The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
The Issues Outlined.

Louis last week was an event
fraught with gr eat importance and
resulted in pretty we'll defining the
lines on which the mighty political
conflict of next year will be waged.
That every word and syllable of
the Chicago platform of 1896 will
be re-ahirmed is now a foregone
conclusion, and enough will be
added to the national platform of
next year to bring it strictly up to
date in dealing with problems
which have forced themselves to
the front for consideration since
the last national campaign. The
silver question may or may not be
the paramount issue next year, but
j. will be in the national platform
just the same and a victory for the
allied reform forces will be none
the less a silver victory than it
would have been had the followers
of Bryan won in 1896. The same
forces which supported it in 1896
will rally to its support again in
1900.
The democratic attitude on the
trust problem is graphically stated
by Congressman Champ Clark of
Missouri in the following words:
owe will put into our platform
as strong an antitrust plank as
the American language can make
the American language, mark
you, not the English!-whlch will
restore to every citizen of this re.
public the inalienable right to earn
his bread by the sweat of his face,
which will guarantee to every la
borer the enjoyment of all of his
wages, and which will once more
make possible that competition
which was supposed to be the life
of trade until the republican party
created a countless brood of trusts
which are sucking the life blood
from the great body Of the people.
Modern republicanism of the
m%onarchial type. which has thrown
overheard the time-honored Mon
roe doctrine, will also be forced to
face and explain it's deserton of
that principle, and this phase of
the coming campaign will involve
the questions of imperialism and
expansion-a policy which merits
the %sternest opposition from every
American who prizes free institu-
tons and our form of government
as being Of any value at all. Gov
eminent by injunction, as we'll as
government by the sword, form
two policies of modern republican,
ism with which the national dem
ocracy will grapple and oppose,
and the fight for the establishment
Of an income tax by which the bur-
dens of government will be equally
distributed upon the shoulders OF
all citizens alike will be taken up
anew.
There is to be no quibbling, no
double -dealing and no evasion in
the campaign next year. The
lines are to be sharply drawn.
Voters must either uphold the
gold standard, high taxes, trust
rule, militarism, imperialism and a
further concentration Of wealth, or
they must take a decided stand
against this mona1ch ial policy.
To favor it is republicanism. To
oppose it is populistic democracy.
These are the lines upon which
the campaign of 1900 will be fought
in behalf Of popular government.
That it will be a desperate contest
no one will deny, for while the re-
publican national committee of
1896 had a fortune at its command,
by reason Of the large increase in
the number Of trusts it will in 1900
have many fortunes at its COM
mand. Money won in 1896. Will
it buy victory for the royalty next
yeara
Ex-secretary Of State John