Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-10-14
America for Americans.

With old candidates to vote for, old Is
sues to discuss; and Pennsylvania conced-
ed to be Republican it is impossible TOR
either of The great parties to create any
great enthusiasm in this state over the
present Presidential campaign; but the
Republicans of Butler made very good
trial at it last Monday evening.
The occasion was the visit oi
Gen'l D. II. Hastings, Of Bellefonte, 10
our town, and his reputation, both as
man and orator, secured him very cor
dialswelcome, and large and enthusiastic
audience.
There was large and noisy procession
on Main Street with music and
fireworks; and when all had filed into the
Armory Opera House the room was COM
fortably filed.
Judge Hasen presided, and introduced
Gent Has tings as q man young in years.
but ripe in experience, whose name was a
househo Id word in the state and always
mentioned favorably, trusted son Of the
Keystone State. who could and would pre-
sent the issues Of the campaign clearly.
Tremendous applause greeted General
Hastings as he app cared at the footlights,
and his speech, which was an able ana
fair presentation of the system Of protect
ion to our industries, resume of the work
of the Republican party; plea for good
money, and just tribute to President
Harrison and his administration was heart
lily applauded throughout. 1t was good
speech, an able speech, grand speech,
and one that cannot be successfully con-
troverted.
He began by saying that he Is an Amer
ican citisen, believes in the United States
Of North America, and that America
should be for its 5000, 600 Americans.
We have the only Kings and Queens on
Earth founded upon the intelligent judg
ment of the people, we are homogeneous
people, and the flag of freedom will for
ever float in peace over ns-the supplies
We sent to the starving Russians showed
our resources, and proved the Fatherhood
Of God and brotherhood of man. Harrison
and Cleveland are both lawyers and both
politicians, Harrison natural follower OF
Abraham Lincoln and Cleveland the same
of James Buchanan--Harrison believed in
the Union and fought for il, and thought
greenbacks good enough pay; Cleveland
hired q substitute and declared the Recon
structiop measures to be unconstitutional
Protection to our industries is q necessi-
ty, the second law passed by the first Con-
gess was tariff law, it was constitutional
and all our Presidents but three have ia
vored protection-Hill agrees with Cleve-
land, the British papers and the Confeder-
ate Constitution as to the unconstitutional
ty Of tariff lsws-there has been CONNER
cial panic after every free trade law that
has ever been psssed-An our manufact
ured articles are to-day cheaper than when
under free-trade laws-English salt cost
$3.50 Dbl. before the tariff Of 1872, and
now sur own can be bought at so cts a
bbl., and yet there is tariff of 32 cts. q
Dbl. on it and the barrel itselfis worth 20
cents-in 1851 we were paying England
$166. ton for iron rails, q tariff was put on
them and now we buy our own at $50. a
ton, and since that time have built half
the railroad mileage Of the world-We
have an abundance Of tin ore in this coun-
try, and within two years will produce all
We need and as good as is produced any
where-the farm products of this county
are worth 3700 millions year and the
local markets take ninety per cent of them,
but ten per cent 60 abroad-He believes in
keeping the money in the family, our Gov
erment renewed some bonds lately at two
per cent, thing that no other Nation on
Earth can do-the committee of the U. s.
Senate composed Of both parties reported
9 steady increase in the price Of labor in
this country for certain time and steady
decrease in the cost of living, while for tho
same time in England the opposite state of
affairs appeared-Peck ofthe N. Y. Bureau
of Statistics did not hide his light under
Bushel, though appointed by Cleveland
He was in England, this summer, and
the wages there are less than half of ours,
the greatest ambition of the laboring
people there is to save enough money to
bring them to America-America should
be for Americans, our charity should begin
at home-We should protect the American
dollar and keep 1t worth 100 cents on the
dollar as 1t is now in every civilized coun-
try on Earth--in 1850 there were 1882
banks in this country, and l02 of them in
Pennsylvania of which the notes of but 6
were at par and the others from 5 to 90 per
ent below par-Everybody used Bank
Note Detector, the money Of one State was
not good in another, a prominent man told
him that he kept his Bible on one side to
insure eternal salvation and his Detector
on the other side to prevent present dam
nation, now all money is good, nobody
reads his bank notes, our money is at par
everywhere, people will take all the green
backs you have nywhere-President Har-
rison is an ideal American President, he
has risen to every occasion, he settled the
Behring'S sea matter in three months after
Cleveland had worked at it for years; he
scared Germany from molesting Samoa;
he settled the Malta affair, and he brought
the Chilians to time in short order for the
murder Of Riggen and his comrades--All
our great men come from the humber
walks of life, we are great family, and are
the only great Nation on earth whose in
stitutions are founded on the Rock Of
Freedom.
SOMETHING OF sensation in political
circles was created last week by the report
that Secy Hsrrity intended to block the
election In this state by delaying certifying
the nominations to the Co. Commissioners