Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-23
nnable to do anything" Get thee

unADle to d0 anythlngs' Geb thee hence, TrumanI
 In order to get the best results our do. nestle or native wool must be mixed with foreign, or imported, in the manufacture of both fine and coarse fabrics. The Dem- ocratic Congress placed wool on the free list, so that now American manufacturers of woolen goods can buy at 7much lower prices the foreign wool necessary to make woolen manufactures of all grades. This will enable them to successfully compete in the open markets of the world with England, France and other countries for trade they have never before been able to control. A greater demand for American woolen goods and manufactures will fol- low and this will largely increase the de- mand for American farm wool to mix with foreign wool, and the sheep and wool growing industry in America-which, un- der the Mckinley Republican high tariff, has languished and almost died-wil again become prosperous and remunerative. The Democratic Congress, which, MT. Aldrich says, has been unable to do anything, did all this, and more, for the people whose burdens had grown intolerable under thirty years of pernicious Republican legislation in behalf of combines, trusts and monopo- lies.
 It placed upon the free list lumber, salt, binding twine, cotton ties, bags for grain, and cotton bagging; also agricultural im- plements, such as blows, hoes, tooth and disk harrows, harvesters' reapers, agri- cultural drills, planters, mowers, horse racks, cultivators, thrashing machines, cotton gins and other necessary articles in daily use on the farms and in the work shops of the country, upon which the saw ing to the people who have to use them will amount to many millions every year. This free list will make house building cheaper, housekeeping cheaper and living | cheaper, thereby placing a premium upon the establishment of homes, which is the wisest thing any government can do. And yet MT. Aldrich's s party opposed the pas- sage of this Democratic law, and if he were in Congress he would vote with his party to repeal it. Will the farmers, mechanics, laboring men and wage earners vote against their interests by aiding him to a seat in Congress?
 It destroyed the policy of paying out of the public funds in the treasury, derived from taxes collected from the people, mill lions of dollars annually in the way of bounties to aid private individuals in the prosecution of their private industries. It placed upon the statute books the most drastic measure against combinations, trusts and monopolies ever enacted. It passed bill forfeting to the govern ment--thereby opening up for homesteads | by the people-18, ,000 ,000 acres of land hitherto granted to railroad corporations. 1 This land is worth on an average $5 per acre-a clear gain to the tax payers of the United States of $40, ,000, 900.
 It enacted a law excluding from our shores undesirable immigrants and alien laborers imported under contract. This will have an important bearing upon the interests of Alabama workiugmen. While | the manufacturers have been protected by a Republican tariff the laboring part of our population have been unprotected | from the danger of being superseded and displaced by pauper labor imported under | contract from the overstocked industrial | hives of the old world. In other words, our industrial population was subject to free trade in labor, while they had to pay protection prices for the means of subsis- tence. All this will be aud is being cor rected by Democratic policy and Demo- cratic administration.
 What the Republican candidate for Congress from the Ninth Congressional District of Alabama don't know about what Democratic Congress has been able to do in one session for the people would fill several very long volumes.