Show r r fi = PUBLIC OPINION The Peoples Department of The Dispatch Think For It Write For It Edited by Sam A King To tho EiJitor PtJBLio OPINION No truer words were ever spoken than that the laws of a country are responsible for tie condition of its people peo-ple This being true we know that the laws oi our country are and for along a-long time have been at fault Let us investigate and determine If we can who ara responsible for the present hard timeswhen they had their inception in-ception and when they are likely to cease We know that for a long period prior to 1860 the democratic party had almost al-most unbroken control of government affairs The people owned the soil from the British poaessions to the gulf and from ocean to ocean Strikes were unknown un-known combines and trusts were un thought of Taxes were light and used only for government expenses the wealth of the country was then more evenly divided among the peopleThera were few millionaires and while many were comparatively poor such a thing i as a tramp or professional pauper was unheard of And remember during all hid period there was little or no tariff compared to the high tariff law paaaefl during the GOs and practically majn 1 tamed by the republican party ever since Note the changed conditions since 1860 The republican party under the pretended banner c f progress have squandered granted and giyen away large quantities of the pablic domain There are 22000000 acres of our land now owned and contioiled by thirty foreign individuals or companies sut ficient to make ten states the size of laesacbubetts During the high tariff period seventy individuals have exacted ex-acted in the ag regate a sum of money from the American people in exce = s cf the value of the manutactured goods sold leaving a net Having j to themselves of more than the amount of the entire national debt viz 1283000000 Also statistics show that during this period fifty per cent of the farms have boeu mortgaged at rates of interest which annul ic paid Iho lct is the Uuited States are I ecul ary adapted to agriculture stock I raising and mining It is possible for J tut two states of the Dukotus to raise sufficient wheat to bread this entire nition and while it is possible for manufactories to prosper even in this couatiy still Ihq prosperity of our people oepends upon the extent of a mauet tor these natural productions Tbs republicans claim that high tariff ltives employment to vast lumbers lum-bers ot employes engaged in manufac tur and that thus the market for farm pioductioii Is extended While this theory sounds plausible the fact ia it creates a little home market for the few farms lying near to these I manufacturing districts and increases the burden of every other section in the entire union This bas been the condition for so hug 1 that it proves thatrthe theory of extended home market for fam produce in this way is a failure It has the effect of closing the ruarkutd of other countries against our natural productions It compeld our people to pay nearly double the actual value of every manufactured manu-factured article purchased under the tariff policy for the purpose of buildIng build-Ing up the welfare of a small area of territory bordering the Atlantic seaboardS sea-boardS to the detriment of the entire west and south Republicans will deny this but let me call your attention to the current price lists wholesale of any manufac turing establishment in the east and uyariably they quote goods for the home market at from 10 to 50 percent per-cent more than manufactured articles are worth and that the west and south receive not one cent of benefit in return unless it be that the knowledge that they are manufacturing hundreds of millions yaarlj in this country as well as thousands of tramps at thesame time is benefit I j n parrrm II1V iii I forever cdPPl greatest industry in-dustry of Ameiica With fre and unlimited un-limited silver coinage at a ratio of 16 to 1 our miners employed in our mines would give a nome market for the produce of our farms stock ranches and mills in the west which would viable us to prosper Dv our own in I 111 ry and labor and we could the ui 1Jn easily keep the kidgloved white I Iliigere J gentry cf the east in affluence luxury and idleness ft takes a law wlrci will rob the jeipie a long time to have an appar ant effect on the mass It is always slow but effective and tho process which has been the cause of putting the American people in their pr gent beggarly condition has been at work for the past generation In other words by the avarice and greed of the moneyed p wer of the east who have dictated the policies of the republican party they have crippled and shackled the industries of the west and south the very section of country from which they exact their tribute thus killing the goose that lays the golden egg For the purpose of a continuation ol power the republicans and monopolists monop-olists are crying I told you sol See the democratic hard times I In view of the fact that we have been a generation drifting and gradually sinking to tha low financial l condition we are now experiencing ex-periencing it is an insult to common intelligence for republicans to cry > democratic bard times r iL > si i1 Y I w in the west and south eed tariff for revenue only which means an extended ex-tended foreign market for our natural productions We need tree coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 and when these natural rignts are vouchsafed ua we will walk erectpay debts look live and act like unfett re American citizens M M WARNER |