciezsze aagoja rany!
Ma krwia ~zoranej dolinie chwafy,
Gdzie meczennikow biele]a kosci,
Zbrojny koleami, zeszed} wspaniafy,
Krzak ROXY. To kwiat mifosci!
1 bohaterow uwiehczyi skronie
l stat sic hasfem, nagrodq cnoty,
I pobratymcze ~pofaczyf dionie,
Gromadzac uczuc klejnoty!
4 posrod 1an6w zbozowej trawy,
W cen.u gafazek nadbrze3nej kniei,
Wyrosf drobniutki kwiatek modrawy,
Blawatek. To kwlat nadziei!
Gdy troska 1ycia rolnik sic trudzi,
Niebleska 1aska on sic zasmieje,
" sercach otuche sllna rozbudzl:
Re plon obtity dojrzeje.
Dzieweczko polska w aycia p%odro2y:
Przytul do serca ka2dy z tych kwiatek,
P%rzybierz "a godfo, MECH przyszfost wroay:
Lilijka, roza, bfawatek.
l braci twoich W %polskie; krainie,
Gdy u%padaja, 0iedy watpieja,
To ich podtrzymui W WALK godzinie:
Wiara, mifosciq, nadziejq!