The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-04-14
A CONDITION.

Again Mr.. Stewart comes to the
front to say that he is not arguing
against the Mckinley bill, but against
tho abstract republican policy of pro-
lection. Taking our quotation as Mr..
Stewart gives it in it's relation to what
followed, we are at a loss to see how
Mr.. Stewart or any other reader could
believe that it referred to anything but
the last Republican tariff-not the tar
itf of thirty years ago. But we are not
surprised that MIR. Stewart realizes
that his position as to the Mckinley
tariff is not tenable. There are legions
of democratic and alliance oracles in
the same fix-trying to make the cam
palgn thunder of two years ago ap-
pear something more than sounding
brass and tinkling cymbal, after a
practical demonstration has shown
that there was nothing else in it, If
the Gazette lacked clearness of'state-
ment as to what particular tariff it re-
ferred to, Mr.. Stewart in his public
debate did not err in that direction
but denounced the Mckinley bill by
name, and unless the ears Of many of
his auditors are at fault, asserted that
it had increased the cost of the neces-
saries of life.
**s
We are glad Andrew is going to
wean his calf. And to be entirely
logical, when the chill winds of De-
cember begin to howl, he should turn
that calf loose to rustic under the
snow for a subsistence, without even
the shelter of a friendly strawstack. 1t
will then be no longer a calf, and tc
protect it would be manifest absurd
ty, as bad as the Mckinley law.
*
Now as to Massachusetts how has
that great hive of manufacturing in
dustry absorbed" so much wealth
Perhaps much in the same way that
Minneapolis has absorbed more wealth
than Redwood and a half a dozen 9th
er counties put together. Yet Red
wood county farmers find it very con
venient to have Minneapolis "absorb'
their grain and stock, in exchange fol
the commodities and comforts of life
*
Those of our readers whose memories
run back to 1866, will readily SET
through the sophistry of Mr.. Stewart.
table. They will remember that a
the close of the war prices were ''away
up in the pictures" Not only that
but the national currency was SO plen
tiful that it took something like three
paper dollars to buy as much as tive
dollars in gold would purchase. 1t il
true that under Republican rule tn
purchasing power of dollar is great
er than thirty years ago, but SO is tn
purchasing power of a days labor
whether skilled or unskilled, as com
pared to the good old democratic days
Does Mr.. Stewart deny this?
Xxx
ASK any son of Great Britain hoy
the price of the necessaries of life her
compares with that of his native coun
try" We will, if our inquisitor vii
ask any OF them why they left tina
country to come to a land of hig]
prices. Toquote President Harrison
declaration during the last campaign
which has become classic: "One fac
is enough for me. The gates of Cas-
tie Garden swing inward. They d.
not swing outward to any American
laborer seeking better country thai
this. These men who have toiled a
wages in other lands that barely sus
tanned life, and opened no avenue O
promise to them or their children
know the good land of hope as we'll a.
the swallow knows the land of sum-
mer."