Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-28

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less rate. If manufacturing enterprises
| promise to capital such large rewards under
| what the President is pleased to term our
vicious and illogical" tariff laws, why will
capitalists who are certainly as shrewd and
farseelng in money matters as the President
! himself loan their money at four, five and six
| per cent?
| It will be found in almost every instance that
| the prices of protected articles now as COM
pared with four years ago have been reduced.
| Wooden goods OF nearly every description are
cheaper now than they were in the good old
| Democratic days of free trade. A wooden
| blanket worth 80 before the war can now be
| bought for five, and the price of almost every
| article of clothing in general use among the
laborlng classes has been reduced in like pro-
! portion. Salt, one Of the most necessary arti-
Giles OF life we are told, is required to pay a
| heavy duty in order to build up a monopoly in
the manufacture of that article at home; and
yet salt is as cheap, If not cheaper, than it ever
| was before in the world You purchase a
barrel OF salt from your city merchant about as
cheap as you can hire drayman to fill bar
| rel at your nearest sandbank and deliver it in
your back yard. We have reached these con-
! ditions, not through foreign competition, but
| by competition arising at home among our
own manufacturers; and when we manufacture
all we need at prices as low as the article can
be made for at home, then we have reached as
favorable a condition as the natural advantages
| of our country will warrant. To cut lower than
! this must inevitably be done at the expense of
the mechanics and the laboring men.
The Democratic party has been six years in
control of that house Of Congress in which
| under the constitution all revenue laws must
originate 1t has been in control of the Execu-
tive Department OF the Government more than
three years. Yet with large working majori-
ty in the lower house, with its President in the
chair, that party has originated and passed no
single measure to relieve the burden of unnec-
eSSary taxation which just is the slogan
and the war cry of the Democratic campaign.
do not say and I do not believe that the
present Tariff law is perfect The Republican
party long ago set the example of revising the
tariff, and may be relied to correct all its
present and it's future inequalities. But there
is one matter in which am firmly persuaded
that the good sense of the American people as
whole will constrain them to agree with the
Republican policy and principles, and that is
that the doctrines of the English free-trade
school, under which American manufacture
would inevitably be confined to such opera
tions as saving wood and mending shoes,
should never be permitted to gain ascendency
upon this continent. Men who can only view
the ia riff question through the free-trade Cog
giles of Richard Golden and from the stand
point occupied by the English manufacturer
whose desire in the matter is his own selfish
gan will never be permitted by the voters of
this Nation to lay their unWashed and ignorant
hands upon the citadel of American industry
Fellow citizens, should feel that had been
recreant to my sense OF duty if failed to call
your attention to one other question, Ques-
ton that lies at the foundation of our free in
situations, and compared with which all others
sink into nothingness refer to the political
condition of the colored race in the South.
Nearly twice as many members of Congress as
constitute the present Democratic majority in
the lower house hold their seats by counting in
0P o1n n ,,o1,,,
constituency. race beyond the Ohio is
robbed of constitutional right by fraud and
violence. This know has been said many
times, but oven at the risk Of provoking harsh
criticism and bitter vituperation it ought to be
said and shouted and proclaimed in the face OF
Heaven until just God hears the cry of the
oppressed and the fact ceases to exist.
Twenty-three years have elapsed since
great tragedy closed at Appomattox new
generation with faces toward the rising sun
are already on the stage. The passions and
bitter ates engendered by war are gradually
giving way before the bright sunlight of peace.
No one rejoices at this more than do.
would not wantonly revive the bitter memories
of bitter war or stir up the angry passions of
men. Let the dead past bury its dead. But
this is not q question of the dead past but of
the living present; and turn which way we Will
1t stares at us from every section Of the South.
Those responsible for these crimes are the
North and South, including the State OF I'LL
nos, are required to obey. These are the men
who have been unanimous in their vote to
keep South Dakota out of the Union, a Terri
tory nearly one-third larger than that of Hill
nois with population of 100000 people, a
population greater thpn the com bined popula-
lation of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and
Wisconsin when they were admitted into the
Union This Territory, filed s with in
telligence and wealth and all the progressive
ideas of the North, is kept out simply for the
crime OF being Republican, and that too, by
men who are in Congress with the broken
laws OF their country under their feet. The
Nation is ruled to-day by the solid South, and
territory within cannon-shot of the city hall
in the city of New York. What spectacle is
here presented to the American people, BY
these influences Cleveland was elected in 1884,
and by them he expects to be reelected in No.
yember. II this condition Of things was
brought about by a fair and untramm e1ed ex-
preston of opSlion at the ballot=box there would
be no just ground for complaint; but we know
it is not. We know tits the result of frauds, of
violence, OF Intimidation, and sometimes of
murder. The facts we're first denied until
proofs rendered further denial useless. Now
the crime is by some boldly avowed, and by
others and the best OF the beneficiaries con-
| nived at and apologized for. Think OF man
having the effrontery to set up as a reformer
whose own election to high office is the fruit
u d crlac against InaL rlgnJ preSerVatlVe OF all
rights, the ballot.
Senator Wade Hampton, of South Carolina,
gentleman who has profited as much as any
one from Southern bulldoZing, in an article
published in a recent number of the Forum,
while practically admitting these crimes seeks
to justify them by saying that the negro is in
capable of self-government. We know this is
untrue, and the great advances that have been
! made in the duties of citizenship by the col
ored race in the North, many of whom were
| once slaves, proves his staten emit to be false.
At first the Democrats opposed making the
black mans vote constitutional. but do you
| think they would now recall that measure?
By no means. And whys Simply because
| they are willing to count the negro since they
can refuse to count his vote. And the Govern
ment at Washington which took these same
negroes and stood them up in front OF rebel
cannon to save the constitution, now sits down
and says the constitution is powerless to save
the negro. I say out on sucK outrage and in
rights alone; it is aquestion of your rights and
man down South who fought to destroy the
| Union shall count for twice as much in Ameri-
| can politics as the man up North who fought
/ to pr eserve it.
( Let no Republican orator be so mealy
| mouthed and unpatriotic as not to speak OF
! these ohtfages Let such injustice be atraignsd
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