The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-19
WHAT REPUBLICANIsM MEANS.
Doctrine of Protection Cannot
Yet Be Ignored.
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Philadelphia Telegraph.
One of our contemporaries of the honest
pers severely e E TO t task f fore H Vantarinr pa to
talk tarif' in the current campaign'
Tariff talk. according to our contemporary,
is driving Democratic voters into the Bry-
ante fold, and common sense ought 10
teach the Republicans to Danish the topic
from the campaign; it is entirely unneces-
sary to tinker with the tariff at this time.
ana while discussion of the matter will do
no good, it may do a deal of harm. If our
democratic friends were only right in their
premises we could accept their conclusions
with good grace, but as it unfortunately
leave to differ with them on this one point
az least. The government is going behind
at the rate of $780, 0 900 a year. The rev.
eEue is not enough to meet current OUTLAWS
and a wide deficit yawns in the treasury
accounts which no intelligent American
can contemplate without shame and dis
may.
Are we to let the deficit go on increasing
Year after year? Are the Democratic
friends content to see the government in
a chronic state of poverty, unable to nav
current charges and living from hand to
hobo fraternity? If these things are not
to be, the government must raise more
ocrats will not deny that for greater a.
come we must look to a. revenue tariff.
1t is all very well for our contemporaries
TO warn us not to talk tariff, but the Re-
pGbllcans are about to become responsible
for the administration of the government.
ana 1t Is absolutely Indispensable that thew
shouId CONSIDER the question OF increasing
the national income.
There are other things to be borne in
mind. The greater part of the campaign.
almost the whole of it, in fact, has been
devoted to a discussion of the financial
question, to the unwise exclusion of the
Chicago platform in other respects. and i'm
disregard of the fact that the Republican
party mas always maintained its hold upon
the working classes through courageous
and patriotic adherence to the principle OF
protection to home industry. Platform
workers and newspaper writer's everywhere
SnOuIQ Keep the vicious character IF tho
declarations made by the authors of Mr..
Bryan's candidacy before the public mind.
country have indicated secret work on the
part of professional labor agitators among
organizations which most unhappily have
been largely subjected to their influence.
The word has been passed around to vote
for Bryan because he is the reliable friend
of the men who toll. The purpose is to fos-
ter the un-American and destructive spirit
of classism. which is at the bottom of this
whole Populistic and Socialtistic agitation.
The Chicago candidate does not pretend
to give any substantial reasons why he is
a better friend of workingmen than Will
liam Mckinley. He would be hard pushed
on that line. He helped to make the ruin
Gus Wilson tariff. He is committed to the
continuance of that measure, two years
experience with which the country will not
forget in a generation. He believes in cheap
money, cheap labor. free silver and free
trade. and hopes to see free ruin, the level
revolutionary principles, the enforcement OF
methods which have wrought incalculable
injury in other lands. Workingmen who
are deceived into supporting such a move
ment are standing in their own. light, are
wronging themselves. and. should they sue
coed. will wrong posterity. The Republican
party stands for honest finance. protection
to honest labor. Just government. law and
order. the upholding of fundamental Amer
lean principles, and the promotion of pros
perity amongst all classes of the people. Its
position on the economic issue should be
during the remaining days of the presiden-
tial and congressional canvass.