Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22
nomination of a Republican candidate

OF a Republican candidate
for the presidency, at Minneapolis,
must be fought by the Republican party
on the line of protection to American
industry. There Will be skirmishing
about the silver question, but the SUI
preme issue of the contending parties
will be protection and tree trade.
These issues are beyond the power of
the press or the politicians to avoid or
to prevent. If the Democrats should
nominate Hill the Democratic issue
would be tree trade, as surely as if
Cleveland were the nominee, though
in such case the tilnorous and tricky
Boulanger of Tammany would try to
mask the real intent of his candidacy
by the pretense of 'taritf reform.h
But ne would be unable to make his
feint successful. The temper of his
lieItenants and troops is too impetuous
Ohio 81 o'I S1igs sden from Matte sr1% iiI Rens
lucky corps. from the legions of Missis-
sippi, and from the firm though scanty
ranks of Florida and South Carolina
there will rise Il yell of clown with
the infamous tariff" as soon as
the first gun is fired. "TariA re-
FORM is far too weak a phrase to ex-
press the Democratic hatred of the pro-
tective% principle. And in like manner,
were it possible for Republican con-
vention to select a tiinorous or n tricky
person for its candidate, the mass of the
Republican party is resolute ON accom-
pllshing, q victory for protection. 1t
will peal the battle cry of protection,
whether its commanding general will
OF no. "Reciprocity" cannot be sub
stituted for protection. For without
protection there could be no reciproci-
ty. The latter is an incident of the for
mer. We shall have to fight to the bat
tie cry of Harrison and protection, or
Mckinley and protection, or Sherman
and protection, or Blaine and protec-
ton. We shall not fight to the cry of
Blaine and reciprocity-not at all. If
MIR. Blaine goes before the country at
all it will be as a pr~otectionist, not as a
reciprocityist. For. as we have said, if
there were no protection there could be
no reciprocity.
The instinct of the people is shrewder
than the acquired skill of the politician.
1t would be folly, were it practicable,
as most surely it is not, to strive to make
the incident of reciprocity a more prom
inent issue than protection, which is
the OF the incident. For while
reciprocity. has added something to the
area of our markets and done something
to increase the volume of our commerce.,
Its results are insignificant when com-
pared to those of protection. OF the
nearly $4,000, 900 which represents the
increase of our exports during the first
year of full operation of the old tariff,
comparatively little, certainly not more
procity. Reciprocity has added its
millions. but protection has added its
hundreds of millions to the nationsl
wealth.
We can go to the people with a state,
vested in new mills and factories, or in
the enlargement of old ones, since the
passage of the Mckinley bill, with
proof of thousands of men employed in
new industries, with lists of firms and
corporations that have increased the
wages of their employees, and with evil
dence of lower "prices on account
ofthe tariff"
The battle-cry must be Protection,
and the watchwords Protection and
Victory.