Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-07-26
ferktns on Cleveland.

oh sIeNelanV.
when Eli Perkins was in New York
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-
grauon and intemperance the wit and
wag replied:
Done! Why. this great statesman
has stopped foreign immigration. Steam
ships are all loaded now with immigrants
gong back to Europe with the big Re-
puollcan wages that they made under
infamous Mckinleyism. He's closed up
d thlrd OF our factories. liberated labor
n organized our downtrodden work
men into noble Coxey tramps. Then our
salnted 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 SOC, 900 working,
men into idleness. He has emptied their
pockets and on Saturday nights they are
begging for bread while the saloons 60
INTO bankruptcy: This great statesman
Is taking $lo,0O0,0O0 in wages out of
drlven 4Oo saloons into bankruptcy in
New York, 700 in Chicago and 200 in
flttsburg. Cleveland, l say, has stopped
peer drinking among the poor. With
what pride must the dead Cough and the
i've Frances Willard look upon the noble
work of our new evangelist!
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 500, 0O0,-
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 S4OO,O0O,OOO a year. Senator Hill
says our custom houses took in only
800, 100000 last year. When the wicked
Mckinley law was OIL n wages were
high we took in $4OO, 100000 at the
custom houses. Our noble Grover has
sunk S2OO,O00,00 0 in the sea. He has
knocked our 800, O00,0 600 surplus out
kicked into n cooked hat-yes increased
our cOuntry's debt $500, 900, 900 in Il
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
ANSBubllNdhS uos SDIlllilutu Ell. why
they stood by that pcrnicious Monroe
doctrine, They said no monarchy shall
tread on a republic on this side of the
world, Then, after paying 81 1000, 900 for
Alaska with a few icebergs and Il drove
of l%nJuns, they took down n monarch's
flag and ran up the stars and stripes!
oh, the rascals did it! Then when Ha-
wall, with her 10000 people making cOf-
fee and sugar, became a republic and
tell OH our bosom and asked us 10 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. But our sainted Cleveland
what did he do? Why. he knocked
that Monroe doctrine as he knocked the
poor mans wages, into a 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 a throne. Oh. how we Demo
Gratis sholld 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
iied?" 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
has to pay for his pork barrel hoops. He
has slaughtered the Northern tin fac
tories, pulled down the wages of the
Yankee silk factories and fixed a tariff On
Northern revenues that will bleed $50
000,0 600 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 lear mel" and then the old man
blew out the gas and retired.
The Cost of Cutting Down the Tariff.