The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-09-08
A SHAM BATTLE.
Senator Stewart On the Taxi1 and
and Silver oueetiona

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tor Stewart to the Nevada STATE
Journal gives an account of thu
sham battle that is being wagec
over the tariff bill:
TO THE. EDITOR OF THE STATE
JOURNAL: l observe in the dis
patches resolution Of the Nevads
attachment of the eastern gold par.
ty, styling itself a Republican con.
vention, denouncing my course in
not aiding the Cleveland Republi
can combination to defeat the tariff
bill. The gold men care nothing
for the tariff as an economic meas.
ure, but have used it and desire to
use it a. m issue to suppress the
silver question.
As long as tho two old parties
continue the sham battle over the
tariff, the gold standard will be
maintained. Nevada is not . man.
ufacturing state and has no special
interest in the tariff other than such
as pertains to the interior of the
great West. I did secure q tariff
on borax, which is q Nevada inter-
est, and aided to secure q small
tariff on lead in which Nevada is
also interested. This I could not
have done had I aided Mr.. Cleve-
land in defeating the Senate bill. l
labored hard to secure q tariff on
wool, but could not effect it.
The question then presented vas,
a tariff fight throughout the United
States to the exclusion of the silver
question, or the passage of the Sem
ate bill. If no tariff bill had been
passed the excitement in the coun-
try over that question would have
attracted the attention of the peo-
pie, and silver would have been
lost sight OF. The tariff has been
an issue for more than q hundred
years, and if Nevada must wait
until the tariff is finally settled be-
fore the silver issue can be consid.
cred, the silver fight is ended.
THE TARIFF WILL AFFORD NO RELIEF.
The Democratic party have now
passed the Tariff bill, and they will
soon learn that no relief will come,
and it is hoped they will also learn
that their Affections are due to the
demonstration of silver. The east
ern Republicans aud the Cleveland
democracy justly regard the tariff
issue as the most important weapon
against silver, and their policy was
the defeat of the Senate bill, to be |
followed by a hot canvass over the !
tariff. They have failed, and the
great mass of voters who have been
taught to look to the tariff for relief
will find that no change in the tariff
laws can save the United States and
Europe from the inevitable con.
traction in falling prices.
NEVADA REPUBLICANS AND THE SILL |
YER QUESTION.
The fact that the so-called Re-
publican convention of Nevada
gave such prominence to the tariff
question is conclusive proof, if
proof were necessary, that they de-
ire to bury the silver issue which
hey pretend to favor. Nevada,
california and Idaho, 80 far as
leard from, are the only Republic
an conventions which have de-
Jared for the free coinage of silver
Without words of duplicity or equiv
cation. Nevada, while doing so,
the silver cause by MAX
ng the tariff the paramount issue.
he candidate for Governor on the
republican ticket in California in
lis published speeches, relegates
he silver question to tho rear, and
lolds up the tariff as the panacea
or all the ills we suffer. Idaho slso
Dads down silver with a high pro-
ective tariff plank.
The Omaha platform two years
60 declared that "they (the Demo-
republican party) proposes to
rown the outcries of q plundered
eople with the uproar of q sham
attic over the tariff"
The business world, including tho
slegraph, the commercial press,
nd the railroads are hypothecated
, the bankrupt trust of Europe
nd the United States. Gold mo-
opoly determines the policy and
ontrols the operation of all other
'onopolies. The free and unlim.
ed coinage of silver at the ratio
Is 20 / in tho United States
ould break the corner on money I
i'd return the control of business {
i'd enterprise to the people.
ONE ISSUE AT A TINE. (
Only one great issue can be set
ed 1t . time. The multiplication
Issues is a division of strength. {
be united power of the people is q
quired to meet aud overthrow {
Q combined forces of the money q
,wer. The financial question was b
e only issue in Nevada two years .
%. On that issue four-ffths Of Z
Q people are united. My course
the Senate was guided BY the '
le purpose of removing the tariff d
rue and bringing to the front the J
yer issue. The tariff question 10 Il
tiled, so far as the Democratic .