The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-10-10

tective tariff and consequently the in
dustries of the country, and restored
the credit and strength of the country,
after IT had been left in an almost
wrecked condition by the Democratic
party. The Democratic party has al
ways tried to clog the wheels of govern
ment. It has always opposed whatever
the Republican party favored, simply TO
take advantage of any little discomfort
that might exist. They have been on
al sides of every question at the wrong
time. When Cleveland was elected,
the people found that instead of turning
the rascals out they had turned honest
men out and put rascals IN. Now, Har-
rlson is conducting an administration
that business men endorse.
Gen. Baker Is trying TO stir up the la
boring men and farmers He should
have been thrown overheard long ago.
There are farmers and farmers-the
bona hde ones, and the political ones
who spend their time IN the cities, and
the bonanza ones, the plantation lord,
naturally Democrat and always howl
ing for position to ''to take care of the
farmer" They are manufacturing farm
ers, who manufacture wheat. They are
on the farm only few months, and are
as big curse to the farmers as the land
lords of Ireland. The president of the
North Dakota Alliance is the owner of
q 1000 acre farm. He is pleading the
cause of people he is not in sympathy
with, and and never comes down TO the
level of the ordinary farmer who
owns 40 to $50 acres. The small farm
ers are all Republicans and will carry
the state by 1900 majority.
He referred to the marvellous prosper
ity OF the immigrants from Europe. A
few of them who 90 back TO their old
homes find that they can buy g suit Of
clothes there one dollar cheaper than
in America, and howl for free-trade,
not realizing that that would bring the
condition of the farmer and lRborer to-
the same level as in Europe. The fact
that farmers are moving from the East
TO West would have taken place under
any trade policy.
There is no bloich upon the escutch-
con Of Gov Merriam. He has given
good admin istration and deserves re-
election, and the people viii set them
seal OF condemnation upon the attempt
10 fOist a railroad attorney into the gov
ernor's chair. The farmers Of this
state are Republicans and are true To
their party and the interests Of the
country. The congressman have done
! their duty TO their state as well as to
the whole country. Each state cannot
get all that il desires, but that does not
prove that the congressman have been
4 lax in their duty. Older states have
kept continuously their delegations IL,
1 Congress until they became by expert
ence well prepared TO look after their
/ interests. By constant changing IT will
! be long time before q state will take
/ its proper position IN Washington. The
state has been uniformly prosperous
under thirty years of Republican rule
/ The cities have grown and will continue
! TO grow, the farm land will continue to
rise in value, we will become a manu-
featuring as well as q farming state
1 IF the country taxes q back ward
step, the state Will stand still. The
i Democratic party has always wanted to
get back, where to, no one knows, unless
it be to the old Democratic regime
when the country was poor. The world
is better now than ever before, and if
we hear more of crime than formerly
ii is because the means of communion
ton are increasing. During the past
thirty years we have made progressive
marches TO a higher plane. During all
that time the Republican party has
3 DcCu al LIZ UC41I. Willie Lie
party has been merely an obstruction
An example of their doIngs is the Mis-
sissippi constitution. These men are
setting themselves up against the pro-
gressiveness of the age. They are try
ing by every means TO deprive q race
of its inalienable rights. And vet they
send their emissaries throughout the
north, trying to influence the laboring
man to put 1t into power. All parties
have Jared well during the last 80 wears,
the farmers as well as the manufactur-
ers. We have the schools to back us
up, which Democrats like Roger @. Mills
hate, because he knows that the educa-
ton of the people means the death
knell OF demagogues like him. He ap-
pealed to the people TO stand by the
party and roll up majority of Is 900 in
this state
|. The Flambeau Club returned to Min
neapolis during the night