Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-08-23
A SHORT CATECHISM.
Let American Working-Men Read and
Digest These Words of Brother.

Question. Who controls the Gov
eminent of the United States at the
present time?
Answer. 1.-The Government Of the
United States is now controlled By ex-
Confederate soldiers" Speech of
Bradley T. johnson, ex-Confederate
Q. What is the chief end OF EEK
Confederate control?
A. To keep the South solid, tear
down Northern industries-pauperize
Northern wage-workers.
Q. Who chiefly desire to destroy
Northern industries by turning them
over to British workshops?
a. The same who desired to destroy
the Nation and set UP a Southern Con-
federacy.
Q. Who did the ex-Confederate
soldiers" make their Speaker in Con-
gress. the more effectively to make
warfare on Northern industries?
A. A Southern free-trader. whose
seat was contested and fairly won by an
honest working-man.
Q. Who did this Southern free-trade
Speaker place in charge of thirty
important Congressional committees
out of total of fifty-four. to make
sure of g ex-Confederate control?
A. Thirty-one ex-Confederate "
helpers OF British workshops.
Q. Who did this Southern free-trade
Speaker make his chief instrument to
cripple Northern industries?
A. An northumberland free trader
from Texas-ignorant and bitterly hos
tile concerning Northern interests
blind and selfish in his devotion to
Southern interests.
Q. Who did the Democratic National
convention select to build its platform
of principles?
A. An ''ex-Confederate' free trader;
the most radical of his kind.
Q. Whence did this ''ex-Confeder-
ate' free-trader obtain timber for the
main plank in his platform?
A. From the constitution of the sex
Confederate" States in these words:
Nor shall any duties or tarsS on impor-
tations from foreign nations be laid to
promote or foster any branch Of indus
try
Q. Who was compelled to swallow
the platform of the ''ex-Confederate"
free trader?
A. Grover Cleveland.
@. What are the main principles of
the Mills bill, prepared by the EEK
Confederate" free trader from Texas?
A. Protection to Southern interests
destruction to Northern.
Q. What results are the s'ex-Con-
federate" free traders working for?
a. To keep Southern illiterate labor
debased-degrade Northern educated
labor to same level
Q. Who forced upon Us the tariff OF
'46, and fourteen years of tariff re-
form" in the interests OF British work
shops and slave labor?
A. The " ex-Confederate free
traders and their slave-holding ances-
tors. aided by Northern dough-faced
Democrats.
Q. How did it leave us?
A. The National Treasury bankrupt
National debt increasing-Govern-
ment shining for money at 10 per
cent, private interest 10 to "a per cent.
furnaces closed-working-m idle
industries crippled-wages one-half to
one-third of what they are to-day
plenty of British goods-nothing to
buy with!
Q. Who gave US the present tariff
system and twenty-five years of pro-
tected industries in the interests of
americans?
A. Northern Republicans, aided by
anti-English Democrats.
Q. Where are we now?
A. The richest nation on the globe
hun
dred and fifty millions in savings
banks nineteen hundred millions in
other banks-Governme interest q
per cent.-private interest to 6.per
cent.-Treasury full-workshops busy
best fed, best clothed, best educated,
best housed people ever lived-all
necessaries never so cheap-nobody
but "ex-Confederate free
traders, English importers and pro-
British Democrats.
FELLOW WORKING-MEN In days
gone by some of you faced the " Rebel
Yell" Then it was aimed at North
ern soldiers; once more it is heard;
this time it is against Northern in
dustries and Northern wageworkers-
Shall it triumph in '8S, or go down as
in '65?-A Nottingham in Chicago
Figures for Working-Men.
For the sake of a comparison between
the wages paid to the operatives of the
different manufacturing countries, be-