Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1890 — TARIFF AND SILVER. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF AND SILVER.

1 ' t ill ’* 1 * i DISWpTFfOIipI RESULT'S OF* REnjBIIIC/M L^bISLAVIoi. How jtbe Party Halt UariAleil Theae,T>to Important Sutteets tt> Batld Up One of l’o'jple ttl the Ktpente of Alt 6t^eri|,Hht(.'i l iirineyit’liap«eiall]'. {Speech of Senator‘Jap. K. .Jones, of Arkansas, In the United btatea Senate.] Since 1673 the EejnublicMLt party as a party has set its against silver, just as 6taaqi!y. ? ,a|!« persistently as it has championed the tariff, and for •exactly the same purpose. It is true that in 1678 there was a temporaly dojujaton from this rule, but that was individual action, and wai j4HKhNEKn general party policy, and wholesome dread of a thorqjMwaaßnsed public - th.. ■eSb 'jft h.iv. 1 1 1 the • | nflf -lb. i. tu JfSmp rafitf -1 ham to ae reward jb&ff dictated the coast OiMMSo-. o m i c lUSftti emjlagldft^l^ By ppi; by thd[bpMtego|aHßFHm9(£HHnbjh4H r Ter have not sown. They have piled up overgrown fortupes, , while thope igoie. whom, they fyave t'aken them have grown poo ref. t 1 hfcre is a most extraordinary'spirit erf* unrest pervading ithe entile people. f lhW farmers, that Th«gh, ip all tfw .great JSlorth and \Vdpt . has uncomplainingly Borne the bdrffehs mad*® by tariff taxation, 4 ‘ nave borne the increasp.of their hardens silver, relying with uncomplaining and upshAhen faith on the r Aisurance of leaders that their hardship would soon pass away, and great prosperity wopld be. sure to come to them as'it had to the manufac-' turers. Those are at last driven to the wall. The be met. Instead of getting better it is growing constantly wors 3 , and They have at last stepped and demanded an accounting. The war on siver inaugurated in this ■countryhas aeyved sm( to dm •over thjrebnntrr> —. mstress Bomsa e exeeedi6-'t/ \ihr«f|rercrir9;'w&rtff m‘isses'are suM?riiuJiViVTVs* TnYfiifr tinmces"a? WUir country, and such as in the natural order | of thmga couLd never have occurred.* .. i -of oar industrial population. They tfav® more tfft| ft the ijfWlftif<h£# any other ,bla»s. They'follow ftod’e.lnws., iu the-ffbaolitte creptldfirSf'’Ulefodd'fflßa ■ clothfag; prinjpiM' xmM wealth. txjßHliierediEoia'.ftinatWpabirtwdn' rste that astoniisbefc'.pitlajtixwl, * avouid sep/q. things all our people should be prosperous; but the lamentable fact is that ihe” ©reat mg|iu;y. /ar ,th*s prodjigtiQn # iha great cifiiilvis|l| is prpducli><*thi|rlslil4 reel more and more hea* weight ofj lISES' and it is not an accident" We ’have a COO.lt—■ vtorld is making progress such as was never dreamed of bgfpxi,..while the condition, thy. cla«seA-ie itppxpyiug. at J • a rat®" newer- equa l th*,^oor^lfluaot "keep patte r - \.o-;r Ana Jfrby is, evident improvement biyDha ' Boi’t other in. atmOSt'al 1- eftsse-iHtre-farms rs, so far fr&iia itopi''6 l ving at all, seem to retro- | grade? Results have causes, and the economic methods of the political party -which r has tweatyifive. e .'Cttu'sdd..ffir.'this. ’ And while they have robbed the masses by thenoperotioff of ~ttieiT other economic laws they hlVfct aggravated the rob iter f and made it mnsolu'ely uneffdurabre * by •their management of. the laws regulating money. These two, 1 theif tariff'lawsTend their silver laws, have been the twin plunderers of the poor for the benefit -op the rich. Severn ,pnUjon six hundred. an t seventy.lhntiimirivmf; huh died and: ninety-three farmers have been by “the’ operation of these laws cteiprlvt/d of tleir •own haid earnings for t. e benefit of less 4han 14,500 mill owners fp» £ear%. . Careful emulations ‘made "from statijflSif; actuallytaken from the official redbrds of! thiu%pvernmept, aind the amount of this wholes ile, legal robbery computet, and Jdiown td b$ nffre than $50(1000 0001 direct robbery of protection, while the ■exaggeration of the ev.l caused. by interference with money cannotr be9sstifeiq,tfi, /t>ut has been faintly suggested already. “In.union there is strength” is as true >of individual* *Bd classes -las »jt »iai of states. Almost all classes and callings •are orgMikdd; hh® ‘ H'Ts, been, X<ff Ever since I have been connected with Solitics I have believal’ t&«&i MArf no ope of relief for the /Him rs until theiy - followed the general examp'e and organized, and 1 have, my»WS«ch•es in hull bgire, as Jsome and < b»-t|jm{ituiup> Every -sure to cuike rmjg(Aji,(^ j :WSa5p .leaders vuk towWils. 'Such moiSU||jpj' , ale always, ejffißcially at Jpß.tle prey jot The Repaj&an had causdßWread an awakening the masses jtcftbe fact fUallKey steadily roklfca jQndef tflel Ihrmi for a quarts* active in inducing Bverv such movemeub c j Si# I am da*b<tife >flmbers< seem thwaugkJv arouwk ftiyL m tzing. I hope that they will keep clear or 2 rty fSutmf «Watwfi«fi f of magogaes. and. keep steadily omin,th«, S »<lrf i ».l„|i(>, f t.(i I ttu

f great purpose at- educating the farmers I to a correct and jost. tuderamnding and I appreciation of tMkdifi|H»£3 under y whicn they labor. Mm to and Lcareful invest of their That »ud catholic | spirit of ; widest of/hons* of opinion, uoafidentAhat aftlr free t*uth will prdva||.»4ll^«\ Without undertaking t<t cl&hxrol the votes qfra§^to^aif'tbw will br jjp out clearynd ff oa % members generally voterin the direction of thel#Bwn iDteWbt, and for ttaait *rty and those. JOMWVhp c*rs .adfafating those T J *udiplds e must consonant with liberty and J'TbtfrsS are but tW&W&M 'tfie other will control tne country, and that whose principles of government are fmost in iseeayd •witli'ihe principles of justice ought to, he suppiostei, .* < When the,, present, great [movement takes this "line of procedure and closely adheres to it, whether called the Grange,, the Wheel, or the Alftanch, its results will be mafyeloQfl, and the goad it,-will do the th® farmers, good «ovef*ment and freedom wilj be incalculable.