Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-12-07

Ths People Demand II
Wherever the people had IN 0ppor-
tunity 70 speak on November ! they
condemned free trade. Wherever the
voice Of American citizenship was per-
mitted to make itself heard, 1t uttered
an emphatic protest against the crime
and folly of striking down American
industry to serve the greed Of foreign
m~Onopolists. The mandate OF the six
great commonwealth OF New York,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New
Jersey, Ohio and Iowa was expressed
York voted for the Democratic ma
This year, leaving out OF account
the extraordinary vote against May
nard, the Republican plurality In
New York IS 24,l94. New Jersey voted
for the Cleveland electors by q plural
ity Of / 4, 914. This month she declared
aeainst free trade by . plurality OF
q, l32. Pennsylvania increased her
Presidential Republic an plurality OF
g., 707 to q plurality Of Ia5, 1876. Massa-
chusetts increas cd her Republican plu-
rality fr m 5000 for Harrison 10 5J,dl3
for Greenhalge. Iowa, Republican by
1856 last year, is now Republican by
32,836. Ohio, which voted for the
Harrison electors by only 1912, gave
William Mckinley the magnificent
plurality Of Sl,a47. Taken altogether,
the total Republican plurality in the
popular vote of these six States in 1899
was S,313. This year 1t is 33l, lOS.
These States contain twenty millions
OF people. They are the most inn
portant industrial commonwealth In
the Union. They represent the high
est progress OF American civilization.
The tariff was the issue in every n Of
them. And they have declared with
the utmost emphasis that they do not
want the tariff repealed. Eight months
OF Clevelandism have increased the Re.
publican plurality in these States by
more than q quarter Of . million. 1t is
certain that IL the voters of the re-
mainder Of the North and West could
have spoken, their verdict would
have been equally decisive. The
people have condemned Cleveland
Ism. They have repudiated the
Democratic tariff programme he
trayed, impoverished, their factories
Idle, their Industries Frustrated, their
homes threatened by want, their man.
hood menaced by degradation, the
wage earners OF America have risen in
their might and demanded that the in
iquitous work of industrial treason
shall halt. Their command, issued
through their ballots to the Congress,
is imperative and absolute. Every step
taken at Washington for the repeal Of
the Mckinley law, every lowering Of
protective duties, every addition made
to the free list, every blow to domestic
industries, In whatever form it comes,
il in defiance Of the peoples mandate
and in disobedience to the peoples
will.
Republicans in Congress should fight
the free trade infamy with every g
pom and at every step. They should
fight 1t in the name of humanity, JUS
tice and patriotism; in the name OF the
American manhood, American woman
hood and American childhood. whom
it would beggar and debase: in the
name Of the American homes it would
make desolate: in the name of the
American industrial independence 1t
would utterly destroy. The free trade
tariff bill is q measure Of treaehery un-
paralleled in our history. 1t sweeps
away guarantees under which hun
dreds OF millions OF capital have been
invested, and to whose maintenance
the nations faith is pledged. 1t de-
stroys industries upon which the iveli-
hood OF multituaes OF American citi-
zens depends. 1t outlaws the vast
manufacturing interests Of the United
States with their six millions OF EN-.
ployes, their five billions OF capital and
their annual return In wages Of three
thousand millions of dollars.
D,~,1lioop no ~ tho Un,,cn ~ Parma.
s~entatives should use every legitimate
mea Of delay and obstruction in fight
ing the free trade wrecking bill. The
people whose homes and prosperity
are at stake are behind them and will
sustain them. When every resource
shall have been exhausted in the
House, every form of parliamentary
tactics used to the utmost limit in the
work of resistance, and every possible
effort to minimize and weaken the
maasure made. IL will be the duty and
the privilege OF the Republicans in the
Senate to take up the peoples battle
against their despoilers. The bill can
be delayed in the House. 1t IA he
blocked absolutely in the Senate under
the rules governing that body, and
| held there until the election OF o Re-
| publican House of Representatives.
| The contest will be fierce and stubborn;
it will afford full oppoi tunity for the
display Of all the courage, energy and
patriotism which have wrested 80 many
Republican victories from the jaws Of
defeat: and it will be crowned with
ultimate triumph for protection and
Americanism II Republicans do their
duty.-New York Press.
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