Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-09
DEMOCRATIC DEPARTMENT.
BY o. S. COFFIN.
aALuIAIORY.

Il llN NNllANNNll A'l'Nt W. Wv '''ffN''''
appreciatlng the Importance of
uniting the opposition to the re-
publican party In Kansas, knowing,
as every intelligent citizen must know
that the tendency Of the republican
party Is corruptlng the foundation
principles Of the republic held ms sa-
cred by Washington, Jefferson, Mon
roe, jackson, Lincoln and Tlldcn,
In acknowledgment Of the patriotic
sentiment Of their many democratic
readers they have selected the under
signed to represent their democratic
patrons In the columns Of the Gazette.
We are In full accord with the dem
Ocatlc principles poclaImcd In the
national platforms at the Chicago con-
yentlon In 1896, and the National con-
VentlOn held at Kansas city July !,
1900, Also the State platforms held
before and since the dates above men
toned. The traditional tendency and
uniformity of the democratic party
fayorng 4 tariff for revenue only, has
been ylndlcated rs the true policy Of
the republic aS against the republican
system of protection Under u free
Trade policy Il trust monopoly control
ing our foreign trade in American
products would not he possible, The
protective system bars the foreigner
from our markets and enables the
trust to sell its products to foreign
consumers at rates varying from If
teen to thirty.iyc percent cheaper
than he sells to the home consumer,
This Is an undlSputed fact that in
telllgcnt republicans in the great west
are beginning to understand from
practical experience, and they are de-
manding u change In the tariff laws
that will deal fairly with the home
consumers 1t remains to be seen
what influence will prevail with the
republican congress, the trusts, or the
millions Of the American consumers,
We are Of the opinion that no patch
work compromise can be substituted
to blind the people, That such n
measure for Il compromise will be re-
ported from the republican ways and
means committee, Is more than pro-
bable. The trusts and mOnopolles of
every description are indispensable to
the republican party The millions
of dollars for campaign purposes come
from the capitalistic classes Of the
East. You can rest assured that
more for trust products will continne
20 be paid by home consumers thai,
are paid by their customers across
the rolling deep
The charge Of "imperiallsm' that
the Bryan followers made In the late
presidential campaign, has been
strengthened in thousand ways byre-
publican conduct In the management
Of public affairs, No resolution Of
sympathy for the republic Of South
Africa can get hearing In either
house of Congress, Since the republic
was founded 1t has been Il rule with
the American cOngGeSs to pass reS0lu-
tiOns of sympathy for people strug-
CLING for independence from the rule
of imperial tyrantS. The republican
party Is 50 much attached to the Brit
ish colonial policy ii would be next
to high treason to put Congress on
record aS Sympathi2ing with the
Beers republic. For then would come
the embarrassment Of having to eX-
plain the difference between our war
in the Philippines and the British
war in south Africa The glass
house reminder might be suggested.
The opposition to the republican
party have a work before them de-
handing patriotism as grand and
enobling as that possessed by the
signcrS Of the DeclNaton of lndc-
pcndcncc, George Ill was never
more tyranical than the postmaster
general at Washington in prosecuting
publishers Of socialist papers in this
State, the Farmers Advocate and the
Appeal to Reason And If President
Roosevelt appoycS the conduct Of the
postmaster general he can 60 aS a ON
record as tyrant also,
We believe with Mckinley before
the party bosses had forced him to Il