The Daily Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 109, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 9, 1896 Page: 3 of 8
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I„ ofder to Mke room for our ISSSS^JSS^liSiSSS'StiSl
have concluded to sell our ®P^ whitP riatt?rn our entire stock of Havlin China, both decorated aad
in a. aueo.,w.r. line win bo sold .t .pet cc.
) Now is the time to get a bargain as it will last
Beginning Sept. 10th and lasting until Sept 25th. R«nom'
^ our large fall and holiday stock will be here about Oct. 1st.
Remember, this is no sham sale, but actual cost, as
and we must have the room.
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old stand a while longer do business a f = ^ customers and a trial from all those who have not
ask a continuance of the: patronage ol all.ouiioimeio ^ at TOur residence and take your orders,
been dealing with us. y°u Leslie to we do not sell you one article at cost or under cost and m ake
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- gain as one who Itands all day and tries to Jew us down.
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South We1.-.I Corner Harrison and Divssion
Guthrie, Ckla.
L . j. in* :<n«'aC «nfnrl mire of policy disappointed. If a system of cus-
' 1 . iT ;,!t w.n-NaiHl looms in hurope :n
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i, .... «-.,rW III tnriMliT; workmen UpOJl
\ than tit' 11(riii* luarKci « :l
i'-i t will enable the AnK rican .im .it tu f^re^n in,n. and yet to cornpett
IM kmth. Ti,ore Its raf t; •; /,.'•« t thi- foreign |.r.kIuc-ct; that ill furtl.
in ur market-and m fore Riima , , without reducing Hie wain- •
nue'rad *'prot^i^^fljf> bu'thtege^eratUmhMDOt^feltttem.^jj^the^e^erj
iK'SSrt" un.Hmin.ihedconttdence ,nthe principle.they has e
advocated await the results of the new experiment.
President Harrison paid "we shall now sec' —and
the sight was not long in coming to us and we saw what
Mr Cleveland depicted in his message of August 8. 1 . ■>.
' In the campaign of 1892 Mr Cleveland made very
slight allusion to the financial question.
Cleveland's Only Allusion to Finanee in 1 HIP*.
Mr Cleveland in Ins famous letter of acceptance
which lie held up for months after lns^ nomination and
did not issue until the latter part ot hepteinber. 18.
did not say a word in his indictment of the Repubhuin
partv about the Sherman Bill. The great injuries of the
coinage depicted in his message in 1893 was entirely
new light which had come upon him In 18J2 it w.r
the tariff, not the money question, which ailed ns. In i'
acceptance of 1892 it was "tariff reform not "monetary
reform " which the country needed. His only allusion to
money was as follows:
S"the people Cttmngr ^^[^"u'anh-d'liv :u1>c.rby wise and
thev i-hould l>i- so regulate. and I- . , t) certainty and worth of that
1 arc-fid laws that no one < an I e dub cus ai u. ,.|lllllf(1 bt. ,|R- same m
value. Every dollar put j"^™£h*wt'h these conditions slightly augmented
rfhere'is shown in this reference to the money ques-
tion a deliberate attempt of Mr. Cleveland to evade « dec-
titration, on free coinage-declared lor in the plaitform
he stood on and to make such evasive refer. no to the
plank for the repeal of the tax ot Nate Bank issues as
would appease tkv South. In other words, it sho*B .til
over it a uearM £o te elected and that only. The peo-
ple knew of his anti-silver record from 1881 down; hiit
ibis was not mentioned in the campaign. Cleveland him-
self avoided it iirid nil the stumpers of the country. m_
elndin-r Mr. Bryan, avoided ii also. The sole issue o
ti" campaign was the tariff, 'io a discussion o it he and
llits party strictly held. He was elected solely on his
"tariff reform' platform.
A New Issue Discovered.
Now he has discovered another "paramount" issue.
In the message of August 8. 1893. quoted from above.
•• I believe the«e things of ill?crtTO'tTil-'e^aT^ov^rnment
lation touching the pure . t aiu ■ |n da) session early in the coming
!t was my purpose l(VM ,'oiptlv upon the work of tariff reform, whuh
ScptemlH rthat we might ennr iironip^. ^ jJ tt.hlrh so lar8t. ;1 majority of. the
lemromptlv upon the worKoi uirin nrmi u. <■ «"
rr,™ ™:A"zr.n*.F^
He thought the repeal of the purchase clause of the
Sherman Act would revivifj business, quell commerce
failures ami put the counln into very fair shape until
• tariff reform" could bring it out of all its kinks.
Hut it Dscln't l>o It.
The people were muddled as to what caused the
name. Many of the eastern newspapers said it was the
Sherman bill. Mr. Cleveland said it was the Sherman
bill. Some republicans thought it might lie the Shei-
man bill; at least a few of them went so far in their be-
lief as to assist the democrats to repeal the purchasing
clause of the bill. The depression continued. Demon-
strations proved that the Sherman bill was not the cause
of it Under the Sherman bill 8.12.1'<(0.000, supposed to
he representative of silver, were added annually to the
circulating medium. The repeal of that bill put the
country for the first time since 1878 upon a stationary
currency—cut off every mode of increase.
The repeal of the Sherman bill having tailed to
change the situation, the tariff again became the "para-
mount " issue. The Gorman bill was passed. This caused
renewed threats to the interests of the country.
Tariff Reform Ctterly Failed.
The Gorman bill, instead of being a panacea, was
an aggravation of the conditions existing. Mr. Cleve-
land' himself, was ashamed of the hill before it passei .
He denounced it "a perfidy and dishonor. He refused
the bill his official sanction. It became a law without
his signature. It was not "reformatory" enough to suit
him. Now, even democrats, and all people throughout
the United States are thoroughly ashamed of it instead
of lacking in "tariff reform.' it was much too lull of it.
Every roseate promise made in 1892 for "tnriff reform
faded to disaster and disappointment under only a
partial test of it. Merely the taste of if was enough
This great democratic partv sat in Chicago in national
convention and had not a word of commendation for the
Gorman bill. The democratic party had made such an
egregiouB failure of tariff "tinkering" that it declared
the tariff no longer an issue, but said parenthetically in
its platform, that the party is yet for "a tariff for revenue
only." 1* offered no remedy, by a restoration of tarifls,
for the great evils put upon the country by the partial
attempts at free trade.
It had found itself in error. It had said tor _u
years that the protective tariff was the nation s blight.
But it wasn't—and it was willing to plea<l_ gu« y_ "W ""J
old tariff count. If was the "crime of 1S~:1 which had
been gnawing at the public's vitals and doing so wi i
such insidious secrecy ti tt the democratic party had
never known it until now. But have Mr. Bryan and Ins
party really changed? Has he forgotten England and
its Cobden club? And are not his patriotic bursts now
too coarse a contrast to what he has said in the past.
Has he forgotton that he said:
Mr. Bryan's Tariff Record.
must put upon the imported article a tariff makini, tnc pr is
want to state, as emphatic all> at . . t tnViisr tt i lnuli true in tliis countr\
fhatnw{uch^ew0purcb^£^^^TKw^?ce n^ei^t«o^eforthe^oducU
of our toil." (Congressional Record, March Hi, \ > 01. i^c
This is a square-out declaration for English " tree
trade." Mr. Bryan would employ the labor of England
because it will work cheaper than our own. Is not one
English policy as good as another? If Mr. Bryan so
loved English "free trade" in 1892, before it had been
proven a recent failure by democratic attempts to put
it into effect, why does b# nuW make sin-h an awlul bug-
aboo of what he'terms the." English gold standard .<
think tin
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rariff tlm Only Issue Then.
- irrefutable eviden that Mr. Bryan rlid t
:.n'!ey question was bothering 1 h• pe« pie
id :ii congress
••Whit 1 .
.March 10. 1892:
tariff.le
a protective tariff, levied purely it"<! sell 1\ tor tlx
, . it in f'iilse economj and tnc most vicjoMj
l .) 111 ica 1 prim ' |ilc that Iium ever tiirtted country. |\ul
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Mr. Erynn had at that time forgotten itll about "the
crime of 187;];" and the "English gold standard,"
which he i ow says is fastened upon this country, had net-
then won his solicitude. It was the tariff policy and iml
the financial policy which was " The most I'li'ioux /xihtit iiii
princij)I<' I hut It (ul errr curxcil Ihia count t y.
In C'i.icngn. on .Itily 189(5, in the speech
which he nominated himself, Mr. Bryan said
' II i! cv ask us hen- why it is that we say more on the inoiit y <i'u s\nu
t},;,- w • . ; i !i til' tariff question. I reply that if protection hat slain ite
i; i at:i.-, . i.^'le koUI standard has slain its ten of thousands.
Mr. Bryan lifid suddenly discovered 1 lint the t.aritt
was net the "most vicious political principle that has
ever cursed this country. In this same speech Mr
Bryan built up the monetary system as the one Umv«
which was robbinir the masses and must lie changed (lie
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very
idea.
March 1 < *
then said:
Calls Protection a Highway Kobber.
"The dilt'erenee between a proteetivc
tariff and a bounty is simply a difl<>r<;nee
form. r f It is the difference between th<r
man who meets you upon t he highway ,
knocks yoit down ami takes what you have,
and the man w ho steals in your house in t be
night while yon are asleep and robs you ol
your treasure; and if I had to make a choice
between the two I should consider the high-
way robber the mora honorable, because fee-
docs wiiat he does openly and before tin-
world."— rCongressional Record, Vol. 2-i. page 2-^os.
Fanners Suffering from Tariff, Not Money.
Mr. Bryan, in his first speech in congress. 011 March
1G. 1802. portrayed the dismal condition of the farmer
He did not then charge it to the "single gold standard
From that speech he seems to have not discovered th 4
anything ailed our monetary system. The western farm-
( r was then wholly the victim of the protective tariff.
Not one word do we find in Mr. Bryan's original
plea for "justice" to the western farmer, the gold
standard er the 100-cent dollar as the cause of alt the
woe. Protection was a good enough octopus for that oc-
casion.
Mr. Bryan told the following story about a man-
killing trie in Australia, and compared it to the pwitec
tive tariff:
-| I err .. m Australia what if known as the cannibal m ■ It: khiws ii<«
uiv ' ti ami spreads, nut it' leaves like trreat arms until tlieytomh the ground
Intl'tMi'i little 'HI' ami in that eiii> a mysterious kiml of limey. Some ot
the natWM wonhlpthe nee. and on tfielt festive «l.,vs the v gather arouwht.
" L .. a run atKl then a- a part of tlieireeremc.il> ihev --re.tum-f. io
i , , III ' • r ..rid at the point- ot speais. iliive liim over the leaves-onto tin
, ... i„. ,1,. |,( thr honev. he becomes intoxicated, a- it wen and then titUR
r ■ - • ii insliliet Willi life, n-r tlieveo irelr hllll m their foK s alrf.
x . ... : :: v death, hi- compaii, mis stand around shimtint! amlsintiii*
for;
"Pro'
(,ii | r,w been our cannibal tree, and as one after am<ther • {«*■
! y the of circumstances upon inat txtf atnajti
v/,.1 :t. (old-. Ins coini f.u iiH liave stood aronrji ami ^Iwmtn
, i • ICon^roMiona) Record. \ « !. 28. i af?e I
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Greer, Frank H. The Daily Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 109, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 9, 1896, newspaper, September 9, 1896; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc104047/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.