The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1891-01-30
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The Systematic H0~oep by the Monop-
oi,.lse Force afsd Fraud Party.
The High Tariff Asocation of pro-
tected monopolists held one Of its peri
odicai love-feasts n an Eastern city the
other day.. and resolved TO push the
crusade TO make rnonopoly tariff taxes
perpetual In this comty. Conspicuous
among the brethrsn'was Hon. Robert
Protection Porter, WHO has devoted all
the resources 81 . nlspent life and of
perverted arithmetic 10 the task OF
proving that . Poop ecan remain great,
rich and prospexcus ally by submitting
cheerfully 70 systesatic and gigantic
robbery.
In Wet. Of the s<ssAing blow which
the producers, toiferssnd tax payers of |
the United States deA this High Tariff |
Association of hieihlyprotected monop-
olists In November 1st, It would be in
structive to hare 6aexact diagram of |
the prctectiopists NJ Of campaign |
from now until tho III deu sial election |
In 1892. Their no. D., n hat they |
want were fu9t nth h the Nc
Kinley tariff Nv htiei . or being
most ~ iss '.eFs ~ rsssetsd by.
tkevotefs W.T. q ,.f'e iIiCe andvVms'
phasis that ZEE e. no 4 i5tsf their pur-
pose not b. ulu,3 20 untarik to such
conscience.rss rutoery. Do tte tariff
barons expectt coavmce these sillions
of voters Ia the sh, q space of lea than
twenty-five months that they made
arrant fools of themselves on tn. 9TH
OF November?
Popular enthusiasm is tickle, but &c
will of the American people is not d
lightly formed nor so lightly set aside\
There is not a precedent in the whole
of American history to encourage the
monopoly-protection propagandists in
the hope that this American people,
when IL assemblies at the polls in
1899 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 a 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. II the condi-
lions seem at all favorable To success
they will ladle out their dollars TO cor
rupt the election of 1892 even more
literally than they did to elect Harri-
son in isss. 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
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 enr;chnent of favored class
in a favored lection. A good many
electoral votes and 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 bulldozed in the
usual way, are o. be suppressed in 1892
by this Revolutionary device which
| conspicuous organ of the protectionists
has declared has dozen tariff bills" in
il. II the West objects to paying trib-
ute 10 New England the West must be
muzzled in Congress by negro and scala
wag Representatives elected in the South
by BENJAMIN Harrison and force bill
returning boards. In order to appease
the hunger OF some few hundreds OF
blood-suclting monopolists the aim is
to revolutionize the whole fabric of
free representative government in
America.
The census, which the constitution
makes the basis OF oui representative sys-
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 despersdoes are now
striking at the root of free elections. 1t
is the greedies and most disgraceful
conspiracy thai ever came to the sur
face in Washington.
The conspirators may be sure of one
thing. This is big country and II is
very strong. The American people are
hard-headed lot; they can take care
of themselves and they will do it. When
they are thoroughly tired of this fool
ishness they viii stop it, and they are
very weary alsady.-st. Louis Repub-
y