The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-25

Tue OF tnefr nee trade. TO stCken his he Fart, and
Of the United stAtes. Look atthe cry for bread
thsrs ~Ssars sS.oSS s .ts1ssa' people Pc eRs s sess' ia n'. ons
procession, demanding u increase of wages, on
account Of the miserable rtttance. which could
only be Afforded to them by ffee trade England.
They had an unprecedented strike. Two hum
dred and twenty-five thousand people IN that
one city Affected by II. Tho piteous% complaints
and cries nom the se people, lsboring men In
A A%sf tSi:, - w fSs sd nsSs made q v y9up n, hsa ;ss.. ;sa,,:
their sway.
90 in6sbiisnts y :nd Of aT tina lo ,ss suSu' nearly earl;
500, or over 20per cent. ore ut this time in
receipt Of sone sort of .pauper rcli.f. Take
and many other Of tho large cities Of England,
with populations from 3OJ,OOO to 6OO,O 900 I'm 10
tho population Of London. and you have the
day are receiving pauper relief. Imagine, IL
you Gan, such . condition OF the laboringc classes
IN Philadelphis. BOSTON. Cincinnati, and Brook.
0ne-ffth Of their entire population receiving re-
lief as paupers! Yet precisely this condition
3 today in the large cities Of England. tho
the policy Of free trade.
The Democratic convention scouts the idea
Of q the fsrmers' product needing protection.
This manifestation OF ignorance we might ex-
pect from that convention. when we notice the
many other astonishing things Of which they
s T.. guilty: They mover stop to think that our
couraged untold variety of manufacturing es-
t ea,,,s .,a,.aN to grow up In this country, which
competition with. frec.trade England; they
never stop to think that these varieties Of
industry caused the general competition in the
sale Of the product, aud that thus the price Il
everything has been brought iown to the
farmer, and to all citizens who necessarily pro.
vide for = livelihood. They didn't stop to
ion n . half OF people who are the consum.
ers OF the farmers' product, which means q
isnily OF four ON the average to each one of
population OF fourteen millions of people, who.
II these employees were thrown out of employ
ment. would become non-consumers, and they
and become competitors with the farmer, They
dtdnt stop to think that manufacturing and
aericulture In this country have attained 30
nearly an equilibrium that niuety-twO per cent,
Of every product which Is raised on tho farm in
this country. ia consumed in our own country,
mnd that ninety-two per cent. Of all that Is
here, while eight Per cent. of each goes abroad
Don't the Democracy know that there is a tariff
on wheat. on corn, and on six or eight othor pro-
DUCTS OF tho farm, iMade necessary on account
OF tho cheap labor Of India, Russia. and many
other countries? 1t is VOL known that III
n Russia ssa., ana IN Indie they have millions Of acres
worth from s to 10 cents per day, and that from
these countries are being shipped to-day mil
Western European markets.. Take this tariff off
the farm product, and what will there be TO keep
the wheat product of Russia and India out Of
our home markets.?
I believe in that system In America which will
protect our " country against the foreign pau
per labor OF the whole outside world. We owe
country. It is not one-tenth developed. We are
q world within ourselves. We arc a world unto
ourselves, extending 1850 miles from the lakes
to the Gulf, and 5000 miles from ocean to ocean.
with every variety Of soil, climate, and of I'm.
developed mineral wealth aud raw material.
but democracy says we must got rid of tho
didn't the Democracy. during the four years
they had tho chance, develop some practical leg
islation on this subject2 They were not able to
intellectual ability to solve the problem. The
United States Senate last year brought forward
q measure which, III had become q law (alid il
those articles on which there Is now a tariff,
which We do not and annot produce in this
country, and which We do not desire to protect,
would be avoided.
At the dictation of the FREQ trade and FREQ
labor men from Texas and other portions of the
south MIR. Cleveland dare not a re-
ductton Of the tariff on sugar. This would have
defeated their free-trade scheme. Aud il lie had
, Deen sh PEW Wise &c., st q ! tessilaa.aalnl that The Democracy
would have adopted this plan.
This Will be done, and the announcement of
the growth OF sugar-cane in the Northern States
Will be done by the national Congress- and gov
ernment. Hereafter We shall have a revenue
from protection sufficient to keep up the exist
euce Ot our government, direct taxation will lie
avoided, and our home industries properly fos.
tered and labor duly rewarded.
Failures were referred to by a speaker ut
country Ike ours, where men 20 into largo I'M.
dertakings. there will be failures. We wiiihaye
good times aud hard times. These ups and
unavoidable as they are understandable. Take
one year with another and these matters even
themselves. The wise man trims his sails in
business. knowing that there can not be q tide Of
prosperity every year; hence when the hard year
comes he is prepared for it. But give us tho
free trade policy Of tho Democracy, and then let
In the competition of the pauper labor of En-
rope. and you will see such q sweeping ruination
as this country hos never seen, and the laboging
classes will be reduced to starvation. Never.
never do We want to SEQ such q state of affnirs
in this country.