Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-11-05

drum and the tread OF marching SOL
diers when mothers were weeping over
sleeping sons slain in the defense Of
their country; when wives were watch
ing and waiting for the return OF hus-
bands who came not; when old men
with fearful eyes told Of the valor of
soldier boys who fought under the old
flag on foreign lands and on foreign
seas; when sorrow and gloom was ev-
e~rywhere, then the clouds cleared
away, the sun OF peace showed his
smiling face again, and a new era of
uhexampled progress and prosperity
was ushered in, and in the door or the
Twentieth century, with calm and God
like face, stood the republican, William
Mckinley.
MAGIC WAND OF REPUBLICANIsM.
That ls the truest American policy
which shall most usefully employ
American capital and American labor,
and best sustain the whole population.
1t is a fundamental axiom thai the
great interests of the country a:e unit
ell and inseperable; that agriculture,
commerce and manufactures will pros
per together or languish together; n
that all legislation is dangerous which
to benefit one Of these with
out looking to consequences which may
fall on the others.
The republican party has always rec
ognized the dignity Of labor and the
nobility of toll. 1t has always refused
to recognize the existence of classes
Ia this country. That party believes
that society must not be fixed In stra-
tas like the crust OF the earth, for in
stance, which lies in layers OF rock, OF
clay and of coal, and Of mineral-such
as it is In foreign lands, where aris-
tocracies, tyranny and oppression pre-
vail. No, No! But society must be
rather like the ocean, SO wide, so long,
SO deep and SO free In all its parts that
every grain of sand that mingles with
waters at the bottom may rise through
all the waters until it CLEANS like a
crystal on the crest Of the highest
wave.
SO that the son OF the poorest man
MAJ rise If he so desires from the log
cabin home up to the Hottest position
OF honor In the gift of a mighty nation.
So il was with most Of the greatest
leaders OF the republican party. Lin
coin, the rail splitter, Garfield the can
al boy, and Grant, the tanner, all trod
the weary pathway from humble
homes to the White house in Washing
ton, and died leaving their names en-
graved on Americas wondrous scroll
Of fame, so bright and radiant that
time a never dim their splendid lus-
tire.
We should Sc that the top rules In
America-not the bottom. 1t Is 10 De
a government of the best; but the best
that Is in every man, not one best class
set over another lower class OF society,
That Is the problem that lies before us
not to develop an a~ristocracy or
wealth, or intelligence or virtue, II by
that we mean intelligence or virtue In
q limited number, but an a~ristocracy OF
and of intelligence in all the
PEOPLE Of this great country from the
east to the west and from the north
to hes outh, men ruled by conscience
and by faith and by love. All this IS
exemplifed in the profound common
sense, the earnest simplicity and unaf-
fected Americanism and sweet human
ity Of our noble presendent, william
He Is a typical American
the kind Of ap roduct to expect
our free institutions. He Is also a
republican, and he Is giving to
his country an administration that all
good citizens regardless of party atdl-
should be proud OF.
A GLORIOUS CITIZENSHIP.
During the four years of the admin
istration of his predecessor the revenue
Of the government had ben tnsutflcint
To meet the expenses OF the govern
uent by nearly $l56, 000, 900. This. OF
course was occasioned by the Wilson
bill, which was un-American and inlm-
ical to the prosperity Of American In
tustries and American workingmen.
In as hort time after President Nc
.inley's Inauguration, he together with
friends Of his administration IN
set about to secure the pas
age of a tariff law which would be In
The interest OF American industries
and American farmers and American
laborers-a tariff law in the Interest
~ America and Of home. During the
discussion of this measure In
500, 600, 900 worth Of mer-