Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-09-14

that the people of this great state an
look with Indifference upon policy
which has already turned more than
100000 American workingmen out Of
the factories of the east, left both them
and their familiesN helpless upon the
charities of the great eastern cities to
furnish them with the bread to keep
them from day to day and not ser
iously consider the question of select
ing United States senator who be-
lieves in giving these American labor
ers the work of manufacturing the
goods which we are compelled to buy
and use, rather than the governors
theory of having the goods come sin
floods, made by the pauper labor Of
Europe.
These million idle workingmen are
the heads of families representing four
or five in a family Six million OF
of people living on charity and this the
result of even the prospect of letting
foreign made goods "come in floods
as suggested by Iowa's governor, say.
ing nothing about depriving these
workingmen of the means of purchas-
ing from the western farmer, and in a
home market, the bread and meat and
butter and all the necessities for the
support and comfort of these six mil.
lion people.
Iowa will not be content to let this
great crime go on without n protest
and protest so loud and strong that
it will reach the ears even of the other
leaders of this movement.
The army of the unemployed is not
confined to the great manufacturing
centers OF the east. have just re-
ceived letter fran the manager of an
Iowa factory at Ottumwa saying that
for years they have given employ
ment to some 500 operatives. Cow
they are reduced to 224 with further
reductions in view.
The Ottumwa Cutlery works that EN-.
ployed l25 men one year ago, today
have a Waterman to look after the
building.
Innumerable cases of this kind in ev.
cry city of Iowa can be found without
trouble. The young industries of our
state are being wiped out simply by
the near approach of the governor S
tariff reform, with throngs of idle men
standing upon the streets of our cities
and villages asking for work, with our
farmers forced to sell their products in
a demoralized market that is tending
downward as the market of the world
approaches nearer, with our national
government running in debt at the rate
Of nearly 100000 per day and with n
deficit of $50, 100000 staring us in the
face between now and January /, |
hardly think the governor of Iowa
should now endeavor to shift the re-
sponsibility of the active part he took
in bringing about this change, by sug-
costing to the minds of the Iowa voters
remedies in the line of managing our
state ulStitStiOItS rather than remedies in
the direction of securing the running
expenses of our government, remedies
in the line of procuring work Iowa S
unemployed, remedies to place the
market for Iowa products even back
where it was year ago, saying moth
ing about an increase of 30 cents per
bushel for wheat and Is cents per
bushel for corn.
For thirty years the principle of pro.
lection TO American industry and the
establishment of home market for
the American farmer has been the
central idea of republican legislation.
When one year ago this question was
10000 plurality declared her faith and
her loyalty in the continuance of this
policy She will not be content TO
send man to the United States sen.
ate who does not stand loyalty by these
principles, under the workings Of
which Iowa herself has increased in
wealth and prosperity more rapidly
than any other state in our union.
She will not be content with any
thing short of a protest and an over.
whclming protest against the proposed
democratic assault upon the industries,
the home market and the wage earners
of this country.
On the question of prohibition, Mr.
Jackson declared that he stood
squarely on the platform of the repub.
lican party that was pledged to retain
prohibition in all communities and 10.
calities where the law is now enforced
or can be made effective and is equally
pledged to those localities where the
saloon now exists in spite of prohibit.
ton, such a method of controlling the
liquor traffic as shall best serve the
cause of temperance and morality, by
reducing the evil to the minimum.
just what this legislative method
shall be rests entirely with the people,
as this whole question is relegated to
the legislative districts of Iowa, and
RELOCATION TO the legislative districts
means the RELOCATION to the people
themselves.
| am content to leave this question
in the hands of the republican party,
which has ever been found true to the
best interests of temperance and NOR.
atty, and which against the united
and bitter opposition of the democratic
party. has given TO the state OF Iowa,
ever had upon this subject for the last
quarter Of century.
Mr.. Jackson dwelt at some length
upon the attitude of the democratic
administration in its assaults upon the
pensioners of the country, and paid a
glowing tribute to the courage, loyalty
and self sacrifice of the veteran sol.
diers He branded the sleuth hound
methods adopted by the administration
in striking down our gallant defenders
as most cowardly outrage.
He closed by declaring that Ohio and
Iowa are the great battle grounds upon
which are to be fought to finish the
greatest OF all live political questions
the principle of which is embodied il
the simple sentence, America first, the
world afterward."
He called upon all citizens Of Iowa
to line up under the old flag who be
lieved in sending the million laborer!
OF our country back into the American
factories, with the assurance that The
goods which they manufac
ture and which furnished then
the money to support themselves
and families shall be the same goods
which they as American citizens will
buy and use in preference TO those
manufactured in the sweat shops o.
England. lie appealed to the young
men of Iowa to rally under the flag Of
Lincoln and Grant and with the
mighty army of Iowa's young men al
his color guard, he had an abiding faitf
that Iowa would stand, as she Away!
has stood, firm in the faith against the