Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-07-08
JULY 9. 1886.
TIE REAL CAUSE,

Ahh tAOSGs
The depression in nearly every de-
partment Of business in the United
States for the past three years, and in
fact. ia every country between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, looking
west, IS due to one Organization as
the prime factor.
That is the English free trade Cob.
den Club.
The vaults of the United States
treasury are filed.
The grain bins Of the vast agricul-
tural regions are bursting with the
pressure OF great Nations food.
The prairies and the plains are SO
covered with domestic stock that
North America will shortly tell of the
wild buffalo. herds as old Women Cos.
SIP of their young days.
Two million male and female
workers III this Republic are asking
for something to do. They are made
up of sailors, miners, tralnps and
farmers; of horse and cattle and
sheep men; of clerks, mechanics and
professional men; of widows and or
phans; of soldiers famed in the con
fiiots that have baptized this country
with blood for the sake of its people.
There is no love in Great Britain, h
rottening monarchy, for the American
Republic. Neither is there in any of
the monarchical governments of the
East. Liberty with them means
license to ride down the masses, 10
outrage the poor and with hypocritical
practise paint themselves. Such gov
srnments are worse than theocratic,
because they are beastly. They are
like carrion.birds that pluck out the
eyes of their victims aud then feast
upon their flesh.
The United States is young. The
world envies it. 1t must appreciate
the fact that upon its own strong arm
1t must rely for protection. The first
prihci pie is to secure itself, and this
can best be done by fighting to the
death the free trade policy of that
center of tyranny the Golden Club
a collection of men whose acts stink
in the nostrils of every liberty.loy.
Ing man and woman.
They have outraged the domestic
relations of all Europe's people.
They have debauched imported poor
girls.
They have sent their ships over
every sea, even to far-away Asia and
by stealth OF stolen gold subjected
municipalities, tribes and peoples.
Grown rich by such means they
have looked westward and planned to
clutch the American Republic, that at
their dictation the machinery of free.
dom might stop.
Their gold elected Grover C!eve.
land President of the United States.
Free trade was their cry, but beneath
It was death to American industry.
Free trade will bring calm, a silence
worse than the wavelcss tide of a
military despo'ism.
The policy of the citizens of this
Republic now is to throw aside all
"political" home party feeling and to
join in a common battle against that
policy that will, by compelling idle
ness, place our country in the control
of aliens.
Sickly and sentimental Is the cry of
this land being "retuge for the op-
pressed of nations" Its greatest
danger is that it may he the victim
Of the opprcssors of u heartless ma
ton.
Ii tho next President Of the United
States is a free.trader he will be the
tool of England's Golden Club. That
will be the darkest day that ever
broke upon the United States and on
the Western Hemisphere. .
Let all real Americans look this
matter squarely IN the face, for the
dangers are coming like the lightning ,
comes red from the sky.