The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-08-28
,Repub,,can Bombast

1He Val tuhRo news WdutS tEe Demo-
Gratis to get off the earth. just listen to
this:
BIO. Tlnan. OF the Kimbail GRAPHIC,
is allowing his Democratic proclivities
to get the best of his otherwise good
judgment and is spouting considerable
over an alleged Republican literary
bureau which is sending out matter
telling of the good times which are at
hand. Br'er Than is it not better to
look on the bright side Of these questions
once i'll while and not always on tho
dark side? Ii these wicked Republicans
can see good times ahead ard it pleases
them to talk about it. why not let them,
and not get so wrathy over it2 Ittickles
us, you know, and hurts no one.
The GRAPHIC never looks on the dark
side of anything; it's no calamity howler
and never has been. It is even willing
to admit that this country never was In
a more prosperous condition. We Want
the Republicans to quit lying, that's all.
The News will acknowledge that
Hanna's literary BUREAU worked over
time for the benefit OF Republican edit
ors too lazy or too stupid to write their
own editorial paragraphs out the
statement that South Dakota pad off
S50.O00.COO Indebtedness within the past
four years. The News knows that if
this is true about S45,OOOOCO must have
been liquidated during Cleveland's ad-
ministration which these same Republic
cans claimed had brought ruination
upon tie American people. The party
to which the News belongs labored day
and night to show the farmers Of this
country that the low price Of farm pro-
ducts was due to an er-supply-to the
law of supply and demand-largely
brought about by lack of confidence in
the Democratic administration and the
Wilson bill. Who was looking on the
dark side of things then? Now the &. O. p.
organs are claiming that the rice in
food products is due to Mckinley. The
Republicans can fight the Popuists
with any kind Of stuff they please. We
are not defending Populism or any
thing connected wish it. The arguments
the Republicans are now making may
not be whit more absurd than those
used by the Populists and others of
their sort last fall. But can great Or
ganization like tho Republican partyaf-
ford such rot? The cold facts are that
neither the Mckinley administration
nor the Dingley bill has opened mar
ket Tor single pound Of produce OF the
western farmers, but instead has raised
the price of many articles that our
people will have TO buy. All the factory
hands, mechanics, artisans and ldborers
given work OF late through any operation
of the Dingley tariff or anticipated pros
perlty brought about through Republi-
can measures couldn't consume in
year the output Of one single South Da-
county. The rise in the price of wheat
is due, as everyone knows, TO the Europ-
can shortage. The appreciation in the,
value Of cattle is but a trifle-they have
been high for two years-and hogs have
passed their present price many times
within the passed fonr years. The ad-
vance of butter and eggs Is due to
greatly decreased receipts at the eastern
seab0ard compared with year ago
look at the market reports anu see.
Corn and oats always follow wheat to a
greater or less extent as supplemental
food supplies. This advance in tile price
of everything that the farmer produces
ought TO make times better. and We are
more than willing to believe that it al
ready has. But we are never going 10
let the readers Of this paper believe. hat
the Republican party is responsible for
the drOugths ard famines OF Europe ard
the bounties of nature. The only pros
perity that has come through the ascend
ency OF Rppublicanisn is confined ex-
clusiveIy to those who have secured the
opportunity of living out of the public
largess. The rest OF it, and what is
coming, Is due to Il rise in tho value OF
farm pr0duce-a perfect illustration Of
the Democratic principle Of government:
that the producers and common people
must first be prosperous or none can be.
We do not believe that either political
party is or ever has been responsible for
good times" or bad times" except in
remote degree, and when coterie Of
politicians establish literary bureaus for
the purpose Of deceiying the people to
attain their own selfish ends, the
GRAPHIC is going to spout and keep Gu
spoutine, my dear boy, and don't you for.
! get it.
The northumberland me. down editor
ials sent ont by Hanna's literary bureau
lare not confined tO this state They