The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-07-16

ISSUES QOWD 10 tue pSoPfN'
are u nobility: they are our sovereign
and their will is the supreme law'
Lincoln's advice to the people was
Keep close to the people;
What say they now From east ahu
west, from north and south, they CRY
aloud, "Give us back the gooa oiu
times of 1912, give us work al liVins
wages, give us fair prices Tor our pro
ducts, whether from the farm, the fac-
tory. or the mine. Give us Legislation
that will lead to prosperity q not 10
adversely; give us a party that has some
fixed principles. some harmony among
it's leaders and some knowledge now 10
transact business: give US protection
for American Industries, American IL,
t~erests, American pocket-books ana
American homes, and give us Tor a can,
didate this fall the great apostle ana
leader of such protection, William NC
Kinley."
That was the peoples call. 1t came
from the toiling masses and the
masses asking a place, to toll,
from the men who carried TIN
pals and voted the Republican ticket
four years ago. and the men who car
ried tin pals and voted the Democratic
ticket but are sorry for it. 1t came
from the thousands who do not ask or
care for office, but who want good gov
eminent. 1t came from the plain peo-
pie to whose voice conventions must
listen and bosses take heed II they ex-
pect TO elect their tickets. 1t OVERRIDE
the local sentiment for favorite sons,
and defied the attempted dictation OF
money kings, and importers, and metro
politan newspapers.
ut came rs the winds come when forests
1t came AS the wave come when navies
are stranded.
1t was the voice of the peOple-the
supreme law: and the great convention
at st. Louis-where but two weeks be
fore, tall buildings had crumbled IN the
breath of the storm, bowed meekly
before the great storm of public clamor
and named as its candidate, the nominee
of the people, the chosen OF the masses,
the apostle Of protection, the soldier
statesman, William Mckinley.
And in that splendid platform on
which they invited him to stand they
declared, "We renew and emphasize our
allegiance to the policy of protection as
the bulwark of American industrial in
dependence and the foundation OF
American development and prosperity.
This true American policy taxes foreign
products and encourages home industry:
it puts the burden of revenue on foreign
goods: il secures the American market
for the American producer; it upholds
the American standard Of wages for the
American working man; 1t puts the fac
tory by the side of the farm and makes
the American farmer less dependent on
foreign demand and price: it diffuses
general thrift and Pounds the strength
of all on the strength of each"
They declared further: "Pro-
lection and reciprocity are twin meas
ures of Republican policy and go hand
in hand. Democratic rule has recklessly
struck down botn and both must
II re-established protection for what
we produce; free admission for the nee
essaries of life which we do not produce;
reciprocal agreements of mutual interest
which gain open markets for US in
return for our open market to others.
Protection builds up domestic industry
and trade and secures our own market
foro urselves: reciprocity builds up for
eign trade and finds an outlet for our
surplus"
Nor have we shirked or shown want
OF courage in meeting other issues.
Instead of a shutting foreign policy we
have spoken for a bold one that shall
make our influence felt among the
nations OF the earth and give hope TO the
feeble o struggling under the Oppres-
slons n insults of the strong. We
have declared for a stronger navy that
may carry our flag to every sea and pro.
tect our citizens on every shore. We
mean, so far as in power, to see that
England shall not bully Venezuela, that
Turkey shall cease her slaughter of
Armenians, that the Sandwich Islands
may hoist the American flag if they
want to, that Spain shall take her
bloody hands from Cuba, and that nc
Nicaragua canal, connecting the waters
OF the two
On the financial question, too-which
the Populists and a faction of Demo,
Gratis insist is the paramount issue-the
Republican party has adopted a plain,
straightforward, unambiguous declara.
ton: The Republican party is unre,
servedly for sound money. 1t caused
the enactment of the law providing for
the resumption Of specie payments in
1879; since then every dollar has been as
good as gold. We are unalterably
opposed to every measure calculated to
debase our currency or impair the credit
OF our country. We are, therefore.
opposed to the free coinage Of silver
except by international agreement with
the leading commercial nations of the
world, which we pledge ourselves to pro,
mote, and until such agreement can be
obtained the existing gold standard
must be preserved. All our silver and
paper currency must be maintained al
parity with gold, and we favor ali meas,
ures designed to maintain inviolably the
obligations Of the United States and all