Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

UNWORTHY AN Ex-PREsipENT
or TIE UNITED STATES.

tSAN ~ n fst% e = Is = ~ p ~ e ~
or THE UNITED STATE
= tslsyelHuts thurman BAN
quet, Iil-aiinded, Dcnagoglc and Abus-
wei He Reas ms Li!tsa Guild or i Con.
ddencs 1Lslii Slystcr TticktteBs.
New York Press
Those who have heretofore regarded
I oS-Preeident Grover Cleveland as al sol
emn, dull wittctl, honest sort Of a person
OF great self conccit, very much disposed
i to take himself seriously as the prophet
i destined to save d .tdcllnled' people from
i themselves and tn lead them away from
the noisy paths Of demagogy Into tho
green pastures Of truth, must be heartily
ashamed of that person after aeqliaint-
ing themselves with his iii timed dcma-
gOgic, and abusive ntterancc at the
] Thurman banquet. Not only was it
4 wholly unworthy OF All ex-president OF
the United States. Not only did It dis
/ grace o presumed and self assumed leader
4 of party. Not only asitcntirely outof
place OH an occasion suggested by the
\ personal regard in which people OF all
1 parties hold the venerable statesman iii
whose honor the day was celebrated.
i Not only was it all this; but it was an
/ almost painful exposure Of tho incom-
potency, the inadequacy, the shystcr
| thickness, the intellectual shaiiowncss
and the moral rccklessncss of Mr.. Clcvc-
land himself, SO great q fall was it from
! tho standard OF the more or less popular
Cleveland myth. This typical Ameri-
cam" this second Jackson" this alleged
imam of tho people, this ssconsecraScd
apostle Of democracy" succeeded iii ex-
posing himself to view as bearing the
same relation to just and intelligent
/ craftsmanship as is borne to legitimate
and upright mercantile methods by a
1 curbstone faixir.
Not one argument from what pro-
tectiye laws have done: nothing but a
childish, petulant catching at some
| words that protectionists have said. If
| this is not the intelligence of an idiot; if
/ we arc to presume that Mr.. Cleveland
| knows better, then it is the fairness of
| the veriest five-dolar shystcr who ever
1 bullied witness i'm the Tombs police
court and made words appear of more
/ Importance than deeds or things, for the
/ sake of success at tho expense of justice.
Several republican orators had outraged
the democratic spirit of fakirism by init
mating that there is a cheapness that Is
costly. What they meant was clear enough
! to every candid mind. Every intelligent
| buyer knows that it is better econ
omy to get a good thing that costs
moro than to get q fiimsy thing that
costs less. Every workingman who is
not superficial knows that the real ques-
tion OF cheapness to him is what he can
/ buy with one days work rather than
what he can buy with lnouey of given
face value. And every man acquainted
with American history knows that home
production, stimulated by protective
duties, has vastly cut down the cost Of
almost everything that the Americcl.
citizen eats, wears or uses. That it has
! increased the opportunities of labor for
employment by the thousand. Every
well informed man knows that the Nc
Kinley bill, hardly affecting tho grades
of goods used by the great mass of peo-
pie at all, the manufacture of which
was built up by the old tariff, raises
duties on and promotes the manufacture
of better grades, with the certain result
of cheapening them to tho masses in the
| same way, and thus raising the American
standard of living and the wages of
American labor.
But Mr.. Cleveland reasons either like a
child or like. a, confidence man. Like a
child he remembers nothing past and sees
nothing of the future, Like child, he
cries out against causes without the
slightest recognition of their incvitablc
effects. But it is uncomfortable that ig-
norant as he was when he became presi-
dent. nearly six years ago, he should not
know better by this time. His fractional
friends can no longer turn up their
noses at the sugary fiattery OF the dear
people, and the assumed championship
of their down trodden cause, by his
feared and hated rival, Gov. Hill; for
Hill himself never fawned on the people
and cooed at them as a hysterical woman
or a spoiled and whimpering baby, in
vein more insulting to their manliness
and their intelligence, than that now
adopted by Cleveland.
The note of boasting triumph over the
result of an election which, by lies and
other tricks of misrepresentation, was
perverted into an apparent disapproval
of great code of industry-making laws,
which, if undisturbcd, will enable us to
employ American labor on goods that
we now import to the amount Of $780,
100000 q year, sounds like the harsh
speak of Nero's fiddle while Rome was
burning. The Mckinley bill, undis-
tuTDcu, DIS we DcllcNC the SODGr. second
thought of the American people will let
it be, will cause at least half of this $780,
100000. or 500, 100000 year, to
be manufactured in this country,
employing 200 workers and
Sc, 100000 of capital; creating mar
kets for millions of American raw ma
terials and food products. Its apparent
Encouragement by tho elections will
probably prevent fully half of this cap
ital from being invested, fully half of this
labor from finding new employment, and
postpone indefinitely no small part of
the increased production of fine goods
that would be cheaper to the people.
If Grover Cleveland nominatcs himself
as the leader of raid, not only on our
newly protected Industries that will en-
ploy the unemployed, but our old ones
that so largely employ the employed, we
welcome tho issue. And we want no
better man to thrash out of his boots as
the leader of that raid than this preten-
tious demagogue and economic bunco
steerer who sets himself up as the oracle
of u party that has no policy except that
of opposition, and no principles except
'sto the victor belong the spells.
FREE TRADE DELUSIONS.
Salt Lake Tribune