The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-05-12

time OF peace [Cheers. Tell mo one single
act has this administration done to which any
Republican can look with questioning eye?
[Cheers and cries Of mot one: Has anything
not everything that Is right been attempted and
most that is right been done? One thing re-
mains, and it Is not the fault OF this admnistra-
ton if the time has not been reached when every
man, no matter what his condition, no matter
what his color. can walk up to any ballot box
In the land and have his vote count. [Cheers.
am proud OF the record OF the Republican
partytor the last three years; am proud OF tho
Administrations am
PROUD OF BENJAMIN HARRISON
tCheers Quiet learned, patriotic, self contained,
indomitable, honest, what American interest
has suffered at his hands or under his considera-
ton? In what quarter OF the seas has not the
American honor upheld? What unrepublcan
or selt-seekng act has been charged to him. He
deserves and he will receive. when the time
comes ample demonstrations OF the confidence
the American people have in his great admins
tration OF her highest trust. Loud cheers
Beside him stands another figure peerless in
ments. looking before and after; man whose
heart has burned with patriotic fire, whose
brain has glowed with patriotic thought, ever
since most of us were boys; his eyes upon the
destinies OF the country, shaping them to that
great end to which God has destined her-I mean
JAMES G. BLAINE. ~, -Ea. 5.5.,='9
Enthusiastic and long continued applause
Then there is that lawer sitting quietly in his
New York office administering his great trust
with marvellous AppreNenSlOn ana great patriot
ism and bringing forward the navy OF this coun-
try to a stage where within two years it viii be
able to compete with any navy in the world
refer to Mr.. Tracy. [CLeers.] The department.
OF agriculture has been recently created for the
benefit OF the farming community. You no
doubt better than Can appreciate the benefits
| moving it into shape, disseminating informa-
tion ard making it useful in every respect is
plain, abe, strong, honest jeremiah Rusk.
might 90 through all of these departments,
were it necessary to add anything in confrma-
ton OF the truth OF the remark with which I
started this branch OF my subject-namely that
| the affairs of the country viewed from whatever
standpoint, whether of party, political or moral,
We been administered by the Republican
| party in the most unexceptional manner.
[Chesrs. The Democratic party for the past
fifty years has been the party OF stolen goods
and false pretenses. [Laughter.] 1t is now OK
A SORT OF SKIRT DANCE
before the American people in the hope of allur-
power in 1914 on the cry Of Polk and the tariff
Of '42. 1t violated that pledge. 1t stole into
power, so far as the house OF representatives is
concerned, two years ago by the most lndiscrim-
mate and encyclopaedia lying that this country
has ever had. Laughter]. Their leaders prom
Used if they were given the power that they would
Mckinley bill from the necks OF the people.
This is what Mr.. Castle, Mr.. Harres and the
rest elected from this state said, 1--WE will show
YOU" said they, I'VE will bring about better
order OF things, and the political millennium will
come and last 1000 years."
WHAT HAVE THEY DOME?
The first thing they did was to send to his
everlasting sleep SO far his hope of the speak
ership was concerned, the apostle OF their creed.
Mr.. Mills [laughter] the man who had don e
more to lead them to their transient and evan
r men in '''t their party But 0'Ni he was vas
served that way in the house OF his friends.
| [Cries of serve him right Nearly six months
! party. Notwithstanding all its protestations Of
| what it proposed to do, has not introduced a
| sing general bill to modify the Mckinley act.
sugar 1t has not dared to persist in its policy
as to iron and steel or as to the iortytwo
articles of production upon which the farmer is
protected; it has confined itself do that ancient
| Democratic trick of going across a road to
| kick a sheep make wool free to the di-
! rect detriment of the farmer and the ranchmen,
one OF the most vital agricultural interests in
| this country. Why have they not attempted
| to redeem their pledge in this respect if what
| they said two years ago is true? They know
that it is not true. Every man that runs can
| read that that bill is
STANDING THE TEST
of experience. Hundreds OF millions OF dollars
have gone into new industrial enterprise ms con-
| sequence OF that bill.
There are in the coming campaign. which the
| American people will be called upon to discuss
| and pass upon, just two questions: The first is
| the business OF this country between man and
man between the citizens of different states and
! between this country and other nations. The
!
| and that intercourse carried on. These
| questions involve questions OF the higher moral
| ity OF proper action, personal, party, national
| and International
The first principle upon which Republicanism
| is based and the disregard OF which would entail
| the dissolution OF that great organization is the
| protection of American industry and American
| labor by tariff laws 1t is upon that basis and
asserting and proving that it is rightthat hope
| the Republican party in this state
| WILL MAKE THEIR NEXT ATTACK.
| ha 1aHu n q lya Il
| adhered to it; disaster has never overtaken our
banner except when we altered it in hat respect.
1t is consistent Republicanism: it has been
cardinal and automatic in the larty ever since
| 1862. I assert and claim that it benefits every
| man in the community, the farmer, the wage
does aes? Upon ts s
| OF sef-preservation. principe which is sane
toned to individuals we'll as to nations.
| Discussing this question. Senator Davis re-
ferred to the protection accorded the working
| man from the Chinese eruption and from the
| hordes Of pauper and criminal immigration
IRON the old world. and asked why the same
| principle should not be extended to every
| branch OF industry requiring it. He compared
the condition of the iaDoring class in this coun
| England where there were two men looking for
one position. instead OF employer looking for
| men. There were those who could remember
when in this country, under the influence OF a
cry such as was now being raised by the Demo
| cratic party, an era OF free trade was intro
duced and continued for q few yea when re-
| turn was made to prouec ion to redress the dis
| asters experienced under free trade.
This PRINCIPLE OF PROJECTION
| continued the speaker, declares to less ad-
vanced states and communities Or to more
| powerful states and communities where in their
| power they have rotted into CORFU pit social
| system Or corrupt industrial system that you
| shall not bring your corruption into contact
| with our purity and hope TO faint it. / he free
trader proposes to lay his country open to every
| attack because the foreign merchant will sell
| goods cheap to whoever happens to have money
| to pay for them. He forgets III doing this that
| he takes numberless sources OF employment
from his neighbor, from the man who does not
| produce the crude raw material. In the last
analysis OF this question protection is in self
| defence Of every man in the community It is
all the difference between civilization and bar
barism. Wherever compensation is high use
the term in this large sense-the state OF cviliza-
tion OF that nation is high. Wherever the rate
OF compensation or Wages--llsing this term in
| the large sense-is low the lower it COWS and tho
nearer approach to barbarism that nation
| makes. ... 81 l.
Referring to the effect OF protection in tn
| North the speaker referred to St. Paul and Min
neapolis and the benefits they had recently
| reaped in the shape OF
GREAT INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES
| which had located in their midst, such as the
Wood Harvester works. Duluth was also devel-
opng, and all classes receiving the benefit OF
this prosperity. 1t had given rise to a large
number OF intermediate employments. This
was all the outcome OF protection. 1t gives the
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