New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-04-20

The people of this country forgot the
shams and hypocricy of that party, which
has ever been in favor Of obstruction and
against progress, and were deceived, mis-
led and blinded so that the Republican
Party suffered a great defeat in 1890.
We felt its effect here in Minnesota. /
do not believe that there is Republican
In the State who weakened on that bill
then, who is not ashamed of his weak
ness to-day. We have had one year
one full year of the practical work
inggs of it. What do we find? We find
what we have always found, that there
is no dependence to be put in the word
or claims of Democracy; we find, as we
have always found, that it is a party for
office and for the spoils of Office only /;
whose only claim to recognition by this
people IS in its persistency in lying about
every great measure that the Republican
Party advances for the benefit of the
country.
We exported in breadstuffs in. 1891
nearly eighty eight million dollars in ex-
cess of the exports of breadstuffs of 1890.
By the great principle of reciprocity,
which has engrafted into and is a part of
this bill, we have already opened the
doors OF the markets of other countries
wide to American ships, which hereto
fore have been practically sealed against
them.
The other day I saw in one of our
trade Journals statement to the effect
that IN the period from January 1st,
1891, to March the 1st, 1891, which was
prior to fiie conclusion of our reciprocal
treaty viii Cuba, the port of Havana in
that islana had received from the United
States less than six thousand bags of
flour, and from other countries nearly
sixty thousand bags. From January the
Its, 1892, ito March the 1st, 1892, the
wedge of reciprocity having pried open
the doors Of that port to American pro-
ducts, there had been received in the CITY
of Havana over eighty thousand bags
OF flour from the United States and one
hundred and sixty bags of flour from
Europe. What better proof do you want
of the Righteousness of that legislation
than this one instance of its practical
Workings
The wool industry of this country has
taken an impetus upward since the pas
sage of the Mckinley bill, which will
make it, as it ought to be, one of our
leading and most profitable industries
if the Democrats do not succeed, as they
are now attempting to do, in giving it a
death blow. You have been protected
In almost every product of your farms
from the competition of other lands; and
instead of losing the benefits of their
trade, those benefits have been greatly
increased.
We will have the same old fight this
year that We have had before. Democ-
racy is hungry and thirsty. It will come
begging and beseeching you to listen to
its siren songs, and expects to be able to
hoodwink the people into believing its
protestations. I do not believe that it
will succeed. The lies by which it won
in $50 will recoil against it in 1892.
You Republicans of Brown County want
to have something to do in bringing
about this glorious result. [ believe,
yes, [ know you will, sit down by your
|neighbor, my Republican friend, and
around your freside talk together about
these questions which affect you individ-
ually and collectively in your dearest
concerns. We are all brothers: we all
alike have an interest in the success of
this government. am sure we do not
want to doit harm. am sure that
we want it to succeed; and if we
find upon a fair investigation of
these great questions and the history
of our country that the Republi-
can Party is right and the Democratic
Party is wrong; surely, there is no man
in this audience who Will allow himself
to be SO blinded by party name as to
forget the true interests of himself and of
his family.
We have third party in Minnesota.
Many of these men who make up this
party have heretofore been Republicans
many of them have fought and many of
them have she'd blood in defense of our
common country. believe that the
great majority of these men are honest
in their conviction; but they are wrong,
nquestionably wrong. If there are those
here who are of that party I would say
to them in all kindness, that / believe
that they are making a mistake, and a
serious mistake in every minute that they
longer delay their return to the support
of the Republican Party. Democracy in
Minnesota, ever having the spoils of Of
fee first in view, is willing, although
they differ with you in principle, to cast
aside their principles to compromise
questions of state and of nation and to
join with you in the common purpose Of
destroying the Republican Party, thai
they, not you, may succeed to its power
I do not believe that this is what you
went into the Alliance for, my Republic
an friends. I do not believe that you
entered into that Alliance with your
lneighbors for the purpose Of becoming a
Isideshow to the Democratic circus. / dc
not believe that you will follow to a flu
sion which Will result in a swallowing OF