The Forrest City times., 1892-02-26
DEMOCRATIC MATTERS.
M.kINLEx.s DEMAND.

DieCueetonS or HIS Bf-f
 Tho esteemed organs of mutual rapine sermonize from the text Iur- nished them by Mir Mckinley when he made the profound observation that the judgment of the people does not approve the constant agitation of the tariff issue in the face of the fact that 1t can accomplish nothing
 Without stopping to consider the sermons says the St Louis Republic, we will confine ourselves to the text which Is sufficiently absurd to indicate the nature of the sermons on it. The only reliable way of getting the judg- ment of the people is through the ballot-box. and as they have expressed themselves there it was emphatically in favor of continuing the exposure of the crimes and follies of the Mckinley bill until it's repeal is enforced. This is what the majority of the people voting since the passage of the bill have said in every instance but even if it were otherwise the right of ap- peal to the majority would remain. and any minority however small could go on in the exercise of it con- fident that in the end right will win in it's appeal to tho majority no ma:- ter how small the minority. who as attorneys for the right plead its case before the bar where. under our sys- tenn of government injustice. with law on its side. is called to account Mir McKinley's thought in cbalieng- ing this right of appeal is entirely un- American and alien. It is the spirit in which the Mckinley bill was forced through house which had ceased to be deliberative bocy' under the Reed dictatorship
 In protesting against the discussion of his bill. Mir. Mckinley urged fur ther that discussion should be aban- doned '.in the face of the fact that it can accomplish nothing"
 It is true that the veto of the most radical and bigoted partisan is in the way of reform at present tut every time falsehOod is exposed and n wrong denounced something is ac- complished. Every one who knows the Mckinley bill knows that 1t can lOt ebdIu 6itcT u udS US0u OAROotu and it's manifold frauds and follies made plain to the people. Even if the odds against it were tenfold greater something can he accomplished, every thing can be accomplished by keep ing the truth constantly before the people. No plea for silence that the author and benefciaries of the bill can nala rav, bs, aufav<.;uad Tha,., .a, be no cessation in the exposure of it until this most fraudulent and iniquit- ous of all measures of wrongful taxa tion for enriching the rich and im- poverishing the poor is stricken from the statute books and left without the poor pretext of legality to cover the nakedness of it's infamous injustice. It cannot long survive exposure. If the coming congress searches out the trusts and other conspiracies which have been formed under 1t and sends to the Republican senate and president nti-conspiracy bills for the removal of the taxes which protect conspiracy, the veto of the Republican president will only make more certain the re- peal of the bill as whole.
 It is perfectly natural that Mir. Me Kinley should oppose free speech and wish to choke the discussion of this measure, but however keenly he may feel the exposure of it his desire for silence cannot be gratifed. The right of the poorest as of the richest of the American people to their earnings must be re-established; the wrong through which the earnings of the country's workers are taken from them and given to those who have not earned must be overthrown. Silence is impossible.- Free speech must con tinue. The truth must be told. The fight for justice must be made and won.