Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-10-04


show to you that the new revenue law
has proven or will prove of any mater
ial benefit whatever to the taxpayers
of Colorado. beyond what the old law
afforded.
The people of this state are prosper
Gus, and so far as national questions
and issues are concerned in this cam
pain, it seems to me that the voter
ought to take into consideration whe-
ther he wants to have a change and go
back to the free trade Democratic
times of 1898 to 1897, or whether he
wants TO vote to continue the present
unexcelled good times.
You will recall the sad sight that
this country presented between 1898
and 1897 when more than 100000
able-bodied laborers were out of em-
try seeking something to do with which
to earn money to support themselves
and their families. They did not ask
charity. They only asked work But
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all this disappeared; business conf
dence was restored and capital and la
Dor were both given something to do
Fires were rekindled in the furnaces
and great plants of machinery that had
lain idle for several years were set in
motion, and instead of 100000 men
seeking work they were sought by the
employer. Since that time all men in
this country desiring employment have
been in demand
In addition to these things, hundreds
of thousands of people have come from
foreign lands to enjoy the good times in
America, and it is up to the people now
to say whether these things shall be
continued or whether we shall go back
to the old Democratic experiment of
doing away with protection to Ameri-
can manufactures and American labor.
We were told. in the campaign of
1886 that the only way good times
would ever be restored was to restore
silver to its position in our monetary
system. William Mckinley and
his followers insisted that the
way to restore good times was
to restore business confidence and
to enact legislation that would
protect the American laborer and
the American capitalist, and as soon
as the news was flashed through
the land that he had been elected bus
iness confidence began to return, and
as soon as he could take his position
in the executive chair he recommended
and Congress enacted a protective tar
iff law, and from that time on the
American people have been so busy
producing wealth and developing the
resources of our great country, that
they have really had but little time for
politics. And if the Republican party
is defeated in this campaign it will be
because people are SO busy that they
have not time even to go to the ballot
box for the purpose of casting their
votes that will aid in continuing in
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high protective tariff, believe in main
tanning a tariff that will at least meas
ure the difference in the wages paid the
foreign laborer and those paid to the
American wage-earner.
If the tariff in any way fosters mon
opoly or assists any combine in Great
ing and maintaining trusts in the han
ding of any article of American manu-
facture or production, then the tariff
schedule should be modified so as to
prevent such result. But if any modifi-
cation or change is to be made in the
protective tariff system, In any sched-
ule or upon any article, it should be
done by the friends of protection, and
not by lot of free traders, whose sole
wish or policy would be to break down
and destroy the American system or
the protective tariff idea
| believe it is the duty of every Re-
publican to vote for our candidates for
Congress, who will support and uphold
the President, because we know we have
in the White House at the present time
a President who is friend of the West
who while endeavoring to discharge
his duty to the entire people, knowing