Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-08-23
The one Roads to Genera Prosperity

Indications of Republican success
at the polls in November are rife in
every state in the union where fair
elections are possible. The people
were hooded two years ago by dem
o~cratic and populist sophistry into
voting for a change. Every scheme,
fair and foul, that the ingenuity of
man could devise was adopted to stir
up dissatisfaction aud strife, with
the result that the Republican party
was deposed. How deeply the peo-
pie who voted for a change have
suffered for their credullty need
not be told. Already the wheels
of progress have been turned back
ward M whole year; those who
have survived that year with a clean
balance sheet consider themselves
fortunate. Strikes and pauperlsm,
riots and incendiarism, Coxeyism
and anarchy have sprung into exis-
tence and lourished to an extent
heretofore unknown. Lawlessness
has been rampant where there was
peace and quiet. The national debt
has been increased 800, 600, 900 in
two years, and the government, for
the first time in history, has been
obliged to issue bonds in time of
profound peace to pay current ex.
penses. Such a contrast between
the results o. good government and
misgovernment has never before
been afforded in the same space of
time. Surely the people who voted
for a change got what they voted
for with a vengeance. And now,
in the very midst of the havoc they
have created, the forces that govern
the country to-day-democracy and
populism-have the supreme effront-
cry to appear before an injured peo-
pie and again solicit their s~uffrages.
No matter whether the panic OF a
year ago and the depression that
has since quite generally prevailed
we're due to the tariff or not, the
fact remains uncontrovertable that
the trouble began the moment Re-
publican defeat was assured ard
has continued to a greater or less
degree, according to locality, to
this day. Ard while the blame
rests directly upon a feeble and in.
harmonious administration, the
populists are fully as responsible for
the condition of affairs as their old
time allies. They assisted in SOW
Ing the seed of Misrepresentation;
they drew from the Republican vote
and but for them democratic success
would have been impossible. 1t is
coward.y now for them to shirk the
responsibility and it is marvellous
that they should have the boldness
to attempt to perpetuate the fraud
by soliciting votes. People who
can look back to years of prosperity
under Republican rule and who
have a desire for the return of that
prosperity have but one course to
pursue-to strive night and day for
the future success of Republicanism
and intelligent government. Things
have come to a pass where it is not
a question of partisanship, but a
question of good business judgment
The men who voted dollars out of
their pockets two years ago will
have an opportunity this year and
next to vote them back again. No
half way course is feasible. 1t is
either RepublicanIsm ana prosper
lty or demo-populism and coutin,
ued stagnation, aud the work of
rehabilitation should begin in the
townships and extend through the
counties and states until it en-.
braces the White house and Capitol
at Observation-Disclosures News.
Kenneth Bazemore had the gotd