Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-07-18
Perkins on Cleveland.

w 0eu Eli 1erKlnS was IN new 4Orh
only a short time ago he was inter
viewed by a newspaper reporter, and in
speaking of the administration, and what
Mr. Cleveland had done to stop immi-
grafton and intemperance the wit and
wag replied:
Done! Why, this great statesman
has stopped foreign immigration. Steam
ships are all loaded now with immigrants
going back to Europe with the big Re
publican wages that they made under
infamous McKinleyism. He's closed up
q third of our factories, liberated labor
and organized our downtrodden work
men into noble Coxey tramps. Then our
sainted Cleveland has compelled the peO-
pie to be frugal. He has promoted tenn
perance, and"
How has he made temperance" inter-
rupted our reporter.
why, he has driven 100000 workings
men into idleness. He has emptied their
pockets and on Saturday nights they are
begging for bread while the saloons go
into bankruptcy. This great statesman
is taking $10,000,000, in wages out of
circulation every day, and has already
driven 400 saloons into bankruptcy in
New York, 700 in Chicago and 200 in
Pittsburg. Cleveland, / say, has stopped
beer drinking among the poor. With
what pride must the dead Cough and the
live Frances Willard look upon the noble
Then these wicked importers, why,
our inspired leader Cleveland has locked
their doors, too. While that fraudulent
tariff of Mckinley was running the
country a year ago by keeping all the
mill hands at work at big wages our
rich people were still importing $7OO, OOO,-
600 worth of cloth, pottery and cham
payne from Europe. We were actually
running all our mills and still taking in
enough money at the custom houses to
run the government. What a dreadful
state of things. Now look abroad and
see what our inspired Prophet Cleveland
has done. He has reduced importation
to $40O,0OO,000 a year. Senator Hill
says our custom houses took in only
sos, 100000 last year. When the wicked
Mckinley law was on and wages We're
high we took in $500, 100000 at the
sunk S2OO,0OO.00O in the sea. He has
knocked our 100000, 1000 surplus out
kicked into a cooked hat-yes increased
our country's debt $200,0OO,00O in a
year, And what did those wicked Re
publicans do? Why, in thirty years the
rascals paid off the national debt of three
billions.
Now what else did those infamous
Republicans do" continued Eli why
they stood by that pernicious Monroe
doctrine. They said no monarchy shall
tread on 4 republic on this side of the
world. Then, after paying $4,000 for
Alaska with a few icebergs and a drove
OF 1njuns. they took down a monarch s
flag and ran up the stars and stripes!
oh. the rascalsz did it! Then when Ha-
Wall, with her 10000 people making cot
fee and sugar, became republic and
fell on our bosom and asked US to nurse
her, that infamous Harrison administra-
ton ran up our old Republican flag again
and every monarch in the old world
saluted it. Yes, and bowed to the Mon
roe doctrine Rut orr Sainfpd Cleveland
what did he do? Why, he knocked
that Monroe doctrine as he knocked the
poor mans wages, into cooked hat, too.
Then the great statesman hauled down
our miserable stars and stripes and Spat
on it and tried his best to boost a lovely
negress on 4 throne. Oh, how we Demo
Gratis should reverence this sainted man.
But do you think that the Cleveland
administration has really stood by the
tariff for revenue in the platform? Are
you Northern Democrats perfectly salts
hedT asked our reporter.
Northern Democrats! Why, there amt
any Northern Democrats! Cleveland and
all of US have gone over to the South
We've knocked the tariff off of Yankee
Wool and put a tariff on Southern rice
sugar and peanuts. Cleveland has made
cotton bagging and cotton hoops free in
the South, while the Yankee pork packer
las to pay for his pork barrel hoops. He
has slaughtered the Northern tin fac
Yankee silk factories and fixed tariff on
Northern revenues that will bleed 500
100000 out of miserable old New Eng
land and her Yankees Yes, our noble
Grover has joined the South, and we
Southern Democrats will have sweet re
venge against the wicked North for pen
sioning her miserable crippled soldiers
You hear mer' and then the old man
blew out the gas and retired.
The Cost of Cutting Down the Tariff.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican is
a supporter of the Cleveland administra.
ton, mugwump tendencies taking root in
1884, in the first Cleveland campaign;
but in giving the financial operations of
the government for the year ending June
30, 1894, the Republican prints the fol
lowing tables, which tell an awful story
of mismanagement of national finances:
RECEIPTS.
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