The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-02

reform must be subject In execution
to this plain dictate Of justice.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff
law enacted as the eliminating at
rocity Of class legislation. We en-
dorse the efforts of the Democrats
Of the present congress to modify
its most oppressive features in the
direction Of free raw materials and
cheaper manufactured goods than
enter into consumption, and we
promise it's repeal as one of the
beneficent results that will follow
the action of the people in entrust-
ing with power the Democratic
party.
Since the Mckinley tariff went
into operation there have been ten
reductions of the wages of laboring
men to one increase. We point to
the failures in the country since
the tariff went into operation, and
point to the dullness and distress,
wage reductions and strikes in the
iron trade as the best evidence that
no such prosperity resulted from
the Mckinley act.
We call the attention of the
thoughtful Americans to the fact
that after thirty years of restrictive
taxes against importation of foreign
wealth in exchange for agricultural
the homes and farms of
the country have become encum-
bered with mortgages of over two
thousand five hundred million dol
lars, exclusive of all other forms of
Indebtedness, and that in one of
the agricultural states of the west
there appears real estate mortgages
averaging $165 per capita of the
population, and that similar con-
d;tions are shown to exist in other
agricultural exporting states. We
denounce a policy which fosters no
industry so much as it does that of
the sheriff.
TRADE INTERCHANGE
on basis of reciprocal advantages
to the countries participating is a
doctrine of the dem
ocratic faith, but we denounce the
sham reciprocity which juggles with
the peoples desire for enlarged for
eign markets and freer exchanges
by pretending to establish closer
trade relations for a country whose
articles of export are almost exclu-
sively agricultural products, with
other countries that are also agri-
cultural, while erecting the custom
house barrier of prohibitive tariff
taxes against the richest countries
of the world that stands ready to
take our entire surplus of products
and exchange therefor commodities
which are the necessaries and COM
forts of life among our people. We
recognize in
TRUSTS AND COMBINATIONS,
which are designed to enable cap
ital to secure more than just share
of the joint product Of capital and
labor the natural consequence of
prohibitive taxes, which prevent
free competition which is the life
of honest trade, but believe their
worst evils can be abated by law and
and we demand the rigid enforce
ment of the laws made to prevent
and control them, together with
such further legislation in the re-
straint of their abuses as experience
may show to be necessary.
The Republican party, while pro-
Tossing a policy of reserving public
land for small holdings by actual
settlers, has given away the peoples
heritage, till now few railroads
and nonresident aliens, individual
and corporate, possess larger area
than that of all the farms between
the two seas.
The last Democratic administra.
ton reversed the improvident and
unwise policy of the Republican
party touching the public domain,
and reclaimed from corporations
and syndicates, alien and domestic,
and restored to the people nearly
one hundred million acres of val
liable land to be sacredly held as
homesteads of our citizens, and we
pledge ourselves to continue this
policy until every acre of land SO
unlawfully held shall be reclaimed
and restored to the people.
SILVER AND GOLD.
We denounce the Republican lcgisla-
ton known az the Sherman act OF 1890
~ cowardly makeshift fraught with
of danger in the future which
should make all its supporters, as we'll as
it's author, anxious for its speedy repeal.
We hold to the use Of both gold
and silver as the standard money Of the
and to the coinage Of both gold
and silver without discriminating against
either metal or making charge for mint
age; but the dollar, the unit Of coinage
Of both metals, must be of equal intrinsic
and interchangeable value, or adjusted
through international agreement or by
such safeguard legislation as shalt secure
the maintenance Of the parity of the two
metals, and the equal power Of every
dollar 1t any time in the market or in
the payment Of debts; and we demand
that paper currency be kept at par with
and redeemable in such coin. We insist
upon this policy as especially necessary
for the protection of farmers and labor
inp classes, the first and most defenseless