Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-29

most disastrous financial year in Amerl-
can history. Three years later, almost,
the republic was face TO face with the
question of her preservation, An armed
and disci plined and premeditated foe
sprang up in the face of national prog.
ress and prosperity The government
of America rose equal to the occasion.
1t rose equal to it by virtue of the wis
dom of its counselors. From the ruin of
( free trade, brought about by demo-
cratic administration; from the ruin of
rebellion, brought about by another
democratic administration, the consel-
ors OF the government rescued the conn
try by TIE establishment of the tariff
laws that grasped the serpent OF rebel
lion with the hand of Hurcules and, after
four years of tremendous struggle,
strangled it forever. Applause.
In that time see what has been accom-
plIshed; in that time see how our popula-
ton has advanced, free labor established
at the south, so much moro impetus given
TO the laboring Industries of the north,
aud today, after twenty four years of
peace, the country that the northern bat
tallions trampled down in their holy
march-the country through which Sher-
man, and Logan, and Falrchild cheers
end the rest of the gallant commanders
led their months country, by virtue of
the magnanimity of its conquerers, and
by virtue of the WISDOM of their policy,
starts up to night with furnaces blazing
all along the Appalachian chain, starts up
redeemed, regenerated, Disseminated; and
the industrial new south, blessed by
the legislation of the north, knows life
and glory and prosperity that it never
attained in the proud days when the plan
tiers were the owners of the slaves. APP
plause
Wherever we may turn we will see
THE SAME GRAND LESSON,
exemplihed in that doctrine OF protec-
tion-the protection that republican
executives and republican congresses
have wisely modified TO suit the wishes
of the people. When protection was in
the hands of a republican administration
and OF a republican congress 1t was in
the hands of its friends, but the situa-
tion becomes entirely different when it
passed into the hands of democratic
president and a democratic congress.
My friends, not the south alone has felt
the impulse of protec i've legislation.
Let Us look back few years and notice
how few factories there we're west of the
Aueg Let us remember that
Pittsburg was the center of what was
then termed western prosperity. But
now wherever you go in all our cities
and towns the smoke from the factory
chimney arises and darkens the sky, but
net with the cloud and the gloom of dis
aster Wherever you turn you find in
| FAINT industries springing into life. You
] H,l ola hut mr. raf "
was paralyzed in the days of free trade,
/ gained a mighty impulse and stretched
across the continent until the locomJ-
tive, bearing freight and tidings
from east to west, steamed above the
waves of the Pacific ocean. Our own
great home market has beer enlarged
the increase of population has taken care
of that. No wave of famine has swept
over the land; the wild sreculatons that
led TO the collapse of 1873 have been
miuimized or dwarfed by the general
prosperity of the nation, established by
the system which the democratic party
tonight is pledged to destroy.
REPUBLICANS or WISCONSIN,
you did your full part in the civil war
that threatened the existence of the ma
ton. Your forefathers did their full
part in the other wars that threatened to
annihilate American liberty and indie
pendence; but now you are assailed by a
more subtle foe. You stand before a
foe against whom yalor ia Of no avail,
for here there is no physical casus beli.
You do not stand ia the mailed ranks
that swept in a line of steel and glory up
the rugged heights of Missionary ridge.
You stand before foe entrenched In
sophistry: you stand before foe that
depends on loaded dice; you stand before
a foe that is unable TO manfully carry
the walls of your economic Troy, and
EMPLOYS a wooden horse fed on free trade
chestnuts to enter it. Applause and
laughter. Ladies and gentlemen, be
ware of the wooden horse; the wooden
horse is the alleged republican editor,
whoever be may be, that endorses Cleve'
lands policy. Loud cheers and laugh
ter.
I have spoken of England somewat
} severely and need not tell you that
am not in love with her, but / will give
her one piece of credit that is due 20 her
Rapacious, cruel as she is, she never yet
deserted British subject who found
himself in the grasp of a foreign power
She made war in Abyssinia to release her
missionaries; she made war in Coomassie
for much the same object. She has spent
her blood and treasure to maintain th,
, dignity of her flag, pirate flag though il
} is. But we have
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
that always considers the foreigner righ
and the American wrong. Under no cir
cumstance s, according to the govern
ment that exists to-day, can an American
do right in a foreign country. If he ii
run into Jail in Mexico, If he is arrested
bv the sultan OF Morocco, il he is pressed
into the German ranks by Bismarck, if hi
is crowded into the French army by Car
! not or Boulanger, if h. is arrested II
] England for looking like an Irish Ameri
can cheers and laughter, it is all thu
same thing. have great respect for th'
: Society of Friends bot I don't think thai
the presidential chair, or the Office Of thu
secretaryship Of state Is the proper place
T, for professional Quakers. While [ an
not in favor Of wild policy that woul'
involve this country unnecessarily in war