Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-24
GIVE THE DEMOCRATS CREDIT.
Jacob Lusk Gives Some Unwe1cOme Facts
Concerning Wool.

Jacob Lusk Gives Some Unwe1come Facts
Concerning Wool.
The Milwaukee Weekly Journal of
August IS, 1893, contained the following
editorial paragraph. The Wisconsin re-
prints it at the request Of Jacob LuSk
of Auburndale, Wood County, Wis;
We are quite willing to accept the re-
sponsibility for the present disturbances
in the business world, as the Republican
press insists we shall, if our Republican
contemporaries Will give Us the credit
for the prosperity which will follow the
enactment of honest currency and tariff
laws by the present Democratic admins
ira ton.
The letter in which Mr. Lusk makes his
request is as follows:
l would suggest that in the interest of
fair play Republican papers and Repub-
lican speakers should not ignore the
good deeds of the opposite party, but
they should get full credit for any change
for the better which is directly traceabIe
to wise legislation of the last sitting of
Congress. You have better facilities
than | have for looking up any benefits
that they conferred upon the country O.
mean America not England. AS for
my part | cannot call anything to mind
just now that the present administration
has done for the benefit of our people.
| am raising sheep, but with wool at 6
cents a pound after deducting freight
and commissions, /, like all others, am
hustling my sheep to market; and the
market is so glutted that we are quite
safe if our sheep viii pay freight and
chants do not send US q bill for balance
| see men going to the lumber woods
this fall for S14 and $16 per month
Two and three years ago the same men
were getting $50 to $50. ] inclose a
clipping from the Milwaukee Weekly
Journal of August Is, 1898, and if they
deserve any credit for heavens sake give
it to them; they need it.
Could there be a more effective ar
raignment of Democratic incompetence
than that which is thus strai ghtforward-
ly presented by this candid, practical
Wisconsin wool-grower? Can any intel
ligent Wisconsin farmer, after reading
Mr.. Lusk's letter, vote for the continu-
ance of the Democratic party in power?
There was not single act of the Dem
ocratic Congress which was not injurious
or disastrous to business interests, except
the repeal of the silYer-purchase law,
and that wholesome legislation was eff
fected only with the cooperation of Re
publcans If the Republicans had not
helped. the Democrats would not have
had even that solitary good thing to their
credit. :
1t is not only farmers whose pecunf-
airy interests have suffered by reason of
Democratic recklessness, incompetency
and imbecility. Every intelligent work
ingman knows that the Democratic Con-
gress has brought loss and in many cases
actual suffering upon the workingmen
of the country. Business men know that
the Democratic Congress has demoralized
and paralyzed business 1t is significant
of much when so prominent Democrat
and business man as Mons Anderson of
La Crosse leaves the Democratic party
and joins the ranks of Republican voters
for the reason, to use his own words,
that the time has come when mo bust
ness man of any sense can be q Demo
crat"
BY all means. give the Democratic
party full credit for what it has done.
1t has done all in its power to injure
Americans. Let everyone in favor of the
Ocratic ticket