The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-11-03
THINGS TO THINK OF
BEFORE you GO TO THE POLLS ON
ELECTION DAY.
Suggestions Which Affect Business Men
of All Glasses, Farmers, Mechanics,
Workingmen. Soldiers and Citizens OF
Foreign Birth.
Especial Correspondence

Foreign Birth.
Especial Correspondence
I New YORK, Oct. S1.-This has been
campaign of thought. The people are
still thinking, and will do so on election
day
Perhaps no class are more interested
than the business men, whose business
has been built up under tho protective
tariff of the past thirty years. They do
not want to unsettle business, make in
vestments uncertain and render the
money unsafe and liable to become
worthless in an hour after receiving it.
Merchants do not want to transact their
business with the kind Of wildcat money
their fathers used, and through which
tens of millions of dollars were lost in a
single year.
The farmers also remember that the
Harrison administration has opened the
doors of Germany, Denmark, Austria,
France, Italy and Spain to their pork,
and of numerous European countries to
their beef, has wiped out pleuro-pneu-
monia from the herds in this country,
placed the sugar industry upon success
full footing, opened new markets for corn
and wheat in Europe and South Amer
lea, increased the annual exports of
farm products $3.50, 900, improved
your home market many millions of dol
lars by the increased tariff on farm prod
ucts, and that the Democratic party pro-
pose to destroy these blessings of reci-
procity, protective tariff.
The mechanics realize that their wages
in protected America are double those
paid for the same class of work in free
trade Great Britain.
The Irishmen know that Great Britain
is sending money and words of advice
to help the Democrats, and that Mr..
Cleveland showed his hatred for Ireland
by refusing to run on a ticket with
"that Irishman," John 9. Sheehan, and
that the treasurer of the Democratic
national committee went out Of his way
to say that if Irishmen Ibid not lie,
steal, cheat, rob, murder and get drunk,
perjure themselves, quarrel and fight
they would be almost as good as any
other nation" and that President Har-
rison honored the Irish citizens and
stood by that Irish-American citizen,
Patrick Egan, when the Democratic
press, backed by Great Britain, was de-
manding his withdrawal.
The workingmen realize that under
the present tariff system wages have
been increased, as shown by the report
of a Democratic labor commissioner in
New York state, and that under the
system which the Democrats promise
wages will be reduced and the money
in which they are paid will be uncertain
and worthless.
The western homesteaders remember
that the Republican party is responsible
for the legislation opening public lands;
that the Cleveland administration de-
nounced hundreds of thousands of home
steaders as plunderers and perjurers,
and that it was only the return of Re-
publicans to power that gave them titles
to their lands and homes.
The soldiers remember that the last
tiue the Democrats were in control of
oil branches of this government they
plotted its destruction and brought on a
war which cost 279,376 lives on the
Union side, and half as many more on
the Confederate side, to say nothing of
billions of dollars expended; also that
the only Democrat that has been in the
White House vetoed their pension bills
by hundreds.
County, precinct and ward committee
man and citizen voter, remember that
there are five states, with seventy-fve
electoral votes, in which change Of
per cent. would reverse the result Of
four years ago, and seven states, with
ffty-five electoral votes, in which the
plurality four years ago was but few
hundred. They should and doubtless
do realize that upon their individual ex-
ertions may depend the result of the
election Their failure to vote because
they don't like the ballot law, or because
the weather is bad, may be the turning
point in the history of a now prosperous
and happy country. .-...