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county. There is no doubt about his
reelection.
| AS many as 700 men are now busy
grading the w. & S. W. railroad
| Twenty miles of the road is to be com.
I, pleted by November LIST next. Foley
Bros. s. Donald Grant have the contract
for grading the road to Mason City,
Iowa, and after completion Of the FIRST
twenty miles, which will secure to the
company the bonds of this city in the
sum Of 100000 which was voted in aid
Of the construction of this road July,
1887. work will be begun all along the
line to Mason City, Iowa, and rapidly
pushed to completion.
Winona county, despite the efforts Of
a few would be leaders sends an anti
Ames delegation to the st. Paul Dem
ocratic state convention. While our
delegation is not instructed yet it is
solid for Hon. e. n. Wilson for Gov
ernor, who, if nominated, with some
good clean German for second place,
will no doubt be elected. Judge Viii
sons prospects for reelection in this
district are glowing brighter every day.
With E. M. Wilson for Governor, Judge
Wilson in the First district, Rice in the
Fourth and Mcdonald in the Third,
and the disaffection in the old Fifth,
the Democrats are almost sure Of sue
cess in Minnesota this year.
Much is being said and written now
concerning the Irish vote in the present
campaign. Now, as ever, The great
bulk Of the Irish vote is Democratic,
and will remain Sc despite the prating
Of a few demagogues who are continu-
ally exposing their own ignorance and
insulting the intelligence of QUE Irish
voters by urging them to vote the Re-
publican ticket, because, they say, Eng
and is profoundly intrusted in having
the United States adopt free trade and
thus allow her (England) to food our
markets with her pauper mads goods.
They tell us that in the event OF Cleve-
lands reelection We will have free
trade" and that then England will
crush our industries, as she did those Of
ireland by her free trade policy. It is
difficult to understand how any intelli-
gent man can claim that English free
trade crushed Irish Industries when
England did not adopt free trade until
1876 and Irish industries were
destroyed centuries before. They never
think of telling US about England's
"pauper labor,' hut carefully AVOID
speaking Of Germany, France or Italy,
where labor receives a much smaller
recompense than in free trade England.
1t is very difficult to see how free raw
material, which must reduce the cost Of
production in proportion to the duties
heretofore collected thereon. will cut
down wages to American labor,
especially since the cost Of production
in this country forms the basis for a
high protective tariff On the manu-
featured article. Nor does it seem
reasonable that England should be SO
very very anxious TO see us adopt free
trade since that would surely allow this
country to compete with her in the
worlds markets il, which she, at the
present time has a monopoly. Protect
i've tariff has no more to do with the
wage question in this country than has
the nan in the moon. Wages in this as
in every other country are regulated by
the law Of demand and supply" IT
protective tariff cut any figure in main
tanning wages the least that could be
expected of it would be TO maintain the
wages in all protected Industries; but in
this it absolutely fails, fer wages in the
protected Industries Of this country
have been constantly decreasing for the
past or S years, while just the opposite
is true in the non-protected industries.
The most that can be said OF protection.
is that is does enable manufacturers to
pay better wages, but higher Wages are
paid in this country (than in otl1ers)
not because OF protection but because
of the conditions of our country and
partly to organized labor, which capital
is forced to respect.