The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-11-27
THE LOGIC OF PROSPERITY.
Democracy Diagnosed by Senator
John M. Thurston.
The Nebraska Statesman Speaks 10
Chicago Republicans Upon
Questions Uppermost In
Politics To-day.

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Chicago republicans gave Senator
John M.Thurston a warm welcome on
Wednesday evening, November H.
when he appeared TO speak at meet
ing of the Cook county republicans
which was held to ratify the nominal
tons made for the special election IN
the Sixth congressional district. In
the course of his remarks Senator
| Thurston said:
"If we can learn what policies will result
In employment for the people we nave
solved the political problem. IL Is con-
| coded that 1892, measured from any POM
OF view, was the most prosperous year IN
the history OF the country. There were
more fires glowing. more anVhs rihsihs'
more wheels turning, more looms whirrlns'
more tables yell spread, ana more CON-
Portable homes than in any other year since
the stars sang together. Whatever the
cause, we all look back wistfully at 1872.
well they told you you ought TO nave
more leisure. There were petitions Tor new
| holidays. You were told that what YOU
| needed was leisure to walk beside the rip
| Ming waters and look upon the creations
! OF genius and art in the art galleries You
have had leisure nearly ever since. but DO
not believe there has been petition TOT
holiday since 1892. l saw Kelly's army
and Coxey's army had plenty OF time 10
study ytle~grass plots at the national capi-
! tai
"TheSdeusocrats fooled the farmers by
telling them the prices OF their crops were
fixed abroad I can understand how this
! argument could have weight. But can
never understand how the laborer could
| be persuaded to share his opportunity OF
working with men of other countries. Yet
ne has. He was told he had the right TO buy
what he wanted where he wanted,
IL deny this proposition. Ideny the right
of any man TO buy anything without paying
q commensurate price. 49,.
IF there is any man so mean as 10 want
from choice to buy coat so cheap that the
tailor cannot support his family, or shirt
! so cheap that the seamstress has TO wear
/ her life away in garnet, for GODS sake
let him get out of this country. lie is not
wanted under the Stars and Stripes.
Then the democrats harped upon the
! free entry of immigrants at Castle Garden.
| They did not tell YOU that every immigrant
that landed there was the product Of 100
mems labor on the same ship
II want to say II l had my way the gates
of Castle Garden would be held open wide
for every law-abding, industrious, decent
! citizen and closed forever on those whose
education and training make them men
ace TO our institutions.
Fooled with ZIG to L.
Then last year the democratic party
not the party of jefferson and Jackson, but
/ the piratcal outfit that followed Bryan, the
4 fellows who crucitied honest democracy on
q cross of gold-fooled the farmers again
last year with sixteen to one The farmer
was told that If sixteen to one carried he
would be able to win both ways, by doub-
ling the price of his wheat and cutting his
/ debts in two. That is plausible at least, but
| how in the name of sense did the democrats
succeed in fooing an intelligent working
/ t,tA 81 h. haf ha ha n
! Gifted by having his wages stand still and
! the prices OF everything else doubled.
Il think the republican party is the brav-
est party ever organized. 1t was brave
when it decreed that black labor should
! not be paid with lashes on their back, when
1t issued and gave force to the emancipa-
ton, proclamation, when it decreed that
labor for the people OF the United States
/ should be done by the people of the United
/ States. 1t was bravest of all when II de-
| creed that the dollar that comes into the
hand OF the workingman must be as good
as any money on earth.
General Prosperity"
'The day after President Mckinley was
elected Mr. Bryan met man on the street
and asked: Have you seen the general
What general? he was asked.
General Prosperity was the reply
eve heard this kind Of talk up to the day
of Inauguration, and every day of the
tedious debate in the extra session Of con-
| gress the same taunt was flung at us:
| Where's your general?
1T was unreasonable 10 expect all the
mischief of the democratic tariff law to be
undone before~1t was repealed Well, we
Just bided our time and waited The law
i was repealed and since then we have heard
day by day of good news-factories re-
opening. hours of labor heightened. pay
rolls increased, laborers put back to work,
| watermilS repaired, new factories luilt
All this tells us that General Prosperity
has returned to the United States
THE only man, apparently, that is still
asking where the general Is is Mr.. Bryan.
lie has the effrontery to say the first six
months of Mr.. McKnley's administration
were the most disastrous in the history of
the country. That is true--the most dis
astrous to the cause of free silver, but not
to the republican party and the United
States.
1.-THE republican party never pretended
It had the power by law to raise wages or
to compel the employment OF laborers. But
Its policy is TO encourage industries that
give employment, to foster our own work
shops rather than those of other countries.
cannot understand why the democrats
turn away from prosperity unless It Is on
the same principle that the jackass leaves
the green grass to chew the dry thistle
and he would not do that II he was not a
ackass. tLaughterl
1.-The election Of 1896 has been over some
stul. At any rate there Is no indication
that this is an off year. Kansas. that went
democratic last year, has gone republican,
and Nebraska gives democratic majority
ii, 100 less than last year. Ohio has broken
her time-honored rule to go democratic the
year after the presidential election and has
given a majority of $4,000 for the republican
party.
Diagnosis of Democrats.
last year you could tell a democrat
further than you could see him, for you
could hear him a long way off. He was the
noisest, happiest man in the country. He
butt9n-holed you coming out of church and
talked to'crowds in the streets lie rejoiced
when wheat went down, and said L told
you So
Now he is the saddest man in the nation
He is silent and detected. Every time q
factory starts up he becomes more and
more woe-stricken. When wheat goes VI
his face goes down. The BARRIERS are being
ruined, the democrats faces are grown SO
long.
Free silver will never again be an issue
In this country. have been saying that