The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-04-27

j in the hard and thorough discipline OF
/ New England.
! l recently made trip through the
entire south, purely for pleasure ano
investigation. l left New York ano
went by the way of Washington, Rich
mond, Petersburg, Knoxville, Chat
tanooga, Birmingham, Macon, At.
lanta, New Orleans, San Antonio
| Houston, etc., through to Southern
California. [ found the Southerner
very good fellow to meet personally
and the young men of the ''New South
who have developed since the war
and who see the great necessity OF
manufacturing interests being bull
up and their shipping interests in
creased, believe in tariff for the pro
lection of American industries. The
| old demagogue of the south, who Is
| living upon past prejudice, and who Is
a student of Calhoun'S theories, is to
day sitting there nursing his woes anC
| talking free trade. He is one hundred
years behind the times in his business
| ideas. He seems to have no cOncep
| tion of building up manufactures and
of the dignity of labor. His one idea
is to raise cotton by negro labor and
export it to England, and get back the
| manufactured article as cheap as pos
sible under free trade. The business
men of the New South" claim that
in short time the Democratic party
will be rent asunder upon this very
principle. The Tammany crowd OF
New York are importers and want
free trade, that they can get rich by
importing through their gates all that
the people consume. The manufacture
ing industries of the country which
employ labor distributes their goods
direct to the people, and the importer
in New York makes nothing from it.
His pocketbook is greater than his
soul or his patriotism.
| hear it on every hand that the peO-
pie are tired and disguised with the
politicians experimenting with the
business Of SiXty-fiye millions of
people. Take the tariff out Of politics
the same as our army and navy,
and have a non-partiSan commission
appointed from the different parts of
the country to make and adjust a
tariff from year to year and business
will prosper. The country has been
phenOmenally prosperous for over 80
years. The Democratic party cannot
follow in the same lines laid down by
the Republicans without being laugh
ed at: therefore, in every attempt to
make a record they have threatened
to reverse the engines of prosperity,
and today we see the result If, upon
a meeting of congress, they will hast
lily adjust the silver troubles that so
many assume are the cause of
all of our griefs, and then adj
journ and allow Mr.. Cleveland to go
down to Buzzard's Bay and fish for four
years, and the members of congress go
home to attend to their several duties,
announcing to the country that they
will let well enough alone, and not at
tempt to tamper with the tariff, with
in thirty days from that date you will
see the idle mills resuming work, and
pleasant, prosperous faces will throng
the streets.
The demagogue, during the last
campaign, who told the masses of
illiterate people in our large cities
that the Republicans had made Car
negie rich and them poor, will have
an exciting time to now convince
them that he told them the truth.
Isn't it a queer law that makes one
man poor and another rich? l fear
some of these labOrers who marched
in the campaign parade after election,
carrying sham ROSTERS upon poles,
may be reduced to a diet of these
ROSTERS before we get out OF this
dilemma.
A tariff for the protection of Amer
lean industries simply means, we will
our own goods and
wares, employ our own people, and
keep our profits where they will build
up our own country. Democratic
free trade" means buy our goods in
Europe and allow them to make the
profit on you, and the masses go I'M
and uneducated. With the
free traders" in the ascendency you
will see manufactures closing all over
the country as they are doing today.
They cannot operate their mills and
pay American wages and compete
with the foreign goods, at the price
paid foreign labor. Under free
trade" a poor man may buy shirt
five per cent. cheaper, but if he is I'M
and has no revenue, whence
comes in the gain?
The threats made in the last Dem
Ocratic platform are hanging over
over our heads. The men of the
north who have capital know if the
threats are carried out, ruin would
follow any manufacturing. industry
they might engage in. Every day
hear the remark. eve will hold on
to our money until the crowd get
enough of this thing"
GEO. L. LIDGERWOOD.