River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-06-16
THE NOMINATIONS.


eral Harrison and Whitelaw Reid will
be the leaders in the political contest
for the Republican party in 1892. The
issues are made up probably and the
fight will be upon the questions of tar
if, reciprocity, and possibly silver.
President Harrison has sounded no
uncertain note on the question of tariff.
Firmly standing on tariff platform
believing in the protection of Amer
lean industries and favoring to its
fullest extent the development of new
enterprises which will call forth
American labor, he yet advocates the
great principles of reciprocity by
means OF which we may be able as a
nation to expand our commerce and
develop the waning energies of our
seaboard population.
The time is suspicious. Our coun.
try is exceptionally prosperous and
fast increasing its average wealth.
While there are anarchists there is no
such danger from them as makes the
monarchs of the old world treinble.
The American laborer believes in his
calling and the intelligent ones will
work with all their power to maintain
it's supremacy.
The Republican party believes that
in the protection of American pro-
ducts lies the true solution of the pro-
lection of American labor. That the
higher price the manufacturer re-
ceives the better he is able to do for
his workmen, and the greater the
scope of their employment. To the
workmen of America therefore the
Grand Old Party looks for its support
in the great contest of 1892
To the farmer too it looks with no
less confidence. The workmen better
educated better clothed and fed than
those of the old world make the more
reliable workmen here and the farmer
of to-day needs intelligent and reli-
able men. By the development of the
manufacturing interests market is
made nearer home for farm products
and more especially for those which
have proved the most advantageous
for the farmer, such as dairy products,
fruits and garden vegetables, all of
which will not bear the exigsncies of
transportation to long distances but
which when finding a market near
home prove of great value to the pro-
Queer.
To make market for these popu-
lation of people living in towns must
exist. To enable this population to
live there must be manufactures, and
as the American manufacturer finds
labor dearer here than in the Old
World he needs protection TO place
himself on a par with those who can
hire men and women for less than the
actual cost of living in America.
The Republican party says, there
fore. protect the manufacturing inter-
est by placing tax upon the imports
which other countries by reason of
their cheap labor can produce at less
cost than can American workmen, but
it also says, let those imports we can
not produce ourselves come in free of
any tax to reduce the cost of living to
the laborer.
But if we can extend American
commerce, if we can receive a just
and fair equivalent therefor then re-
ciprocate with these nations who will
act thus fairly and to our advantage.
These in short are the great issues
upon which the campaign will be
fought. But we should not forget
that the Republican party represents
more than this. 1t is a party of glo-
rious history. To it was committed
the sacred trust of redeeming the land
from the curse of slavery and of pre-
serving the Union when rebel hands
hOdlu 0OSSOioSO IL bhO nun
who aided it in that great struggle it
has always extended grateful hand
and remembered them in their hours
of affection and poverty. The Repub-
lican party would not willingly let any
of the grand army who crowned them
selves with laurels in the old and try
ing days of our country's peril go
down to an unknown or pauper's grave
but it has always sought to fifty re-
ward them so far as possible and to
save them from deprivation as their
years increased upon them.
To the support of this party we in.
vite all who love the old flag, all who
toll to preserve the Union, all who
make Freedom their watchword and
Liberty their rallying cry.