Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-09-03
Winooshi, IT, dug. %, 1888.
Address of the Republican State
Committee to the Voters of
Vermont.

Ut Gue NerulOnGefS duedu anu
keep the column closed up'' was the
order of the gallant Sedgwick a quar-
ter of a century ago when the Sixth
Corps had great duty to perform.
The struggle was then to save the
nation in order to protect the home
and the individual.
Vermont again stands at the head
of the column and leads the van in
another struggle to protect the home
and the industries that make the
home in order to save the nation.
In form it is a political controversy.
In substance it is more. 1t involves
the prosperity and the life of indus
tries, and the rewards of labor. 1t
touches the hearth-stone.
National honor and independence
are at stake. Shall America be Amer
lean or English is the question. Shall
the Republic be dependent or indie
pendent? Shall there be home rule
or foreign rule? Shall the products
of labor, whether from the farm or
the factory, have market that will
pay the laborer according to the
American standard under protection,
or the foreign standard under free
trade? Shall we listen to the hum
of industry or the moan of want?
Shall we produce our own wool, cut
our own lumber, manufacture our
own iron and the products of iron,
quarry our own marble, granite and
slate, or shall we buy of the foreign
err? In word, shall we utilize our
inexhaustible resources and be de-
pendent American freemen, or shall
we let the foreigner first crush our
industries and then extort the prices
which cupidity dictates when the
home supply is destroyed?
These are the questions involved
in the issue which a deluded presi-
dent has forced upon the American
people. Upon such an issue, so
vital to national independence and
individual prosperity, 1t is not strange
that democrats, as well as republi-
cans, should say as in '61, "It is not
party, but country it is not politics,
but patriotism
No one doubts but that Vermont
stands where she has always stood
in such a contest. But patriotic men
and women are waiting impatiently,
from ocean to ocean, to hear her
voice in the old-time thunder-tones,
pronouncing for country and flag by
the protection of American industries
and labor.
The time for Vermont to speak is
the first Tuesday of September. The
voter here who favors Harrison and
Protection" and fair treatment of
the veterans of the war, and a re-
form instead of a sham in the civil
service, cannot help the cause unless
he votes for Dillingham; next Tues
day. The question IS not one of
victory, bat majority. If every man
who prefers Harrison and Protection
to Cleveland and Free Trade will 90
to the polls at our state election, the
magnitude of the majority will cleo
trify the country and make votes for
Harrison by the thousand in other
states.
Let no man fail in his duty. Let
no one be deferred by personal con-
siderations. Let no one neglect from
a feeling of assured victory, to give
one day to country Let no one for
get how potent is the influence of
example. Let all remember that
when the calm intelligence of Yer
monters gives expression of their
conviction, it commands respect
throughout the land.
If all the voters vote, our majority
will be larger than ever before. Name
will follow up our example and keep
the colum closed up; and on the
9th of November the grand assault
along the whole line will carry our
banners to victory and our country
will be redeemed.
Republican State Committee.
Be sure to go and vote next