River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-12-06
Gen. Butler S Remarks.


Wednesday, 9th ult.) on the result of
the election.
what is your opinion as to the
outcome of the election, eeneral!"
asked the reporter.
"Oh, we have beaten the English
both in their attack upon our manu-
features and trade and our markets
and upon our fisheries. Those have
been the issues of the campaign, and
the parties have been England on the
one side, led by Cleveland and West,
and the American people on the other
side, led by Harrison and those who
agreed with him.
1.-The outcome is particularly CRATE
full to me, because it settles the ques-
ton of protection for many years to
come. and still more grateful because
the questions between the North and
South are now settled forever.
1.-The South, taking advantage of
the amount of power that they get,
because of their negro population, in
the House of Representatives and in
the electoral college, have tried, with
the help of the city of New York,
dominating that great state, to rIle
the North, and to recover what they
lost by the war. They have signally
failed, and they can never make the
attempt again.
In the first place, the next census,
which will determine the representa-
tion in Congress and the electoral col
lege, will bring in so great an increase
in the inhabitants of the states and
territories of the West and Northwest
that the South and New York cannot
govern the nation any more. Second,
that by the fourteenth amendment.
whenever Congress finds that the
freedmen made voters are deprived of
their political rights, then the states
in which that is done can be deprived
of their political powers, and the
North will no longer tamely and fool
ishly allow, us they have, the South to
exercise the political power of the
negro vote and not let him vote.
There are a good many people in the
North who think the negro has too
much right when he has the right to
vote, and until he is educated very
great many men are inclined to that
view. But | do not know of any body
who believes that the negro ought
not to have the right to vote, but that
his master shall have the right to vote
for him, and that is what is going on
in the South now. 1t won't go on any
more. They will break up or get
broken.
There will be two new states adj
mitted. Dakota and Montana, which
will settle the control of the Senate,
and perhaps also the territory of
Washington and possibly New Mexico.
THE result is grateful TO me be-
cause it disposes of threat of the
Southern politicians that the Western
people would join with the South to
beat the East. and if we did not give
the South what it wanted we should
be swept by Western whirlwind. l
have lived to see that Western whirl-
wind. 1t took place in 1851. 1t was
relied on then by the South. But to
the men of the East, and of Pennsyl-
yania, and of New York and Connecti-
cut. who settled the West and who
are continuing that settlement still
West, and who lately have voted as
they fought. and, regret to say. have
done better in their votes than every
New England state has done, showing
their appreciation of the question of
protection of American industry and
of American workingmen-I can now
fully trust the future destinies of the
country.
"There is a single other thing that
| am glad to find-that this election
has demonstrated that the Irishmen
have found who their true friends
are. They are no longer to be deceIv-
ed into affiliating with those who
claim to be their especial friends at
the very moment they are bobnobbing
and colleagulng with the English gov
eminent.
..Shall you look for any new tariff
legislation. General, if the RepublI-
cans have gained the control of both
housesl" was asked.
.Oh. the tariff is to be revised and
lowered, replied the Lowell states
man: ..but our victory is that it is not
to be an English tariff. Don't make
any mistake about thatl''
The Rev. Geo. IL. Thayer, of Bour-