Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-20
NEW YORK GERMANS.

Many leading German merchants of
New York City and Brooklyn have
joined as a committee in a forcible
and convincing letter to all voters of
the German race, setting forth to them
the reasons why they should vote the
national republican ticket, not only in
justice to their own interests but as af-
fecting the interests of the fatherland.
These sixty-six German citizens, who
have constituted themselves commit
tee to work for the election of Harrison
and Reid, are not politicians. They are
business men, "who realize that the
prosperity of this country is due to the
wise commercial policy of the republi-
can party" AS such their appeal
should come with all the more force to
all thinking and patriotic Germans.
1t will be observed by reference to
the appeal of these German business
men, wqich was printed in the last is
sue of the 1'rSbune, that they have no
use for free trade or for "that danger
Gus system of state banks which in
times past affected our commerce so
disastrously." They recognize that
both free trade and protection have
been tested sufficiently, and that while
under the former policy there was a
marked decline in national prosperity,
eliminating in financial panics and
paralysis of business, under the latter
there has been "a development of all
our national resources beyond the wild
est expectations, and a general pros
perity such as the world had never seen
before" They state existing facts ter
sely and emphatically:
Never was the balance of trade so
| favorable to us as now, never was the
the prosperity of the whole country so
general, never were the wage-earnerS
so well off, as the extraordinary in
crease in the deposits of the savings
banks proves. Foreign capitalists have
come to us, have built factories, and
are paying the Workmen three to four
times as much as they had to pay their
wOrk-peOple in Europe. The inquiries
of the finance committee of the United
States senate demonstrated that wages
have risen and the necesSaries of life
become cheaper under the Mckinley
bill. The democratic chief of the labor
bureau of the state of New York at.
tests that wages in our state have risen
over six millions, while the value OF
proqucts has increased over thirty mil
lions, the very first year after the Nc
kinley tariff became law.
In the face of these incontestable
facts they ask the pertinent question
I"What sensible man can or will be in
favor of the Introduction of a policy OF
free trade which would bring about {
revolution of business, cause genera
cessation of work and enterprise, anC
such a terrible depreciation in the value
of property that the consequences can
not be fOTetOld ?" This is a vital ques
ton, and, coming from conservative
careful business men, it ought to ant
unquestionably will produce a pro
found impression upon German aarn9G
Scandinavian voters as well, who as {
rule are not led blindly to the polls b!
demagogues.
The German committee further base:
its appeal upon the record of the repub
lican congress, upon President Harri
sons firm stand on the financial ques
ton, his fearless defense of the nation
al honor his maintenance of the reform
of the civil seryice.-Chicogo Tribune