Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-05-26
HERE Is MY REASON.

| meutins upon u llttie Talk naue Dy the
undersigned to the Republican Club Of
Deadwood, in which communication
the writer of this article ia advised to
drop the prefix "Honorable." Now 1
would say in reply, that am not looking
after prefxes. bot rather after an honor
able future for the Republic in which I
live and the preservation of the political
institutions OF the country that love,
and hope that never more shall .oc-
cupy the position of the scorner and
Pharisec at the feast, snar.ing, criticis-
ing and waiting for an opportunity to
betray unto death the advocate of a
principal and policy intended for my
great good and for the good of my
country.
The communication states that my
change only shows what poor demo.
crat have been. wish this were true
but alas, my friend is not justified in the
assertion, for do not think that blind
er or more unreasonable or stronger pro.
JUDGED or in other words, democrat,
not even excepting my friend, could be
found on earth than I was, and that lie
one Of the greatest consultations have,
knowing as do that the position of even
my friend who wrote the article in
Equality, is not entirely hopeless and l
think that we were blinded in part and
made mad in order that the
republican party, with its policy of
advancement might carry the Republic
through and oyer the dangerous period
Of our existence. He talks about the
sanction of the wsnton waste of human
life for trade. presume he means the
little trouble we are having in the
Philippine Islands; now / say to my
friend that there never has been one
moment since the Spanish war broke
out, in which this country could have
honorably adopted different policy or
different method in dealing with that
question. Any other policy would have
brought us the scorn Of all the world
and would haye been an action Of per.
fidy and cowardce, impossible for true
citizen to he guilty Of, and advocating
different policy would ba directly adj
vising the citizenship of this Republic to
act the part of the coward, in fearing to
defend defenseless people from whom
we have wrssted every yestsge of law
and protection which they had and
leaving them to the tender mercy of
ruthless and professional murderers and
robbers. Outside of the trade question
and OH principles of pure ethics, this
country has duty to perform and it will
perform it. The jeers and howls of a
blinded minority to the contrary.
AS to the feature of the article in re-
gard to trusts wish briefly to say, that
| admit that the democratic and pcpu-
list parties have complete remedy and
that is the election Of Bryan or any
other democrat, for Ihave never known
in times past of there being money
enough in the country at any time dur
the prevalence of democratic or popu-
list policy to warrant the forming of a
trust, but have noticed, come to think,
that when the party of progress WAS in
power and when everybody was at work
making money, and when money was
plenty that trusts. combinations OF pital
will form occasionally; they seem to be
creatures OF prosperous times, and of
course if Bryan or any other democrat
should be elected there would not be an
able-bodied trust left in twenty -four
hours, but around the decaying body OF
the octupus would lay dead and dying
every other industry in the country, to-
gcther with the hopes of our citizens. Coin
could write another book Bryan would
have time to make another cross of gold
and everybody in the country could ar
ray himself in the proper ghost shirt /;
and another campaign like '96 would be
possible. can guarantee this remedy.
This know that IL there is anything on
earth that makes democrat and popu-
list angry it is to talk about civilization /;
they Immediately revert back to the stone
age, grab their war clubs and declare
that one life is worth more than all the
advancement. and by their arguments
convince any observer that the grey mat
ter in their brain instead of being in
convolu,ions is in slight waves, and an
almighty thin layer, showing that the
laws ofnatural selection have been much
retarded in their wholesome work by
the coming in Of ethics, natural selec-
ton only working through death. We
all believe that God created man, and
that through the principle of evolution
and natural laws, he is leading him
higher and higher. in the scale OF ad-
yancenent and civilization, and that as
the roaring loom OF time weaves its end
less web of events we can more and
more clearly see the living garments Of
the Creator. That some political par.
ties, like some men, advance much faster
than others, and living example of
this is now before our eyes in the poll
tical field. This is the reason, my friend
why cannot be democrat, it is on
the account OF the narrownsss of the
Of the party on account ofits opposition
to advancement; on account of its blind
and hopeless resistance to the elevation
of man, and to the consummation of
higher and better government and more
enlightened times, for remember that
the animal and the plant is not the only
phenomena subject to the laws Of
evolution, but political parties may be