The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-03-25
POLITICAL POINTS.


Free wool logically means free trade,
absolute and unconditional, all along the
line of foreign trade.
Under the Democratic rules the
House is ruled by three kings-Crisp,
Mcmillan aud Catchings. All from the
South, of course.
The fathers and founders of free
trade in this country advocated the doc
trine that capital should own labor,
white and black.
Cincinnati wants to expend 6,OOO,-
600 in improving her water supply. This
is direct blow at the first principles of
the Democratic party.
cleveland and Hill are rendering
such service to the Republican cause
that it is possible they may yet demand
of that party to be its nominees.
When the Democrats have to deal
with minority of their own they don't
stop with counting a quorum or any
g @easurss 9s 81 EhAt A there tifHa Was no pro-
rlsnU so,' an wool as it comes off the
s.eeseS1Ps sees1iPP's back there would be none on
woolens as they 60 on the backs of the
farmers.
I'm his chase after the support of the
Solid South for nomination, Senator
Hin forgess the assured conviction in all
Democratic mf-'ds that the Solid South
Will be tor Cne hEHinee, whoever he Is.
Hill should rustic ~ the West and
North.
The money that goes abrO.1 to pay
| for the labor of manufacturing one hun-
dred million dollars worth, OF woolel-
goods, or iron goods, etc., is absolutely
taken from the employment and pay of
labor in this land.
Imported cheap labor is less danger
GUS and injurious to our home labor than
imported cheap labor products, but both
must be held in check by government
protection in the form of Immigration
laws and Mckinley laws, or our labor
will be overwhelmed and degraded.
-Ex. Governor Campbell says he will
f. no"e : oi';c oii'';;ccvela9d delegation to Chicago
surances to Senator Hill that there WY
be delegation for him from Ohio. i
this thing goes on arrangements will
have to be made at Chicago for holding
two conventions.
Convict labor is less injurious in it
competition With home labor than tn,
free competition in our markets of tn
products of cheap foreign labor, because
convict labor lightens the burden of oul
home taxation and consumes home pro
ducts. Yet no free trader will dare II
insult our workIngmen by openly advo
eating the competition with convic
labor.
The honest laboring man who inves
tigates the subject without prejudic
will be convinced that the Republica
party was organized chiefly as the frien
of free labor; that it has been faithful u
, its first principles on this gubject and
depending to-day more upon the supper
of intelligent labor than upon any Othe
l element of our National sovereignty.
is a great, powerful labor party.
There is much mawkish and pulin
sentimentality talked and written owe
: the alleged friendly feeling of the pee
+ ple of England towards their cousin
v across the water" The feeling of Eng
land towards America is that of grea
a commercial country towards its moi
formidable rival, which must be crushe
at all hazards, or Great Britain's supren
, acy sis ended. That is the hereditar
and constant attitude of the two couI
tries. 1t is shown in the status OF IL
Behring Sea question. 1t is shown i
the attitude of all English people an
English sympAthizers on the tariff que
n ton in this country. So far as sentimel
/ goes, there is hardly a country thi
Great Britain would more willingly {
to war with than this country. If W;
between the two countries is improbab
it can only be while it would inju
John Bulls pocket.