The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-09-01
A SHORT SUMMARY OF FACTS.
Who Are the Supporters or Free Trnas
and What Is Their Relation to
American La Dor.

American Labor.
Judge Tourgec in recent letter asks
whether 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 10 be subserved by the predemin-
ance of party favorng the Mills bill
aud committed To other legislation or
like character. who are the advocates
and supporters of this legislation, ana
what is their relation to American labor
and National prosperity?
The answer is easy and signifcant:
1. Every foreign manufactures and
dealer in articles competing with Amerl-
can products.
2. Every foreign statesman who
faces in his own land the problem or Tn
employed pauper labor.
3. Every government which is jealous
OF our unprecedented prosperity.
4. Every enemy of republican govern
ment in the world.
5. Every opponent of equal rights
and opportunity 10 the laborer.
6. Probably ninetecn-twenteths of all
those who engaged in rebellion and
sought to destroy the Union.
7. Practically all of those who com
PEELED the Nation to incur an indebted
ness of 81. 900. 0O0. 900. and who now ask
to be accounted the only true economists
in her councils and the real guardians
of our National honor.
s. Two-thirds of those by whose votes
the Mills bill passed the House of x Re
representatives. were bred to the economic cs
| of slavery aud 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 oue-eighth oi
! the aggregate mechanical wages, and
| produce but one.seventh of the manu-
factured products.
| TO- Two thirds of its support come:
! from region whose ideas of public
policy are based on the economies oi
slavery as cornerstone aud who deem
manageable labor of all things mos
desirable.
II. In the sixteen states where seven
teen out of every one hundred Of tn
white voters c&n not read their ballots
and where the black voter is not allowed
a voice in the government. there Were
only sixteen votes against the Mills bill
II. Two-thirds OF the support of tn
Mills bill and of the party which make
il the ground on which it asks the voter
preference comes from those states i
which the laborer has hitherto had few
est rights; whose prosperity has bee
least. and whose purchase, conquest
and control have required the govern
ment to incur more than nineteen
twentieths of all the bonded debt it ha
assumed in its hundred years OF exis
ence.
Is. The major part of those Mort
and South who insisted upon the sanclt
of our National obligation to nourisl
and maintain slavery believe in the polio
of the Mills bill and of the party respoi
sible for it.
! Il. The party which declared the wa
for the Union failure and the greer
back unlawful; which opposed recsi
struction, justified the ku klux, oppose
the resumption of specie payment, oil
n structed the building of n navy until
came into power, prefers a conscript
n soldier. and Confederate cavalier
: a federal hummer. which holds powe
= by bloodshed and rerror-this part
Y stakes its claim TO the voters preferenc
! on the policy the Mills bill inaugurates
e 10. A party which has a represent
4 tive of the Standard Oil i'll the Cabne
q and another at the head of the ENecutl'
s. Committee. clamorS for the Mills bill
@ order TO destroy the evil of uniawt
c trusts.
II IS. Every dude" who imports h
II politics and lingo" Is an advocate OF q
}. English policy for American labor.
e II. Every so-called political econ
% mist, who believes that true prosperl
,t consists in condition of affairs und
n which the rich grow richer and few
e. and the poor poorer and more numerou
Y is vociferous in his advocacy of I'll
n. policy begotten of slavery and nursed
10 rebellion.
IS 18. Every man who flies the red fl
of anarchy, who appeals to dynam
at and the dagger to make society what
'e would have it, sports also the red b;
III dana, which is the emblem of coml
e, disasters to American labor.
G. 49, TO all these things must be ado
us a minority of intelligence, patriotic a
,h sincere Americans, whose belief IN
% universal theory of free trade Is so
ty tense as to compel them to train III
n motley company which muster in
OF train of that ''noblest type of Amerie
nc manhood who occupies the WI
~ House, scolds the Senate, and objurga
Oh the soldier.
We No doubt all of these elements are
ne the main sincere. The Bystander
C. sires to be clearly understood. as not ol
ne admitting, but insisting on that. Nea
no all men are sincere in their political
IN liefs. The political badge usually
We emplifies an honest conviction, e'
U.s. though it be
" Now the image Of good Queen Besss
ge And anon Of bloody Ma y,
id. All that he seeks to call attention TO
~ this classification is, whether the histo
all experience, training, and inclination
yer the classes who are the chief advoc;