Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-08-09
wHAT DEMOCRACY Will DO.
And What Free Trade win DO for the
Workingman as shown by the Past.

I
and who Is a practical and successful
/ farmer, being extensively engaged in
that industry, in a recent letter says:
1--WE find, through the whole history
of the Democratic party, whenever they
| have been in power, they have reduced
the tariff. In the fall OF 1874 they elect
cd James X. Polk and in 1S46 they had
a majority in both houses of Congress,
| and reduced the tariff from 40 to IA per
cent. Mark what followed. 4 general
cry of hard times. Farmers i'm 1S4S in
| Sew York State sold their pork for
| $3.50 per hundred net; a pair Of steers
! weighing 1900 only brought SEQ: the
best farm hands could get but IS per
month for seven months, and weg'a glad
| of an opportunity to work FOR board dur
/ ing the winter. A good book-keeper re-
! ceived only from $50 TO $3.50 per year.
! Well do | remember the old Wing cam
paign cry of 1913. "a dollar q day, roast
| beef, and free schools" So hard were
! the tines that this was supposed to rep
! resent all that man could desire. Though
/ the Democrats did not elect their candi-
/ date in 1913 they had control of Congress
/ throughout Taylor's and Fillmore's adj
/ ministrations In 1856 James Buchanan
was elected President. The following
extract is from the first message TO Con-
/ gress Of that shrewd Democrat; after
! his party had had control ci the govern
ment for ten years, and had enforced
/ during that time the low tariff they are
now clamoring after:
! We have possessed all the elements OF
/ material wealth in rich abundance and
! yet notwithstanding all these advantages
! our country is at this moment in a deplOr-
| able condition. In the midst of unsur-
/ passed plenty in all the productions OF
/ agriculture, and in all the elements OF Ma
tional wealth we find our manufactures
! suspended, our public works retarded;
our private enterprises abandoned, and
| thousands Of useful lab0rers thrown out
| Of employment and reduced to want The
| revenue OF the government, which is
chiefly derived from duties on imports
! from abroad, is greatly reduced Under
/ the circumstances, q loan may be required
! before the close of the present session.
! But this although deeply to be regretted,
would prove TO be only a slight misfortune
! when compared with the suffering and
distress among the people.
win some good old Democrat who
/ mas shown that he loves his country bet
ter than any party or any other country,
! arise and explain why he wants to 20
! back to low tariff and free trade after
! thirty years of high tariff. which has
| brought prosperity and National growth
unparalleled in the history Of the world,
while the laboring man has had the
/ benefits Of fIee schools, and has had
/ higher wages, the neccssaries of life,
/ and more of its luXures than working
men have ever had in any country.
/ understand why the Mugwumps
want 10 back 10 60 low tariff. They are a
class of men who have more money
| than they ever expected to have. They
are afraid of a free government and
/ prosperous condition of the workingmau.
| They admit they waat a stronger govern
meut, and they hope to obtain it by re-
! ducing wages IN this country to the
pauper labor Of Europe For the sake
/ Of having free trade man. like Grover
at the head of the government, they will
swallow his civil service professions and
/ his one-tcrm dodge. allow the South TO
| control the government and keep from
| 600 600 voters in Dakota the right Of
/ franchise which is the very foundation
/ Of free government | should like to
/ have a war Democrat explain how he
can support that party. Nor do ! see
/ how q Norwegian. or % German, or a
! liberty loving lrishman, who has made
! America his adopted country, can sup
/ port the Democratic nominec. lie owes
! his position to a few blugWumps in New
| York, whose wishes he is bound to re-
/ spect These men are but too anxious
/ 20 toady to the English aristocracy be-
| cause they have been diued st the Cob
! den Club and allowed to look at the
! crown
For one who loves republican form
/ Of government this Is the most important
/ election we have ever had. We see uu-
/ der a Democratic administration 1000
/ coo Of voters DISTINGUISHED. We see the
| control Of the government handed over
/ to the seCtiounlism of the solid South
| Ne see the duty taken off OF wool and
! kept ON sugar ut the demand of that sec
! tioa of the country, a President elect
under the solemn pledge of reducing the
surplus BY REDUCING !ha tariff on suga.
| il could be reduced $50 200, 600. But in
sted of reducing the surplus what has he
/ done with il? Eighty millions are de-
| posted in a few favored banks in New
| York Has Chicago. Cincinnati, ST.
| Louis, or any other Western city been
| favored with any deposit? No, not one
| dollar! Is there "a man ON this green
| earth so green that he does not under
| stand that these favored banks are TO
| contribute to the democratic campaign
! fund.- What a humliating position for
a free peoplel A party in power
| ewing taxes to increase its surplus aud
I using the income Of that surplus to carry
the next election Has the marvellous
/ prosperity which the grand old Republi-
/ can party with high tariff has given us
/ during the last quarter Of a century
/ dulled the sense Of justice and lulled to
/ sleep the patriotism Of the American
people? II Grover is elected | shall be
/ lievc it has
The time has come when the young
men Of this country should study It's
/ history, that they may learn ITS develop
/ ment and know its interests and its
! needs, that they may become cnthused
with the desire to continue the prosper
/ ity their fathers have Ind, and enjoy the
/ blessings which its liberty affords The
/ young men who will this fall cast their
/ FIRST Presidential ballot are to determine
/ the future policy of the government
( 1t lies with them TO decide whether we
/ are to be controlled By the English Cob
| den Club, and be forbidden at Eugland's
! nod TO fish In our own waters, or Wheth