The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-11-04

tudU IL ldVOTS CLASS, duu any pldu
which sets the farming class against
the laboring class is unjust and un-
Republican. The warehouse scheme
is n-patriotic. The county would be
flooded as France was with asignets.
They were backed up by Tallyrand but
it was the most dangerous that ever
existed and the end came ID f1nan-
cial crash that brought ruin every
where.
The speaker then stated how the
51st Congress, the only Republican
one in fourteen years, had carried out
the pledges of the party. No congress
since the beginning of the government
ever did so much important business
TneLouisiana lottery was crushed, for
eign markets opened for our pork and
beef, our flag was once more set afoat
on the seas, and the old soldiers were
properly pensioned. He had heard
Democratic slurs upon the pension
bills, but the old soldiers deserve all
they have gotten. Cleveland vetoed
a bill for the relief of those men, and
this made much special legislation
necessary, but he vetoed the bills as
they came up to him one by one with
pen strokes more cruel than dagger
thrusts, with jibe, jeer and insult. He
also returned the Rebel battle flags.
1t surpasses my comprehension how
any old soldier, or anyone who did not
want to see the Rebel flag successful,
can vote for Cleveland.
The Mckinley bill was taken upand
eulogized, and the Democratic posi-
tion was assaulted and riddled by the
speakers hot shafts. There is not an
article of necessity or use that is
not as cheap or cheaper than when
the Mckinley bill passed. say this
deliberately and you can easily prove
this by looking up the old bills of your
merchants.
The tin plate liar is the last of the
tariff liars. There are AZ tin plate
factories in operation. During the
last quarter over 100000 pounds of
tin plate have been made in Ameri "a
You can buy American made tin roof
ing in Mankato. Great mines, having
the greatest tin deposits in the world,
are being opened up in the Black
Hills, but 200 miles from your homes.
The community having diversity
OF industries provides for the con-
sumption of that which is being rails
ed at home. Bring the consumer and
producer near together and eliminate
freight rates. There should be as lit
tie competition as possible among the
farmers. If the home market took up
all of the farmers products he would
not have to compete with the Ryot
of India. MankatO is better market
than formerly, because of its diversi-
fed industries.
The cost Of manufactures is mostly
in labor, and is it not better to have
the great labor bills distributed at
home? When the free trader wants
to buy things cheap he wants to have
cheap labor and pit the old world sys-
tenn, wife labor and child labor,
against American workmen. When
American industries have broken
down, foreign monopolies have always
put the price up. Not one of the ma
tions now asking the United States to
take down her tariff but has grown
great and strong by protective tar
if. England's old ally, the Demo-
cratic party, persists in returning to
the system from which signers of the
Declaration of Independence revolted.
Lord Salisbury recently confessed
that England'S free trade policy was
a failure. Napoleon l said that if
France was made of adamant free
trade would grind it to powder. Bis
marck said in his last letter that the
prosperity of America is due to her
protective policy, and that it is time
for Germany to follow suit. All civil
lied nations take the same stand. 1t
would be better for Mapleton had she
half dozen factories. He referred
to the industries which have been
started in Minnesota through the Nc
Kinley bill.
The wool question was taken up
The annual CONSUMPTION is 100000
pounds of wool, while the production
is 3OO,OOO,0O0. The Democrats never
liked sheep. The balance is import
ed from Australia. 1t goes through
twenty processes in England and is
sent 1000 miles to Mapleton and
Mapleton's wheat goes 1900 miles to
England to pay for it, Would it not
be better if the Mapleton wheat
raiser could take his wheat to ware
house and exchange it there for wool
raised by a Mapleton farmer?
The Democrats propose to tear
down, but offer no remedy. The tar
if system7was founded by Washing
ton and Hamilton and has worked
we'll, and there has been prosperity
when it has been in force and depres-
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