Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-07-14
FROM WASHINGTON
Facts Concerning the Position of
the Parties Respecting
the Farmers.
The Administration Determined
to Do Everything for the
LabOring Classes.
Holman and False Economy
The Democratic Record
I'm the House.

! be pronounced a hopeful epoch in tn
political history of the country, fo
farmers, when there are four partie
with tickets in the field workin
especially for the farmers and labor
er's vote. These two elements, whicI
have made most complaint about tn
effects of legislation can now fee
that they are to have especial atten
ton.
For almost a decade now the tw,
great and old political parties hav
been vieing with each other in effort
to hold their strength with tn,
farmer and labor vote. The republi
can party took the lead, and has KEEP
it; but in doing so it forced the dem
ocratic party, as a matter of self
protection, to do some things TO
labor and the farmer which it would
not otherwise have done. 1t was {;
republican senate that forged through
a bill making the Bureau of Agricul
ture a regular cabinet Office, anC
under President Cleveland it wa!
filled by an agricultural editor. L
was a republican congress that, a few
years previous to the elevation of the
agricultural interests, made a Bureau
of Labor, where the interests of the
mechanic and workingmen anC
workingwomen are given especia.
attention by a large force of met
women who are experts in that line
FOR FARMERS AND LABoRERs.
1t was a republican congress that
started the movement which resulted
in a bill being passed to prohibit the
importation of pauper labor and put
down the practice of using convict
labor in competition with the labor
of honest men and women. Republic
cans proposed a bill which would in
law have prohibited the shipment OF
convict-made goods from one state to
another, thereby compelling the
states TO consume their own convict
production. A combination of dem
Ocrats in the house defeated the
measure. The present republican
administration sent to Europe a nom
partizan committee, composed of men
recommended by the labor organiza-
tiens, to investigate the condition of
labor abroad and make recommends
| tions as to how the conditions of our
laborers can be improved and kept
from that of those who suffer in
foreign lands.
President Harrison has several
times in his messages to congress
called attention to inequalities of
labor requirements and those of farm
ing interests, and asked that certain
legislation be enacted to remedy the
evils. Never have labor organiza-
tions and those of the farmers been
given so much recognition in the
matter of appointments as during the
past three years. The present congress
has done all it could for both of these
interests. 1t is true it has not
abolished the banking system and
repealed the laws controlling our
money issue, so that wildcat banks
could be established to swindle the
depositor, as they did before the war,
and so that there could be issued a
money which would be worth its face
nowhere, and while commanding one
price in one country only passed at so
much in the next country. 1t is true
that the sub-treasury scheme, which
would make the government the ridi-
cule of the world, has not been
established. The pension system has
not been broken down, and our
institutions have been maintained
and increased.
With all of these efforts, all these
accomplishments, and a determine
tion of the present administration to
do everything for the farmer and
laborer that safety and justice
demands aGd it is possible to accom-.
plish, and both of the old parties
filling their platforms full of pledges
to these interests it seems that the
farmer and laborer can get his dues
without casting adrift with a party
which is powerless to do anything.
and the life of which depends only
upon the intelligence of their rank
and file to uncover the raScalities and
selfshness of their leaders.
FALSE ECONOMY"
The merciless pounding which
ex-Speaker Reed gave Judge Holman
of Indiana in the house the other day
when he called attentieh of the
chairman of the committee on appro
priations to the fact that this demo
cratic house, which was pleased t.
referd to the last republican admins
tration OF congress as a ''Billion-Dol
lar Congress-" on account of larg'
expenditures, would exceed the appro
priations of two years ago by at leas
$40, OOO, 900, served to illustrate on,
fact. 1t showed the country that tn
affairs of the country should not ant
cannot be run with an eye single L
economy"
If it were not for the fact that tn
country is increasing in population
millions a year-if it were stand
ing still, as though time did not com
and go-there could bea fixed amour
for the government to spend eacl
year, and the expenses could be KEEP
down to that figure. But the forced
and natural Improvements an
enlargement of the country compe
enlarged expenses, and just so long a
the country goes forward in improve
ment and population the expense
will increase. There was no n VIII
knew these facts better than MI
Holman at the outsetof this congress
and no one was less surprised tina
he to awake to the fact that this wi
be much more than a "Billion-Dollar
congress, and yet when the sessio
began, last December, he caused {
have passed by this democratic hous
a resolution declaring that the apprt
priations should be reduced instea
of increased.
The excioriation of Chairman Ho
man and the immense increase {
appropriations will serve to put
stop to the demagogy about reducin
expenses to meet necessary demand.
when common-sense teaches in fave
of enlarged appropriations. Their
will be no more Pedagogical effort