Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-30

covering in a Pract al Way the Issues
the Catugaipp

the Caaapaign.
IL was republican congress tina,
m de il possible for the people of Amer.
lea TO Uuy sugar at the rate of twenty
odd pounds for a dollar, and every dem
ocratlc representative voted against the
legislat on by which the result was oc-
complished.
Protection encourages the manufac-
turing of Americas natural or raw ma.
terial by our home people, upon our
oTn soil or in our own factories. to he
sold to and used by our own people.
Blot out this system and it would inev-
ltably result that many of our factories
would be advised to greatly reduce the
! wages of their operatives or close their
doors, for the wages of the mechanic
| or operative are large factor in the
cost of almost any article ard wages are
uni 'Ormly higher in this county than
in the old world
In the United States there are Gus
| toms houses and customs officers at
every port of entry, and certain cI lsses
/ of foreign goods cannot be removed
! from the vessels that bring them with
out first paying duty, or toll, to Uncle
! Sam Tor the privilege of competing with
American merchants in American mar.
/ kets In this way the revenues neces
sary for the support of the government
are raised with little friction and with
out imposing a burden uqon our own
! people
| Without any change in the revenue or
/ custom laws there was an actual in
! crease IN treasury receipts in the first
tull year Of President Harrison's admin
lstratlOn over the preceding year Of
! more than eleven million dollars. and
an actual decrease in the cost o. collec
| ton of more than eighty five thousand
| doll rs. At least part of this increased
amount Of revenue was due to the
greater diligence and better service of
republican officials.
The democratic administration from
1884 to 1888 is remem oered for nothing
that can be called a settlement of any
question pending when it took control
! or arising during it's term of power.
Contrast it with the past four years and
| there will be much found to the credit
of the republican party The tariff
/ question, the silver question, the
Behring sea matter, the Samoan diff
Guilty, the Italian matter, the Chilian
question, the pension laws, the new
naVy-every question arising has had
positive, intelligent and statesmanike
action. he position of this govern
ment among the nttions of the world
has been strengthened and national
honor has been maintained. The demo
cratic administration had but a single
idea that of tariff reform, and subordi-
mated everything else to the one pur-
pc Q of enacting a tariff law along free
trade lines.
Year by year the number of people
who ride in carriages and carry watches
and have napkins on their tables and
an extra suit of clothes in their ward
robes and carpets on their floors and
books and newspapers in their homes is
increasing. There are fewer children in
! the workshops and more IN the schools,
fewer suits in the courts and more own
ers OF homes, fewer windows with old
hats in them and more plate glass fronts,
and fewer cases of helpless, hopeless
poverty and more happy, hopeful, pros
porous people than at any previous time
in the history Of our nation And the
wise, judicious, practical course of the
republican party has had much to do
with bringing about these changes
| During the four years of the Cleve-
Land administration there was a great
| cutlery regarding thu surplus in the
| treasury, and later the shouting has
grown tumuituous over its disappear
ance, the insinuation being given out
| that republicans must have squandered
or stolen it. What are the facts? The
| Cleveland policy was to hoard the reve.
nues and make it appear that the gov
eminent was collecting entirely too
much tor customs duties on imports
n To n
publican congress passed the Mckinley
bill, which greatly added to the free
list and reduced the tariff on many
other articles. Nor did they stop at
this, but they also devoted the surplus
to reduction of the national debt, pay
ing off, with a reduced income, MOI 9
bonds in three years than were Cancelled
in Clevelaud's entire term.
But there were northern democrats in
the House who had to priest against the
proposed insult to the scandinavian
countries Unlike the southern brigadi-
ers, these mem bers had Scandinavians
among their constituents and feared
their votes and power They could not
expect help from their older men among
the SWeeds and NorHegians who had
fought in the war and had seen Demo
cratic purposes ard plans displayed to
the full extent of their malignant and
/ ferocious intent, but they hoped to mis-,
lead some of the younger men who are
just coming on the scene and adroitly
to pull the wool over their eyes They
soon saw that if Blount's proposition
passed, these young men would at oGce
ask the reaso1 for the insult 10 the lind
of their fathers-the true source and
spring OF ex-confederate hatred of
S veeds and Norwegians.
Such inquiry would at once open a
chapter which the Democratic party is
most anxious to keep hidden from the
eye of new voters; would expose the
skeleton in the democratic closet in all
its hideous and revelting deformity.
This was the reason Blount bad to back
water, AID after all his buster had to
get up and meekly withdraw his
proposition which was not only unjust
and impolitic, but an affront to the
! Scandinavian people It was thorough
I ly democratic proposition, however, and
Blount gave it up with great regret.
; In twenty years the debt of the United
| States has shrunk so that it is less than
one fourth per capita what it was then.
And yet the democratic party has OPP
posed every financial proposition of the
republicans and resisted every step by
which this happy reduction of the
! debt has been accomplished.
BIGGEST IN THE WORLD.
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Paradise.
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