Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-11-02

kill you Is my prayer, and do not care how
soon. why, we are In the m ost desperate ear
earth. Like the old abolitionists, our con-
sciences are stirred within us and the powers
OF nell am earth cannot stay the impulse that
embattled rampant Of hell shall 60 down before
our advancing armies Defeats may come and
temporary delay, but as certinly as God rules
and the truth prevails victory will perch upon
our banners and this other great deBpotism will
so down before u.s.
Again, another effort that marks this campaign
IN SO lar as these parties are concerned, ia the
desperate enOrt TO turn attention away from This
great conflict Anything to turn the minds and
hearts OF the people away from the Importance
OF this conflict. seems to be the spirit pervading
ton
said t to Republican few days ago: "Can.
not got time" he said sWhat are you doings"
II am interested in this great question of pro-
tec5ion 10 Protecting protection! Trying to save
ing it in their way, SO that we will stand by this
great American system of protection. There is
nothing In it. my countrymen; there is nothing
frighten you away from the Prohibition party at
this time. Why, they say the farmers Of this
country Will so to ruin, and labor will suffer.
terested in the poor laboring men Of this coun-
Try! Yo1 20 around here now fooling with this
little Prohibition party and turn away from the
grand Old party, while we are attempting to
lection, that the labor of this country may not
get down upon level with the pauper labor of
Europe. Well | rather think it is down there
now, II know the condition of things here, and
We have had protection for twenty odd years.
Have you thought OF that? Do you know that
to-day. under protection, these very men, some
Prohibition party by telling you that. the result
will be. II the system is destroyed in this coul-
try, that our labor will be placed upon COM
you know that those very men are now import
ing pauper labor from Europe to contest with
the laborers of America in their mills and tsc-
my countrymen, that the cry is false in SO far
as the declaration that the reduction of taxes in
this country would produce any such results !?
Why, you go to Europe and the best paid labor
is i'll England. You cross the channel into pro-
tected Germany ana wages are less; and into
still less; and then into the highest protected
country on this earth, China, and the laboring
man eats rats o. an every-d day diet. Now, my
cries are but the clies OF wolf when
there is no wolf. Stand Wy your colors and
let these parties fight their own battles, and let
| us fight the battle for which we are organized
believe in protection, andI want to spend the
remnant of my days fighting for pro. ection. II
| 1t 10 necessary, my countrylnen to protect jute
otllhese things, protect themi but by all that is
| sacred on earth, and by all tha5 you hope for in
Heaven, plead with yon to protect the home 3
| of America from the liquor traffic: let that be
the battle cry of this clmpaigu.S And yet what
have these political parties said about the pro-
lection of American homes2 This desIot en-
land: there is not one but that there is a
skeleton of the liquor traffic In it.. read but a
few weeks since Of u man in the City Of New
York who few years Ego ca, caught his wife IN 3
out one Of her eyes with his thumb and ringer.
and few. weeks ago, in u similar condition.
| he caught hsr and goused out the other eye
and sent her screaming with agony, bleeding and
blind, staggering among the children whom she
had borne to him in her faithfulness and IN her
love. And you have but to look into the sad,
sorrowing homes of this great city to find thou
sands Of such here in Detroit, and in all the ma
| tion. And when these mothers, grieved and
worn and tired and heart-broken, who have
borne to you your children, and who have
helped you i'll the great battle Of life, when they
went to your conventions four years ago, through
the person of Miss Frances Willard, one of the
you, will you protect the homes Of this country
against the liquor traffic 2" you waved her out
and your convention met recently, and
not word about the protection Of these
homes. Your wife stands in your presence
tonight my Republican and Democratic friends
| and says: II know not much OF this system Of
protection, or OF this tariff reform about which
you talk, but know one thing, my husband
| have been true to you from thu day put my
hand in yours; have been faithful; have
raised these precious boys and girls; my lif,
and soul are bound up in them and in you, and
| plead with you, by the love that you bear them
that you, as voter, inasmuch as cannot vote
drink, and the tyrant the saloon What die
you say in your platforms? Not q word. NJ
time, my precious wife, to talk about your boys
and my boys and your girls and my girls an
got time. Lord have mercy on your souls. Ii
my prayer tonight No time to listen to tn.
hearts 81 the American mothers, and from the
earnest pleadings of the heart of your wife ant
your children AS God is my Judge tonight, ]
would not stay in any political party. on thi
earth one hour that would not stand by tn,
homes OF America against the liquor traffic
The whole tariff question is nothing on earth a
best buta local question, my countrymen, an
you cannot make anything else Of It; and tn
Democratic party. as such, and the Republican
party, as such, will never regulate that question
while the sun shines in the heavens. You can
you may be we'll illustrated by IN incident sal
TO have happened in O committee of the Unite
States Senate You know before the war dow
South it was common to feed the negroes OF thu
country upon suit pork and corn bread. The oil
planter had sometimes for his own use som
hogs that were running in the woods, and b
would catch or shoot one and have fresh pork 70
breakfast salnbo thought that he ought t
slnre this privilege with old massa, and
would go out in the night and catch a porker, an
he would have his fresh pork before old mass
got up. Nobody could blame Sambo for an Ell
terprising spirit of that kind. He had helped t
take care OF the farm and everything on it an
he ought TO share tho profits.
The tariff was being discussed in tho Senat
committee and one Senator sad that the CON
mercial interests of this country demanded tina
lumber should DO protected. Another said tho
iron should be protected, and another that til
commercial interests Of the country demande
that this and that should be protected Senate
Vance, of North Carolina. SAID it reminded nil
Of an agricultural exhibition that they had dow
there On the day that swine Were exhibite
they brought in some magnificent specimens
porkers; the Poland China and the Chester an
the Berkshire wereiall on exhibition but ma
| from the mountains came down with a hog the
had a back like razor and o snout like dill
! ner-horn and legs like n reindeer. He turne
that into the ring with the rest OF the n hog
their Judgment. he approached one Of them an
said Gentlemen, did you'ns SEQ that hog tn
put in that rins2' Why they said that
reindeer" aNo, it is hog" he said "Gentl
men, will tell you. You'ns don't understan
I,ha coannaarcial necnsaitieS of North Carolir