The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-09-28

brewers For the first time the east
ern MASTERS came west for their bar
ley. The duty has now been cut
down from thirty cents buShel to
practically ten cents. Thus the
western farmers have lost profitable
market. The Democrats have cut
down the tariff on the other pro-
ducts of the northern farmer.
The speaker scored the European
plan of sugar taxation adopted by
the Democrats. He spoke of the vast
sum pocbeted by the Havemeyer
sugar trust. The Claus SprekelS trust
on the Pacific coast is also bene-
ficiary of Democratic legislation, as
Hawaiian sugar comes in free, so that
the trust pockets 40 cents on every 81
worth of sugar. The annual profit
will be upwards of 81, 100000. After
the new government had been sugar
coated by Claus SpreckelS, the black
queen was discarded. No wonder that
Cleveland was disguised, and went up
to BuzzardS Bay and refused to sign
sach bill You Democrats must be
proud of such an exhibition of manli-
ness. The Democrats first scared all
IHnoooSi thUO d potAot1y SlS, UliCii )lO-
tected themselves, and then sent the
revenue into the pockets of the trusts,
which is probably what they meant
by a tariff for revenue only.
A specimen of Populistic doctrine
was the speech of a Populist in this
city, condemning Cleveland for order
ing out troops during the railroad
riots The POpuliSt leaders are of the
SOLDERING kind. They come to you
| farmers in the Syrian style, and kiss
your hands and seek to beguile you.
They also come the Quackery act and
undertake to scare you into believing
| that there is something the matter
with you. We need railroads and
mills and it takes capital to run them,
and this capital foOts up to large
amounts. They show you these figures
and try to scare you, kiss your hand
aad then are ready to administer
their doses. The first thing they tell
you that will help you is woman's SUI
GRACE, and then that the state should
conduct the saloon business. We
SHOULD have the saloons running the
state, holding the offices, ''and, boys,
| doubt whether you would get any
better whiskey." The Populist leaders
go on the theory that you can't spank
baby unless you own it. They want
the farmers to own the railroads, roll
ing stock, terminal stations,
etc. 1t would cost S120,000,-
600 in this state to purchase the
roads, at $4,000 "a mile. You
would have to borrow this or tax your
selves for it. Only those who had in
Fence could get the situations and the
poor, working out their own salvation,
would get left. There would be
another lot of state officers. In Eu-
rope the service on State-Owned roads
is inferior to that of our own country,
while rates are higher. Their freight
rates are two cents mile to one
cent in this country on the average.
The passenger rates are more
there, except for the lowest class cars
You might as well say that the eleva-
tors, grjst mills, saw mills and hotels
charge too much and that the people
ought to own them. 1t is all against
the spirit of our people and savors too
much of paternalism.
When all else fails, the Populists
come to you with sort of Kelley sill
yer cure. They want free coinage, Is
to l. If silver was actually
worth it, that would be all right, but
for one ounce of gold you can get 81
ounces of silver, instead of sixteen.
The PopuliSts want Uncle Sam to take
so cents worth of silver and make it
worth 81. You farmers raise
wheat, potatoes, cattle, poultry, and
when some of you get drunk YOU raise
hell little, but you don't raise silver
Outside of yourselves, it is the men in
the silver states, the mine owners,
who are crying for free silver.
They q are Republican, Democrat,
Populist, Jew and Gentle,
Indian and white man.
Tell them that you are willing to
have Uncle Sam do this if he will
give you ninety cents bushel for
your wheat. The mine owners have
been as eager to mine silver as you
have been to raise wheat, and there
is an over production, bringing the
value down. Almost all countries
have now ceased to coin silver. Poor
money drives good money out of cir
culatiOn. The speaker gave an eX-
haustive review of the money ques-
tion. There is $25 per capita in the
country-more than ever before. Other
products except wheat (which is over
produced) are high in value, so that
a lack of money has nothing to do
with the price of wheat. There
is plenty of money in the country.
Honest American money, redeemable
in gold, is much preferable to nasty,
cheap Mexican money, which is all
silver.
Look at the Populist state govern
ments, Oregon with it's rollicking
Pennoyer, North Dakota bankrupt,
Colorado riotous and with the attOr-
ney general tarred and feathered,
North Carolina in the saloon business,
and bleeding Kansas. Kansas was
and a model state of the
Union, but now, in the fangs of Lew
ellyn and Mrs. Lease, it has sunk so
low that there is no commonwealth
so poor to do her reverence. My Populist
friends, look at these object lessons and
then come back into the Republican
party and we will kill the fatted calf