Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-09-05
TWO YEARS OF GROVER.
What q Fergus County Man Thinks Of the
Issue Tariff Reform

EDITOR ARGUS: Julius Caesar. when
approaching Rome with his army,
and learning that the citizens and
senate had fled from it, said: They
that will not fight for such a city,
what will they fight for?''
As a nation we are at peace within
ourselves. and no likelihood of a for
eign war being forced upon us because
of our peculiar form of government.
under which we live and prosper.
Our enemy who hypnotized MS un-
der the influence of 1.-THE tariff is a
tax is a political one. who. whilst
our senses We're vet slumbering, has
entrenched himself amidst the bul-
warks of our nation, and his sappers
and miniOns are Enthusiastically de-
stroying our independent system of
government.
Our form of government, to be sure,
is under constitutional guidance, but
it is not imperishably established in
it's orbit by fixed laws Ordivine right.
Its provisions and limits being sub
ject to Interpretation by two power
full but politically opposed parties, the
party who is i'm occupancy of it's adj
illustrative facilities has not always
been guided i'm their official actions
by the peoples best interests. 1t is
evident by the senses-both of seeing
and feeling-that the present admin
istration policy is whitening our ma
tional prosperity; suspension of bust
ness and further reduction of wages
have been seen for the last two years
teetering on the bulletin board for
topmost place. as the damaging re-
suit of presidential interference and
patronage.
In view of all the public facts con-
nected with our ma ational catastroph
we are led to conclude that the per-
sonal interests of Americans are of 4,
secondary consideration, and under
existing conditions. when the ma
chinery of our government il diverted
from it's constitutional orbit ii is oui
duty tn change the workman and
administer such other aid as the exi
gcncies of the mechanism seem to re
quirc. To renew suspended activity
i'm our manufacturing Industries, and
restore our government to a prosper
ous condition. our duty consists in
the act of removing from our presence
that sickly, sectiOnalized, unskillfull!
doctored, putrid mass called the Viii
son-Gorman tariff bill, whose fetit
odor has polluted the atmosphere q
our home industry to- that degree that
it is a fatal epidemic to our industrial
pulse. Its blighting presence is tol
Grated, but under protest.
The origin of this protest as evi
denced by the result of our last tw,
fall elections, il the wide-spreadin,
shadow that is restoring cOnfidenc
i'm our business circles. 1t almost In
sures an incoming Republican admin
istration. whose Thesis, anti-Thesis
and also syn-Thesis are so wei
known.
The authors and whipped-in sup
porters of the distressing and depress
ing conditions which ruled the cOun
try under the threat of tariff reform
and who are seeking to escape out @
a false and traitOr-like view. unde
the subterfuge, revival of business
should not be entirely debarred fror
all the privileges OF an American cit
zen. They should not he held alto
gether responsible for our collapse i
business affairs. In their zeal to serv
the master first. the result OF thei
secondary efforts. the welfare of tn
people is downward, and they Gel
tainly were not sincere i'm their ter
dencies, where the result sd obviousl
places them high on the list of imb'
Giles.
Their purpose evidently was on til
instant to do something, and tina
something which revOlves itself int
incompetency Is the dry wind while
has sapped the root and caused til
decay of our blooming prosperity.
Our present protective policy und,
D it's sectionalized features has prove
itself destructive to our manufactu
ing industries; has entailed distrel
and misery on the people who are d
pendent for a living on the output