The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-06-18
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Ii men and not principles were issues
in political campaigns, President Harri-
son could point to his record as a n
sistent church. goer; to himself as an
animate bundle of polite. punctilious
frigidity and unimpaired dignity and as
a considerate father who has smoothed
the pathway of a somewhat cratic
son to a royal nomenclature and a
partnership in a fake newspaper concern,
and appeal to a good-natured people to
give him another four years lease of a
position wherein he can show to the
world how very little good a very small
man can do in a very large place.
But the issue in the ensuing campaign
is not one of men. 1t is not whether the
man Harrison shall be elected to serve as
president Of a great people and a great
country until March 4, 1897 or whether
he shall step down and out and give
place to some other man. This is not an
issue. 1t is this: Shall a policy longer
prevail in the administration of the gov
eminent which builds up great monop-
olies, trusts and combines and a pluto
cracy more powerful than kings or
p~otentates, at the expense of the labor
ing masses of the country? Shall a
tariff law which enriches the few and
impoverishes the many continue to re-
main upon the statute books of the
land? Shall the eastern manufacturer
be protected against all foreign competi-
ton while the products of the southern
cotton planter and northern wheat grow
er go begging for sale in the markets of
the world? Shall the purchasing power
of the gold of eastern shylocks continue
to be increased, while silver, the money
of the poor man, be degraded to the level
OF the grossest of commercial articles?
Shall the debt-paying capacity of the
debtor class be increased? or shall it be
diminished?
These are the questions which the
American people will be called upon to
decide the Sth of next November. The
election of Mr.. Harrison would mean
the endorsement of a governmental policy
which is creating an immense money
power and adding to an already vast
army of tramps. 1t would mean the
eyaltation of a plutocracy upon the
Bonded backs of a laboring people; the
gathering of gold from the sweating
brows of working men and women; the
multiplying of the novels of the poor
under the shadows of the palaces of the
rich and the capitalization of a monied
aristOcracy whose claims to distinction
lie in the presence of Il long purse and
the absence of all those higher and finer
qualities of the human heart which
make man the noblest work of God.
Mr.. Harrison's defeat would mean the
inauguration Of a policy which would
direct the administration of the go ;ern-
ment upon lines of economy; which
would relieve the laboring masses of the
country of their onerous tax burdens;
which would make the formation of
trusts and combines impossible; which
would cheaper the necessaries Of life
to the poor; which would give them
the markets of the world IN which to buy
and sell; which would give them better
prices for their labor and its products,
thus enhancing their debt paying capaci-
ty and which would rescue the homes of
the poor from the grasp of a money pow
er that has been fostered and built up
by a most unjust. discriminating tariff.
Here are the issues, and upon them the
presidential campaign must be fought.
GREAT FALLS is not robed in her