The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-04-02
PERsEvERINo FAT-ERYERs.


The 6ystsmntic Robbery ~ the nonop-
sflskic Force and Fraud Party.
The High Tariff Association Of pro-
tected monopolists held ono Of its peri
odica1 love-feasts In an Eastern city the
other day, and resolved to push the
crusade to make monopoly tariff taxes
perpetual III this country. Conspicuous
asuong the brethren was Hon Robert
Protection Porter, who has devoted all
the resources Of misspcnt life and Of n
perverted arithmetic to the task of
proving that q people can remain great
rich and prosperous only by submitting
cheerfully to systematic and gigantic
robbery.
In view Of the stunning blow which
the producers, toilers and taxpayers Of
the United States dealt this High Tariff
Association Of highly protected monop-
olists in November last, it would be in
structive to have an exact diagram of
the protectionists' plan of campaign
from now until the Presidential election
in 1892. Their notions Of what they
want were fully set forth in the Nc
Kinley tariff law, which, after being
thoroughly discussed all summer and
most of the autumn, was rejected by
the voters with a vehemence and en-
phasis that leavesno doubt of their pur-
pose not to submit voluntarily to such
conscienceless robbery. Do the tariff
barons expect to convince these millions
Of voters in the short space of less than
twenty-five months that they made
arrant fools of themselves on the 18th
of November?
Popular enthusiasm is tickle, but the
will Of the American people is not so
lightly formed nor so lightly set aside.
There is not precedent in the whole
of American history to encourage the
monopoly protection propagandists in
the hope that this American people,
when it assemblies at the polls in
1892 will reverse the decision
it rendered at the polls in 1890.
The almost unbroken precedent is that
| the principles and the policies. which
carry, by decisive sweep, in the mid
| term Congressional elections prevail
also in the Presidential elections two
years later Nobody knows this better
than the wealthy and successful manu-
facturers who have resolved to put
forth their best efforts for the per-
petuity of the Mckinley ideas of taxa
ton.
! As there is no hope Of obtaining re-
versal Of the popular verdict by the or
binary engines of political discussion,
their principal trust must be in the
favorite Republican arguments of
bribery, force and fraud. They will
submit to fat-frying as cheerfully in
1892 as they did in 1888. If the condi-
tions seem at all favorable to success
they will 1adle out their dollars to cor
rupt the election of 1892 even more
literally than they did to elect Harri-
son in 1888. All the power that the
control of the purse-string" gives them
over their employees and others with
whom they have business dealings will
be exerted to the fullest.
But all this will not suffice, and the
factory lords are not depending on it
A part of their work has been done to
T their hand by Hon. Robert Protection
Porter, whom they thrust into control
of the eleventh census for the purpose
of robbing of representation constitu-
encies who object to being plundered
! for the enrichment of favored class
in favored section. A good many
electoral votes and a good many
Congressman opposed to monopo-
| ly protection have thus been gotten
rid of. Still, with the growing political
revolution in the West, the protection
lists are far from seeing their way clear
The force bill is therefore pressed with
/ all the money and all the power of
! the High Tariff League. The hostile
votes that Porter has spared and that
can not be bought or bulldezed in the
usual way, are to be suppressed in 1892
/ by this revolutionary device which a
conspicuous organ of the protectionists
has declared has dozen tariff bills in
+! it. If the West objects to paying trib-
ute to New England the West must be
muzzled In Congress by negro and scala
wag Representatives electedin the South
| by BENJAMIN Harrison and force bill
returning boards In order to appease
! the hunger of some few hundreds of
blood-sucking monopolists the aim is
/ to- revolutionize the whole fabric of
| free representative government in
| America.
The census, which the constitution
makesthe basis of our representatives ys-
| tenn, has already been debauched through
the ready connivance of an alien .mer-
cenary who has earned his living ever
since he came to this country by MAX
! ing figures lie for the Republican party.
! Hoar, Edmunds, Frye and the rest of
the New England desperadoes are now
striking at the root of free elections. 1t
is the greediest and most disgraceful
conspiracy that ever came to the sur
face in Washington.
The conspirators may be sure of one
thing. This is a big country and it is
very strong. The American people are
a hard-headed lot; they can take care
Of themselves and they will do it. When
| they are thoroughly tired of this fool
ishness they will stop it, and they are
very weary a1ready.-St. Louis Repub-
| lie