The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-11-04
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM RIDDLED.
The Democratic Free-Trade-LoW-W Wages.
Wildcat Money Free Silver Prnci-
pies Laid Bare Under the
Calcium Light of Truth.

cts are issued. With the great gold
reserve behind them in the treasury
at Washington the bills are worth
their face anywhere. The Demo
cratic party, at the bidding of the
Southern Democrats, favors return
to the wild cat banks. If there are
enough people in the country to vote
to put such party into power God
save the country, for only He can.
The Democratic party is free trade
party, no matter what it protests.
The speaker drew a word picture to
explain what protection is, showing
that the workingmen receive the bene-
fit. The wages of makers of cotton
goods in this country is double that
of England. With free trade the
wages of everybody, builders of the
factories as well as the workers there
in, would be reduced. Meat once a
week is the Democratic doctrine for
workingmen. The Republican party
believes that the mills ought to run
in the United States, with wages high
enough to make the workingmen in
dependent. The Republican party
believes in having the school houses
open, because we want the children to
be thinking citizens in the future.
Protection permits foreign compe-
tition, but a healthy competition. We
are not fools enough to give our mar
kets to England, whose manufacture
ers pay no American taxes, build US
no school houses and do not fight in
our defense, but against us. We ask
them to pay something when their
goods come 10. The Republican
platform and the Mckinley bill pro-
vide duties amounting to only the
difference between domestic and for
eign wages. The Mckinley bill in a
year transferred the manufacture Of
$50, 600, 900 worth of goods from Europe
to America. 1t brought whole indus
tries across the ocean and employed
our own people to conduct them. 1t
brought millions of money from
Europe to open up American mines
and Industries. Yet you two years
ago elected a Democratic majority of
40 representatives! They are not
representatives, but mob without a
leader,
Referring to the tin plate manu-
facture, the speaker said that he
would prefer to hire Welshman in
this country rather than in England.
There they think the Democrats are
legislating for them, which they are.
He then referred in scaJhing terms
to the plank in the Democratic plat
form declaring protection unconstitu-
tional. Yet they pretend to favor a
tariff for revenue purposes. There is
a difference with them whether it is
big or little protection. No par
ty before ever had the audacity to
make any such declaration. What a
chasm between Jackson and the mod
ern Democrats! He made South
Carolina pay duties when its chivalry
had resolved not to. The Confederacy
made protection unconstitutional,
but the Confederacy was torn to
pieces by our boys in blue and was
buried, never to come up again.
| Washington and Jefferson helped to
make the constitution, and didn't
they know as much about the tariff as
Tammany does? l can make tariff
for revenue only without protecting a
single industry. / can cut down GER
tain duties one-half and get revenue
of $500, 100000 year, but this will be
because imnortation is invited.
The Democratic House did not dare
to pass bill repeating the Mckinley
bill, before election. They did not
kno how to revise the tariff. The
speaker referred to the Democratic at
tempt to revise it, and said that he
had heard Congressman Morrison q
hundred times, when asked by mem
bers of the revising committee what
| to do with an article, say 'Put the
damned thing on the free list" After
working for months on new bill they
gave it up as bad job, and Morrison