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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17

1t will be seen from these statistics
that any duty which affects the price of
barley is of special importance to Wis
consin farmers. 1t is Il plain matter of
fact that under a decreased duty of more
than 30 per cer+ the importation of that
article will be greatly stimulated. and
the inevitable result will be a decline of
prices. The Wisconsin barley crop of
last year was valued at nearly S6.000,0 900,
and a reduction of only 10 cents a bushel
in the price in consequence of inviting
competition with Canada will incur loss
Of S6OO, 900 year to the barley growers
of this state.
The Canadian farmers are loudly re-
ioicing over the passage of the Demo
cratic tariff law 70 them it means bet
ter times in barley raising. 1t gives them
the American market for their product;
and our farmers will find hard expert
ence in contending with Canadian compe-
tition Wisconsin consumes but little
more than half of the home product. the
local consumption in 1893 being 6,350,000
bushels.
There can be no doubt as to the evil
effects of the new tariff law as it re-
CARDS barley. In 1890, when there was
a duty of 10 cents a bushel. Canada sent
to our markets over 100000 bushels
of barley a quantity equal to the entire
product Of the state of Wisconsin in any
one year. In 1893 the imports reached
only 1869, 761 bushels. This piece of
history plainly indicates what will be the
sure result of the barley schedule of the
present tariff law That it will be hurt
full to the barley growers of the coun-
try is entirely beyond question.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17

ders Of the American people. They have reduced
the tariff based the impOrtatiOns of last year,
on leaf tobacco and Havana cigars necessities
to every household Qaughter). 81 ,434. 900. They
have reduced the tariff on liquors more than
81 ,232, 900. We put tariff of $3.50 upon French
brandy by the law of 1890 for the benefit Of the
farmers of the country. They have reduced it to
81 80 Uaughter.( They have reduced the tariff
laces and embrOideries, based upon the i'm
portations of last year, Sl.5S7 OO0 on silk
goods, pushes, yelvets, etc. 50, 72O, 900. Ny
here is boom for the poor man: On artificial
flowers aud ostrich feathers $2G5, 900; on paint
ings and statuary. $432 900. The poor of this
country. the plain people Of this country the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17
A Queer Notion.

The collection of old bottles is not
new diversion by any means, but the
transformation of these into the walls or
Il house is A Dublin gentleman or
means appears to be employing his spare
time and cash in accommodating egg
shaped soda water bottles. AS they ar
rive. day by day, and are shoe into his
garden, he has them cemented side by
side into wall, the result from the out
side reminding one of a colossal bottle
emporium.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17

they are doing business on their own hook.
Gaughter.) They have got no aid from
that great conservative party that guided
this country through war and peace
for more than thirty years, and covered
it with a prosperity and a glory, the like
of which had never been seen before. But,
my fellow citizens, they have passed law;
a tariff law such it is 0aughter). A
law which nobody approves of who
lives under our flag. law which
the president of the United State de-
clared was in violation of party princ-
Piles and party pledges, and which if it
passed he did not see how the Democratic
party could look the people Of the
country in the face. (Applause). And
which after its passage he declared
to be the very communism of pelf,'
a law which he refused to sign. A law
which he Gid not have the backbone to
veto. That man of courage, that man OF
independence, that man OF whom it is said
he is better than his party. 1t is no won
der that Senator Vest in Kansas City the
other night quoted the Spanish proverb
when he said you mustn't throw dirt on
the breakfast you have to eat daughter
and applause) A law, my fellow citizens,
which never was considered on the Com
mittee on Ways and Means of the house;
never was deliberately considered by the
Finance committee Of the senate; never
was considered by the Conference commit
I
| house of representatives only three days
before its final passage voted never to
accept it. And yet within three days
they did accept it, and they did it because
the agents of the Sugar trust said it
was that bill or no bill, and in all proba-
bility none. (Applause) A law which the
senior senator from New York, Mr.. Hill,
one of the greatest Democrats of the coun-
try. declared was in violation of every
Democratic promise. He not only spoke
against it, but he voted against it, and
when he went back to his constituents they
rewarded by giving him a nomination for
governor in the great empire state. (Ap-
pIause) a law which Senator Mills of
Texas land | ordinarily disagree with him.
daughter says has not the approval of a
thousand people in the United States; and
[ believe him. 1t has no friends here. It's
! friends are beyond the sea (great cheer
| ing) They owe no allegiance to our gov
eminent or fidelity to our flag.
Mr.. Wilson bubbles.
81 see Mr.. Wilson made his opening
! speech to his constituents at Charlestown,
w. Va. He made it yesterday. When he
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17
THE TARIFF AND BARLEY.
What the Democrats Have Done to In
yite Foreign Competition with
the Home Product.

The duty on barley prior to the enact
ment of the Mckinley law was 10 cents
Il bushel. Under that duty, which was
not regarded as in any wise protective,
there were imported to the United States
from Canada the following quantities of
barley, with the value added:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17
50 nlgN 10 gldnGeur IS our dust.
SO near to God is man.
When duty whispers low, Thou must
The youth replies, 4 can

''When Abraham Lincoln (apDlause) that mag
nifcent representative OF American citizenship
OF the grandest in human history, he
who spoke the words that proclaimed liberty,
he who issued the decree that all men should be
free-Abraham Lincoln. snatched as he was by
bravo from the theater of fame-When he said
come men responded 1 and I will and
half million men gave up their lives to pre-
the republic: and it is business. in the
language of the lamented Lincoln. to bind up
their wounds and TO it that their widows
the great struggle. should be cared for from Il
bounteous treasury of the government. ZAP
pIause) What need in this country is re-
YiyaI of patriotism. God grant that it may
come and to stay. | thank you and bid
Won good night - 0Ireat t.hpprino)
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17

couldn't get anything for labor with which
to buy them. The most prosperous country in
the world is the country that pays good wages
There are just two ways to maintain the
man, to preserve the American market for the
American producer. One way is to put the tariff
own high enough to discourage the foreign i'm
portation, and encourage home production. ZAP
Way to do it. and it Will accomplish the same
thing, is to reduce the wages of labor Sc low in
this country that no other country can manu-
that way we Gan keep the whole World out.
for-tarif, Brice- Cleveland German way.
Now don't know what you think about it here
rather make it harder for the foreign produce
to get into this country than to make it harder
for the American citizen to live in this country.
< voice: "That is the way we think in
linen will have splendid 1 RePnbs can
9roteetiys tariff PATRIOTS victory on the 9th
F'Did it occur to you, my fellow citi-
zensqf it t hashat the no more IRE work
demand for labor the higher the price paid for
labor, and that the less employment 10y there is
is one days work and two men to do it,
neither of them get as good wages as though
TO do it. Free trade gives the days work
to Europe, protection keeps It at home for
the benefit of our own people GApplause)
Mr.. Villas Political Economy.
duty. So they have. Mr. Senator villas
Qaughter gives us a new lesson in political
economy He says that free trade really in
creases the prices of things. He says-and
read from his speech of Sept 6, 1894, delivered
MiIwaukee-'What dismal prophecies have the
political wool growers been wont to give us.
How they have Wanted the necessity of protec-
ton to secure price. Yet when did the
price of that staple fall as under the Nc
Kinley bill. And now, having passed the law of
| 1894 the markets testify it's advance within
even few days since the passage of the
law
Snow I have been taught by Democratic
orators and by Democratic political economists
| that a tariff a tax, and that when we
took it off from article it cheapened it !;
! but if Senator Villas is right and wool has
| gone up in price since it has been made free
| then free trade is a tax and not the tariff.
| QIaughter) There should be edition of
! the political economy of the Democratic party
/ and if that be really true that when they have
| taken the tariff off wool it sends it up in
| price, what becomes of their theory that free
! raw material cheapens the material to
| the manufacturer and thus cheapens the prod
ucts, that they might go out and capture the
! worlds markets? 1t is a most remarkable
| statement, taking the tariff off wool sends up
| it's price and putting the tariff on sugar sends
| down its price. Laughter.)
Some Tariff Inequalities.
'But what duties have they reduced for the
! benefit of the poor laboring men of the country
/ You know they say these tariffs are a burden
| nm ppODlp Now let wis
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17
Unpartriotic and Unamerican.
Must Have Good Wares.

Things cheaper My fellow citizens nothing
is cheap to the American people which comes
from abroad that makes an idle man at home.
(Applause) No agricultural product that comes
from Canada, matter how low in price, is
cheap to the American people, II it leaves the
American product to rot in the fields Gap
plause.) No product that from Europe is
cheap, if it means the loss of days work to
American workman (Applause) The dearest
thing in this wide, wide world is poverty. The
old men in this audience will remember that
when things the cheapest men the
poorest when the price Of products the
lowest they the hardest to get. because we
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17

A striking illustration of the influence
of Il protective duty in reducing imports
can be seen in the following table, show
ing the impOrtations of barley for three
years Immediately after the passage of
tine Mckinley law, which placed duty
OF 30 cents q huShel that artinla:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17

country are ready to vote to-day help elect a
Republican national house of representa- iyes
which will stop any further and deeper cuts into
our industrial life. (CheerSo
Il cannot recall any national contest since the
to which more Importance to the varied in
terests of the American people is attached than
the contest which is on us now. If elect
Republican house of representatives this year.
then after the 4th day of March next the Demo
cratic president and the Democratic senate will
be poweress to intct any further injury upon
the rights. occupations, wages and investments
of the American people. The next national house
of representatives. if it Republican. would
not be able to bring US back where we were il
1892, but they would only stand there to pre-
vent any further mischief from the hands of
this Democratic admnStrat ton. If perchance-
and 1 would have every workingman, every bust
ness man, every farmer, every mechanic, who
honOrs with their presence here tonight, re-
member-that if by accident or misfortune we
should fail elect the house Republican. but
elect it Democratic, then for two years longer
or until the conclusion of Mr.. CleyeIand's pres
idential term that party would have the power
to carry out their threat to wage still further
war upon the industries of the people, and
therefore here, in this great industrial city of
Milwaukee. with its thousands of manufacturing
establishments upon which the workingmen of
this city depend. l beg you to send to the Ma
tional house somebody who Will represent your
best interests and vote for your prosperity.
(Applause) But my fellow citizens. they say
that bad their law isl mean the Tariff law
of 1S94-that it is better than the Tariff law of
1890, which our law. Better for what?
A voice: ENGLAND. -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17

81 believe the people do know how to stop
any further these industries. / believe
my friend is right l think the people of this
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17
story Told ut Lincoln.

eyes, thousands and thousands of them, as my
friend answers; 1 saw the other day in the city
of Lincoln, at a great Republican demOnstra-
tion, 300 workingmen- brickmakers- marching
in a procession, bearing this banner: Twenty
two millions i'll 1892, not one in 1898 1894
That tells the story. saw in the city of st.
Louis where l spoke a week ago last night,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17
Some Tnriff IneauaIities.

''But what duties have they reduced for the
benefit of the poor laboring men of the country !?
You know they say these tariffs a burden
upon the American people. Now let us see what
burdens they have rolled away from the shout
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17
MIR. wilson QuibbIes.

81 see Mr.. Wilson made his opening
speech to his constituents at Charlestown,
w. Va He made it yesterday. When he
was on the other side, banqueted by the
great commercial body of London, he said
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17
Better Only for England.

Somebody says England. That is right. And
he wants better testimony than the speech
of Sir Albert ROwlatt in introducing Mr.. Will
at the Chamber of Commerce banquet,
lied all of his aspirations touching his bill but
we want to assure him that its effect has been
good upon England (Laughter.) Mills have al
ready been opened in Wales and in Yorkshire and
the textile industries of England have felt the
stimulus of his bill. Better / say. for whom
the American farmer? Better for the American
workngman? Better for the American manu-
facturer? Better for the prosperity of the whole
people? There is not interest in the United
States. cOnfessedly none, that it has benefited
excepting the Sugar trust and the Whisky
trust Point me to single fire it started in
any furnace of the country. Point me to
single workingman to whom it has given en-
ployment. Point to a single factory it has
started. Has it advanced anybody's wages?
Have you any such cheering news here in Mil
waukee? Better than the law of 1890? Why,
half in which it in operation every factory
running at its full capacity, every mine
running its full force New industries were
builded up and stimulated, old re-
vived, and for those two years and half
under the operation of that law and down to
1892 there was not a workingman in the
United States who wanted work who could not
get it. (Applausel. Not only that but he re-
ceived better wages on the average than he
had ever received before. Better wages than ever
had been paid in this any other country Of
the world. How many men in this country to-
day are receiving as good wages as they We're
in 1aQa2 Answer me, men of Milwaukee,"
Voftes: None
''None. That is the voice that comes from
who were employed in 1892 are idle today?''
A voice: Thousands and thousands
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17

Right here we find an example of re-
ductiOn of the Importation of Canadian
barley to the amount of $3.50, 5S1 bushels
Ill one year, the direct result of duty
which was practically prohibitive The
Democratic tariff law of this year cuts
the barley duty in two, reducing it to 80
per cent ad valOrem. which is equal to a
decrease of nearly 81 per cent
The barley product of the United
States in 1893 was 69.S0O.0Oy bushels.
Wisconsin is one of the great barley
states Of the union, and last year stood
third in production, the first being Cali
fornia with 100000 bushels. Iowa with
100000 bushels and Wisconsin with
9.415.0O0 bushels, according to the re-
ports of the assessors. and IL ,O24 900
bushels based upon the reports of the
commercial agencies.
There are some heavy barley counties
in this state. In 1898 Dodge county pro-
duced 1,795.907 bushels; Fond du Lac
followed with 1.237. 402 bushels The
remaining counties producing over 300,-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17

Take that tumbler for example Exhibiting a
glass from the table, The protective duty on
that 60 per cent for example Every 500
worth of that kind os ware that came from Eu-
rope put into the public treasury $50 Now the
want to put $50 of revenue into the public treas
nry under 30 per cent duty, how many of
You will have to import 5000 worth, won't
you? One hundred dollars, worth under 60, per
worth under 80 per cent. duty makes $50 SO
If you put the same amount into the treasury
under 30 per cent. tariff you do under 60
per cent You have got to import just twice as
many of these tumblers. haven't you: and every
a tumbler which ought to be made and is now
made by an American workman (Applause.l
For every additional shipload of this kind Of
ware you bring from Europe you displace Just
that quantity that is made in the United
States. don't YOU? And when you displace that
quantity you displace the number OF American
workmen who required to make it, don't
you? And you put more money into the public
treasury, but you do it ut the expense of your
own labor. (Applacse) You put money
into the public treasury, because you employ
you are doing that your own workmen are idle
upon the streets.
UnpartriOtic and Unamerican.
81 am against that policy. Great applause)
1t is neither patriotic American But they
say it will give You things little cheaper.
Q1aughter.) Aren't things cheap enough now?
sells his counter reduced still lower? Does
the farmer want the products of his farm re-
dueed in price still lover"
mo, they are quite low enough. You know
they promised in 1892 that if the farmers would
vote the Democratic ticket they would have
dollar wheat Uaughter:) They now say they
meant two bushels for Il dollar
DO you want the price of wool any lower
wool growers of Wisconsin? A Democratic wool
grower in Wisconsin told to-day. when l
passing through the state, that he had voted for
free wool in 1892, and he said he had
within cents of it, for he had sold his wool
for cents, not long before. Q4aughter.) Do you
want the wages Of labor any lower?
Voices: No
well, then, vote that way on the sixth of
November
Npjc No will
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A Word for the Old Soldier.

''And now, my fellow citizens, tired rs l am,
want to call your attention just for moment
to another subject l do not like the treatment
of the soldiers of this country by this ad-
ministration. l have advocated excessive
pensions, but l believe that any who
served his country and disabled in its serv
ice is entitled TO receive a pension from the
government which he helped to Great
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17

greatest American presidents, Benjamin
Harrison, Great applause), was by the de-
cree Of the American people voted out of
power and a Democratic administration
voted in. So that for nearly nineteen
months the Democratic party had been in
supreme control of every branch of the
Federal government; and for the greater
part of that time it has been engaged in
revising the tariff.
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brilliant dash, carrying line Of trenches
with loss of a third Of his men. But tn,
sacrifices were useless. Nothing remained
in possession of the Union troops except
ing what Stannard chung to around Fori
Harrison. This emboldened the Confed
crates to try TO regain what they had lost
and throughout the night preparations
were made for a grand counter attack
During the forenoon of the 30th the enemy's
gunboats tossed 8 inch shells into Stan
nard's lines, doing little damage, how
ever. About noon two field batteries APP
peared in the open ground in front of the
newly constructed parapet and opened
fire. At 1890 Il storming column emerged
from the screen Of woods about 400 yards
distant, advancing in three lines upon the
right or northeast quarter of the work II
happened that Stannard had stationed his
Spencer riflemen behind the parapet at that
point The heavy guns captured in the
work were unsuitable for short range fir
ing, and the light batteries in the fort
were without ammunition, so salvation
depended upon the muskets. The first line
of Confederates came on with yell, but
the Spencers cut them down in swaths
and the survivors returned to the shelter Of
the woods, from which second line inn
mediately started, with fierce yells and a
rush that carried them to the ditch Of the
fort. The slaughter was terrific, and all
who survived threw down their arms. pre-
ferring surrender to certain death. In the
repulse of these two charges the riflemen
had expended all their Spencer cartridges,
and the situation in the fort was desperate
in the highest degree. Stannard paced the
one hand and his hat in the other, animat-
ing the soldiers 10y gestures and well timed
words. During the second assault Con-
federate shells ignited the pine barracks
in the inclusure, and the intense heat
nearly made the breastworks untenable
for the rifemen The structures were
finally torn down and the flames smother
ed with earth Fortunately also a wagon
load Of Spencer ammunition drove up to
the sally port, and although Confederate
bullets flew like hail, and the teams were
shot down in their traces. the ammunition
reached the parapets in time to help re
pulse the third and last Confederate charge
While standing erect on the works. direct
ing his men, Stannard received bullet
which shattered his right arm and SCI
him, fainting, to the ground. With their
TiNcteu upon the enemy aufauC-
ing in front. the men did not learn Of the
until the last assault had been
repulsed, with fearful slaughter, and then
the cheers of victory were broken in upon
by the startling rnmor. passed along the
line in whispers 'Stannarl is kiIledi II
was a false report. for the heroic Vermont
er only exchanged an arm for the posses
sion Of Fort Harrison. which was held 70
the end Of the war.
GEORGE I. MINER
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GENERAL STANNARD
AND TIE sTORMlNG AND DEFENSE
At FORT HARRISON.

Gettysburg Kept His Sword From Rust
ing In the ForIorn Hope Battles Around
Richmond Thirty Years Ago.
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