The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-02-13

The fight will go ON, and must 70 on,
until the Amealcan system il every
where recognized, until all nations
come to understand and respect it as
distinctly, and all Americans come to
honor or love it as dearly, ~ they do
the American flag. God grant the day
may soon come when all partisan con-
tention over 1t Is forever ut An end!
Not Merely . Matter Of R.ts..
1t may be asked what the next Re.
publican tariff law will provide. can
not tell YOU can not tell you what
:he rates will be. but they will measure
The difference between American and
European conditions, and will be fully
adequate to protect ourselves from tho
invasion of our markets by Oriental
products to the injury of American
labor, and will in no case be too low to
protect and exalt American labor, and
promote and increase American pro-
drction.
can not better answer this grave
question than by an illustration of Mr..
IGucoln's. Some one asked him, How
long mans legs ought to be-" He
said: THAT is very serious ques.
ton; and I have given much thought
to it great many times.
Some should be longer and some short
er; but want to tell you that a mans
legs ought always to be long enough to
reach from his body to the ground" "
And so / tell you, my inquiring free
trade friend, that the legs of the next
Republican tariff law will be long
enough to firmly support the American
body polite; sustain its public treasury
lift up our national credit and uphold
the dignity and independence Of Amer
lean labor, and the enterprises and oc.
cupatlons of the American people.
What the Party stands For.
No one need be in any doubt about
what the Republican party stands for
Its own history makes that too palpa.
BILE and clear to admit of doubt. II
stands for a reunited and recreated
nation, based upon free and honest
elections in every township, county,
city, district and state in this great
American Union. 1t stands for the
American flreside and the flag of the
nation. It stands for the American
farm, the American factory and the
prosperity of all the American people
1t stands for reciprocity that recipro.
Gates and which does not yield up te
another country a single days labor
that belongs to the American working
man. 1t stands for international agree,
ments which get as much as they give,
upon terms of mutual advantage. Il
stands for an exchange of our surplus
home products for such foreign
products as we consume but do not
produce. 1t stands for the reci
procity Of Blaine; for the reciprocity
of Harrison for the restoration and ex.
tension of the principle embodied in
the reciprocity provision of the Repub
hcan tariff of 1890. 1t stands for q for.
eign policy dictated by and iIubued
with a spirit that is genuinely Ameri
can; for q policy that will revive the
national traditions, and restore the ma.
tional spirit which carried us proudly
through the earlier years Of the cen
tury. 1t stands for such policy with
all foreign nations as will insure both
to US and them justice, impartialty
fairness, good faith, dignity and honor
1t stands for the Monroe doctrine a.
Monroe himself proclaimed it, about
which there is no division whatever
among the American people. Il
stands now, as ever, for honest money
and chance to earn it by honest toll
1t can be relied upon in the future, a.
in the past, to supply the country witt
the best money ever known. gold, s.l
yer and paper, good the world over. L
stands for a commercial policy that will
whiten every sea with the sails O.
American vessels, flying the American
flag, and that will protect that tiat
| wherever it floats. 1t stands for sys
tenn which will give to the Unitet
States the balance of trade with every
competing nation in the world. 1t i
for fiscal policy opposed to debts ant
deficiencies in time of peace, and favor
the return of the government to a debt
paying. and opposes the continuance O
q making. policy.