Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-08-12
The query with us is, what kind of

Il conditions II eXlstance in the
world, and people can iud almost any.
thing to their liking. But the actual
condition has probably not been
summed up in any more forcible man.
ner than by Gov. Mckinley in his
recent speech at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
when he said:
The period from 1850 to 1860 is
pointed out by the Democratic orator
as the golden era. If it was, / pray
God that he may put no more golden
efas upon the prosperity of the Ameri-
can people.
We not only had no Industries at
home, but no money in the treasury.
After fourteen years of Democratic
revenue tariff, we couldn't sell our
bonds and finally the Democratic
Secretary of the Treasury sent q
message to Congress asking Congress
to ask the States-puny States-to en-
dorse the bonds of tine Government that
they might be sold. Think of the
Government of the United States
asking the States to 70 its bail. We
don't have 10 have an indorser now.
We can borrow all the money we want
AT 81 per cent instead of 6 per cent,
with a discount. and we can receive a
premium. We can borrow it upon a
single name, and that name the United
States of America. They say things
would be cheaper if we had free trade.
While we are breaking down our
home industries things would he a little
cheaper, but after they We're broken
down prices would go up. You can
have free trade prices in this country
when you are willing to accept free
t:aie conditions. Everything is cheap
in China, but We don't want Chinese
prices with Chinese conditions. want
TO tell you that there is nothing cheap
in this world that leaves unemployed
American laborers. There is nothing
cheap in this world that leaves un-
developed the great, rich. raw materi-
ais that God Almighty has placed in
our hills for the use of man. They
say if they only had the raw materials
free they could go out and capture the
worlds markets. lMw material free;
we get it TO them in this new tariff
law, and they don't seem to have
caught on yet. Let them 90 out and
capture the worlds markets. We
never had anything but raw material
under Democratic revenue tariff, and
lis was the rawest of the raw.
They say this protective tariff law is
a Chinese wall around this country.
We have done more foreign business
under it than we ever did before; but
it was made for the people and for no
body else. And if | didn't like it for
any other reason in the world, | would
like 1T for the enemies it has. There
is not a man who hates our country's
flag but hates that law. Every line in
this law is patriotic; every paragraph
is protective: every phrase is dedicated
to the American boy, the American
girl, and the higher and better posi-
blllties of American citizenship and
American civilization. The campaign
~prevaricator is out of business. We
know now what we pay for things and
we don't have to ask tile stump orator.
His occupation is gone
Il X =
sPrevio,s To the year 1916 England was en,ov-
inr II high protective tariff. = 4 Thirty Years
of free trade reduced the number of able bodied
pailpers % per cent. THAT locks bad, doesn't it:
And tl'is unhappy condition is growing all the
time. Wages have been steadily on the increase.
and the condition of the laboring classes steadily
improving. -Natcllet.
While it may be rather a bold stroke
for the STAR to question the knowledge
of the Hatchet editor concerning En-
gland, for we must admit that we
obtain our information from
history and the observations of others,
rather than by personal experience,
yet when we quote such good demo.
cratic authority as Henry George our
contemporary can scarcely believe that
we attempt to contradict it with
blemished arguments. Here is what
MIR. George says of protection in Great
Britain:
"Ihe protective theory has certainly
the weight of most general acceptance.
Forty years ago all civilized countries
based their policy upon it; and, though
Great Britain has since discarded it,
she remains the only considerable
nation that has done so, while not only
have her " colonies, as soon as they
nave obtained the powder. shown a
disposition to revert to it, but such a
disposition has been growing in Great
Britain herself.
The only sense in which we can
properly speak of"Brit;sh free trade"
is the same sense in which we speak of
a certain metal known as German
silver british free trade is spurious
free trade. Great Britain does not
really enjoy free trade. To say
nothing of internal taxes, inconsistent
with true free trade, she still maintains
a Gordon of custom house officers.
coast guards, and baggage s~earchers.
and still collects over a hundred million
of dollars of her revenue from import
duties. To be sure, her tariff is ..for
revenue only but a tariff for venue
only is not free trade. The ruling
classes of Great Britain have interests,
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