Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-15
When the Tide VIII Turn.

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In the history of q nation, as in hue
man affairs, there are periods when
troubles accumulate and press heavily
on all sides, when the future il dark
beyond compare and when hope fades
and despair takes possession of the
heart and mind. The nation that SUI.
wives such calamities is u superior ma
tion and the human being u man of
first quality. The advent of the Dem
ocratic party to power, March 4, 1893,
marked the beginning of the mos sud-
den change from industrial prosperity
to Industrial adversely ever known in
the economic history of any country.
In extent and rapidity Of action this
industrial devastation brings to mind
the havoc of modern warfare prosecute
ed with energy and force by the aid of
the most fearful and ingenious life and
property destroying implements. No
matter what the cause or
causes, this panic of distrust
and contraction has swept the coun-
try from the Pacific to the Atlantic
in an incredibly short space
of time and thrown its shadows
alike on every section of our broad do
main. Under its blighting effects pri-
vate fortunes have gone down, values
have shrunk, corporations have gone
to the wall, banks have closed their
doors, solvent firms have sought refuge
in the hands of receivers, great tinan-
cial institutions have resorted to OK
traordinary combinations in the hope
of stemming the almost resistless tide,
the people have taken alarm and
drained the savings banks of their de-
posits, orders for fall and winter conf
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communities OF wage arner have been
discharged from mines, mills, factories
and workshops.
In the face of financial gloom and de-
spair the tinanciers. the business men,
the captains of industry, have shown
courage, determination and the high
est order of patriotism. They have
risked their fortunes in efforts to stem
the current rapidly running against
them. They have kept open their
mills and factories until forced to close
for want of orders.
Labor has likewise acted heroically.
Reduction of wages has been accepted.
Factories have gone On half time with
out u protest from the employees, and
thousands are daily joining the mourn
full army of the unemployed with the
cherished hope that a few weeks will
bring about better times. Here and
there the cry has gone up for bread OF
work, and at such gatherings the So
cialistic spirit has naturally come to
the front. The hundreds of thousands,
however, suddenly emerging from q
long period of prosperity have not yet
felt the pinch of poverty. They are
peaceable and hopeful, and like the
business men of the country turn to
the party in power for some remedy.
to the party which promised so much
to the wage Garner
There were that an army of
$4,000 of the unemployed was on the
way to Washington. There is no dam
ger of this physical demonstration.
Unlike congressman, the unemployed
have no national Treasury to tap for
mileage and expenses. There is only
n army that will call the present
Congress and administration to ac-
count, and that is the mighty army of
American voters. Unfortunately, says
the New York Press, a year or moro
must elapse before that army takes the
field again. The party in power and
its responsible leaders will hear from
that army in the Congressional cleo
tions of 1894 i'll no unmistakable terms.
The tide that swept the Democratic
party in will carry it out again in 1896.
and the youngest of its statesmen will
never live to see the return to power of
the men who betrayed their country in
this serious period of its history.