The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-01-07

nue. duty for protection to its industries,
for the reason that IL owned its labor,
and it proposed to confinc itself to the
raising of cotton, tobacco and few
other agricultural products and sell its
surplus in "the markets of the world"
which meant England and it was for
that reason that England furnished it
its blockade runners and privateers,
armed with British cannon and manned
by British seamen, to prey upon our
commerce and supply the Confederates
with the sinews of war in order that
they might shoot the life out of Uncle
Sam and obliterate from the old flag
eleven stars. This class is seconded by
the copperhead and his descendant, who
was in full sympathy with the rebel,
gave him such aid and comfort as he
could safely, wished him well and re-
joiced with him over the victories of
the rebel arms-when they achieved
any.
The third class consists of the fellows
who had as good chance as anybody
to get on i'm the world. but who, instead
of living economically and laying aside
something "for rainy day." took no
thought for the morrow, ate, drank,
and were merry, We'd with the wealthy
in dressing and keeping up external
appearances, bought property and went
i'm debt for it, and now, when on the
shady side of life, with pains in their
muscles and the narrow in their bones
dried up, they find themselves in
Strengthened circumstances and hard up
and they curse the protective system
and the policy OF the government and
seek relief by joining the motley crew
of the Queens subjects Lying abroad
the mugwumps, the rebel, the copper
head, the blind partisan who votes as
his ancestors did-and in unison they
smte their own breasts and fume and
breathe dire vengeance on the party
that prefers to look after the interests
whole human family under its wing
In loving embrace they go to the polls
and vote for 1.-THE markets of the world"
and cry "Down with monopoliesw
The fourth class is the political
demagogue who goes about preaching
the gospel of free trade. His stock is
drawn from the vocabulary of stale
and exploded theories; he misrepresents
facts; he misleads the unsophisticated;
he influences the mind of the fellow
who votes the sentiments of his ances-
tors without knowing the reason for
doing so; he distorts the truth, and
dresses lie in the habiliments of a liv-
ing, eternal principle; he makes his
intelligent(D hearers rend the air with
gruff, coarse growls over the wrongs
they suffer from "the robber tariff"
Little does he care what the
outcome is if his political ends can be
attained The spoils are what he gives
va liant battle for. He cares not If the
commerce of the nation is convulsed
and unsettled and the laborer turned
into the street to beg for bread, so he
and his party can succeed To the emolu-
ments ofoflice. That is all there is in il
! from his standpoint. 1t matters not that,
under protection, the wealth of the
nation has increased from ten billions
to seventy billions, or that the popula-
ton has increased in thirty years from
thirty-one millions to sixty three
millions. These things to him are not
evidences of prosperity. He explains
them in many ways, and shows (probab-
| ~ to his own satisfaction that under
free trade a far greater progress would
have been made. He depends on hum
bugging the financially distressed and
points out how he may be relieved
from his embarrassment. But the relief
does not come to him. Generally these
fellows have utterly failed as business
men themselves, but they feel compc-
tent TO lead others to success. The
demagogue is in fair way, with the
aid of the Golden Club and his other
allies, to substitute 1.-The markets of
the world" for the home market, and
unless those who were most interested
in saving this nation and were able to
save it with and by the aid of the prin-
ciples of protection, awake from their
lethargy and fall into line to the music
of the Union and the American idea,
we will relapse into the free trade con-
dition of 1887 and 1857.
America is for Americans, and he
who cannot leave his old country no.
tions behind him when he comes here
had better pack his grip and return to
his first love. This idea of becoming
Americans for the purpose of introduc-
ing European ideas cannot be tolerated.
The successful effort of the foreigner,
with the aid of the American Demo-
crat, to vote out the free school sys-
TEN in Wisconsin last fall and erect in
its stead the parochial system, should
be the tocsn for Americans to unite on