Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-06-27

themselves to the awakened intelli-
gence. experience n conscience of
their countrymen I'm the following de-
claratlon of facts and principles:
For the first time since the civil war
the American people rave witnessed The
calamitous consequences of full and
unrestricted democratic control of the
government. 1t has been a record OF
unparalleled incapacity. dishopor and
disaster. In administrative manage
ment 1t has ruthlessly sacrificed indis-
pensable revenue entailed an increasing
deficit, eked out ordinary current ex-
penses with borrowed money, piled up
the public debt by s262, 0Oo. 900 In time OF
peace, forced an adverse balance OF
trade, kept a perpetual menace hanging
over the redemption fund, pawned
American credit TO allen syndicates m
reversed all the measures and results
of successful republican rule.
In the broad effect of Its policy II has
precipitated a panic. blishted indus
try and trade with long depression.
closed factories, reduced work
ana wages, crippled American
production while stimulating for
eign production for the Amer
lean market. Every consideration of
public safety and individual interest
demands that the government shall be
rescued from the hands OF those who
nave shown themselves incapable of
conducting 1t without disaster at home
and dishonor abroad. and shall be re-
stored to the party which for thirty
years administered IL with unaqualIed
success and prosperity.
And In this connection we heartily in
dorse the wisdom, the patriotism. and
the success Of the administration of
President Harrison.
TARIFF.
We renew and emphasize our alleg-
lance to the policy OF protection as the
bulwark OF American Industrial indie
pendence and the foundation of Ameri-
can development and prosperity. This
true American policy taxesuyforssgu
products and encourages home indus
try; 1t puts the burden OF revenue on
foreign goods; Ii secures the American
market for the American producers;
1t upholds h American standard Of
wages for the American workingman;
1t puts the factory by the side OF the
farm and makes the American farmer
less dependent on foreign demand and
price; 1t diffuses general thrift and
POUNDS the strength Of all on the
strength Of each. In its reasonable ap-
plication 1t is just. fair and impartial,
equally opposed to foreign and domestic
monopoly. to sectional discrimination
and individual favoritism.
We denounce the present democratic
tariff as sectional, Injurious to the pub
lie credit n destructive to business
enterprise. We demand such an eaui-
table tarif on foreign imports which
come into competition with American
products as will not only furnish ade.
quate e for the necessary expen-
SEES OF the government. but will protect
American labor from degradation to the
wage level OF that Of other lands. We
are not pledged to any particular sched-
ules. The question of rates Is a practi-
cal question to be governed by the con-
dition OF the times and OF the produce
tion. Its uncompromising principle "a the
protection and development OF American
labor and industry. The country de-
mands a right settlement and then Il
wants rest.
RECIPROCITY.
We believe that the repeal of the reel
procity arrangements negotiated by the
last republican administration was q
national calamity and we demand their
renewal and extension on such terms
as will equalize our trade with other
nations, remove the restrictions which
now obstruct the sale OF American prod
ucts In the ports Of other countries and