Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-11-17
GOV. BOIES' METHOD.
HOW he MAKES CONVERTS TO TAR
IFF REFORM DOCTRINE.


The Secret Of His Strength with the Peo-
pie Il His Honesty and Plain Statement
Of Faets-HIs Views on the Mckinley
Bin.
Governor Boios is entitled to all the
honors he has obtained from Iowa. His
strength with the people comes from his
honest, frank way Of treating public
questions, and his clear, direct and
homely statements, which can be under
stood by all. The following, from a
recent speech, Is in his best vein. After
telling how the people rebuked the Re-
publcans two years ago, and stating that
the issues are the same this campaign as
they were in 1900, he said:
"Unless great many Of you who wero
then dissatisfied have changed your
minds in regard to the Mckinley bill
you will vote for the Democratic ticket
as you did then. Our Republican
friends say you did not know what you
were doing then. They say the wicked
Democrats scared you. out Of your
senses, and you deposited your ballots
ignorant of what they meant; that now
you can show how much mistaken you
were, return to the Republican party
and help to maintain this so per cent.
tariff. The question is whether you
were mistaken then, or ought to stand
by the Judgment you then formed and
expressed"
Having explained how it is that some
farmers succeed by working sixteen
hours day, while their wives work
eighteen and their children ten or twelve
hours, in spite of their heavy and unjust
burdens of taxation, and that even ther
success is often due more to the rise in
the value of their land than to the sale
of their farm products, he said:
Some Of the crops of your farms,
however, are still sold at less than cost.
The same is true of cattle. 1t is true of
spring wheat, which is selling in some
localities at fifty cents bushel; it is
true of winter wheat, which is fetching
sixty cents bushel. Now, ask you. as
the farmers of Iowa, men who owe some
thing to your own families, to compare
your situation with that Of the manufac-
turers, whom our Republican friends tell
us we must protect in order to enable
them to carry on business proftably.
Where Is the property Of this nation?
Today 10000 families own half Of the
property in the United States, and that
property is the product of labor and
nothing else on the face of the earth.
And you, the laborers, are asked to vote
for q policy that makes every single
necessity you use cost more than it
should in order that some manufacturer
in another state can pile up his fortune
not by hundreds of thousands, but by
millions in many cases. ask you, Is it
just to yourselves or just to your fami-
lies? Stop and think.
You may have been Republicans;
your fathers may have been Republicans
before you; but what is your duty? Here
is live issue-not dead one; not an
issue upon which you were a Republican
or Democrat thirty years ago, but a live
one. The Republicans say that it is
your duty, the farmers of Iowa, to go to
the polls and vote for a policy that
makes you put your hands into your
pockets and contribute Of your hard
earnings to build up and make profit
able somebody else's industry. Do you
believe that is fair or just? If you do,
go and vote the Republican ticket, but
ask the forgiveness of your wives and
children after you have cast your ballot.
Don't forget that, for you owe duty
to your families-s duty that is over and
above any duty you owe to any manu-
facturer or any political party. II you
will be just to yourselves and just to
your families, forget all party prejudice
and remember that o responsibility is
upon your shoulders for the vote you
cast. If you do this know where your
votes will go-they will go into the
Democratic boxes and help to bring
about one of the grandest reforms ever
advocated in the world.