The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-10-01

workingmen aud a home market
provided for farm products. These
pretences should no longer deceive.
The truth is such system is d.
rectly antagonized by every senti-
ment of justice and fairness of
which the Americans are promi-
nently proud. 1t is also true that
while our workingmen and farmers
can least of all our people defend
themselves against the harder
home life which such tariff taxa,
ton decree, the workingman is suf-
fering from the importation and
employment of pauper labor insti-
gated by his professed friends, and
seeking security in organized CO.
operation still waits for division
Of the advantages secured the en-
ployer under cover of generous SOL
icitude for his wages, while the
farmer is learning that the prices
of his products are fixed in foreign
markets, where he suffers from
competition invited and built up
by the system he is asked to sup
port.
Every governmental concession
to clamorous favorites invites cor
ruption of political affairs by
encouraging the expenditure
of money to debauch the
suffrage in support of policy d.
rectly favorable to private and sell
fish gain. This in the end must
strangle patriotism and weaken
popular confidence in the rectitude
of republican institutions. Recog-
nizing these truths, the national
democracy will seek by the appli-
cation of just and sound principles
to equalize to the people the bless
ings due them from the govern
ment they support; promote among
our countrymen closer community
of interests cemented by patriotism
and national pride, and point out a
fair field where prosperous and d.
versified American enterprise may
thrive in a wholesome atmosphere
of American industry, ingenuity
and intelligence. Tariff reform is
still our purpose. We wage no ex-
war against any Amer
lean interest. We believe read
justment can Be accomplished
without disaster of demolition. We
believe the advantage Of free raw
should be accorded our
and contemplate the
careful distribution of the necessary
tariff burdens rather than the pre-
cipitation of free trade.
On the col mage question the ex-
president takes a stand which is at
once unique and interesting. Those
who expected vigorous denun-
citation of free silver will be disap-
pointed, while his reiteration of the
old intrinsic value" chestnut shows
that he still believes that God made
money. He says:
The people are entitled to sound
and honest money abundantly suf-
ficient in volume to supply bust
ness needs, but whatever may be
its form, national or state, gold,
silver or paper, it should be go regu-
lated and guarded by governmental
action, or wise and careful laws,
that no one can be deluded as to
the certainty and stability of its
value. Every dollar put into the
hands of the people of the
same intrinsic value or pur-
chasing power with this con-
dition absolutely guaranteed that
both gold and silver be safely util-
lied upon equal terms in the adjust
ment of our currency. In dealing
with this subject no selfish scheme
should be allowed to intervene and
and no doubtful experiment be at
tempted. The wants of our people
arising from a deficiency or the
imperfect distribution of the money
circulation ought to be fully and
honestly recognized and efficiently
rcmedied. 1t should, however, be
constantly remembered that the in
convenience or loss that might arise
from such situation can be much
easier borne than the universal
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