The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-10-31
ADVERTISEMENT
BEWARE OF FREE TRADE

Mr. Voter of Hand Co, no matter to what party or
faction you belong, the election Nov. 9Th is a MANAGE to
your pocket book. In spite of frantic denials and con
tinual lodging on the part of every democratic newspaper
and speaker the vital issue at stake Is whether we want
Have you seen a single Democratic newspaper ad-
NIT that Wilson and the Democratic party stood for free
The democratic platform Of 1892 says;
"FWe declare it to be a fundamental principle of
the democratic party that the government has no consti-
tutional power to impose and collect a dollar for tax ex-
eept for purpose of revenue only -~
The democratic platform of 1912 says:
We declare it to be fundamental principle of
the democratic party that the federal government under
the constitution, has no right or power to impose or col
lect tariff duties except for the purpose of revenue"
Mr. Voter can you see any difference between the
position of Grover Cleveland and that of Woodrow Viii
son, If a tariff for revenue only meant free tarde in
1892. 1t means the same in 1912. We know what free
trade under Cleveland did to the American farmer, with
it's low prices and unpaid farm mortgages. We can well
remember those terrible years when corn brought 10 cents,
eggs three cents, wheat ~thirty-fve cents, cattle three
cents and hogs four cents. We also know the immediate
change toward the present high prices as soon as the re-
publican party was returned to power in 1897.
Your democratic free trader will tell you his party
was not responsible for those conditions. Whether twas
or was not doesn't matter to the farmers of Hand county.
We know that When the Democrats Were in Power we
Suffered and When the Republicans were in Power We
Prospered.
In 1902, years before Wilson had any thought of
running for the presidency, he wrote a History of the
American People" In it he said:
"a great poverty and depression had come upon
Dix "cStclh hnlu IeSous duu upoh be SICultuTd
region of the west and south. Prices had fallen. Men Of
the poorer sort were idle everywhere, and filled with a
sort of despair. All the large cities and manufacturing
town teened with unemployed working men, who were
with the utmost difficulty kept from starvation by the
systematic effort of organized charity. Not until the
year 1897, when the republican administration came in
did the crisis seem to be past
And yet after that written evidence of his opinion
ON the subject Mr. Wilson is attempting to become presi
dent of this great Republic by feeding the American peo-
pie the same medicine thath admits brought ruin and
depression and suffering to the entire country.
Mr. Stalwart Republican and Mr. Progressive Repub-
lcan, a condition not a theory confronts you today. That
condition is whether by your vote you are going
to approve free tradeand financial depression or Protection
and Prosperity.
The Republican Presidential Electors in this state
will vote for either Roosevelt or Taft, which ever needs
them. Both stand for Protection and Prosperity.
Mr. Voter it is up to you.
Republican County Committee.
HARLAN J. BUSHFIELD,
Chairman Republican County Committee.
OSCAR II. YETTER, Secretary.