The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-09-30
TO WORKINGMEN.

An Article That is Commended to the
Earnest Attention of WOrISingmen In
Kansas.
The following from the New York
Advertiser is commended to the work
ingmen of Kansas. Within the past
five years the manufacturing and min
ing interests have been more than
doubled, and there are many thousands
of men who are to-day directly interest
ed in the protection that so directly
affects them. The Advertiser says:
THE tariff policy of the republican
party is conspicuous for two things.
First, that it provides for the raising of
the necessary revenue TO carry on the
government, and at the same time pro-
tects and promotes the interests of the
American workingman; and, second,
that it regards these things as of about
equal Importance.
That is to say, in the view of the
republican party, it is of just as much
Importance that the American work
ingnan shall be enabled to make
good liberal, comfortable living for
himself and his family, and to earn
enough to educate his children thor
oughly and give them wide opportuni-
ties for the development and culture of
all their higher qualities, as it is to
provide the means whereby the ex-
penses of the government under which
tn, workingman lives shall be met.
The democratic-Clev party
makes wide distinction between these
two objects 1t will be remembered
that the committee on platform, at the
recent ACKNOWLEDGEMENT national
convention. reported tariff plank, de-
claring that in the adjustment of duties
the interests of workingmen should
have consideration. 1t will also be re-
membered that this plank was most
emphatically rejected, and one adopted
which declared, with newly born frank
ness, for free trade. In other words,
the democratic-Cleveland party put it.
self on record as regarding the interests
of the workingmen as of such small i'm
portance that they ought not to be al
lowed to have any weight in the adjust
ment of the tariff.
Nothing could perhaps more fairly
illustrate the difference in fundamentals
OF the two parties. Looking at it from
one point of view, the democratic party
declares that it IS of more Importance
TO nave government, with offices to be
filed and an income out of which to
pay salaries and furnish perquisites,
than it is to have people of the highest
type aud class in character and cultiva-
ton to be governed. The republican
position is the reverse of this.
From the republican standpoint it is
first desirable that the people shall be
educated. progressive, intelligent and
surrounded by those comforts and ad-
junct, which will give room for the
grow L of their higher natures-a ma
ton freemen worthy of their free
dom Il of all the blessings of broad
" !. cal and enlightened free govern
men Given such a people, and their
gov nment is matter of minor i'm
por. .lce-they will make no mistake
in 4, It regard.
"The democratic theory is that it is
necessary to an easy and successful, in
short, desirable, government, that
there snail be 4 class willing to be gov
erned, docile and easily handled, ask
ing no questions and ready at all times
to obey orders and vote the tieket-if
they are permitted to vote at all. This