The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-28

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nd all the evils with which we have
10 deal, The trusts, the trampe, strikes
hard times, the fisheries muddle, the
terrible treasury surplus, the forlorn
and hopeless condition Of the farming
community. our oppressed and down
trodden laboring men. The republic
can party is to blame for it all.
But it was not until he reached the
"free whiskey" chestnut that the toe
of his eloquence reached high-wster
mark. To illustrate this point. he car
ries in his pocket bottle Of whiskey;
and at the proper time for the theatre
cal effect he shakes it at his audience
and bowls "this is what the republi-
can party is in favor of making Free"
What a spectacle for Gods and men;
what a montebanks trick it is; and he
is doing this very thing all over the
State. John Martin knows a. we'll a.
any man in Kansas that the attempt
to reverse the positions of the two par
ties on this question, to masquerade
the democracy as the friend Of temper
ance reform. and the republican party
az it's enemy, is demagoguery pure and
simple. He knows that wherever the
saloon has had to battle for its lite, 1t
is the republican party it has had to
fight, He knows that wherever the
prohibitory law has failed OF enforce
ment it has been because of the infiu'
ence of the democratic majority In the
community. He knows that year al
ter year, ever since the adoption Of thu
prohibitory amendment, his party
has in its platform demanded the IRE
peal of all sumptuarylegislation." Mr.
Martin is we'll acquainted with dem
ocratic audience, and knows that
anything will arouse their waning en-
thusiasm it is the sight Of bottle o
whiskey. But he evidently depend
upon their credulity rather than thei
Intelligence, when he asks them to &C
cept such shallow nonsense for argu
ment.
He neglected to explain how the "rt
peal of all sumptuary laws" would ad
vance the cause Of temperance. Tn
protective tariff is responsible for tn
existence of the tramp; but Mr.. Marti
failed to mention the fact that in Emf
land where they have no such thini
hundred thousand men walk til
Queens highway and beg for breat
The laboring men are down-trodde
and oppressed, but wbyi is it necessar
to enact laws to keep those Of 9TH
countries from coming in to share the
misery? We will never be perfect
happy and prosperous, according
this Moses of modern times, until "
have free raw material and can bu
free of duty, cheap foreign goods. b
how about those engaged in the indu
tries it will ruin? Free raw materi
means that we must shut up our min
of lead and zinc and copper. 1t meal
ruin to the mining communities Of Il
west. 1t means free iron, coal, fiji
and wool. And how about the mi
who are making the goods he propos
to import? It will never do Mr.. Ma
: tin. The people of this country undo
y stand the situation too well. Th'
know, in spite of your dreary picture
q that America has prospered and grow
!. rich under republicanism and a pr
}. tective tariff. They know that tod
o our wealth is increasing three times
o fast as that of Great Britain. They
= not need to be told that if we folio
n the advice of Mr.. Mills and double o
r importations, somebody is going to
e out of work. Whenever man Is bu
"a ing more than he sells, be is losil
!, money; and whenever the balance
l, trade is against nation, they are po'
: er by just that amount.