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

tnelr votes Tor the candidate OF That
perty which believes that American
should be as good as any money the
world over.
/ take it that the republican war rev.
eDue law needs no v~indication. War
L. expensive and demands special tax
alton. In providing funds to meet war
expenses the republican house kept
fundamental principles in view. TAX
ing heed from thel essons of all his
tory, loans a we'll as taxation were
provided for. Direct taxes were SO
levied as to be most easily and surely
collected, and SO as to bear with the
possible burden upon those called upon
t. pay. OF the wisdom of that law /
have heard no question out side Of
democratic politicians, nor have 1
heard anywhere any complaint. Its
burdens are not heavy and they are
being carried with contentment by a
patriotic people.
From the record of opposition made
by the democratic members in the last
session of congress all thinking men
must realize thei Importance of electing
men to congress who will sustain the
president in his noble efforts to give
the people of the country a prosperous,
economic and progressive administra-
ton.
THE WISDOM OF MCKINLEY.
President Mckinley has proven him
self to be the right man in the right
place. When many people werec lam
oring for val he seemed slow to act for
he, more than any other man, knew
that we were not prepared for war.
Just think of it; we had only about
twenty-seven thousand soldiers all
told and these were poorly equipped.
We did not have sufficient ammunition
nor did we have modern guns: IL coast
d~efenses were weak; our navy small
and many vessels not fit for use. But
when 1t was time to act President Nc
kinley acted and behold the wonderful
result in the bief space of ont hundred
and thirteen days an army of a quarter
OF a million men was organized and
equipped with the latest improved
guns; furnished with plenty of anu
nition and carefully drilled, so that the
american boys who went from behind
store counters, from mills and shops,
from banks and from farms, soon be-
came splendid soldiers and stood the
aeary marches, and the fierce Skin
mishes as we'll as bloody battles like
veterans and he'd their own with the
trained regulars amide the bullets OF
lie enemy.
The record made by our country in
this brief space Of time is unexcelled in
the history Of warfare and while we
have taken many thousand prisoners
and slain thousands of the enemy, yet
our total oss was but a few hundred
and zone Of our men were taken pris-
oDers. And again, though attacking ar
enemy in their own harbors undertake
with mines and under the shadow and
protection of their own forts, yet our
navy destroyed more than twenty wal
vtssels--in fact almost the entire nav
ot the enemy-and all this too, without
serious damage to any of our vessels
and without the loss Of a half a dozen
men. Surely we should be thankful.
that 1t is all over and peace again has
come to our land.
am certain that the record made by
cur noble president in this war with
Spain will grow brighter as the years
pass by, and future generations will
know that to President Mckinley
more than to any other, the honor Is
due.
He has especially endeared himself
TO the American people because he
has totally ignored politics in his con
duct Of the war. His prompt appoint
ment Of the distinguished democrats
who had ben soldiers in the southern
army during the civil war as officers
in this war, proved that hei Intended tt
wipe out sectional lines in this country
surely the gallant Generals Wheeler
md Lee can bear testimony to thu
presidents loyalty and desire to rise
above party to the sublimer heights o
American patriotism and to bind thu
once divided sections of his beloved
country closer together In the strong
bonds of unity and friendship.
Washington broke the chains tina
bound the chivalrous colonists to TIT
throne of tyranny, Lincoln struck tn,
chains from the limbs of four million
slaves, and Mckinley lifted the yoke O
slavery from asuffering race Of human
beings, and at the same time ushere,
cur young republic like a young gian
into the council chambers of tn