The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-23

WEST EIrrfrAa. Oct IL
TO THE EDrroR: I Was born In IasteRn
New York. and lived Tor = years
- Paw Paw. Ill have been
farmer and stock grower. ana have known
and feit ali the cn-nges in 6nance and buaf-
ness sad noted the effects Of political changes
On business and the people, which have very
briefly expressed 1 have NO Ak 10 grind
His . we'll known fact that the statesmen
Who founded our nation. and every preaident
nom the iliustrious Warrington down TO Van
buren,. even Andrew Jackson. recommended .
proesttive fari6. and under its influence this
country grew and prospered ~ no other ever
had When van Buren and froe trade came
INTO power the treasury was empty. the nation
bankrupt, begging for loans u l. per cent.
when good companies and individuals could
obtain money for from to 10 per cent Com
mon farm labor Was only Is cents per day from
sunup 70 sundOwn. There was no ten-hour day
men, The pr &c for haying and harvest hands.
except Graders, who received IS cents per day.
Was % cents, aud 81 was the highest price for
artisans tor twelve hours work. The cotton
ana voelsn factories and iron furnaces were ill
ci0sed. employers bankfupted and ruined, and
employees turned out TO steal or starve. Poor
houses and jails were full to OVERLOOKING.
Then IN 1850 william Henry Harrison vas
elected y the wings, and with him John Tyler.
OF Virginia. s-OId TippecanoeS' lived only .
shors time when Tyler took the reins Of govern
ment and turned traitor to the party that
elected him, and there was another four years
Of agony and suffering Folks administration
Drought On the worst. eauselsss and dassardly
war Of modern times, which lost our nation
tn0nsands of valuable lives, and millions OF
treasured TIE next in the Democratic line Vas
Pierce Then came Buchanan, who said to the
United States Senate, when ne came home from
England, that Ne would never see good times in
America until common labor cost only 10 cents
day, ard when Henry Clay inserrupte him
and stigmatixed him a. Ten Cent Jimmy"
Buchanan sas Glens and let the Southern
Democrats almost steal the government and
ruin the nation
The rebellion cost both the North and South
half million of the flower Of their manhood,
and on both sides untold billions OF wealth
were worse than thrown away. II was used to
make sorrow and woe. and to fill the nation
Win widoss. orphans and cripples. All of
these Ereat wrongs have the offspring OF the
Tories of the revolution, the free trade Demo
Gratis done, and mach more that has been in
Jurious to the nation and every individual.
What did the Democ.asic party ever do or Try
to do that was Of any great national good?
Where Is the bill presented By any Democrat,
living or dead, in either branch OF our national
legislature looking TO or advocating any great
national goodf Democratic schemers nil play
into the hands OF the rich, making the few
xicu iICneE mo the mllil0n POOR poorer.
Icau them robbers and pickpockets of the
worst order. for they steal their own heritage a.
well a. that OF All workers and producers.
say to you, men Of America, am an American
citizen. soldier, farmer and stock grower, who
has seen the ups and downs of this nation for
fifty years: have witnessed our great progress,
have seen and personally known the most of
our great men. 10th military and civil. and
have seen their contentious for right and Just
laws, laws for Amt rican freemen. Now. all you
young Americans, and Ill ron Anglican citi-
Gems of foreign birth, remember that you came
here to be free. to be men of progress and enjoy
life, not as they do in the countries of Europe
but Is Americans Now. let every man who
wishes for the welfare OF himself and his family,
his town, county and nation. let him go to the
polls and vote the straight ticket for Republic
ans. tariff and the prosperity of our most glo-
rious nation Hurrah for Squire and Wilson!
WILLIAM A. CoNAET