Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-11-11
BY Nj. III.
H DAILY TRIBUNE,
THE RESULT AND ITS EFFECT.

The RESULT AND ITS EFFECT.
The nation has spoken and from pres
ent appearances it's expression must be
regarded one of doubt as to the policy of
the Mckinley law. And yet it will be
noticed that the farmers and artisans,
the bone and sinew, the brain and Drawn
of the country, have not SO declared.
The states which went to war for free
trade and human slavery, aided by the
hummer element in the two great cities
of New York and Chicago, have accom-
plished this, and 10 that they have OBJ
tanned the victory we shall see what
they will do with it.
With 153 democratic majority in the
present house of representatives they
did not even dare introduce a bill for the
repeal of the Mckinley law. Will they
dare do it now even with both branches
of the government and the executive in
their hands? If they do not then they
must confess that they fought the battle
on false issues.
Will they dare readjust the tariff on a
revenue basis, restoring the duty on
sugar, tea and coffee and taking it off
from iron and tin and from other manu-
featured articles? If they don't they
must confess that their resolution in
favor of a venue tariff, and denounc-
ing protection as a fraud was a sham.
Will they dare repeal the 10 per cent.
tax on state banks, bringing back the
days of wild cat currency and of finan-
cial ruin? If they do not they must
confess that they inserted that plank to
appease the demand for free silver. The
people asked for bread. They gave
them a stone.
At the end of four years they will
again retire with the Mckinley law
practically untouched, with the cur
rency sustained and without any results
dear to democratic hearts accomplished
excepting that all hope of dividing the
democratic south during the life of this
generation will have been Destroyed.
Not only the negro vote will have been
suppressed and the means by which
that result has been accomplished will
have been sustained, but populists and
republicans attempting to vote in those
states will have shared the same fate.
In the northern states as now, demo-
Gratis and republicans will share alike in
the blessings of a free government. In
the south no man will have the full
rights of American citizenship, unless it
is known that he is reliably democratic.
And now, what has been the effect of
the populistic and prohibition cam.
paigns? Simply to defeat the repub-
lican party and throw the affairs of the
nation into the hands of an element op-
posed to every demand Of the reformers.
To obstruct and delay the accomplish
ment of the purposes for which they
claimed to contend. They have played
the part of a monkey, whose paw has
been used to draw chestnuts out of the
fire for democrats.
1t will be almost a pity if they do not
control both houses as we'll as the
executive. Since the people have voted
for it let us have a democratic admins
tration in all of it's beauty. Since the
reforners want it SO let them have full
sweep, for so sure as we can throw the
whole responsibility on them so sure
will the republican party be indicated
by the good sense of the country in the
next presidential campaign.
Never was a campaign carried on with
so much of shameless misrepresentation
upon the part of the democrats. 1t was
a campaign of education upon the part
of republicans. But the time was too
short. Still great gains we're made over
1890.
And there was another element which
may have lost US NewYork-and thatIwas
the use of United States marshals at the
polls. In order to justify the force bill
it is possible that a dangerous thing was
attempted. 1t was legal to do it, but
was 1t necessary? In that act there was
apparently proof that the republicans in
tended to use the federal power to per-
petuate themselves in power, and in
that may be an explanation of the losses
during the last few days of the campaign,
especially in Chicago and New York.
VIM. NELSON BLACK in November
number Of Engineering Magazine speaks
Of what electricity may yet do for the
farmers of this country. He says:
"The road wagons and the sho1t-lived
top buggies and carriages of the farmer
cost him a very nrettv NANNY in tho