Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-12-22
LOYAL REPUBLICANS.
MusTovERrHRowoEMocRATlc
CONSPIRACY.
Tho Concerted Assault of Bourbon De-
mocracy Upon tho Industry OF tho Coun-
try and the Independence Of the Tollers
Must BE Repulsed.
Tho Fight IL On.

lican minority in the Congress now in
session. A crisis graver tnan any this
generation has witnessed confronts
the American people. Since the be-
ginning of the civil war the Democracy
has been powerless to enact important
measures of national legislation. For
more than a third of o century Repub-
licanism has dominated the national
policy. In Mr.. Cleveland's first adj
ministration the Democratic party was
unable to reverse Republican princi-
pies, for a Republican Senate stsod, q
political Gibraltar, blocking the path
Of Democracy. The Democratic party
now controls all tho coordinate
branches of the Federal Government.
The last use it made Of the power it
formerly possessed was to conspire
against the unity Of the nation. The
first use 1t has made OF its new lease of
power is to strike at American indus
tries. The Republican minority, the
real representatives, as the late elec-
tions have shown, Of q vast majority of
the people, is the only safeguard
against the enactment of measure
that means the forfeiture of American
industrial independence and the beg
gary of millions of American citizens.
Sl0N0e
land tariff bill has been overwhelming.
Thousands of Democrats, engaged in
the productive industries North and
South, have earnestly protested against
this criminal scheme to ruin domestic
industries for the enrichment of foreign
mOnopolists. So unanimous has been
the expression of opinion against the
bill that the leading Democratic news
paper. of New York City hes been
forced to beg piteously that some good
Democrats would make public or send
to Washington an expression OF their
approval. to Offset, so far as possible,
the tremendous force of the popular
opposition. 1t may be safely assumed
that American workingmen, already
grievously injured by the threat Of free
trade, will not appeal to Congress to
cut down their wages still further and
reduce their families to wretchedness
and poverty. The next few weeks will
undoubtedly see the transmission of
hundreds Of petitions to Washington
protesting against the barbarous injust-
ice Of the new tariff scheme. But the
men who framed this measure and who
hope, by the aid of Administration pat
ronage, to force it through Congress,
care little for public opinion in the in
dustrial centers of the nation. Repre-
senting the worst traditions and the
most violent bigotry of the old South,
they are willing even to destroy the
rising industries OF their own States,
brought into existence by the enter
prise of the new South, if they can
prostrate the great in lustrial common
wealth of the North.
Public opinion can do much to sup
port and re-enforce the antagonists Of
the Cleveland tariff bill. But the actual
battle is to be fought out in the halls
of Congress. The country looks to the
Republicans of the House and the Sem
ate to resist, by all the tactics of oppo-
sition ana obstruction, the passage of
the bill to reduce the wages and de-
grade the manhood of American labor
to the European level. The New York
Press says it hopes to see many of the
Democratic Congressman whose home
industries are assailed by this iniqui-
tous bill standing firm in resistance to
its enactment. But whether this spec
tacle is presented or not, there can be
but one course for Republicans to fcl-
low. They must resist, by every means
in their power, the concerted assault
of Bourbon Democracy upon the in
dustries of the country and the inde-
pendence of its toilers