Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-11-01
GIVE THE DEMOCRATS CREDIT.
Jacob Lusk Gives Some Unwelcome Facts
Concerning Wool.

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
for the prosperity which will follow the
enactment of honest currency and tariff
laws by the present Democratic admins
tration.
The letter in which Mr.. Lusk makes his
request is as follows:
/ would suggest that in the interest of
fair play Republican papers and Repub-
iican speakers should not ignore the
good deeds of the opposite party, but
for the better which is directly traceable
to wise legislation of the last sitting of
Congress. You have better facilities
than 1 have for looking up any benefits
that they conferred upon the country q
mean America not England. As for
my part l cannot call anything to mind
just now that the present administration
has done for the benefit of our people.
] am ~raisingasheep, but with wool at 6
cents a pound after deducting freight
and commissions, I, like all others, am
hustling my sheep TO market; and the
market is so glutted that we are quite
safe If our sheep will pay freight and
commission, so that commission mer-
chants do not SEND us a bill for balance.
| see men going to the lumber woods
this fall for Sl4 and SIG per month.
Two and three years ago the same men
were getting $50 to $50. / inclose q
clipping from the Milwaukee Weekly
Journal of August Is, 1893, and if they
deserve any credit for heavens sake give
1t to them; they need it.
Could there be a more effective nr-
.raignment of Democratic incompetency
than hat which is thus straightforward
ly presented by this candid. practical
Wisconsin wool-grower? Can any intel
ligent Wisconsin farmer, after reading
MIR. LIsk's letter, vote for the ccntinu.
nee of the Democratic party in power?
There was not a single act of the Dem
ocratic Congress which was not injurious
or disastrous to business interests, except
the repeal of the si~lver-purchase law,
and that wholesome legislation was eff
fected only with the cooperation of Re
p%ublicans. If the Republic ms had not
helped, the Democrats would not have
had even that solitary good thing to their
credit.
1t il not only farmers whose pecuni
airy INTERESTS nave SUFFERED by reason OK
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 p~aralyzed business. 1t is significant
of much when so prominent a 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 Irse his own words,
that the time has come when mo busi-
ness man of any sense can be a Demo
GRAFT
BY all means, give the Democratic
party full credit for what il has done.
Ii has lone all in it's power To injure
Americans. Let everyone in favor of the
continuance of that policy vote the Dem
ticket.