Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-26
GEN. CLINTON B. FISK,

UEN. CLINTON i. FISK.
OUR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ON
THE STUMP.
AN Eloquent Appeal to Prollibitionists tn
stand by Their Guns-Text of . Speech
delivered Before u Vast Audience In the
City of Detroit.
Things 60 so rapidly In this country when
sney get started. We do not know how soon we
ore 70 trlumph-that we are to triumph is as
certain as the sun is to rise Tomorrow It is a
part OF Gods purpose, a part Of the Messiahio
purpose, to sit In judgment OIL this earth, and it
VII De accomplished This wrong which we fight
an, NOW, my friend H. ooks spent good deal of
tlme talking about the things that the people
sac ssid about him. Nobody ever believed any of
Why, dear me! have seen 50 many thinea n
s sne ne.wspaRers about myself that could
s sweeG ABOUT It. though have said that the
monopoly mo OF that sort Of vice we will not soil
cal warfare. Ii they smite me on one cheek
turn the other, and by that time they discover
mat mat have cheek enough to go clear round, and
mnch about what they say about us. II has
rfained calumny upon some of our people in dit
i a parts OF the country it has rained onmy
before day Of Now 'efn1 aS " yet Be-
sweet about it; let us remember that we ara
nghting the worst barbarism of these mes, and
penis of the saloon should coil In our pathways
and hiss and rattle and strike Let us 90 straight
, .tsT N our duty with our faces toward the
not 80 lonesome as we used to be and there is
not 80 much danger Of q stampede among our
ps9pss ., Is has been Prcphese They used to
cans especially, would certainly come back to
nelp to save the party this year. in order to save
WY said to all such I'VE the
dustries and the American home; the platform
OF the Prohibition party is protection as perfect
a. can be written We would protect every CAPT.
every producing iaborer, and beyond all that. we
would protect their homes We would save for
people Of this the five hun
aerly says they spend in the saloons of the coun-
Try" He has, through all the cities, through ail
Sne great shops, been making up most valuable
five hundred millions Of dollars for the WORKING
mans home, for the bet er education of his
cnilaren, tor the adornment of his home and the
comfort OF his family; for little organ in his
house. instead of demijohn What sort Of pro.
lection is that?
Mo. Nov it has been sed thai our people STAN
election recently held in Ma ne. Now when YOU
come down to careful analysis OF the figures, it
IS not 80 at all, and there did not anybody STAN
pede much Because you look at the figures of
the election in Maine very carefully and you dis
cover this. that our vote is fifty per cent larger
than It was four years ago. You discover that
years ago. Even the wicked Democrats have in
creased more than the Republicans did in the
state OF Maine. This indicates that there is no
great stampede, and that in spite of the great
scream OF wages, wages, wages. the country
through that the working people are thinking
Tor themselves, that they are not to be STAN
peded from the truth.
Nov; we stand by the employer and employ
Cd We have platform and protection that
would give us money enough to care for the Gov
do Re %snt
We stand almost precisely where the Repub-
leans have stood for the last twenty years.
such panic had their convention been held be-
fore the Democratic convention was held. The
d Democrats. those ely dogs in politics, went
camp on the old Republican camp-ground
Think Of Henry Watterson and his party passing
the the night away in St Louis singing:
And what Could tho Republicans do but to
move further up the hill and declare for high
or protection, when they had said, four years
justment of the inequalities of the tariff
do not know that anybody understands the
tariff it 10 such difficult problem to under
Georgia, not long since, living little remote
from Atlanta, who had never seen q large town
and had never seen railway; two brothers,
came into the community man who discussed
the tariff at the country school house. These
two brothers got very much confused about it,
trees in the forest, they heard the whistle OF a
section. They never had heard a word about It.
in his fright at the unearthly sound, what do
you suppose it is?" II don t know" said John,
unless it is that COMPOUNDED tariff coming down
Ar11st 10 ,ip,0f
people, the laboring people throughout the land,
to take up the question and study it, One man
says: your wnges are sure to be reduced unless
you vote this way" Another man says "Your
wages will be raised if you will vote the other
way" It is not at all surprising that they are
confused O little.
ion of wages which will read, not taking your
time more than q single moment to do it.
Mr.; Carroll D.; Wright, acknowledged, /
believe, by all parties, to he one of
the most thorough of statisticians, we'll
up in everything pertaining to the tariff,
gives Us these facts II a. recent zee Paper IN the
Bureau of Statistics Of Labor. He there gives
most exhaustive investigation of the compare
tive wages of labor there from 1850 to 1858. He
says "The average tariff in 1856 was "A per cent.
The average tariff in 1880 was 48 per cent. The
average wages of all industries in Massachusetts
in 1850 was So 10 per week. In 1880 it was S9.45;
course of those years o largo increase in the
price of groceries, provisions and fuel"
he also says: Uuer6 were Clluo 10 examine
all the details as to wages in the protected in
dustries the result would be still more striking,
and in many of them there has been actual
falling off. To attempt to connect the rise and
fall of wages with the turif system. he says lis
utterly futile"
The general result he states to be this: I'VE
see in Massachusetts o great advance from 1860
to 1872, then continual falling OF. until 1880,
then rally and continued Improvement to 1883.
Wages i'll Massachusetts reached their lowest
level in 1889, and yet the tariff was at high
water mark" the highest t-rif ever known to
this country or, no says, to any country in the
world of which he has any knowledge.
Now let us remember, my friends that there
is good deal which enters into the question OF
wages besides the tariff. That may enter into it
to some extent, but other things enter into the
question of wages. And, compare this fifty or
seventy-five or hundred millions with the
Thousand millions we are wasting i'll our wealth,
and the worse waste OF manhood. through the
liquor traffic, and what Q miserable little thing
the tariff appears to be. You give. US sober
nation, dear friends, and prohibition success,
and this country can settle any problem brought
before it. But we cannot do it with the saloons
in power, with the saloon sitting supreme IN the
politics OF the country.
We waited this year for utterances from both
parties. The Democratic party, US DIR. Brooks
knows and he knows ell about the Democratic
party and it's iniquities, it's Inconsistencies and
its love of whisky-he has seen the party grow
that party had not a word to say Tor us at st.
Louis not single syllable: They reaffirm their
belief that no sumptuary laws should veX the
citizen. Then we listened for some word from
.1o&fN 1r,oo mir,