New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-08-30

and our business men very we'll knew
that no radical changes in our tariff laws
! could he made over the heads of that Re
publican Senate. The Democrats in the
House, did pass the "NLills bill,' as bad
a bill as it we'll could be. But the senate
pat it to sleep forever. At that time
It was the Senate that avoided the mis-
chief and warded off the trouble. Now
the Senate, too, is Democratic, and moth
ing stands in the way of such disastrous
legislation. 81.
1t is the fear of such legislation
which is to-day closing our factories and
workshops, and depriving our laboring
people of the means with which to buy
bread.
Mark my words, if the Democratic
shall enact tariff law drawn up along
the lines laid down in the Chicago plat
form, our trouble in this country will
have only just begun. The Sherman law
may be repealed Internationally and
speedily, but So long as this menace Of
radical changes in our tariff schedules
hangs over our business men our trouble
will continue to increase. This will not
he on account Of the repeal of the Sher-
man law, but in spite of such repeal. The
working people of this country have be-
come accustomed to good wages. They
have ,,een living we'll on the money they
have earned. Men never pass peaceably
from good to poorer living. They al
ways demand that mode of life to which
they have become accustomed during
long periods of prosperity. Such mode
of living can be furnished to our work
ing people only under the conditions
which have made their high wages profit
able and possible.
Men build mills and run factories for
the purpose of gain. When profits are
denied them the mills will close. It is
not lack of money that has closed 50
many factories in the last ten months,
but lack of orders. Men refuse to invest
a dollar where the prospect is that it
will never again be seen.
The managers of our great industries
sympathize with their workmen. They
would be more than glad to keep them
all employed. They cannot do this un-
less they cut down wages; and working
men everywhere refuse to work for less
pay. They have been SO long living on
good wages that they absolutely refuse
to work for less. The owners and man.
ayers of these great enterprises do not
feel warranted in running their factories
in the face of such threatened legislation
so long as they are compelled to pay the
wages heretofore paid; and as the work
ingmen refuse to work for less they are
compelled to shut down entirely. This
is every day throwing out of work thou
sands of men. Want, already stares these
men in the face. The ranks of the un-
employed are being daily increased.
Starvation will soon stare these men and
their families in the face What will
then follow no man can predict.
am no "calamity howler" My life
has been spent in trying to teach men to
be brave under all difficulties. I have
for years been warning my fellow men
that the theories of these free traders
would end in precisely such results.
They have failed to heed my teachings.
All can now do is to warn the Demo-
cratic leaders as to the future, and beg
of them to stay their hands. Gentlemen,
if you will listen to no one else. for
Heavens sake do not turn deaf ear to
the cries of the unemployed, to the
moans of the starving thousands! These
men are mostly Industrious and frugal
people. They have for years been en-
joying the comforts of life which follow
well-paid work. I beg*of you in face of
such facts do not render their employ
ment impossible simply to establishyoul
pet theories! =" .-~
|! Woe to any party which refuses to lis
ten to the appeals of these wage-earners
in their distress. The day of reckoning
for such party will sulely come. These
men now see the ruin they have wrought
by believing false teachers and voting
against party under which they have
been so long blessed, They may be
compelled to suffer but they will not be
slow to right the wrong. They may
have been misled by false teachings; but
the lessons they are now learning from
sad experience will not soon be forgot