The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1891-01-30
FREEDOM AND FORCE.
The Infamous Attemps to inwarS IA.
VIII OF the People.

VIII OF the People.
Last spring when the Mckinley bill
was before the House it was the con-
slant cry of the high-tax organs that
the duty Of the Republicans in Congress
was TO pass it at once, and thus redeem
the promises made to the people by the
convention of monopolists who placed
Mr.. Harrison in nomination. Said the
Chicago Journal: 1.-The duty of the Re-
publicans in Congress is plain. They
should pass the bill, and hasten its pas
sage by fair and uncompromising use
Of their power in both houses When
This advice had been followed there
were citizens appalled, at the assurance
that for many years the. country must
be cursed by protection run mad be-
cause monopoly controlled the upper
House 1t was not thought possible to
destroy the power gained by the manu-
facture of rotten boroughs in the inter
est of the men who were TO profit by
the levying of taxes upon the people.
In the passage of the bill there was ex-
ercised what was deemed by the organs
for whom the journal spoke "a fair and
uncompromising use of power in both
houses"
Upon the record thus made the Dem
ocratic party went to the people without
means to offset the funds poured into
the Golfers of the Republican committee.
Relying solely upon the intelligence of
the people, such a victory was gained as
caused the ultra evening organ to regret
the passage of bill which had ruined
its party and endangered the very exist
ence of system to which it believed
the prosperity of the country was due.
Again the mill bosses are in the saddle.
Once more the people are menaced by
combination which seems possessed of
power sufficient to throttle any future
expression of the popular will. Quay,
the silent, vies with Hoar, the bloviant,
in preparing for the people a cause for
rebellion compared with which the Nc
Kinley~bill was BENSON. 1t has been
announced that the force bill contains
within itself hundred tariff bills. II
tribute-talers can count for themselves
as demanded by the ruling Car, then
need there be no compromise of any in
dustry when pap-fed monopoly seeks
further largess at the hands OF its
tools. Delano and his trumvirate
may take tribute for their sheep;
manufacturers of wooden goods may
be assured the entire home market,
closed by tariff wall over which not
garment shall be brought, and joy shall
be in the homes Of protected infants.
The patriotic iaborinS man shall he
forced to buy the dearer garment made
by home talent, and Congressman Dun
ham shall enjoy the cheaper raiment
only by crossing the Atlantic for his
summer jaunt.
| But there is a reverse to this picture.
| II is something more than IA Fourth
of July boast that the people are SUI
! prcme in this land Oligarchies have
! fallen before that power; tax despots
may yet feel II and tremble. Wise pa
triots engrafted ON our fundamental law
the provision that the popular branch
of Congress should originate financial
measures For few more days repu
dated statesmen may enact laws. For
so long the people may be deied b,
men who have been tried in the bal
ance and found wanting. But the day
of reckoning nears, and with 1t will
come the opportunity for triumphant
Democracy TO prove its right to popular
support The peoples representatives
will hold the purse-strings. They
should not be loosed till every vestige
Of the force bill be wiped from the
statute-book. Lords of high estate
have been made to feel even under a
monarchy the power of popular disap-
proval Shall citizens of free Reput-
lie be less owerful?-Chicago Times.