Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-10-06

lection to American labor. Do
they think that the American
people, are all fools? Cannot any
man of ordinary intelligence see
that the building up of shops and
factories, is a protection to labor?
And, is it not also a protection to
the American farmer? Every
laborer employed in the shops and
manufacturing establishments,
built up because of the protection
afforded by republican legislation,
creates certain demand for the
products of our farms, and thus
affords a certain and sure pro-
lection. The price of those
products has and always will be
regulated by the laws of supply
and demand. The policy of pro-
lection, aims to increase the
demand, and thus, the price, both
of our products and labor. 1t is
claimed that our ports are open to
the labor of the whole world and
that, consequently, labor has no
protection. 1t is freely admitted
that the laborers of the old world
are coming here in large numbers,
but it is claimed that the new
corners as we'll as the old, are
protected, and that is the reason
they continue to come. Shut off
the protection and it is believed
that many Of them would gladly
return to their old homes.
No purely agricultural country
ever became great, but with agri-
culture and the manufacturing
industries built up and fostered,
we lead the world.
England has attained her prom
inence as a nation, through her
ability to sell the products of her
shops and manufacturing estab-
lishments in every quarter of the
globe. Why is it that Ireland
languishes and England thrives?
Has Ireland any manufacturing in
dustries? Not any worthy of
mention, but still the Irish will
come here and vote almost solidly
to please the English, and against
the broad national policy of the
Republican party. A people that
have had the heel of oppression on
their necks for hundreds of years,
to vote and sympathize with a
party that has always been and is
to-day in favor of human slavery;
a party that has to-day the united
support and sympathy of every
manufacturer in Europe, and every
aristocrat on the British Islands.
Is it not almost incomprehensible?
At no time since the government
was formed, have the interests at
stake been greater than now, with
one possible exception, and that
was in the election that took place
in Nov. 1864. Then the Demo
cratic party in convention assem-
bled, in Chicago, declared the war
failure and demanded that hostil-
tiles cease and the south be allowed
to depart in peace. Could the
party at that time have had its
way, can any one imagine the
terrible results to this country that
would have followed? 1t is believed
that, Notwithstanding the deep love
of fatherland, its traditions and
language, which in reality have
never been threatened or imperilled
the Germans will, as a rule, vote
with the party of progress, the
party that stands for national pros
perity and greatness, the party of
universal suffrage and universal
manhood.
No party can escape its record,
and the Democratic party is to-day,
as much the party of serfdom and
slavery, as it was when it attempt
ed to destroy the government
To-day they have conspired to de-
stroythe commercial life and pros
perity of the country, in the inter
ests and at the behest of the same
section that then attempted the
life of the nation, section that
has never done anything to make
itself or other sections great.
By an examination Of the plat
form of the party, adopted at the
convention recently held in Chica-
go, it will be seen that they declare
that this government has no con-
stitutional right to levy duties on
imports. Examine the Constitu-
ton of the Confederate government
and you will find the same declar-
alton. The Chicago convention
also re-affirms its adherence to the
pernicious doctrines Of states
rights.
The condition of the blacks,
under democratic rule, before and
since the war is we'll understood
Have you ever stopped to con-
slider the condition of the poor
whites Of the south under that
rule? Before the war their condi-
ton was worse than the condition