Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-12-02
OF PRINCIPLE.
WHY YOUNG MEN SHOULD m
REPUBLICANS.
The kepubllcan Record shows n to ~ .
Party Thst Stands for Every 13ovsrn.
mental Policy That Appeals 70 PAtriot-
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intelligent young men OF the nation
to Republican principles is indispen.
sable to Republican victory Id 1895.
The work Of education and organize
tion Tor the next Presidential CAM
paign should begin at once and be
carried on with system and thorough
hess.
Few young men appreciate the tre-
mcndous significance OF the Republic
can record tOr the past thifty-two
years, says the New York Press They
comprehend, moro Or lcss vaguely,
that the Republican party Bxvcd tlles
nation from dissolution, crushed hui
man Alaycry. restored the finances
and credit OF the country, ana rneetsd
legislation which has resulted in an
Industrial development unmatched
In the worlds annals. What they
do not realize Is the all important
fact that these grand achievements
were accomplished BY the practical
application OF the very principles held
by the Republican party to-day; that
the Democracy, whose specious
pledges have won 80 many Of their
votes, is an old foe with q new face,
whose success Is menace to the
prosperity and progress Of the nation
not less dangerous than 1t would
have been in 1860 or 1864. Repub-
licanism has not changed It's princi-
Piles. Democracy has not changed its
principles. The faith OF Lincoln and
Seward and Grant Is still the Repub-
publican creed. The economic dog
mas OF John G. Calhoun and jefferson
Davis are still the fundamental beliefs
of the Democratic party.
Democratic orators have denied
this on the stump and Democratic
newspapers have systematically ig-
nored their own platform Ia their
editorial columns. The prompt de-
mand on the part OF Democratic
organs all over the country for an
extra session of Congress and COM
plete overthrow of the protective sys-
TEN in accordance with the demand
for free trade formulated at Chicago
shows the deliberate deception prac-
ticed on those voters who supported
the Democratic ticket in the belief
that moderate and careful revision
OF the tariff was all that the Demo-
cratic party intended. To-day the
Democracy represents the old South
ern idea that the best labor is the
cheapest labor, that the United States
should not manufacture for them
selves, but should grow corn and
pork and cotton to exchange for Eu-
ropean manufactured products. The
Democratic party holds that the idea
OF vigorous, united American ma
tionality is a sham, that we should
have no navy, no feFts, ne Army. that
bur flag represents nothing In partic-
ular, that we should allow the nlonop-
Olists OF Europe to take mortgage
on the South American continent
ind the Governments Of Europe t1
dictate the policy and trample on the
rights Of every Spanish-American
State.
The Republican party stands fol
every governmental policy that ap.
peals to patriotism. 1Ur.aAa its case
not on what 1t has done In the past,
glorious though that past has been,
but on what it proposes to accomplish
for the American people In the fu.
ture. 1t believes in the dignity oil
honest labor. II holds that every
American workingman should be paid
wages high enough to live In comfort,
to educate his children and to pre-
serve his personal independence. II
would make the laborer not q serf,
hut a sovereign. The Republican
party believes in the greatness and
grandeur Of the United States. II
believes that the name OF America
and the flag OF America should be re.
spected In every quarter of the globe.
It believes that the United States
should be as independent Of Europt
in industry as in politics; that ths
vast home market should not only b.
preserved to the American people
but that the immensely profitable
markets OF Spanish shoulG
be wrested from foreign greed ant
possessed by American enterprise
Republicanism believes that the Star
and Stripes are sacred; that our ma
| tiOnal honor should b6 without stain
| that We should have navy, an army
| system OF seabord Notifications sui
fcient to make our great cities se
cure, our coasts inviolable. II woult
make the United States the mighties
OF nations, the incarnation OF mora
/ and material progress, the leader Il
modern civilization.
These are some Of the reasons VIII