Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-06-07

Of GrOver Cleveland. Statistics show
ing the ces alton of production, the
depreciation Of values, and the reduc-
tion Of wages are not needed to impress
the situation upon the people. Expert
ence has driven the les on home in ev-
cry community ana every hou. ehold.
From the new conmonwealths that
look out upon the Pacific to the long
established Eastern States whose soil
was tro1den by the feet OF the Pill
grims two centuries and . half ago,
from the border line of Canada to the
sheep ranches OF Texas, the depres-
sion of every fern of business, the
stagnation OF every kind Of industry,
and tho gradual confiscation of the
property of American citizens have
been the familiar features of national
life.
With incalculable resources which
are only beginning to be unlocked;
with seventy millions of the most en-
lightened, Industrious and progressive
people on earth; with the most com.
prehensive and perfect equipment for
manufacturing in existence, the Unit
ed Stases has steadily grown poorer
for the past fourteen months. The
achievement OF the American people
in providing for the enormus expendi-
ture required for the suppression Of
the rebellion has excited the wonder
OF foreign statesmen and aroused the
admiration of foreign economists. Yet
the pecuniary less OF the last few
months Is greater than the three thou
sand millions OF the national debt
which was piled upon the shoulders OF
the nation by the most gigantic civil
war on record. The mighty contest
which convu.sed the country for four
years was less expensive in dollars and
cents than the misrn'e of Grover
Cleveland and the Democratic party
for year and quarter.
will forget these things. They have
deeply to be effaced. But it is ESSEN
t'al that their full import should be
constantly borne In mind by Northern
Senators at Washington. The people
OF the North have gone to the polls
and demanded by Overwhelming ma
joriti6s that protection should be up-
held and prosperity restored. They
have demanded that the Mckinley law
shall be maintained. They have de-
clared with ominous emphasis that no
Northern Senator who fails to oppose
the Democratic scheme OF treason and
spoliatiOn can look for honor or prefer.
ment at their hands, Never in the an
nails of this republic has the will of
the nation been more unmist ,kably ex.
pressed at the ba lot-bOx Never have
the commands of the voters been m ), g
explicit or more imperative. Never
has the path Of honor, OF duty and of
patriotism been male more plain for
the elected repre- en- 'atives OF the
American people.
The tariff bill now te!ore the Senate
would be ridiculous II it wore not de-
testab.e and contemplate II 1t were
not dangerous. Tho very men who
support 1t under the parry lash despise
1t. The leading Democratic newspa
pers OF the country brand 1t as the
product Of corruption and trec cherry.
An Opcn free trade bill would at lea I
he Ineligible. A bill putting ell raw
materials on the free list would 1t least
be consistent. Both would bo PERM.
cious and destructive. Both would de-
serve and receive solid Republican op-
position. But the nOndescript conn
pound OF barter and sectional revenge
the fourth or fifth Ia the succession
OF tariff bills brought forward By the
Democratic managers In the last six
months has not even the merit Of
consistency. IL bears the same rela-
tion 10 an avow,d fres trade measure
which the sneaktng guerrillae who
fought from ambush and whose sole
object was plunder, bore to the Con-
federate ormies who faced the soldiers
Of the North In the open hold. The
guerrilloD roCetved no quarter The