Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-08-24
LET DEMOCRATS ACT.
GOVERNMENT MACHINERY Is IN
THEIR HANDS.
II Democratic Ascendency Has Not Caused
the Present Deplorable Condition of At
fairs. 1t Most Assuredly Has Not Pre-
vented Such Misfortune.
Democratic Responsibility.

I6tFss ~ MOSG ASSuFeUIy HAS NOT IEc"
vented Such Misfortune.
Democratic Responsibility
A point has now been reached in the
matter of the prevailing financial de-
preston and uncertainty where the
Democrats can no longer deny or evade
their responsibility. They have been
insisting cvefsince the trouble began
that their party was in no sense to
blame for it. BY species of ingeni-
Gus sophistry, they have sought to
make it appear that the same kind of a
situation would have ensued if tho Re-
publicans had retained control of the
Government. Granting this to be true
though it is by no means certain-the
time has gone by for talk Of that sort.
Congress Is in session, with full power
to enact remedial legislation and to
rectify all alleged evils in existing laws
| and policies. There is Democratic
majority in both the Senate and House,
and Democratic President at the
ether end Of the avenue. This implies
| absolute authority to ad just all diff
culties and put stop to the present
the fault be whose it may, the duty of
solving the problem rests upon the
Democrats. They promised the people
that increased prosperity should follow
the election of Cleveland. and they are
now called upon to redeem that pledge.
1t will not do for them to say that they
must have help from the Republicans
! in order to bring about the desired re-
suit. They have all the necessary ia
cilities i'll their own hands. and their
responsibility Is correspondence dis
tinct and complete.
There is an imperative demand for
relief of certain kind. -Four months
| ago." as Mr.. Reed pointedly puts it,
"the country was in a prosperous condi-
tion. and the people were happy"
whereas there is now "distrust in all
circles and general decentralization of
the finances of the country" If the
restoration of the Democratic party to
power has not caused this change,
neither has it prevented such a misfor-
tune, and the question is. how long is
it to last? The Democratic majority is
so strong that it does not need to ask
assistance from the other side. It can
do what it pleases. and it will be held
accountable accordingly. The time
has come for action. and every days
postponement will be an added viola
tion of public duty and an increased
burden OF anxiety and danger. For
the first time in over third of CEN
tury the Democratic party has absolute
sway in all branches of the Govern
ment. The obligation rests upon it.
therefore. TO prove that it is equal to
the work which it has assumed. and
capable Of redecming the promises by
which it obtained its ascendcncy: and
it can not reasonably expect any in
diligence on account of circumstances
which are under it's perfect and ex-
elusive control.--(Ilobe-D Democrat.
A Time for Patriot SIN,
A leading Cleveland organ, which
pretends to represent the views of the
Administration, heads AMI clo:es an
editorial article on the existing busi-
ness and industrial crisis with the
words: This is a time for patriotism
Our contemporary is right in the aver
ment that this is time for patriotism,
but is wrong in it's evident meaning
that this is a time for patriotism as
distinguished from any ether time.
The true patriot is a patriot always,
and every hour and day is an hour and
day for patriotism to find expression in
word and work. This is a time for
v
a time for patriotism, and so was last
November.
The Republican party is patriotic to-
day because it has always been patri-
otic: because it is impossible for the
party to be unpatriotic; because its
principles are the essence and express
sion of patriotism, and because its his.
tory of all that American patriotism
has attempted and achieved since the
Republican party came into existence
as protest against the unpatriotic
methods and schemes that would have
sacrificed the republic to the inter-
ests of the Southern Shareholder and
the alien trader and manufacturer
The Republican party recognizes that
true patriotism demands that the
American people shall be made ac.
quainted with the causes of prevailing
distress. that they shall understand
the folly and iniquity of the Democrat
ic program of destruction for American
industries in the interest of foreign in
dustries, and that they shall fully COM
prehend that the cause of the whole
sale discharge of American workers
and shutting down of American indus
trial establishments is apprehension
that the Democratic policy OF free
trade will he carried out. This is
time for patriotism, therefore time to
tell the truth.
The Democrats and the Soldiers.
The Democratic management of the
Pension Office cannot escape responsi-
bility for its policy of antagonism to-
ward the Union soldier by seeking
cover behind decisions given under a
Republican administration. The rec
ord of Republican treatment of the
veteran soldier speaks for itself. Fe-
publican officials, including Assistant
Secretary Bussey, whom the apolosists
for Democratic abuse and oppression
of the disabled veterans are SO fond of
auOting, followed the law faithfully.
but they also followed it literally.
They knew that the soldier drew no
hard and fast line when he went to
fight for his country. and they did not
strain the letter Of the law to defeat
his claims when he in turn appealed to
his country for aid.
The Pension Office, under ex-Con-
fedcrate control, does strain the law
against the soldier. 1t assumes him TO
be guilty of fraud by suspending his
pension, and then requires him to
prove his innocence before the pension
is restored, and this, too, in face of the
fact that. with the progress of years,
witnesses to any event Of the time Of
the war are dying oil rapidly, and it is
difficult, if not impossible. for pension
ers to reproduce the evidence en- which
the pensions were originally granted. |
In other words. the Union veterans are
rOhf1pd of their 1ansinps hy lainu r.,