The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1911-09-28
WESTERN POLITICAL FEELING
Seen Through the Spy Glasses
of Our Friend, William
Walpole, Sr.

er don't intend to sling mud OF
vilify those that differ with hin
politically. st. Paul said quar-.
relling with our neighbors anc
abusing them is not the way tC
convince them we are in the right
and they in the wrong. 1t is
more likely to convince them that
we are not of a christian spirit.
The writer has the honor of be-
longing to that sturdy class of
pioneers known as the American
farmer and has spent almost half
century in that capacity in South
Dakota. We have witnessed the
trials and tribulations of the early
settlers as they blazcd the way for
future generations and worked
hard to keep the wolf mot the
four-legged fellow from the door.
The above being the fact. it
grieves the writer and the small
remnant of the old timers left, to
see the Shylocks and trust mag
mates step in and grab the lion's S
share of our hard earned toll. It's
true they don't hold us up a. the
point of a gun (they know better)
but they do hold US up on every
thing we buy from the cradle to
the coffin, by robbing and un-
just tariff. But thank God, the
''Star of Bethlehem" is again in the
horizon, (from a political stand
point and is shedding light on
the ways that are dark and the
tricks that are vain" This bril-
liant orb above referred to, is on
the UanLcIo VI O"i "oiii".' "''
lawmakers and their progressive
republican allies who are fighting
the great battle of Justice to all
men and special privileges to
none"
The political conditions in the
west are attracting considerable
attention and no one can speak OF
the political conditions in the west
without giving expression to the
general satisfaction which the peo-
ple feel with the work of the dem
ocrats in the present congress.
This feeling is one of pride and
satisfaction, with republicans it is
one of surprise if not of astonlsh-
ment.
Out here in the west the people
have been pleading for a fair,
legitimate and just reduction OF
tariff burdens. They voted fol
Taft upon his assurance of grant
ing this, but Taft forgot all about
those promises when he vetoed
the farmers free list bill, hi:
promises were like the old WON
ans pie crust, they were made t'
be broken.
The farmer of the west today i
not the farmer of a generation ag'
who listened with admiration t.
the old republican war horses a
they told the wonderous story o
how under a protective tariff tn
foreigners paid the tax. The lab
orers of the west are not the sam
men who a generation ago wer
led to believe that every dollar O
benefit from a high protective tai
if was added to the wages of tn
working man. They are not tn
same men who were led to fol!o'
the banner of republicanism unde
the magic promises of Mark Hal
ma of full dinner pail" Thos
q men, the farmers and laborers
j the west, are reading and thinkin
e men. They have at last learne
q the simple truth that the sole ol
e ject of a protective tariff is to e'
l. able the American manufacture
Il to sell his goods to the Americs
IS consumer at higher price ths
Il he could obtain without a prote
IS tive tariff. They have learnt
70 that the object of high tariff is
= protect the American manufac
urer from competition abroa