Iron County register., 1888-11-22

We give place to the following because it
| is right to do so, and because we desire to
knowingly misrepresent no man nor any
| thing:
PILOT KNOB, Mo-, Nov. II, 1888.
Ed. Reg,ster-In your last issue the ac-
count you gave of the Republican ratification
was surprising to US to think you would call
German American citizens "Dagos." Please
| correct that statement In your next issue to
| the public, and to you we will say that we
came to this country with our own free W |,
| and not to cheaper American labor. We
hard-working men, and are not ashamed II
we did walk under protective banner, for
we knew Stree trade" was not to the interest
of the American laboring men. You have
compared US ard called us Dagos, Negroes,
Dutchmen, and now we think it Is time for
to let up. The four gentlemen that bore the
transparency indicating "free trade" was
dead might be some Of your readers, viz:
FRANK SCHROEDER.
LOUIS FINK.
LOUIS SCHAEFFER.
JOHN MEHRKEMS.
First, we heard from what we believed
good authority that the four men bearing the
banner with the coffin labeled "Free Trade"
and decorated with rats were "Dagos." This
seemed naturally true to us, as Dagos did
carry "Protection" banner In your process
sion on the 9th, and we accepted tine state
ment without our usual careful investiga-
tion. II we were wrongly informed, the
Misrepresentation was not intentional, <sas
it? 1t is true, we saw the procession, but
could not tell in the uncertain light who bore
the aforesaid banner. But no matter by
whom carried, the banner was a He-or,
rather, typlfed lie; and being honest men
you should have refused to carry 1T. The
l1Ao fo, l.
Protection, but for Reform of the Tariff,
which the ablest Republican leaders-Sher-
man, Grant, Garfield, Arthur, and others
had repeatedly declared was necessary.
Second, when Messrs. Schroeder, Fink
Schaeffer and Mshrkems assert that we haye
called them negroes, or Dagos knowingly,
they speak without warrant of fact.
These gentlemen are no doubt honest,
hard working men: we have nothing to say
to the contrary. We presume they did
"come to this country Of their own free will"
but have they ever stopped to think that II
their now loved Protection doctrine prevail
ed in its ideal fulness, they would still be
residents of Vaterland and under. the rule of
the Kaiser: II it is right to protect the
American manufacturer from the foreign
manufacturer, is it not equally right to pro-
tect the American laborer from the foreign
laborer? II it is detrimental to American
interests to give q market to foreign goods,
on the theory that Home Market gives en-
ployment to home iaber which will be else
unemployed, does it not follow that it is just
as injurious to that home labor TO allow the
free incoming Of foreign laborers? Remem.
Der, all this Is your doctrine, not ours. AL
though we are American born, we believe
we have the interests of our country as much
at heart as You can have, with much greater
faith in its ability to meet the world in COM
petition.
In conclusion, friends Schroeder, Fink,
Schaeffer and Mehrkems, il Protection is so
good thing for the laboring man, tell us
why 1t is that wages In Protective Germany
are only about half rs high as 10 Free Trade
Englandf You appear to have been study
ing the question. and ought to be able to
| give satisfactory answer.
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