Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-03-24
THE RESOLUTIONS OF THR BRULR
ROOsEvELT-cRAwFoRD cLUR.

kOOSENELT.CRANF0 CLUB.
Il We call especial attention TO til,
resolutions OF the Roosevelt Crawford
club OF Brule township found ON anoth.
err page in this issue. They have the
right ring and are 10 line With the
spirit and policy OF the COURIER 10 q
greater extent perhaps than some 81
Its members imagine. The hearty en-
dorsement of the republican party and
OF the administrations OF Pres. Roose-
velt and Gov. Herreid. contained In
the first three resolutions, IL well merit
cd and we'll expressed. We think the
club might easily have gone further
and as earnestly endorsed the splend-
ed work OF our delegation In Congress-
The effective work of Senator Kittredge
for Panama, OF which the whole ma
ton Is proud, Senator Candles and
Representative Bnrke's persistent If
not effective fight for the opening Of
the Rosebud reservation and the re-
cent noble work of Representative
Martin against the beef trust, were
certainly worthy of recognition and.
strong commentator. What the club
has to say in the fourth resolution re,
garding the honesty and rectitude OF
Mr.. Crawford, no one will question: as
TO his feasibility and practicability,
there Is fair ground for debate. When
MIR. Crawford asks us to rule out OF
state affairs the wishes and advice OF
such men as those to whose record we
have briefly referred above and com
init the entire shaping of those affairs
to his dictation, we must decline to
follow. There Is no more objection 10
the primary system than there is TO
the initiative and referendum adopted
by this state several years ago, already
passed into inn0cuous aissnetude. Cer-
tainly II itshoald result, as hoped for
In the resolution, In the individual
citizen taking . greater interest in
public affairs, II would be a great gain
The COURIER has been and will con |
tinue TO be more pronounced than thu
club in It's advocacy OF reciprocity and
revision, although In the latest turn
Of affairs we see little hope OF much |
being accomplished in this line for
some time to come. The west, how
ever, has It's eyes wide open to the ad
vantages OF reciprocity OF the Blaine |
and Mckinley type as opposed to the
wide-open. free trade policy OF the
democratic party, and. no matter what
temporary pressure 10 brought TO bear
upon it from the interested manufact-
urers OF the east, will insist upon it's
final adoption. However much 1t MAJ
be delayed, the interests OF true reci-
procity will be much better cared for
in the house of its friends than by go
ing to the other extreme and handing
them over 10 Its enemies. The waste
fulness, prodigality and corruption of
democratic free trade are scarcely to
be desired over the alleged monopolis-
tic tendencies of high protection. The
Brule club has certainly uttered
most excellent platform OF principles,
and II, ~ we verify believe, its mem
bers care more for these principles
than they do Tor mere personal fol
lowing Of DIR. Crawford. then, when the
igssis fatstats OF Crawfordism shall have
burned itself out and have disappeared,
they will each dnd themselves faith
fully, and happily following the fixed |
star 81 republican hope and supremacy.