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Give m« * °*11" JOHN P- BMITB. Westerman & Son, HOUSE, SIGN AND CARRIAGE PAINT ERS, MCHKNBY ILLINOIS. We are prepared to do all work in our llee on short notice and guarantee satisfaction. PAPER HANGING A SPECIALTY. Prices reasonable and w rk promptly done. WESTERMAN & SON. McHenry. J inuary 30. 1894, Is - - JOHN J. BUCH, ! RESTAURANT BOARDING HOUSE, Near the Iron Bridge, McHenry, Board by the Day or Week a* Reasonable rates, A NICE LINE OF,ROW BOATS AT HT LANDTKG. Ppre Wines. Liquors and Choice Cigars • always on hand JNTfreeh Lager Beer constantly on dransrht tftf. The Ore a t Republican Orator De­ livers a Powerful Speech. » Bifta the Subject of the Tariff and Shows the Fallacy of Ifemoeratle Doctrines--What Has the\ Bill Done? ^ In his recent trip through Illinois Gov. McKinley, of Ohio, made more than a dozen addresses, the most lengthy ones being- at Peoria and Spring-field. Fol­ lowing- is the full text of his Peoria speech: Mr. < President, Ladies and Gentle­ men, and my Fellow Citizens: I have been speaking now continually for more than ten days to great throngs of my fellow citizens, and I am com­ pelled, therefore, to crave your in­ dulgence for a little while. If you will be patient and indulgent for a few minutes I will endeavor to make my­ self heard even by this great multitude of people. This magnificent assem­ blage is similar to the throngs that have been congregated all over the country since the opening of the cam­ paign. They are splendid tributes to the republican cause in which we are engaged, and testify stronger than human language can to the living presence and power of republican prin­ ciples. They indicate a determination on tli<T* part of the people that that cause and those principles shall tri­ umph before their great tribunal. What Happened in *02. In November, 1892, a republican na­ tional administration, able, efficient and patriotic, which had been in con­ trol of the government for nearly four years, and at the head of which was one of our greatest American presi­ dents, Benjamin Harrison {applause], was, by the voice of the American peo­ ple, voted out of power and a demo­ cratic administration voted in. That administration has been in control of the federal government, in -all its branches, for now nearly nineteen months. And during that period it has employed the greater part of Its time in revising the tariff. That long period (for it has seemed very long to the American people) has given to us an opportunity for sober reflection, steadied by the discipline of adversity. The people have been re­ flecting, for they have had little else to occupy their attention. The people have been thinking, and those who have not been thinking have been feel­ ing--feeling the stress of the times wrought by the great change. It must have been apparent even to congress, that while tliey w ere engaged in revis­ ing the tariff the people were en­ gaged in revising their views [laugh­ ter] and were impatient with anxiety to pass judgment upon their work. It did not take the people so long to re­ vise their views as it has taken con­ gress to revise the tariff. And they are only awaiting an opportunity to ex­ press those revised views in a constitu­ tional way at a national election. [Ap­ plause.] The People's Eyes Are Open. The people "of this country never were so anxious in all their history to vote as the}' are at this hour. And I have been looking for some one who would move the previous question and stop all debate so that a vote might be taken at once. [Great applause.] Not only do I think that the people are anxious to vote, but I am sure they are ready to vote and have already malle up their judgments upon the work of the present administration and the present congress. Even the eyes of the blindest partisans have been opened, and those who hitherto never saw any good in the republican party and who for years have been voting its policy a fraud and a robbery and its laws as the culminating atrocity of class legis­ lation are now burning with impa­ tience for a reconsideration and a change. Those who voted the present administration into power and those who were opposed to its taking control of the government are equally regret­ ful and unhappy. After all, my countrymen, there is no form of instruction so effective as experience. We sometimes have to be disciplined in the schoof of adversity, and we have been going to school now eighteen months. [Continued applause.] The tuition has; been free but the ulti­ mate cost has Wen very great. It has been a sort of a compulsory education from which no man could escape, and its lessons, expensive as they have been, 1 believe will prove to be prac­ tical and profitable and permanent. We know more than we did two years ago, and we are better prepared than ever before in our lives to intelligently perform and execute the great rights and privileges of American citizenship. Even the eyes of the blindest partisan have been opened and democrats are with us and are still coming--demo­ crats who like prosperity just as well as republicans and who prefer good times even to the democratic party. (Laughter and applause.) Great Change of Sentiment. There probably never has been in the political history of this country a greater revolution in public sentiment than that which has taken place^ with­ in the past two years. Every state of the north that has had an opportunity to speak, every state of the north that has had an opportunity to vote, has voted a condemnation of the present administration and an approval of re­ publican policies and republican prin- j?les. [Applause.] Commencing in*lS03, less than a year after its inauguration, every election, commencing with the great state of Massachusetts in the east, which the year before had elected a democratic governor, in the following year re­ versed that decision and gave the re­ publican candidate for governor more than 38,000 majority. [Applause.] Then the state of Iowa, which had had a democratic governor elected by a plurality of more than 10,000, was re­ placed by a republican govornor who received 38,000 plurality. [Applause.] All over the country this h-- been true. What, my fellow citizens, has been the occasion for this unusual revolution In public opinion within twenty-four months? It can be answered in a sin­ gle sentence, the democratic president and the democratic congress have been running the government for near­ ly nineteen months, and during that time little else has been running. [Great applause.] Every interest in the counti-y has been interrupted, every piece of property of every kind has diminished in value, labor has been little employed, and when employed at greatly reduced wages. There has been a waste of wealth and of property and of wages that has been incessant; and this people, this goodly people, have suffered more loss in property and in­ vestments and In incomes in the last twenty-four months than the entire cost of the great rebellion to preserve the union and protect the honor of the flag. The appeals for charity never were so universal as now, and their necessity never was so universally rec­ ognized. Congress has trifled with the sacred interests of the people, it has impaired their investments and enter­ prises. It has disgusted and disap- pointedQts constituents, it made a tariff law, it quarreled and compromised, and upon democratic testimony It was itself compromised. [Laughter.] It passed a tariff law which nobody ap­ proves of. certainly nobody in the United States. It has not a friend any­ where unless he lives under some other flag and owes allegiance to some .other government. Is that the way to protect American interests? I had ten thousand times rather make it harder for foreign prod­ ucts to come into this country than to make it harder for an American citi­ zen to live in this country. [Great ap­ plause. ] ^ Democratic Claims. Ah, but they say we got things a little cheaper. Is there anybody in this country who wants things any cheaper than they are now? [Laughter]. Does the farmer want less price for his wheat, or his corn, or his barley, or his sheep, or his stock? Are not prices low enough, farmers? Does the mer­ chant want the prices of the articles he sells reduced in price? Does the workingman want less wages? Who wants these cheap things? [Laughter and applause]. My fellow citizens, nothing is cheap --nothing is cheap that comes from abroad to the American people if it en­ forces idleness among the American people. [Applause]. No product of ag­ riculture is cheap, from abroad if it leaves the American product to rot in the ground. No manufactured article is cheap to this country if it takes from the workingmen of this country a day's labor. And the old men of this audience, if they will let memory sweep back, will recall that when things are cheapest men are the poor­ est. [Applause]. And when the prices of articles are lowest they are the hardest to get, and that is the trouble now. Ah, but they say: "Our tariff law is better than the republican law be­ cause it reduces duties!" So it does re­ duce duties. What does it reduce duties for? Why, it tells you--the title of the bill tells you--they reduce du­ ties that they may increase the revenue. [Laughter and applause]. And no one will dispute that we need the revenue just at this time. [Renewed laughter]. Well, now, if you reduce the duty upon a foreign product and increase the revenue you must niultiply the im­ portations, mustn't you? *li you cut the tariff down on a given product and expect to increase the revenue you must increase the volume of the importation of that product, mustn't you? Suppos­ ing, for example, by way of illustra­ tion, the protective tariff on this glass that I hold in my hand was 00 percent. The present tariff is, say, 30 per cent.-- 60 under our law, 30 under theirs. Now, if you want to collect as much revenue from a 30 per cent, tariff, you must im­ port just twice as many tumblers, mustn't you? You'll see that. And did it ever occur to you that every ad­ ditional t umbler you import you dimin­ ish just that much production at home? Do you see that? [Applause.] And when you diminish production at home you diminish the labor employed at home, don't you? And when you dimin­ ish the employment of labor at home you diminish the wages of the labor that is employed, for where there is one day's work and two men to do it, neither of them will get as much as though there were two days' work and onhT one man to do it. [Laughter and applause.] When you diminish the tariff you do it for only one purpose-- that is. to encourage importation. That is what it is done for. That, is the ob­ jection they make to the law of 1890, that we discouraged importation. Well, we did. [Laughter and applause.] We discouraged the importation of every product that we could produce at home. [Applause.] And we did it that we might encourage the making of the product at home, that we might find employment for our labor at home, and give to the farmers of the United States consumers of the products of their farms. [Applause.] What They Have Done. But what duties have -they reduced? Let me give you just a few of them. I cannot stop to go through the entire bill. Now, they are reducing duties not alone to increase the revenue, but to lift the burdens from the shoulders of the poor people of the country. That is another one. Now, let us see how they have done it. They have reduced the duty on leaf tobacco and Havana cigars SI,434,000--articles of necessity that go into the homes of the plain peo­ ple of the country. [Laughter.] They have reduced the tariff on liquors and French brandies SI, 132,000. They have reduced the tariff from $2.50 a gallon, as we put it in the law of 1890, upon foreign liquors, to SI.80 a gallon, so as to give the poor men and the farmers of the country a chance. [Laughter and applause.] They have reduced the tariff on laces and imports 81,- 587,000; on silk' dress goods, plushes and velvets, worn by the masses, §2,- 720,000. Now this will be cheering 1 news: They have reduced the duty on ar­ tificial flowers and ostrich feathers $265,000; on china ware, 82.233,000; on paintings and statuary, 8432,000; on pearl buttons, 8224,000; on plate and cut glass, 8215,000; on opium for smoking, 8400,000 [laughter]; and on imported jewelry, 880,000. What a comfort this will bring! [Laughter.] Well, now, of what does their free list consist? These are a part of their reductions; what does their free list con­ sist of? They put on the free list arti­ cles which, 1 according to the importa­ tions of the preceding year, would amount to 841,000,000 and 818,000,000 of this was the farmers' wool, Or nearly one-half; 89,000,000 of it was lumber; 83,000,000 or more was of manufactured articles, and 81,000,000 or more of it was paintings and statuary. Your statuary is now free. But your sugar, an article of luxury, is taxed. Wlis'on's New plea. Congressman Wilson, in his London speech, said that they were tearing down the barriers which the repub­ licans had erected to keep foreign goods out. I see that, in his speech at Charleston the other day he has changed this a little. He says now that the democratic party is tearing down those defenses in order to let our products out of the country. [Laughter.] He doesn't seem to know7 that we put no tariff- on the things that go out, but only on the things that come in. The only things that he has put out are the fires in our furnaces and the workmen out on the street. "When I was in the city of Lincoln, Neb., last week, In the great street parade there was the representative of what was said to be the largest brick company in that state, and the head of that firm was a democrat--not now [laughter and applause], and printed across the banner carried by the idle workingmen was this inscription: "Twenty-two million bricks in 1892-- not one in 1893 or 1894." [Applause.] And that is the story of every city of this country, and in some line of indus­ try or another. Wheh Illinois went away from its old allegiance twb years ago there were farmers who were promised dollar wheat if they would vote the democratic ticket. These same farmers are saying now that it must have been two bushels for a dollar that was meant, and they are not even getting that. Out in Kan­ sas, the other day, an old farmer told me that he had voted fojr free wool, and said he was within five cents of it already, for he had just sold his wool for five cents a pound. [In the cheering which followed this sally some one called out: "Hurrah for the next president." This was greet­ ed with cheers, but Gov. MeKinley listened as impassively as he did when the attempt was made at the Minneap­ olis convention to stampede the conven­ tion for him while he was in the chair, when he gave that exhibition of self- trol which has ever since been the marvel of all who saw it. The gover- went on:] Democratic Inconsistency. But the democrats follow up what they have done with a threat. Presi dent Cleveland himself says that this is only the entering wedge, and that if a democratic house is elected this fall it will follow up this first step with ad­ ditional ones and so will tear down the whole fabric. These are sanguinary words from Grover Cleveland. He was a peace man in war,, but he is a great war man in time of peace. [Great laughter.] The democratic party is the most re­ markable party in history. It is for anything to get power, and then it is never for anything which got it power. [Laughter.] It was for free siher in 1892 in some of the states; and when it used to have the house of representa­ tives and we had the senate and the presidency, they used to go through the idle ceremony of passing a free silver bill, but since they have got into power and can do with silver just what they want to do with it, instead of giving to the country what in many of the states the leaders of the democratic party said would be done, they have given to free silver the worst blow it ever re­ ceived. Well, could you expect, my fellow citi­ zens, any other result? Are you dis­ appointed? Why, who elected Mr. Cleveland and a democratic congress? The free silver men voted for him, the men who did not believe in silver and believed in the gold stand­ ard voted for him; the state bank money people voted for him; and those who were opposed to anything but cur­ rency issued by national authority voted for him, and those who were op­ posed to all such voted for him. The democratic protectionist voted for him, for he did hot believe the democratic party would pursue a pol­ icy that would destroy the industries of the country. And the democratic free trader voted for him, believing that the democratic party would de­ molish all ^he custom houses in the country. Men in the trust voted for him, and men opposed to the trust voted for him. Democratic pensioners voted for him, and those who did not believe much in pensions voted for him. Everybody who was dissatisfied voted for him, and everybody who voted for him has been dissatisfied ever since. [Great applause.] And the man who voted that he could see no good in the 'republican party and declared its policy one of fraud and robbery, is now ready for reconsideration and a change. [Ap­ plause.] Not only has the prosperity of the country been suspended, but the pensions of the soldiers have been sus­ pended. We used to sing during camp- fires: "We Are Marching Through Georgia," but we now sing: "Georgia is Marching Through Us." What Has the Bill Done? But fchey say of their bill that it is better than the tariff law of 1890. Better for what? Better for whom? Better in what partic­ ular? Better for the industries of the United States, better for the agricul­ turist of the United States? What in­ dustry has it put in motion since its passage? What fires has it builded in any of the^actories? What solitary new industrj has it started? What ad­ ditional demand has it created for the laboring men of the country? Has it increased anybody's wages? How many men who were in employment, steady employment under the law of 1890 are out of employment to-day? [A voice: "Here's one."] Answer me that, men of Peoria. How many workingmen who had em­ ployment prior to the election day of 1892, how many of them have employ­ ment to-day? And those who are em­ ployed are working at greatly reduced wages. That is the history of the country from ocean to ocean. Industry has been checked, manufacturing en­ terprises liuve been stopped--men would not produce and put their money into an enterprise unless they had* some assurance that there was a profit to be received at the end. Business men have been waiting for nineteen months, and waiting has been death to Industry: and death to industry has been a serious injury, not only to la^ borers, but to every other occupation in the land. My fellow citizens, whatever mis­ takes there were in the tariff law of ISOQi, everyone of them was in favor of the American citizen, and in favor of American prosperity. [Applause]. And you never had such prosperity in your history as you had during the two yeqrs and a half that bill was in opera­ tion. [Applause.] Every factory in this country was employed--employed at its fullest capacity, and every man who wanted work could get it and get remunerative wages for his day's labor. There was not a man in this country enforced to idleness during all the operation of that law down to the election of 1892. Not one. Why, when I was speaking through the west two years ago one of the questions most asked me from the audience was what my opinion was of the eight hour law. The people were discussing it, the workingmen wanted shorter hours. There is no trouble of that sort now. [Laughter and con­ tinued applause]. I have not had an inquiry of that sort since I left Ohio, nearly two weeks ago. It is not shorter hours that the workingman wants now, it is longer hours. What he wants now is something to do. Ills Conclusion. So our duty now is to get back to where we were in 1S92. And the great duty is to elect a republican house .of representatives. Without that there is no way to stop the democrats in their destructive programme. So let us get together and roll up for the ticket a roaring, old-fashioned republican ma­ jority. such as you gave in the days of Lincoln, Logan and Oglesby. I appeal to you, citizens of Illinois, to come back again into your father's home. Redeem the great state of Abraham Lincoln and stand by the principle for which he stood. Give once more to your state the proud position it formerly occupied, and instead of eight republicans send fourteen to sixteen congressmen out of your quota of twenty-two. [At this point Chairman Tanner, of the state central committee, interrupted by saying: " It must be sixteen at least."] Yes, make it sixteen at least. l)o that, and with the other states--for Ohio will promise to do her share--we will control the next house and will return to our country the prosperity from which you ran away in 1893. [Long-continued ap­ plause.] 'REPUBLICAN ILLINOIS." Toast Responded to by Hon. A. J. Hop­ kins, of Aurora. At a recent meeting of the Marquette club Hon. A. J. Hopkins, of Aurora, III., and member of congress from the Eighth district, responded to the toast "Republican Illinois." The fol­ lowing generous extracts of his speech are given:^,. Ijyjfcffb fatalist, but when you call tlpon me in the graceful and felicitous language in which you have indulged to respond to the sentiment "Repub­ lican Illinois," I anf c&nstrained to give expression to the belief that fate fore­ ordained that the magnificent territory known in the sisterhood of states as Illinois should be a republican state. When the ordinance or compact of 1787 was finally adopted by congress, which provided that the great north­ western territory should be divided into five future states, of which Illinois forms one of the number, it consecrated its soil to liberty, inoralit3* and intel­ ligence. Three of the leading virtues of the republican party were thus made a part of the organic law of that territory within whose border sixty- seven years later the republican party first saw the light of day as a political organization. The rich soil, beautiful landscape and salubrious climate of Illinois brought within her borders in her territorial days a population from Kentucky, Vir­ ginia and other southern states that for a time threatened the splendid career and magnificent progress she had made under republican administration. To Nathaniel I'ojie, the father of Gen. John A. Pope, and later in his life a fed­ eral judge in this state, whoso unblemished record and great learning have enriched the pages of American jurisprudence, is due the honor of fore­ seeing with a vision as clear as that of the prophets of old the bloody struggle which slavery was destined to bring on the people of the United States and the part that Illinois would be called to take in that fratricidal war. * * * The election of Lyman Trumbull to the senate of the United States by a combination of republicans, whigs and democrats, who were opposed to the extension of slaverj-, marks the third ^gloriously held step that was ordered by fate to lead our glorious commonwealth with the ranks of the republican party. 185t5 the republican party failed to elect its can­ didate chief executive of the United States, but Illinois then touched the sublime heights which she has since maintained in political morality, in­ dustrial prosperity and commercial In Illinois. From the gallant colonel of the Mexican war to the glorious private in the late c|yil war marks a period in republican Illinois fruitful in great events and great men. From IJissell to Fiferl What a splendid his­ tory has been made by republican Illinois the thirty-six years that unite those two names. In that period the people under the inspira­ tion of republican legislation worked a transformatioiy in our grapd state as marvelous as lit has been glorious, from one of the younger and inconse- quential states in the republic she has with giant- strides marched forward until she now contests with the empire state herself for supremacy. In agri­ culture she easily stands first--the broad prairies and unoccupied -lands of democratic days have given way to the rich and well-cultivated farms of to •lay. The farmers of Illinois hava profited quite as much as any other class of our citizens under republican administrations. In manufacturing Illinois has out­ stripped Ohio, Massachusetts and all the other New England states and is fully abreast of Pennsylvania and New York in the character and variety of her industries. In commerce and trade her development has been BO rapid and so groat as to astonish even those best prs^ared for the wonders that were being wrought under re­ publican legislation. The magnificent city within whose limits we are being entertained this night exemplifies and typifies the spirit that dominates and controls republican Illinois. The selioolhouse in Illinois has been a republican recruiting office. By wise legislation we have raised the standard of our public ^ghools from that condition in democratic days where in some parts of the state a knowledge of how to'spell "phantasmagoria" was regarded a sufficient qualification to instruct the young, to the high school of to-day, pride of all law-abiding citi­ zens. When Illinois broke away from dem­ ocracy and fulfilled her manifest des­ tiny by taking her position in the very front rank of the republican procession which was then forming in almost every state north of Mason and Dixon's line, she was burdened with an indebt­ edness of nearly §13,000,000. Under the beneficent legislation which has been given to the state by the republican party this vast indebtedness has been fully paid; but so gradual and so equitable was the liquidation that no unnecessary or burdensome taxation was imposed upon the citizens. Perhaps I should say, in passing, in extenuation of the flagrant violation of correct financial principles which plunged the state into such an indebt­ edness, that Mr. MacVeagh, the "fight­ ing bimetallist," was not then the lead­ er of the state democracy. I supppse, in giving utterance to such an expres­ sion as "fighting bimetallist" Mr. MacVeagh thinks "he is profound. I fancy, however, it is much like the re­ ligion of that class of people mentioned by that witty divine, Sydney Smith, when he said: "A great many people think they are pious when they are only bilious." It was republican Illinois that fur­ nished to the country Ulysses S. Grant, the great general of the war. His siege and capture of Vicksburg alone showed a military skill and strategy that place him in the front rank of great military geniuses. And when im­ partial history shall be written, the name of this great military leader will rank with Alexander, Cresar and Napol­ eon. Time will not permit my dwelling upon individual instances of heroism and soldierly distinction. I cannot, how­ ever, in this assemblage refrain from naming the acknowledged greatest vol unteer general of the war, Gen. John A. Logan. His career, both in war and in peace, is a household word in Illinois, and, as he looks down upon us to-night from yonder world, we can al­ most hear his clarion voice rousing the republican voters to up and organize, and wipe out the disgrace of two years ago. There is one other name, however, radiant with heavenly light, which in­ stinctively comes to our minds whenever republican Illinois is mentioned. To Abraham Lincoln more than to any other man living or dead is due the credit and honor of wresting our beloved state from the grasp of democracy, under the leadership of that little giant among men, Stephen A. Doug­ las, and firmly and securely placing her within the republican fold. The name of Lincoln so overshadows and dwarfs all other names that we cannot portray his greatness by comparisons. Since the Saviour of men first spoke His words of love and faith and charity to His followers upon the plains of Pales­ tine, no human character has risen so grand, so noble, so majestic as this man whom republican Illinois gave not only to the nation, but the world for all the time. The marvelous growth of Illinois in everything that goes to make a great state attests more clearly than t|ay words of mine the splendid achieve­ ments of our party within this state. That the nearly 4,000,000 of people who find their homes within the limits of Illinois in 1892 should have forgotten what the republican party has done for the state and deliberately for the time turned their backs upon the great names and sacred memory of the party and placed in power the old political organization which since 1856 they had every four years repudiated at the polls, is one of the marvels of the ! extraordinary times in which we live. Think of Altgeld occupying the posi­ tion that has been so honorably and so by Yates, Oglesby, Cullom and Fifer! Verily the facts of history surpass the creations of ro­ mance! A people that had once grazed upon the fertile fields of republican ad­ ministration to now feed upon this moor of democracy! There ift but one parallel in all history that fitly illus­ trates the great fall of the people of Illinois and their . X1 ,, subsequent progress m the person of the courtly \ humiliation under the administration and scholarly William H. Bissell as the of Gov. Altecld -- th£t is found th- first republican governor of this state. For thirty-six years republican su­ premacy was continuous and unbroken NO. 16. i was being done for them, turned their backs upon the Lord, chose Aaron fo* leader and set up a golden calf to wor* ship. History records the fact fhaft they soon repented of their course^ sought forgiveness of the Lord, and under His guidance were ultimately led into the promised land. ; The signs of the times are repleta. - with evidences of a complete trans* ' formation in the feelings of the peopl# : / of this state relating to the republican party. They are anxiously waitinjJ for the 6th day of November next, when they will record their fealty to their old love and give an earnest qt what they will do in 1896 to restorg" the republican party to full and coni«; plete authority again in "republican ^ Illinois." 1 SOME OF THE RESULTS. Altgeld -- thiSt is found in the history of the children of Israel, who, in their journey to the promised land, not .being fully satisfied with all Direful Democratic Bnle and Party Promisee. Now that the fall campaign is open­ ing and the various parties through their speakers will be making all kinda^ of promises, it will be well to note tha promises heretofore made by the diffe# ent parties and see how well they hava been kept. The republican party prom* ises the people if the democracy cama into power and the tariff policies a(|X that party were attempted to be ca*» ried out, the country would become |k V'; victim to hard times. This has been fulfilled to the letter. The democratia party promised big pay for the wage-' ~ earners and one dollar and twenty-fiva cents a bushel to the farmer for hla wheat, cheap clothing, cheap living* and cheap everything. How hava these promises been fulfilled? Nothing has cheapened except labor and tha farmers' products of wool, wheat anljl other products, while his necessity-4*'• sugar--has been made higher b|r twenty-five per cent. Labor is so cheap it can't find employment, and instead of the factory the soup house has flout* ished. r * Much was said two years ago abool the Homestead strike and the lowering of wages there; and it was a common thing to see men of the Altgeld stripa wringing their hands and deploring tha fate of the workingman -- some of whom were getting enormous wages, A subsequent congressional investiga­ tion settled any doubt as to the priroa , ^ condition of the workingmen thera and proved that they were better housed, better fed and better clothed than in many other mills. But what aboilt the strikes of the past year and the consequent destruction of property and cost to taxpayers? It would take the entire congress in committees o( threes ten yea^s to investigate them all, and they would discover it to be a sad fact that the laborers were suffering in consequence of the lower wages and lack of wages produced by the advent of tha Democratic free trade administration into power. The farmers and property holders of Livingston county have felt the cost of strikes, remote as they ara from the great industrial centers, when they read of the 8700 or more paid out to special deputies made necessary on account of the strikes. Two years ago flaming posters of the Homestead riot were to be seen everywhere, but tha"' party which paid for them in that campaign will spend no money in that line this fall; it will not be necessary for any other party to do so, for tha scenes and experiences of these things are too fresh and vividly pictured upon the minds of the entire citizenship of the country to need further portrayal. The favored sugar and the whisky ' trusts C(?uld not hire space enough ill this country upon which to paint thi misery caused by the destruction of tha means of earning a living and the con* sequent strikes. Instead of one mill reducing wage&t thousands; instead of a few well-paid workmen on a strike, starving thou­ sands; instead of a few strikers killed who received good wages, dozens who received poor wages; instead of threa or four companies of state militia to maintain order, regiments both of statQ and federal troops. These are only a few of the results of the "change" of two years ago, and t • trust my brother farmers will weight well their ballot and cast it for tha party which for thirty years gave this c oountry unbounded prosperity, haa V1 been the friend of the home workman* has provided a home market for tha farmers' products, and believes ii£ "home first and the world afterward.7 A FABXKB. 4 ESXEN, III., Sept. S4,18M. . j Bead the Instructions to Voters. I • It Is said that in many counties ii| Illinois votes were thrown out in everjt precinct in 1892 because the voters had marked them too much or had nof marked them at all. It is furthef*' stated that the Imperfectly marked ballots more frequently gave evidence that the voter intended to vote the re# » publican than the democratic ticket. That the republican party is made ua * of less intelligent men than its great rival will not be claimed by it<| IS opponents car admitted by its friends* t T o e f a c t s a r e t h a t i n m a n * / ' communities the democrats ha%;Z "schools for voters" where the re^ S publicans, relying upon the intellif»-i gence of the masses, did not. As a re» suit many republicans lost their votes* :: The safe way is for everv man to care#'. fully read the official card of "instruct tiona to voters," required to be poste<t in evferv election district in the statefr and not only to read them but to care»- - fully study them and know exactly * how to mark the ballot so that tha /< iudjjres will have no reason for rejectj* • ing it when the count is made. A Mistaken Rumor. A paragraph is going the rounds of Illinois papers Which states what is not a fact, the supreme court having made no such decision. The paragraph^ . which is entirely misleading-, is as foi% lows: The supreme court has Issued new orders voting the Australian ballot. It says tlia» when a man intends to voto a straight th-kefc that he must make a oirclo with a cross iu fl­ at the top of the ticket, but wheu he vrmits to scratch it this circle at the top must be un­ marked and a cross placed In tho circle by the name of each c&ndiuate whom the voter tie* sires. Pay no attention to the above but carefully read the official instructions issued by election officers and. being sure you understand them, let tineas bt your guide. , • •-- % * . 1 ' £