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

tereStS are bound up with the success OF
the free-trade Democracy in America.
Gov. Mckinley would not be lionzed in
London. Chairman Wilson is banqueted,
toasted and cheered.
chairman Wilson has allowed himself
to be drawn too easily for the good of
his party. His reception in London is an
object lesson for unemployed American
WOrkingmen and for American voters in
this year Of commercial depression. The
new tariff is recognized abroad as Il sub
stantial gain for English interests That
ought to be enough to determine the re-
suit of the approaching elections in every
Industrial state. Chairman Wilson has
advertised English sympathy with the
Democratic cause precisely as Lord Sack
vile succeeded in doing in 1888; and the
effect upon wage earners' votes ought to
be the same now as it was them
Something that the Democratic Congress
Did for the Sugar Trust.
When Gov. Mckinley made his Bangor
speech, he said something about sugar
which is strikingIF interesting to those
who want to study important facts con-
nected with the new tariff law. The
governor said:
The sugar schedule of the law
Schedule I'D provides for continuation
of the treaty Of 1875 made with the King
of the Hawaiian islands under which all
der the law of 1894 admitted free The
language of the schedule quoted is: Pro
vided, further, that nothing herein CON
tanned shall be so construed as to abrO-
gate or in any manner impair or affect
the provisions of the treaty of CONNER
eial reciprocity concluded between the
United States and the King of the said
islands on the Both day of January. 1870,
or the provisions of any act of Congress
heretofore passed for the execution of the
same. This provision was inserted in
the law by the Senate. 1t gives to the
great sugar trust, said Gov. Mckinley
an advantage which has not heretofore
been suspected. The sugar production of
the Hawaiian islands is under the control
of the sugar trust The Democratic par
ty took away from the sugar raiserS of
the United States the bounty of $4,000
coo Il year and bestowed Il bounty of
S6.0OO,0O0 a year on the sugar producers
of the Hawaiian islands, giving them an
advantage over not only the sugar pro-
ducers of the United States but of the
whole world outside of those islands.
The revolt of the Louisiana planters
against the part which had smitten them
so heavily was referred to, and Gov Nc
Kinley pointed out that it was the Repub-
ican party. so freely accused CT sectional
ism, which had conferred benefits upon
them which had been opposed by Demo
cratic statesmen and removed as soon Us
governor maintained that instead of being
sectional the Republican party had shown
itself to be entirely unSectiOnal. bread
and unselish in its purposes and national
in its politics.
When we made the tariff law of 1890
and took away all the tariff from sugar.
said the governor. I'VE gave to the cane
producers, and the beet producers. and
the maple sugar producers Il bounty
equivalent to the tariff and we said in
that law that bounty should stand for
fifteen years That is all wiped out bv
the law of 1894. Not even the bounty of
this year is given to the crop that has al
ready been supervised by the government
of the United States. BY this law this
is taken from the sugar producers of the
country. What is there more sacred in
n reciprocity treaty with Il foreign coun-
try than Il solemn contract made with
our citizens.
Democracy was criticised for increas-
ing the salaries of certain officials at a
time when the revenues of the country
fell below the expenditures.
The Records of Maj. Upham and Gov.
Peck as Employers Compared.
A printer in Milwaukee sends the fol-
lowing to the Evening Wisconsin. show
ing the difference in the character of
Maj. Upham and Gov Peck as en-
plOyers:
Editor Wisconsin: The partisan news
papers that are so industriously looking
up the record of Maj. Upham as an en-
piOyer might do well to turn the search
light of investigation on Gov. Peck. who
until a few years ago employed men and
girls to do the work of printing his news
paper. 1t IS q notorious fact that Mr.
Peck always ran a rat printing office
and so long as he had men in his en-
ploy was an enemy of union labor. This
fact IS known to all printers. Time and
again efforts were made to make the com
posing room of Peck Sun union office
There was a time when Pecks Sun had
a large circulation, and it was a verita-
bic gold mine to its owner. Even in
these paImy days 1t was run as a rat
shop. The prices paid for composition
were little more than half the union scale,
and much of the work was done by girls
and apprentices. The foreman of the of
fee, under the direction of Mr.. Peck,
refused to have anything to do with
union men and union prices. [ don't
know anything about Maj. Upham as an
employer, but | do know that George
W. Peck, the Democratic candidate for
governor, has always been steadfast
enemy of organized labor. or at least he
was so long as he had anyone in his en-
plOy. AS a professional politician he
may be otherwise. man who organized
and ran for years a rat printing Of
fee. paying very small wages at that
ought not to be 4 party to the warfare
made on Upham. 1t would be an inter-
esting exhibit to place the wages paid by
Peck and Upham side by side and then
let the masses judge for themselves as to
the relative merits of the two candidates
on the wage question. Peck'S record
would be blacker than night itself. [
give this as Il campaign pointer.