Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-08-16

cratic President - Republican Plat
forms and the silver Question.
= Powerful Argument Against Demo-
cratic Attempts to Break Down
Protection.
III q fleet of foreign ironclads should at
tempt to lombard a great American city
and destroy the lives and property OF
American citizens the whole nation would
demand that the enemy should be re-
sisted by all the resources of modern
warfare. If a great pestilence like the
black death that has been devastating
Chinese cities should sweep over the sea
and threaten this country with desoia-
tion, public sentiment would unanimously
Insist that the gates of our harbors should
be barred against ships from infected
ports, and that all the appliances of medi-
a science should be used to keep the
grim intruder at bay. Yet the destruc-
ZION of property caused by the Democrat
&c attempt to strike down protection has
exceeded not merely the loss that would
be inflicted by the bombardment of a sim
gle city, but the loss brought about by
the greatest civil war in history. The
mongrel tariff bill is the black death of
American industry. 1t has smitten and
Frustrated great interests from Boston TO
San Francisco. 1t has impoverished mill
Ions of American citizens, destroyed the
happiness Of m%ultitudes Of American
homes, driven hundreds of men TO despair
and suicide, and imposed a burden of
restitution and disaster from which this
republic cannot recover in years. Such
an infamy must be fought as mercilessly
as a menacing plague or al invading
enemy.
If obstruction in the Senate becomes
necessay y in order to defeat the wreckers'
bill, Republican senator's should use il
feariessly and TO the utmost. The rules
OF the Senate were expressly framed in
order to give the minority power to pre-
vent arbitrary action on the part of the
majority. The Republicans are justified
by law and precedent in obstructing the
Infamous tariff bill. They are required
by every dictate of patriotism. every con-
sideration of humanity and every princi-
pie OF Republicanism To fight the odious
and ruinous measure with all the weapons
at their disposal. 1t is a fundamental
principle of Republicanisun that Ameri-
can labor shall be protected, that the
UNITED States shall be industrially indie
pendent, and that American wages shall
be maintained at a level which makes
Intelligent and s~elf-respecting citizenship
possible. 1t is a fundamental Republican
principle that the majority shall rule.
The American people have pronounced
overwhelmingly against the Democratic
scheme of ruin. They have condemned
lt by unprecedented pluralities at the
polls; they have commanded their repre-
sentatives through the ballot boxes Of
every Northern state to oppose il and kill
Eit; they have demanded in tones that can
not be mistaken, with an emphasis un>
paraHeled in t..is generation, that the Nc
kinney law, which gave the nation peace
and prosperity, shall be maintained upon
The statute books.
All the considerations which govern the
course of patriotic legislators impose upon
he Republicans the duty of o~bstructing
he Bourbon bill. Senatorial courtesy"
counts for nothing when the homes of
he people are ut stake. When the ey-
stence of vast national industries il on
tangered, when the integrity of American
citizenship is threatened, when in every
commonwealth from the pines of Maine
20 the redwoods of Oregon, the people are
demanding the death of the Bourbon bill
with a mighty vnice-theh for Republic
ans to finch would be cowar,liee and TO
retreat would be dishonor. For a third
,f a century cowardice and retreat nave
peen unknown in the lexicon of Repub-
icanism.. DO not mar that glorious rec
ord now! The enactment of the Bour-
Jon Dill would be an u~nspeakable calam-
.lty, filling the land with poverty and
misery, with ruin and despair. The duty
II Republicans to resist it by obstruction
I obstruction is needed is as clear and
ls imperative as was the duty of the sol
Tiers of Meade to face and roll back the
eglons of Lee and the Confederacy at
iettysburg.-New York Press.
Maj. Cpham's shoes.
The Inter Ocean warmly indorses the