The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-08-31
Word 70 the Farmer.

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Democracy and exalt Republication
We say compelled for the reason that
the managers Of the Republican par
ty have been sending out from time
to time any quantity of literature
free to the farmers They have vir.
tually flooded the country districts
with tracts, pamphlets and wspa.
pers containing abuse of Democratic
principles and proclaiming that DO.
litical virtue was only found in the
Republican party. The winter has
been chosen as the special time fol-
the distribution of such stuff because
the literary purveyors well knew that
the cold season afforded more op.
portunities than any other to the
farmer for reading.
Hitherto this free literature has
abounded in discussions of the tariff
laws, presenting false arguments to
make the farmer believe that his on
ly salvation, so far as earning a liv-
ing for himself and family vas con
cerned, lay in his advocacy of the
high tariff doctrines of the Republi-
can party. The arguments were SO
finely spun that no doubt in many
instances converts have been made.
1t was against the Democracy for a
long time that general prosperity
was delayed, and this fact was seized
upon by the high tariff shriekers as
evidence enough to prove that the
country, under Democratic sway,
was rapidly going to the bad. But
the Democratic leaders were willing
enough to wait Notwithstanding
the disadvantages that faced them
prior TO the overthrow of the McKin
ley tariff laws, they steadily contin-
ued the fight for tariff reform and
finally won to the grief of the calam
ity howlers, who knew, as well as the
Democratic statesmen who we're
working in the interests of tariff re-
form, that the only suffering that
would follow would be entailed upon
the gigantic trusts that had been
fostered and protected by the Repub-
lican party 1t was the money of
these same trusts that enriched the
Golfers of the Republican managers
and enabled them to send out tons
of false literature to the farmers of
the land in the hope Of bringing
them into line for the Republicans.
To day, however, the country pre-.
sents a splendid object lesson of
Democratic righteousness. The far
mer is invited to read the good news
that comes pouring in from every
quarter of the land concerning the
wonderful revival of industries, the
advance of wages, and the multiply.
ing evidences of better times. Under
the operation of the Wilson tariff
laws, idle mills at once started up.
furnace fires were kindled in all di
rections, the fruits of the farm came
into demand and prosperity smiled
upon hitherto darkened places. This
is no campaign buncombe talk. The
proof of the pudding lies in its taste,
and the proof that wave of better
times for the farmer and everybody
else, is revealed in the reviving in
dustrial conditions that mark the
opening effects of Democratic at.
tempts to show the people that the
Republican doctrines benefited only
few, and these few were the rich
syndicates of the country, to the dis
aster of the many, and that these
many were the industrious farmers,
mechanics and workingmen of the
nation.
Depend upon it, that in the light
of what is taking place the farmer
will find his stock of free Republican
literature next winter materially re-
duced. The Republican managers
can have nothing to say concerning
Demo Jratic tariff laws. They can
no longer indulge in dismal prophe-
cies nor howl about the direful con
sequences to business generally, and
especially to the agricultural and
industrial interests, since the most
ignorant man perceives that some
thing is happening to cheer the work
ers of the land, and as this some
thing is dawning under Democratic
Influences. the attempts to make him
believe that Democratic policies are
ruinous will not avail. The farmer
in the country, like his brother, the
mechanic, the miner, the mill worker
and the laborer in town, will not be
deceived. The Democrats have
brought us goods times, they say,
and we will stand by the party that
has proved to be our true friend
Union Leader.