The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-09-29

again rendered, though not in so ag-
gressive and pronounced form as in the
After n full discussion. the verdict of
majority of the American people was
with the Republican party on these is
sues. Time and subsequent events have
but served 10 emphasize. make plain, and
verify all that we contended for in the
last campaign. First of all. the election
OF Mckinley restored confidence to the
American people. Money, which had re-
manned in hiding, came forth in album
dance, seeking investment and employ
ment. Mills. factories and shops. which
had been in a state of suspense for
months. We're opened and set in motion.
Men who had been idle for months. had
exhausted their savings, and had even
lived on the charity OF their friends.
came forth happy and smiling because
they found work to do. The nightmare
OF Clevelandism and the cyclone Of Bry-
anism were weathered and passed. The
nation breathed easier. even Democrats
We're happy to learn that they had not
fooled us with free silver i'm 1896, as they
had with tariff reform i'm 1892. What a
vas: difference between 1892 and 1896.
CleVeland's election i'm 1892 seemed to
give the nation a chill and paralysis from
the very start, while the news of McKin-
leys election seemed to tranquiliZe and
vivify the people at once. Even before
Mckinley was inaugurated there was a
marked improvement i'm all directions.
His policy and character. and the policy
and character of the Republican party
were known. and the nation knew what
TO expect from both. No sooner had he
entered the great office than he called
congress together to revise the tariff so
as to aid our languishing industries and
furnish ample revenues for the govern
ment. Congress met in March. and at
once entered upon the work of tariff
revision. but owing to the dilatory tao
tics of the Democrats especially i'm the
senate, the Dingley bill did not become
a law till July "a, 1897: and by thus delay
ing the passage of the bill they enabled
the importers TO stock up so heavily in
many lines of imports that the Dingley
law did not at first, produce quite as
much revenue as was expected But on
the eve of our troubles with Spain, and
before we had incurred any
Outlay for War Purposes.
it was evident that the Dingley law would
under normal conditions, and without
war, give us ample revenues for the cur
rent expenses of the government. with
moderate surplus. That McKinleys adj
minstration and the Dingley tariff law
have breathed new life into the anguish
ing industries of the country and brought
back our old-time industrial life and
vigor, is apparent in many directions.
Not only has this great trade balance
given us an abundant supply of gold in
the treasury. but it has also largely re-
duced our credit balance abroad. Millions
OF dollars of American securities held
abroad have been returned to this coun-
try i'm liquidation of the trade balance
thus largely reducing the interest and
dividend drain made upon us annually.
All of these facts furnish palpable evil
dcnce 10 our free silver brethren that
there Is an abundance of money within
our reach. easily acquired under favor
able and proper industrial and trade con-
ditions. nursed and protected by favorable
tariff legislation, and that IL does not re-
quire the free coinage of silver and the
destruction of the parity of our money 10
obtain an abundance of sound currency.
Since 1896 there has been on all industrial
and productive lines a large increase in
prices. Agricultural products and the
products of our mills, factories and shops
have in most instances, been much high
err and so have wages. This ought TO con-
vince out FIRE silver friends that the low
prices of 1893. 1894, 1895 and 1896 were
not the offspring and result of the quality
or quantity of our money, Tor we have
had the same kind of money and the same
system of currency in 1897 and 1898 as in
those years If the lack of free coinage
Produced Low Prices
in those years ii ought, by the logic of
free silver. TO have produced the like re-
point you to clear and tangible facts
the experience OF 1897 and 1S9S-in full
proof of what We argued to you in 1S9j.
There is no school so reliable and instruc-
tive as the school Of experience.
If We turn to another and perhaps the
most eventful. chapter of our national
life. during this administration, the con-
trast between Cleveland and Mckinley
is still more pronounced than in these
other issues to which | have called your
attention. Cleveland was ready to hurl
us into a war with England over dis
puted boundary in Venezuela. but he
shrugged his shoulders and turned a deaf
ear. except through formal diplomacy. to
the poor oppressed and struggling Gu
bans living near our very doors. and
suffering under tyranny more cruel and
relentless than any 20 be found else
where in the nineteenth century.
The savage barbarisrn of Spanish war
fare made little impression and evoked
only formal diplomatic protest. The tears
and the SufferingS of women and chill
dren. driven in and penned up to die Of
starvation moved him not, except in the
most perfunctory and formal manner. His
eyes were still upon Wall street as In
the days Of the bond issues for Wall
street wanted no war with SPAN. NOT
SO with our own brave, sympathetic and
warm-hcarted Mckinley. Long before the
exnlosiop of the Maine and long before
the De Lone incident, he forced Spain
to recall the brutal Weyler, to try the
experiment of a modified and more liberal
home rule and to carry on the war with
less barbarism and more in accord with
the methods OF modern civilized warfare.
His great heart went out 10 the poor
reconCcntrados. not merely sentimentally.
but in n practical and effective way. He
STAYED the hand of Spain and took steps
To relieve their want and suffering. He
was true and unfaltering successor %.
the noble Lincoln. who never ceased to
he mindful of the downtrodden and oO-
pressed slave He not only forced Spain
TO pursue milder and more humane meth