The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-05-09
DEnocRArs SHOULD KEEP THEIR NERVE

oEiiOSkAlS S1OULD KEEP ] HEIR NERVE.
The people of the United States repu-
dated by IN overwhelming majority the
Mckinley robber tariff in 1892. They
will not endorse it in 1896.
Even if the so-called Wilson bill, ow-
Ing to the treachery Of some Democrats
in congress, did not come up to popular
expectations the American people are
not ready or willing to go back to Nc
Kinleyism, which, while it raised the
tariff schedules to almost the prohibilive
point, reduced tn. revenue to such an
extent that it caused the gold reserve in
the treasury to almost disappear before
the present administrator came into
power.
The hard times throug h which we
have been passing, and from which we
are now suffering. are directly traceable
to pernicious Republican legislation.
The Democratic platform OF 1892,
which denounced the whole system Of
Republican protection as sham and II
fraud and unconstitutional, was right
and the result of the election proved that
the people were with the Democracy. If
1t had not been for the treason OF certain
so-calIed Democratic senator's, who were
interested in protected trusts, the system
would have been wiped out. the party
would have been true to its trust and
the country would now have been in a
prosperous condition.
This government was never designed
by its founders to build up and enrich
certain interests at the expense of all
others. A tariff levied with the sole
view Of raising sufficient revenue to pay
expenses Of the government, economi-
cally administered, will afford all the
incidental protection that any American
industry needs. But it will not nurse
ami foster any one of them.
What moves Mark Hanna and his fel-
low millionaires to pay out hundreds of
thousands of dollars to secure the nomi-
nation Of William Mckinley, the high
| priest of prohibitive tariff?
Is it love for the farmers of the coun-
try? Is 1t desire to pay higher wages
to labor? Is it regard for the toiling
masses Of America? Not bit Of it.
1t is to put the old Mckinley schedule
on iron. Then the prices can be ad-
yanced, one, two or three dollars per ton
putting many millions of dollars into
the pockets Of these barons and taking
it out OF the pockets of the people.
| This year will prove that the Ameri.
can people desire just revenue laws and
sound money, or it will prove that they
have not fully awakened to the true in.
wardness of the Republican policy Of
protection.
The most important and pressing
question now before the people is the
! financial issue. Whatever the Republi
can party may do, the Democracy, if il
wishes to live as a party, must declar,
for the single gold standard.
1t must give forth no uncertain sound
1t must be led away by noalluring prom
ises nor frightened by the threats o
cranks or demagogues. There can b.
no such thing as a bimetaliic OF doubl
standard. 1t must be either silver o
gold.
The Democracy must take its stand TO
honest moneY-the money Of the grea
commercial nations Of the world.
Let the Republican party go off wit
Mexico and China if it chooses.
The Democracy can better afford to b
beaten on sound money platform thai
to win by deception and fraud.