The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-11-30
Organize for 1896.

The adherence Of the educated and
Intelligent young men OF the nation
10 Republican principles is indispen-
sable TO Republican victory in 1896.
The work of education and organiza-
ton FOR the next Presidential cam
paign should begin at once and be
carried on with system and thorough
ness.
Few young men appreciate the trc-
mendous significance Of the Republi-
can record for the past thirty-two
years, says the New York Press. They
comprehend, more or less vaguely,
that the Republican party saved the
nation from dissolution, crushed hui
man slavery, restored the finances
and credit OF the country, and enacted
legislation which has resulted in an
industrial development unmatched
in the worlds annals. What they
do not realize is the all important
fact that these grand achievements
were accomplished by the practical
application Of the very principles held
10y the Republican party to-day; that
the Democracy, whose Speciou'
pledges have won so many Of their
votes, is an old foe with a new face,
whose success is menace to the
prosperity and progress CT the nation
not less dangerous than it would
have been in 1860 or 1864. Repub-
licanism has not changed its princi-
pies. Democracy has not changed its
principles. The faith Of Lincoln and
Seward and Grant is still the Repub'
publican creed. The economic dog
mas OF John G. Calhoun and Jefferson
Davis are still the fundamental beliefs
Of the Democratic party.
Democratic orators have denied
this on the stump and Democratic
newspapers have Systematically ig-
norcd their own platform in their
editorial columns. The prompt de-
mand on the part Of Democratic
organs all over the country for an
extra session of Congress and a COM
plete overthrow Of the protective sys-
ten in accordance with the demand
for free trade formulated at Chicago
shows the deliberate deception prac.
ticed on those voters who supported
the Democratic ticket in the belief
that a moderate and careful revision
of the tariff was all that the Demo
cratic party intended. To-day the
Democracy represents the old South
ern idea that the best labor is the
cheapest labor, that the United States
should not manufacture for them
selves, but should grow corn and
pork and cotton TO exchange for Eu-
ropean manufactured products. The
Democratic party holds that the idea
Of a vigorous, united American ma
tionality is a sham, that we should
have no navy, no forts, no army. that
cur flag represents nothing in partic-
ular, that we should allow the mOnop-
olists Of Europe to take mortgage
on the South American continent
and the Governments Of Europe to
dictate the policy and trample on the
rights of every Spanish American
State.
The Republican party stands for
every governmental policy that APP
peals to patriotism. 1t rests its case
not on what it has done in the past,
glorious though that past has been.
but on what it proposes TO accomplish
for the American people in the fu-
ture. 1t believes in the dignity Of
honest labor. IL holds that every
American workingman should be paid
wages high enough to live in comfort,
to educate his children and to pre-
serve his personal independence. 1t
would make the laborcr not a scrf
but a sovereign. The Republican
party believes in the greatness and
grandeur Of the United States. It
believes that the name Of America
and the flag Of America should be re-
spected in every quarter Of the globe.
1t believes that the United States
should be as independent of Europe
in industry as in politics, that the
vast home market should not only be
preserved TO the American people,
hut that the immensely profitable
MAJ kets Of Spanish-America should
be wrested from foreign greed and
possessed by American enterprise.
Republicanism believes that the Stars
and Stripes are sacred; that our ma
tional honor should be without stain;
that we should have navy, an army,
system of seabord Notifications suf-
ilcient to make our great cities Sc
cure, our coasts inviolab!e 1t would
make the United States the mightiest
OF nations, the incarnation Of moral
and material progress, the leader in
modern civilization.
These are some OF the reasons why
patriotic young Americans should be
Republicans.
Reciprocity Depends on Protection.
1t is none too soon for Americans
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