The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1892-10-05

may be paid to workingmen and a
home market be provided for our
farm products.
SYSTEM CONTRARY TO JUSTICE.
These pretenses should no longer |
deceive. The truth is that such a
system is directly antagonized by
every sentiment of justice and fair
ness of which Americans are pre-
eninently proud. 1t is also true
that while our woikingmeu and farm
ers can the least Of all our people, de
feud themselves against the harder
home life which such tariff taxation
DEGREES, the workman, suffering
from the importation and employ
ment of pauper labor instlgated by
his professed friends, aud seeking
security for his interests III organic
ed cooperation, still waits for divis-
ion of the advantages secured to his
employer under cover of a generous
solicitude for his wages, while the
farmer is learning that the prices of
his products is fixed in foreign
market " here he suffers from com
petition invited and built up by
system he is asked to support.
The struggle for unearned advan
tage at the doors Of the government
tramples on the rights of those who
patiently rely upon assurances Of
American equality. Every govern
mental concession to clamorous fa-
vorites invites corruption in political
affairs by encouraging the expendi
ture of money to debauch suffrage
in support of a policy directly favor
able to private and selfish gain.
This in the end must strangle pa
triotism and weaken popular conf
dence in the rectitude of republican
institutions.
i QUESTION OF EQUITY.
Though the subject of tariff leg
islation involves a question o. mar
kets, it ais, involves 4 ques lion o.
morals We cannot with impunlty
permit Injustice to taint the spirit
of right and equity, which Is The
: lie OF our republic; and we shal
fail TO reach our national destiny il
greed and selishness lead the way
Recognizing these truths, the Ia
tional democracy will seek by tn
> application Of just and sound prin
: ciples to equallze to our people th'
t blessings due them from the govern
f ment they support; to promot
5 among our countrymen close
t community OF interests cemente'
! by patriotism and national pride
. aud to point out fair field wher
prosperous and diversified Ameri
can enterprise may grow ard thrlv
in the wholesome atmosphere c
Il American industry, ingenuity an
4 intelligence.
: Tariff reform is still our purpose
: Though We oppose the theory tha
: tariff laws may be passed having fo
: their object the granting Of discrin
y mating and unfair governmental al
! to private ventures, we wage no e!
# terminating wor against any Amer
; can interests We believe rea<
= iustment can be accomplished in az
! cordance with the priciples we prt
d fess, without disaster or demolition
IL We believe that the advantages {
a free raw material should be accor'
o ed to our manufacturers, and W
% contemplate a fair and careful di
q tribution of necessary tariff border
ic rather than the precipitation of trat
ID We anticipate with calmness tt
ID Misrepresentation of our motive
d instigated by a selfshness whit
e. seeks to hold in unrelenting gras
al its unfair advantage under presel
n tariff laws. We will rely upon I'll
Sc intelligence of our fellow countr
lie men to reject the charge that a par
In comprising the majority of our pc
ut pie are planning the destruction
id injury of American interests; and ,
H. know they cannot be frightened
e. the specter of impossible free trac
THE FORCE BILL.
p
af- The administration and manas
tic ment of our government depend L
te; on popular will. Federal power
of the instrument of that will, not
n master. Therefore the attempts
ra- the opponents of democracy to
cir terfere with and control the suffra
let of the states through Federal age
or cies develops a design which no {
an planation can mitigate to reTen
ch the fundamental and safe relatio
between the people and their e.
ernment. Such an attempt cant
fail to be regarded by thought
men aud as proof of a bold deterr
nation to secure the ascendency 0
discredited party in reckless dis
gard of free expression of the p'
ular will To resist such a scheI
is an impulse OF democracy, At
times and in all places we trust