The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-04-13

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Esfiby Ffes Fsssa
Hon. James Brown has lengthy ar
tiele In the Repiew on the protective
tariff question:. and II is most deyontly
TO be hoped lis publication will be re-
lief TO the over-burdened mind Of the
writer The malignant bitterness OF his
denuneiations against the Republican
party, bis anafchislie hatred of all men
who have succeeded IN accommodating
more than nm average share Of this
worlds goods, cannot be retained and
bfooded over for any great length Of
time without detriment to the mental
faculties OF the man INDUCING them.
When man gets TO that state Of mind
that he believes every man who has, by
COOL economy, careful management Of
business or fortunate Investments. Sc
cured fortune above his own IL a
scoundrel revealing in i'll gotten gains,
he has reached state of mind where
an outpouring Of the Shiny venom is as
necessary TO mental relief as the opera
ton of purgatiye pellet is TO the physi-
cal stomach over loaded with bile. To
one of Mr.. Browns political anteee-
dents, beliefs, and prejudices it will be
folly to expect approval of the grand
workings of the great American system
of protection to American citizens, in
every branch OF American industry,
framed and inaugurated by the found
ers Of the Republic, approved in Con-
gress by such men as jefferson, Madi-
son, Hancock and others, and by Wash.
ington as President on the 4th of July.
l789-ior the last % years. A system
which enabled us to maintain the integ-
rity of the nation against the desperate
efforts Of the Southern Democrats in
arms and Northern Copperheads and
knights Of the Golden Circle led by
such men as Vallandigham and Bright,
and increase our prosperity and prog
ress to such degree that it recently
drew from Gladstone the following:
"England's daughter beyond the sea Is
passing her mother at canter." Our
farms have increased from 1850 to 1880
double in number and in value from
r. EXTRAORDINARY.
Their product hasincreased from 81 $780,
900, 600 in 1850 TO s., 900. OOO, 900 in 1856.
Mulhall, the English statistician, gives
the entire product of Great Britain
farms manufactures in 1880 as $4,5OO,-
600, 600, an increase of only 80 per cent.
since 1850. The same product in the
United States as per census was S., $780,
OO0, 900, an increase since 1860 of 100 per
cent, and our home market consumed
more than Great Britain's home con-
sumption and export combined.
Now, Mr.. Brown, does not that show
up pretty well for nation that you
would have the world believe has been
for quarter of a century suffering from
the ruinous effects of wicked, oppres-
sive government and made the prey of
dishonest, rich men and great monopo-
listic trusts reveling in their ill-gotten
gains extorted from the poor, dear peo-
pie you are exhorting to turn 10 Mr..
Cleveland as their deliverer? You know
or ought to know that the most gigantic
monopoly or trust in the United States
is the great Standard Oil Trust company
represented in the United States Senate
by its principal stakeholder and presi-
dent, warm supporter of Mr.. Cleve
land, and In the Cabinet by its secre-
tary, and by the grace of Grover filling
the place of secretary of the navy and
publicly known 10 be one of Cleveland's
most intimate friends and confidential
advisers. This is the pioneer trust of
the country and is controlled by Demo-
Gratis in the confidence of the President,
and its success under the Cleveland adj
ministration has been the greatest and
most influential inspiration and induce
ment in the formation of similar trusts
by other corporations of smaller magni-
tude, hoping OF course to receive similar
appreciation from Mr.. Cleveland that the
leading trust has.
During the period from 1860 to 1880
we increased our wealth from SIT ,000,-
000, 600 to $43, 000, 10000 more than a
billion per year, and more than Eng
land, France, Germany and Austria
combined. Mulhall, the English statis-
tician, quoted above says that "this Re-
public for quarter of q century has
laid up every year 1886, 900, 000-almost
half the savings of the whole world
The total products of England including
farms, forestry, mines and manufac-
tories for 1880 was SC, 200 00O, 900, or $172
to each inhabitant.'' The same product
in the U. s. the same year was $40, :
100000, or more than 500 for each in
habitant. And what speaks still better
for our prosperity So, 176, 600, 900 of it was
consumed in our home market. Now
that seems to be very fair showing for
a nation which according to Hon. James
Brown is rapidly going to financial
ruin under the operation of the system
founded by the fathers OF the Republic
and maintained by the wicked Repub-
lican party" for % years since the out
break of the late Democratic unpleasant
ness. The bitter, malignant TRADE of
Mr.. Brown on the Republican party for
levying duties TO carry on war for the
preservation of the Union against the
Democratic traitors who conspired I'M
der the last Democratic President pre-
ceeding the present apology, who then
as now and now as then led and con-
trolled the Democratic party, is to say
the least of 1t in very bad taste, and
while there is still debt unpaid of 81,
SOC, 000, 900 contracted or incurred to pre-
vent the dissolution of the Union by
rebel Democrats. Mr.. Cleveland would
have shown far more friendship for the
people and much higher degree of pa
triotism had be aVailed himself of the
authority vested in HIM by laws of Con
gross in purchasing outstanding bonds
with the surplus on hand or accumulat-
ing, thereby reducing the debt of the
country, instead ofvetolng pension bills,
appropriations for internal improve
nents and neglecting naval and coast
defenses THAT would be protection),
while he held the surplus in the treasury
to be used as an argument in favor of
"tarlff REFORM" or free trade. But
everybody must have his day and now,
while British statesmen can see no 9TH
er way than free trade with America or
protection for home industries, Sweden
has just adopted the American protec-
tive system and other nations are pros
pering under it, it is good time for the
American Democracy to make their pc
riodical onslaught upon the financial
condition of the country in aid of their
British allies in 1860 to 1866.
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