Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-11-03
Especial Correspondence

Foreign Birth.
Especial Correspondence.l
NEW YORK, Oct. 81.-This has been q
campaign Of thought. The people are
IT'LL thinking, and will do SO on election
lay
Perhaps no class are moro interested
than the business men, whose business
has been built up under tho protective
tariff Of the past thirty years. They do
not want 10 unsettle business, make in
vestments uncertain and render the
money unsafe and liable to become
worthless in an hour after receiving 1t.
Merchants do not want to transact their
business with the kind of wildcat money
their fathers used, and through which
tens Of millions Of dollars were lost In q
single year.
The farmers also remember that the
Harrison administration has opened the
loors of Germany, Denmark, Austria,
France, Italy and Spain to their pork,
and Of numerous European countries to
their beef, has wiped out pleuro-pneu-
monia from the herds in this country,
placed the sugar industry upon success
iul footing, opened new markets for corn
and wheat in Europe and South Amer
lea, increased the annual exports of
farm products $3.50, 200, 900, improved
your homo market many millions of dol
lars by the increased tariff on farm prod
acts, and that the Democratic party pro-
pose to destroy these blessings of reci-
procity, protective tariff.
The mechanics realize that their wages
N protected America are double those
paid for the same class Of work in free
:rade Great Britain.
The lrishmen know that Great Britain
Is sending money and words of advice
10 help the Democrats, and that Mr..
Cleveland showed his hatred for Ireland
by refusing to run on ticket with
that Irishman." John q. Sheehan, and
that the treasurer of the Democratic
national committee went out of his way
TO say that If lrishmen did not lie
steal, cheat, rob, murder and get drunk
perjure themselves, quarrel and fight
they would be almost as good as aLy
other nation" and that President Har
rison honored the Irish citizens and
stood by that lrish-American citizen
Patrick Egan, when the Democratic
press, backed by Great Britain, was de
handing his withdrawal.
The workingmen realize that undel
the present tariff system wages hav,
been increased, as shown by the repor
Of a Democratic labor commissioner II
New York state, and that under tn,
system which the Democrats promis,
wages will DO reduced and the money
in which they are paid will BIO uncertain
and worthless
| The western homesteaders remember
that the Republican party is responsible
for the legislation opening public lands
that the Cleveland administration de
nounced hundreds Of thousands Of home
steaders as plunderers and perjurers
and that 1t was only the return Of Re
publicans TO power that gave them title
TO their lands and homes.
The soldiers remember that the las
time the Democrats were in control o
all branches of this government the
plotted its destruction and brought on
war which cost 270,376 lives on til
Union side, and half as many moro o
the Confederate side, to say nothing @
billions of dollars expended; also tina
the only Democrat that has been in tn
White House vetoed their pension bill
by hundreds.
County, precinct and ward committee
man and citizen voter, remember tina
there are five states, with seventy-hv
electoral votes, in which a change {
per cent. would reverse the result {
four years ago, and seven states, wit
6fty-five electoral votes, in which tn
plurality four years ago was but fe'
hundred. They should and doubles
do realize that upon their individual e.
ertions may depend the result Of Il
election Their failure to vote becaui
they don't like the ballot law, or becaui
the weather is bad, may be the turnin
point in the history of now prosperoI
and happy country.