Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-12-15
DEFEND THE HOMES.
BLOCK THE FREE TRADE TARIFF
BILL.
Republicans In Congress Should Use Every
Legitimate Means to Obstruct the Pas
sage cf the Tariff Reform Measure
Walter g. Gresham's Ailment.
The People pemantl n.


The People Demand It.
Wherever the people had an oppor
tunlty to speak on November Z they
condemned free trade. Wherever the
voice of American citizenship was per.
mitted to make itself heard, it uttered
an emphatic protest against the crime
and folly of striking down American
industry to serve the greed of foreign
monopolists. The mandate of the six
PENNSYLVANIA, Massachusetts,, New
Jersey. Ohio and Iowa was expressed
in unmistakable terms. Last year New
York voted for the Democratic ma
tional ticket by a plurality of 45,5ls.
This year. leaving out of account
the extraordinary. vote against May
nard, the Republican plurality In
New York is 24 1874. New JERSEY voted
for the Cleveland electors by plural-
ity Of IA, ,974. This month she declared
against free trade by plurality of
222, l32. Pennsylvania increased her
Presidential Republican plurality of
63. iG1 to plurality of l35, 1876. Massa-
chusetts increased her Republican plu-
rality from 26, 900 for Harrison to 35.6l3
for Greenhalge. Iowa, Republican by
22965 last year, is now Republican by
32,6s6. Ohio, which voted for tile
Harrison electors by only l,O72, gave
William Mckinley the magnificent
plurality of 81 ,347. Taken altogether,
the total Republican plurality in the
popular vote OF these six States in 1892
was 53,3l3. This year it is 33I, ,IOs
of people. They are the most inn
portant Industrial commonwealth in
the Union. They represent the high
est progress of American civilization.
The tariff was the issue in every one of
them. And they have declared with
the utmost emphasis that they do not
want the tariff repealed. Eight months
OF Clevelandism have increased the re
publican plurality in these States by
more than q quarter of a million. 1t is
certain that ii the voters of the re-
mainder OF the North and West could
have spoken. their verdict would
have been equally decisive. The
people have condemned Cleveland
ism. They have repudiated the
Democratic tariff programme Be-
trayed, impoverished, their factories
idle. their industries prostrated, their
homes threatened by want, their man
hood menaced by degradation, the
wage earners of America have risen in
their might and demanded that the in
iquitous work of industrial treason
shall halt. Their command, issued
through their ballots to the Congress.
is imperative and absolute. Every step
taken at Washington for the repeal of
the Mckinley law. every lowering of
protective duties. every addition made
to the free list, every blow to domestic
Industries, in whatever form it comes,
is i'll defiance of the peoples mandate
and in disobedience to the peoples
will.
Republicans in Congress should fight
the free trade infamy with every wes-
pom and at every step. They should
fight it in the name OF humanity, ius-
tice and patriotism: in the name of the
American manhood, American woman-
hood and American childhood. whom
it would beggar and debase: in the
name of the American homes it would
make desolate: i'll the name of the
American industrial independence it
would utterly destroy. The free trade
tariff bill is u measure of treachery UNI
paralleled in our history. 1t sweeps
away guarantees under which hum
dreds OF millions of capital have been
invested. and to whose maintenance
the nations faith is pledged. 1t de-
sstroys industries upon which the liveli-
hood OF multitudes of American citi-
zens depends. 1t outlaws the vast |
manufacturing interests of the United |
States with their six millions of en-
ployes, their five billions of capital and |
their annual return in wages of three |
Thousand millions oldollars.
Republicans in the House of Repre-
sentatives should use every legitimate
means of delay and obstruction in fight
ing the free trade wrecking bill. The
people whose homes and prosperity |
are at stake are behind them and will |
sustain them. When every resource
shall have been exhausted in the
House, every form of parliamentary
tactics used to the utmost limit in the |
work of resistance, and every possible
effort to minimize and weaken the
maasure made. it will be the duty and
the privilege of tho Republicans in the
Senate to take up the peoples battle
against their despoilers. The bill can
be delayed in the House. 1t can be
blocked absolutely in the Senate under
the rules governing that body, and
held there until the election of a Re-
The contest will be fierce and stubborn:
it will afford full opportunity for the
display of all the courage, energy and
patriotism which have wrested so many
Republican victories from the jaws of |
defeat; and it will be crowned with
ultimate triumph for protection and
Americanism if Republicans do their
duty.-Ncw York Press.
Stands by Protection.
In an address before the Home
Market Club in Boston Gov. McKinley |
said:
This year in Massachusetts, as in Ohio,
politics was business and business was poll.
tics, and unftedly triumphed. It was dis
covered that business rests upon confidence
to meet the wants of mankind. While the
wants of mankind are the great factor in our
industrial prosperity the ability to crafty
these wants ia essential Tho mann fnctnrnr