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Show H FOR DEMOCRATS ONLY. : J First.-If you arc a democrat and HHJ do not believe in the republican policy HH of protection, but fa or a "tarlll for HH, revenue only," It is well for you to HHj. ' contemplate the fact that no demo- BBf i, cratlc tariff ever did produce enough HHj revenue, but that the same tinkering BBT , which eliminated protection also BBf ' created dellcit in the ticasury, endan- HHj i gercd the gold lesei vc and with it the BBf parity of our silver and paper money, BBT ( and necessitated large bond issues, out HH of which Wall street syndicates could BBf get a lake oil, but on which American HH people must pay the interest and ulti- Hi i mately the principal. HHj The expenses of the government arc BBT now running close to the revenue, and BBT these expenses aie for such purposes BBf as pensioning the old soldiers, p.ij lug HH for the Panama canal, irrigating the BBf arid lands and tendering useful service HH to agriculture, to commeicc and labor BH through dcpaitiiients specially instl- HH tuted for such services. There is no BH patriotic democrat who can desiic ex- HH penditurcs for such objects cut down HB so as to cripple the piotlgc and elll- BJ ciency of the govciinnent, and hence BH no patiiotic demociat, however ar- HH dently he may believe in free trade, HHj should vote for a pohej which would HV j cut down the teveniics and pile up a ' disastrous dellcit as during the last HB democratic adiniulstiatlou. Since HV the war taxes wcie taken oil, several HB ' years ago, there has been no safe HVi tooin for further leductlun in the HV' government revenues. A nj thing that Hi might be taken oir 1 mm the protee- HBj tlvu, Indirect la.o, would have to be HBj put on somewhere else where it would HB! be a direct buiden to tax pavers, or HH else money would have to be bortovved HVi to make up for the dctlcicncles In HHj revenue. HH i Second.- if jou arc not only a d.im- HJ ocrat, but a demociat of the ".letter- HB sonlan" type, jou should vote the re- HK , publican ticket, If only because JcHer- HB sou himself stood for expansion as the Hi ' republican party now stands. The HI, ulrcumstancc for which J e Her sou was H, most severely criticised in his life- HB ' time, but which furnishes the leading Hi ! reason why posterity honors his mem- Hi I orj, was the purchase of the Louisiana HV '' Territory, which purchaso is now be- HV i ing appiopilalely commeinoiated bj HHj llio great exposition at St. Louis. HH' Had JelTcihon not made the deal with HH Franco for the Louisiana Tenitory, HB he would have escaped much bitter H criticism from the narrow-minded Hf clement of his own party while ho HB lived, but ho would also have lost for BH the United States the gicatcst oppor- HB tunity of hKtory. HJHBB. |