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Show congressional district to help out their republican nominee in that locaelity. In close republican states vast revenues have been diverted from the treasury of all the people to win electoral voters. That is the republican method of getting get-ting the uioney back into circulation The democratic method is not to take this money from the people in the firbt place. Let it stay as a circulating medium of reducing the tariff on manufactured manu-factured industries. As a means toward reduction Mr. McKinley of Ohio in his argumeut, and which sentiment prevailed as the doctrine doc-trine of the republican party, advocated throwing off duties on spirituous and malt liquors and on raw and manufactured manufac-tured tobacco. This creed says tax him on everything he has to have for himself, him-self, his family, or his business, but let him take a drink of free whiskey and smoke a free cigar. The republican party has conceded its opponent's views to be correct in all else but the tariff plank. Tatooed from top to toe with the record of her shame, upon this one question she raises her bleared and bloated features in the fair front of an overwhelming majority of the American people and says her Cornegies, Goulds, Singers, and Wana-makers Wana-makers mnst be protected. Does the reader think so? Study this matter out for yourself. Reason with this problem and vote your convictions con-victions of right aud wrong. TELL THE TRUTH. Gradually this people are falling into line as democrats and republicans, and this jonrnal offers the one suggestion in advance of the final decision as to which one the voter shall affiliate with, and that is find out which party represents his interests. Stndy carefully the motive he may have who asks yon to join cither. Ask yourself if yon are thoroughly informed. The Se.ntinel asks the republicans to at all times tell the truth. Don't say to the voters the democratic is a free trade party, because such an assertion is Lot true.cr cay the republican p;.rty believes in protection to American laborers cr American farmers and that the democratic democ-ratic paity dees not, fo sach assertions are untrue. Tell the truth. The republican repub-lican party believes in a high protective tariff to protect the manufacturers These same mannfacturers, for they are interested in bnying as cheaply as possible, pos-sible, demand free raw material free wool . The greatest woolen manufactur ing state in t he nninn is Massa husetts, and the republicans of that state demand free raw wool. So do the democrats demo-crats in that commonwealth. It is trne in Utah if foreign wool conld be obtained ob-tained cheaper by two or three local woolen mills, every stockholder would want to buy it. Would you, reader, be-leave be-leave any of them if they would say to the contrary? I it natural for men in business to pay more than they have to for these things? ' Remember, too, at the present time wonderful inventions have been made in all branches cf manufacturing industries so that now in many lines machines are doing the work formerly dons by hand. This throws the work-ingjien work-ingjien out of a situation. Then how are these discharged protected? They must seek new fields. In many cases they abandom their trade and follow some other calling. Naturally, when this country prohibits pro-hibits a foreign competition, with those labor -saving machines, other nations will not boy nnless they are compelled to of our surplus goods, so the American farmer rases just enough to supply the home market. To be sure our raw goods do go abroad, bnt England is seeking wheat in her northwest territories, terri-tories, Germany, Itley aEd France are rustling colonizing Africa and Russia is improving Ssberia. Immense railroad rail-road operations are being conducted in these localities and in time the European Euro-pean countries named will be lesa independent inde-pendent of America than they now are. At that time, with continued inventions, inven-tions, a few rich mannfacturers can with the aid of those labor-saving machines, ma-chines, very quickly manufacture in a few months what may be needed in this entire country in any line ahd then shut down. There can be no competition because trusts control. Trusts can, as a basiness Iventnre, place 1,000,000 dollars in campaign fund, and, winning, reap a profit of 4,000,000 dollars. The farms now worked in the United States produce more than enough for home consumption, con-sumption, and yet we have large tracts of splendid farming 1'iurt lying idle, What Incentive can there be to open them np, and especially when we are shut ont from shipping onr over supply to Europe? In a competition open to the world Cornegiesold Pennsylvania steel rails to build the Canadian Pacific railway. American buggies Snd a ready sale in Australia, and Fbilidelphia is selling street cars to South American republics. The Singer manufacturing company will maki two machines as nearly alike in material and workmanship as possible, pos-sible, but will sell one in this country in the city where it is manufactured for 65 dollars aud ship the other to London and sell it for 20 dollars. Why Should a person in the full vigor of manhood, brilliant as a professioi al accomplished as an artisan, the best skilled in all the trades, with the best of machinery, the best iron, steel and wood why should he be given crutches at the expense of his neighbors, the majority of whom are poor? Flace the tariff as high as possible, the foreign goods do come, and the duties accumulating are enormous. And at last the republican party has recognized the fact it is dangerous to withdraw from business such immense sums yearly, and have It accumulate in the treasury of the United States. The democrats always demanded that it be kept in circulation, Just enough should be collected ech year to pay the running expenses of the government and not a dollar more. Since the war the republican party, excepting in Cleveland's time, have been in power They have robbed the United States treasury repeatedly to build a magnifi-cent magnifi-cent post office building in some close |