Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1890-08-15
THE ISSUES.

Cal campaign are nardly made up
as yet, that is 30 far rs details go.
The general issues are plain and
distinct and always have been aud
always will be. The Republican
party is the party of progress, the
friend to the working class, the
farmer and the poor, white or
black; the Democratic party is the
opposite. The issues of the COM
ing campaign and the issues for
1892 will be the Tariff, Reciproci-
ty, and Fair Elections. Other
minor issues may be involved, but
these three will no doubt be the
leading principles ADVOCATED from
the stump and by the press. The
Democracy's idea of Tariff for
Revenue only will, no doub::, te re-
affirmed with all the other tradi-
tions of the Democratic party
from 1860 down to the present,
Tariff for Revenue only, is long
step in the direction of free trade,
for which Great Britain is sigh
ing, for the benefit of Great Bri-
tain more than the United States.
On the belief that we should look
after home interests rather than
foreigners, the Republican party
believes ina tariff for the protection
of home industries regardless OF
the feelings of Johnny Bull in the
matter. Just what articles should
have high, and what a low tariff,
are matters that have to be ad-
justed to suit the masses.
The tariff on sugar could not be
made too high to suit a Louisiana
planter, while the farmer in Ohio
wants sugar on the free list. This
causes some very nice questions
to arise which to-day puzzle the
wisest heads in Washington. But
the people can depend Oh the Re-
publican party to adjust all mat
ters satisfactorily in the end.
Then justice will be done the pro-
ducer of raw material, as we'll as
the manufacturer. Our free trade
friends, the Democrats, who have
howled robber tariff and "the
tariff is tax that is robbing the
farmer, and that the tariff legisla-
ton is in the interest of trusts and
monopolies, forget that they, by
placing raw material produced by
farmers on thu free list, would be
giving the man ufacturers and big
trusts of Europe the power to
force the farmer to sell his raw
material or products of all kind at
starvation prices, and buy at
prices made by trusts of the Old
World. The nice questions of the
amount of tariff are quietly ad-
Justing themselves and the people
can trust the wise heads in coun-
sci over them. Another feature
the outgrowth no doubt of the
Pan American Congress, is rec
ipr ocity treaties, especially with
the South American Nations. A
tariff on imports of small value
that would cause a retaliatory
tariff by some other nation on our
exports might work a great in
jury to the American peo-
pie as a whole. Then sug-
gests Mr.. Blaine reciprocity with
such nations becomes essential.
Our Democratic friends seem to
see in reciprocity the hidden reef
on which the Republican bark
will go down. Never fear. There
is naught but harmony among the
Republicans, and all these differ
ences in regard to reciprocity will
be adjusted in the end, and meas
ures adopted satisfactory to ri L
Southern outrageE at election pr e.
cincts have become SO conan or
and so notorious as to make nu.
manity blusF., and in their ziy hit.
eous lndigr alton the Repnbl icar
party says they must cease. The
Democr ats of the South haye
ceased denying that the cleo :tions
IN To e south are carried by fraud
anc. intimidation, and use as an
ey cuso that the whites rnust cbaat