Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-05-24

! SOON as tHdl Nllu-tf cA a -
Larry Neal-who, thank God! was
buried under 80, 900 majority by Gov.
Manufacturing that firebrand into
the Democratic convention OF 1892
and the Democratic party fathered It,
business began to fuctuate. | think
honesty is the only way in politics as
in business, and the Democratic party
was not honest in that platform. We
should have demanded a tariff for
revenue only, as advocated by the
New York Sun. This talk of protec-
ton being robbery and unconstitu-
tional is ridiculous and dishonest. II
tariff is robbery it makes no difference
except in degree. whether it is 100
per cent or 10 per cent. When you
advocate tax to maintain the gov
eminent it is not robbery and such
talk is anarchy 1t is simply ques-
ton Of pubic policy. There is no
moral question involved except in
the mind of demagogues. No law
yer of reputation ever maintained
that congress had not the power to
pass a protective or even a protec-
tive tariff law.
lone thing the people Of the Unit
ed States must remember is that the
first and best market in the world is
that of the people of the United
States. They use more Of the prod
ucts and luxuries of the world than
any other people on the globe They
must look to these people for their
market. No farmers are better
clothed than the farmers of the Unit
ed Estates. They buy more of the
fabrics Of the manufacturer than any
other farmers anywhere else in the
world. The laboring men of the
United States are better fed and
better clothed than the laborers Of
any other country. When by legis-
lation you take this market from
our own people and give it to others.
YOU close the best market in the
world to American manufacturers.
II think it would have been a
wise policy for the Democratic lead
ers in congress to have said to the
country when they saw the unrest
consequent upon their victory on a
| platform declaring a tariff unconsti-
tutional and robbery that they would
make no changes in the tariff laws.
The business men of the country
would have been grateful to the
Democratic party for such pledge.
NORTHERN PINE LAND rHIEvERY.
Asked what he thought Of the
land thieyery by some of the prom
inent Democratic leaders of the
state, Mr. Felker said:
"That is one Of the worst scandals
connected with the administration
When Mr.. Cleveland was elected in
1884 we had at Bayfield, a registered
land officer by the name of john
II. Knight. In open violation Of the
law, lands were entered in the name
Of Col Knight and William +. Villas,
and it was done in this way: Some
poor devil who had strapped his
pack on his back and had wandered
in the woods for weeks in the flood
and the snow had found lands that
were subject to entrance. He would
come to the land Office Drowned with
exposure and ask to enter those lands.
Mr.. Villas and MIR. Knight had an
understanding that lands should be
entered by them in common, and Mr.
Knight, as the United States officer.
would say to the applicant. We are
very busy to-day, come in tomorrow.
| When he came in tomorrow Mr..
knight would say, These lands have
been entered, having looked at the
government plat and marked the
stream The result would be that his
best lands were cut out of his list and
marked as entered in the names of
knight or Villas or some of their
friends This yillainy went on for
years and knight and Villas, by the
labor and exertion of woodsmen, were
enabled to enter the choicest pine
lands in Northern Wisconsin. I'll
give YOU an instance which may serve
for all where man with pack on his
a list of lands and asked to enter them
He was met with the usual reply: We
are very busy to-day; come in tomor-
row. His lands were looked over and
before he left the Office Col. Knight,
Mr.. Villas partner, said: Isn't there
somebody in whose name we can en-
ter these landsp And some one said,
Here's Mccoy and the lands were
entered in his name. Shortly after a
certificate was issued in the name of
Mccoy. the land hunter was robbed
Of his labor. Villas and Knight put up
the money for the entry, and quit
claim deed was sent down to Oshkosh
to Mccoy fer the lands He refused
TO give them the deed and on single
tract of eighty acres he sold for 81, 800
what had cost Villas and Knight CO.
partners in yillaiuy just 1925 an
acre, In one transaction see all.