The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-11-03

aoiiars or eastern capital Is coming 1nrc
the state for the development and up
ouIiolng OF this section. Let the pro
tective laws be repealed by congress an6
everything would be changed in an in
slant. At once the iron market would
be flooded from the mills of Great
Britain. The men employed at Tower
Duluth and in the smaller centerE
where mines are just beins
/ opened would be discharged and
compelled to seek other spots where
labor could be obtained. The iron in
dustry in Minnesota would be at once
submerged, and the whole Of the North.
eastern portion of the state would re-
vert at once in measure to its original
condition.
The country is not of that character
eagerly sought after for agricultural
purposes. 1t is only fertile in spots, and
the two interests which make it valu-
able are those of lumber and iron.
Both Of these depend largely
on the American tariff for their
continued value and consequent activity.
But the iron interest falls stone dead the
day IL 70 brought into competition with
the British mills
All Of Duluth's development depends
upon the continuance Of the American
tariff laws. She must become great
manufacturing centre, or be and remain
forever provincial village-or, at best.
q mere place Of transshipment of
goods produced thousands of miles
to the west Of her to consumers thou
sands Of miles east Of her, and vice
versa.
There are no farmers at the door Of
Duluth marketing the product of the soil.
Strike down the tariff laws, and you
strike down the future of Duluth. She
will have nothing but her elevators re-
manning to handle the product created
elsewhere.
1t Is simply business, therefore, for
Duluth, and all the towns, cities and
villages In the iron region to cast q
sold ballot for D. B. Searle for
congress from the Sixth district. Mr..
Searle is in thorough sympathy with the
Republican protective doctrine. He is
. gentleman Of influence, strength of
character, wide acquaintance among the
public men of the nation, native abili-
ties and educational Attachments which
will place him in the front rank among
the members of tho Fifty-second con-
gress.
And the farmers Of the Sixth district
should be in full sympathy with this
feeling in favor of protection. 1t
brings ready and fruitful mar
ket to their very doors. The building
of towns, villages and cities in this dis
trict means larger prices for the pro-
ducts of the soil. The millions of ope-
rators who are to unearth and mould
into shape the iron of Minnesota must
be fed not like the pauper labor of
Europe upon husks and remnants, but
upon the fat of the land. The best the
earth produces will be none too good for
them.
Does it not, in this view of the case,
become perfectly inexplicable how
there should be any Democratic party
at all in the Sixth Minnesota district? Is
it not indeed remarkable that men of i'll
telligence should ally themselves and
vote with party which puts into its
platform plank favorable to tariff for
revenue only" and thus openly boasts
that it will strike the bread from the
mouth of American labor and feed fat
the paupers who are content to work for
pittance in the mines Of Europe?
There is no danger of the success of
the Democratic party in the Sixth
district this year, however. Mayor
Baldwin is doubtless a good citizen
and an excellent man. But he trains in
the wrong army. If he himself has
grown careless of the continued pros
perity of the city of his home, the great
mass of voters in that city have not. It
does not take high degree of intelli-
gence to discover the close alliance be-
tween the principle of protection and
industrial prosperity. To every mind
thGt can reason at all the fact should be
patent as that twice two are four that
the industrial prosperity of the Sixth
district is closely connected with the
principles enunciated by the Republican
party.
Under free trade the fires 90 out in
the furnaces Of Duluth, and burn bright
" once more In England and Wales.
What becomes, then, of the men who
are today being paid good wages in the
Sixth district! They must seek other
fields Of industry.
Judge Searle is committed by his
party platforms and personal promises
10 uphold and maintain the protective
principle-the American principle; home
work and high wages for his fellow
citizens. Let the workingmen of the
Sixth district vote for the American
principle by casting a ballot for D. B.
Searle