Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-11-23

AMERICAN LABOR-No Mors
Wanted. Sound, Fat Protection
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MUST LET TARIFF ALONE.
Election Day Was Doomsday for Growers
Tariff Reform Policy.
The recent elections conveyed to the
Republicans in Congress explicit In
structions from the American people
to employ all available means to defeat
the assault upon the protective system
now being prepared by the Ways and
Means Committee. Never was there
more signal demonstration than is now
supplied of the sagacity displayed by
the founders of our government in
providing that thirteen months should
elapse before newly elected Congress
should meet in regular session. The
purpose of delay was to give time for
the sober second thought of the nation
to be taken concerning any great ques-
tion that was considered during the
campaign. In this case the time has been
we'll improved by the American peo-
pie. For eight months they have had
a chance to consider what meaning for
them was contained In the distinct
promise of the overthrow Of the pro-
tective system. For eight months they
have had the opportunity to observe
the destructive consequence of the
nero threat that British free trade
would he imposed upon the country.
They have seen industry smitten with
paralysis, the productive forces OF the
nation held in restraint, laborers forced
into idleness and stricken with hunger,
and the energies of a great people re-
duced to impotence, willie the sources
of their wealth were drying up. be-
cause reactionary party, headed by
an aggressive enemy of domestic in
dustry, had come into power pledged
to reverse the policy under which the
nation has had more than thirty years
Of unequaled prosperity.
And so, before the Wrecker in the
White House and his obedient crea-
lures in Congress have made ready for
their attack up IN the wealth producers
of the country, the people, speaking at
the polls, have cried Halt" No pre-
tense that the hard times were caused
by the silver purchases has deceived
them. They have not joined in the
chorus of commendation of Mr.. Cleve-
land because he enforced the stoppage
OF silver purchase. With one great
blow they have swept away the edifice
of humbug and lies in which the Presi-
dent has tried to shelter himself.
They have demanded in vehement
terms that the hand of the destroyer
snail be stayed. They have admins
tered stern rebuke to the public officer
who had conceived it to be his mission
to uproot the protective system, and
they have given assurance to the mi
nority in Congress that the majority of
the people are behind them, resolutc
to have peremptory stop put to fur
ther movement against the tariff.
Election day was doomsday for Mr..
Cleveland's tariff reform policy and for
Mr.. Wilson's tariff reform bill if the
Republicans in the two houses of Con-
gress shall do their duty.
Clevelandism.
The American people have repudi-
ated Grover Cleveland: They have
condemned the policy which he repre-
sents. They have condemned the ad-
ministration OF which he is the head.
For eight months the Cleveland admin
istration has been on trial at the bar OF
public opinion. The verdict of the
grand jury Of American citizenship
was pronounced at the late election.
The Judgment given against Dem
ocratic cowardice, Democratic imbecil.
ity and Democratic treason is crushing
in its force. 1t would be hard to find
q parallel in American history for the
unsparing and overwhelming popular
condemnation which has been visited
on the Cleveland administration before
1t has been Q single year in Office.
Wherever the American people have
been permitted To express their senti-
ments at the ballot box, the sentence IL
the same. Only in the gagged and
shackled South is the administration
sustained. The great free States oi
the North and West, which represent
the manhood, the intelligence, and the
patriotism OF the nation; the States
where the citizen is still sovereign
and whore the people still rule, speak
in thunder tones against Clevelandism
The adherence OF Kentucky, Virginia,
and Maryland will be small consolation
to Mr.. Cleveland as he contemplatee
the enormous Republican majorities in
New York, In Ohio, in Massachusetts,,
in Iowa, and in Pennsylvania. New
Jersey, Democratic for SO many years,
has been wrenched from the Demo
cratic column. The political revolu-
tion 10 everywhere as complete % the
people had power to make it.
The Object Lesson.
Let us not suppose for Q moment that
the great victory In Ohio 10 dae wholly
to Republican voters. Gov. Mckinley,
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