Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-28

when you go east by way of Pittsburg.
In that same county there are tens Of
thousands of imported laborers
brought in to cut down the
wages of American workmen.
There is not millionaire farmer
in Illinois who made his money out OF
the soil Under protection there never
will be, nor one in Kansas, nor in Mis-
souri,, nor Iowa, nor one in the whole
| West. Farmers of Illinois mark this:
The average Illinois farm was bought at
So per acre forty years ago then emigra-
ton, railroads, improved machinery and
your own bone and sinew brought that
land in the next twenty years up to $40,
but in the last twenty years, though you
have the two great markets of Chicago
and st. Louis at your doors, that farm
has not advanced in price nor paid fair
interest on its value. 1t is my honest
judgment that Western land to-day
would sell for 60 per cent more than it
does if the steel rails relaid upon it, and
the houses, barns and fences rebuilt upon
it. did not have to pay tribute of count
less millions to the iron and lumber con-
federates.
am not only for Cleveland, but l am
for John M. Palmer for Governor OF this
great State. l love Illinois. 1t is my
State. Next to calling ourselves Ameri
cans the proudest heritage l know Of is
to own Illinois as birthplace. She is
the imperial queen of the West. She is
rich in intellect, rich in the patriotism
and integrity of her sons, rich in her
boundless wealth. She gave to the ma
ton Lincoln and Douglas and Grant.
She sent to the front quarter of a mil.
lion of as brave men as died at Their
mopyle. She is too great and too rich
to leave the vast affairs of her three
millions OF people in the continuous
control of any set of politicians, be
they Republicans or Democrats wants
change. l want our State institutions
overhauled. l accuse no man, but 1
want the accounts examined. l want to
know why our State taxes are enormous
and want the investigation to be made
by men who did not impose or enjoy the
taxes. l know General Palmer. He is
honest and brave. Illinois has not seen
since Douglas died such canvass as he
is making. John M. Palmer can neither
be bought nor frightened. He must be
courageous and beyond bribery else 1
cannot understand why penitentiary
commissioners, asylum trustees and
small army of State employees who are
suspected of having formed rings in
every State institution, are flying up and
down the prairies of our commonwealth
to compass his defeat.
| am not afraid of the Democratic
party. am not afraid of the Republican
party when it's honest voice and con-
science are not stihed by trading poll
ticians. The masses of both parties can
be trusted, else self-government is fail
ure. Each party has done glorious things
in the past, and each has blundered, but
on the foremost issue of this hour the
Democratic party is right. The Demo-
cratic party led the country through
successful war with England in 1872 and
through successful war with Mexico in
1847. The Republican party led the
country safely through the civil wal
of 1861. Under Democratic leader
ship we became a mighty Repub-
lic Under Republican control we
solved many grave problems and became
mightier than before. Each party has
given to the country noble patriots and
wise statesmen. l abhor that slavish
party spirit which shuts it's eyes to all
good save in its own party. l am per-
fectly willing to trust for awhile longer
the destinies of this republic to the party
that gave us Thomas jefferson. and
Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland.
l am more than willing, am anxions,
to trust the fate of the laboring man and
the farmer to that party whose strength
to-day lies among poor men and not
among those factory lords and protected
monopolists who have formed on our soil
confederacy as dangerous as the one
which went down in 1865.
care nothing for the personal gains
of politics. | have asked no personal
favors, will ask none, at Cleyeland's
hands. l have seen him, talked with
him, admired his rugged honesty, his
broad common sense, his conservation of
himself to duty. He believes in God
and believes in the people, and believe
as he does and believe in Cleveland too.
He led his party to victory with the
grandest motto that ever leader wrote
on his banner-"Tell the truth" He
would not lie to get the office; he will
not lie to keep it. He has torn away the
veil and exposed the inequalities and in
justice OF the protective system, and,
faithful to his motto, he told the truth.
He came up, not through luxury,
but through adversely, to bis high
place, and he learned in his youth,
and knows far better than General Har-
rison knows.th struggles and the bitter
ness of ill-requited toll. l utter not one
word against the character or the intel
lectual fitness Of Benjamin Harrison.
He is honest, ,but-so is William Wander
bilt. He is upright, but-so is many an
English duke. He is shrewd, but-so is
a Wall street banker. He is respectable,
but-so is the high.salaried manager of
many an Eastern insurance company
He is able, else he would not have been
for many years the Western representa-
tive in Federal Courts of the most power
full corporations. But want for Presi.
dent now in this contest with the mil
lionaires man whose honesty, shrewd-
ness and sympathies are enlisted in
behalf Of the wage-earner, in behalf of
farmer and not in behalf of the so-called
legal rights of thousands Of factory lords
and kings.
do not for one moment doubt Grover
Cleveland's triumphant reelection. His
message stripping bare the iniquity OF
protection was bugle call, war cry,
that has stirred generous people as
never since Lincoln called for men to
save the Union. Millions of Americans
who love freedom, fraternity and
equality are responding to his summons
for help against the mighty, and the
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