The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-14
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How the government of the U. s.
should be conducted is very likely to be
made party question, and moral or
religious also. The following extract
from the Review supplement of the 4th
inst, very clearly indicates in whose in
terest that staid old Democratic journal
and the Democracy it represents, would
have it managed:
Eight thousand button operatives in
England and 10000 in Europe thrown
out of work by the Mckinley bill and
left to want and starvation, and this
with food Tor starving Ireland, regard it
complacentlv and think it statesman
ship And, worse, they call themselves
q Christian people 1t is inhuman; it is
brutal. Where is the conscience of the
ministers of Christ that they do not cry
out against it? Has protection be
numbed the moral sense of this nation
When four or five million of human
.aborers were held as chattels and unre
quilted laborers were held in ignorance,
their education prohibited by laws, chill
dren torn from their parental arms and
sold to distantpurchasers to pay the debts
oftheirDemocratic owners orto purchase
luxuries for their aristocratlc families,
when women we're stripped to the skin
and scourged like beasts, and young
girls sold to lives of infamy for filthy
lucre to swell the Golfers of Democratic
masters, did any body ever find in
the columns of his papera protest against
the perpetrators of these crimes call
ing themselves a Christian people or
exclaim against this inhumanity? Did
the Remew ever call upon the people
who freighted ships for starving Ireland
to look otherwise than complacently up
on these outrsges? Has the Reuiew ever
called upon the Christian minister of
Christ to cry out against the murderers
of the Chisholm family or the thousands
of other brutal murders perpetrated by
ex-rebel Democrats upon persons whose
only offense was the right guaranteed
them by the government of this coun-
try? No, never. The Review never de-
perpetrators if the unparalleled magma
lnimity Of their cousins in their war to
destroy the Union had be-numbed their
moral sense? But now the Review has
found something that stirs its moral
nature from center to circumference.
It claims that 50 900 button makers In
Europe are out of employment by afford
gng slight protection to the button in
terest of this country, lust sufficient to
enable button makers of this country
with American well paid labor to COM
pete with the European makers with
their starvation wages, and straightway
the ReOiew shows in whose interest the
party it represents would have the gov
eminent conducted, to protect an in
dus'ry that requires 80, 600 laborers pro-
tected against the underfed, underpaid
and not half sheltered labor, these Eu-
ropean button making, poverty stricken
nations of Europe, England, Belgium,
the principal, who are now tuking the
advantage of Stanley's explorations and
dividing among themselves, regardless
of the rights, interest or wishes of its in
babitants, without 80 much as offering
a free quarter section homestead. Even
the Irishmen going there would have to
pay rent to British landlord. This
shows In what direction the Review
Democrats would have the government
stand. To demand that it be conducted
as other governments are intended to
be, is brutal, inhuman barbarism, that
Christian ministers should unite in
solemn protestations against as destruc-
tive to moral sensibilities. B.