Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — Dow Does Wisconsin Like It? [ARTICLE]

Dow Does Wisconsin Like It?

Free trade in lumber will certainly be a fine thing for the Canadian luinlierman. He can bring his lumber into any of our ports, or ship.it by rail across the line, sell it, pocket the cash, go borne and put lus-money where it will do him and his part of the dominion tlie most good- Suppose' he comes to Milwaukee with his cargo and here he.meets schooners from Green Bay, Menominee and all along the Wisconsin shore.,. The Wisconsin lumberman pays heavy taxes, employs hundreds, of men who also pay taxes, buys large supplies for his logging cdnijisand for his mill hands, and leaves in Milwaukee a good slutre of the profits of his business. II is nioney helps to build Up tlie town where he is located; hel|is to build the schoolhouse ami pay the tax that makes education for the poor its free as water iu tliej brook: lie helps*4he county, helps the state, holjts the nation. _» Not so wjth the Canadian. He gets all lie cam keeps all lie gets. He eiiterslree of charge Milwaukee nathur. that has coat someliody millions of dollars to ini-* prove and keep in tcjMiir.aihd he availsliihiseif of our gent-ti »4ty and ftsilMuiess. “■ No wonder licit the CnnncHaim arc for the Mill# bill by a large majority.