The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-03-26
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Wctiisesday night. We know that they
we're his '.bcst things" because his per.
sonaI organ says so, which is equiva
sent 10 saying that he says so himself
One of the "best things" was this:
~The whole world knew year i al
vance OF its ntterance what the repub-
iicaD platform OF 1860 would be and the
whole world knows now, and has known
for year past, what the republican
platform of 1896 will be. Then the bat
tie was to arrest the spread of slave
labor in America; now it Ia 10 preveni
the inerease of lily paid and degraded
free labor in America"
This serves to call attention to the
l1isssference between the republican party
OF 1860 and the republican party of 1866
IA difference which William Mckinley
seems TO be quite incapable OF perceiv-
ing. In 1860 the republican party stood
for freedom; in 1896 it is opposed to free
dom, and its leaders and heroes do not
hesitate TO say so. In 1896 the repub-
lican party is substantially what the
wing party was before it gave III the
ghost in 1852,
Until after its defeat that YEN. he
wing party was the party ofhightariff.
Its leading doctrine that prosperit.r
was created by taxation ard by enrich-
ing the people engaged ia certain III.
dnstries out of the earnings Of people
engaged in other industries The DEM
ocratic tariff OF 1916 had exposed the
falsity of that doctrine and ii 1852 the
people refused 10 be humbugged by it
any longer and gave the Nhig patty It's
quietus.
In it's place arose The republican,
party. syhich protested to be the party
of freedom. and did not profess to be.
the party "a the tarif made of slavery.
some of rs representatives n con- ress
in 1867 reported as members 81 d hopse
committee in favor 81 abolishin5 the,
whole tariff systenl and raising reyenue
by direct taxation. Il /.
This party has cetsed to be the party.
Of freedom. Itis the party 81 slavery.
What IS f,Nery2 It Is Involuntary
servit;yx. That Il what protective
tari, Naets from the mass 81 tie peo-
pl~ What IS &a slave i IS one who /
tolls Syhiie another enjoys the fruit OF
Ills toll ne who IS forced Is Jay Oh
Sc his earnings SO or@ 100 per cent. more
for an article than its value as tlete1s
mined by free competition is as truly
! slave as ever was u gro I'LL q Georgia
.otton field. lie is rendering inyoluL-
.ury service 10 tie man who Isl enabled
81 lazy To exact from him for the cloth
ng ne wears from 30 10 100 per cent.
more thanitis worth. Tie fact may III |
from linn 81 tile deyiiish IN
yenuity Of his master, but &c Is none the
ess 4 fact. 7.
Another of McKinley'a .'best things.
vas this: The republican party would
6 soon think Of lowering the flag 81
,ur country as to contemplate With
and without protest and op-I
POSITION any attempt % degrade 81
orrupt the medium of exchanges
mong thepeople. Itcan be relfeluponl
n the future, As ID the past. 70 supply
he country with the bes money. & YER.
:nown, gold, silver and paper, good the
World over" y. ..S
I'm the future as IN the pastnis par
icHiarly good. 4t serves 10 recall the
act that the republican party sup +
lied the country with greenbacbs in
SOP and the years following q GUS
encv which drove out every dollar All
pecie and became SO ''degradedt and /
corrupted at one time that it WAS
.orth less than 40 cents ON the dot
AZ. Ana this same currency corrupted F
lie thinking Of the country; even that i
fthc supreme court OF the United States
ave MS an epidemic of fiat lunacy IN
lace Of sound money sanity.
1t serves also to recall the fact that
. 1875 the republican party forged the
endless chain which for three years
as been lifting gold out OF the treas
Iy--forged il by enacting that re
eemed greenbacks should not stay
edeemed and by enacting in another
tatute that Uncle Sam should help out
be poor bonanza kings by buying and
dining their silver 1t reminds us that
be republicans of the Mckinley con
ress went still further at the dicta
on OF the rnining-eamp despots and
assed law which, by the admission
their own leaders, brought on the
anic OF 1898 just as their greenback
olicy brought on the panic OF 1873.
So McKinley's very best things serve
impress upon us the fact that The
publican party IS no longer tho party
freedom, whatever IL may have been
the past, and that its policy with re-
'ect To the currency has always been
lwisc save only when IL made pro- /