Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-12-22
PICTURES FROM HISTORY.

i VIC w uoe lot luOMeuI QuSS.
ton the sincerity of the opinions
of loyal American citizens concern
ing the tarif-whether protection
or free trade be the adopted policy
OF the country. The highest aim
and ambition of each should be to
do that which will be of the great
est benefit to the greatest number
of American citizens, and to the
nation. Therefore it is our duty
to consider these questions fairly
and reasonably. The STAR regards
the tariff question of serious i'm
portance to the best interests OF
this country. This country is now
passing through crisis similar to
that brought about by change in
tariff policy of the country in 1886.
! That our readers may clearly un-
derstand and appreciate the SINH
larity of the predictions and results
of those days to those of the present
time, and therefore the more plain
ly realize the Importance of sus.
tanning the protective theory, we
quote from the New York Tribune
of July 29, 1886, the following
PREDICTIONS:
"'rhe tariff bill of Walker and AlcKa,
takes effect Dec. !, and rs the law
of the land it is hel,ceforth TO he obry.
ed bv all. We bell. We the change Just
made entirely wrong--yet we shall stu
diously avoid "pan C MAJ ing" When
the c. isis has bern met with mamful
resolution. we apprpl,end that there
will be quite disaster enough. suffering
enough because of this great national
mistake. We fear that thousands upon
thousands who would have heen st4adi
ly employed and comfortably situated
during the ensuing winter. if this bill
had not passed. wi now be destitute. of
employment and dependent upon chari
ty for bread.'
Then look on the following pic
ture after that free trade policy had
been in vogue a few years, as told
by the New York Tribune of Ian.
IS. 1855:
FULFILLMENT:
"Whu is hungry? 60 and see. You
that are fulfilled and know moi what Il
il to he hungry perhaps never SAW IL
hungry man go and see. Go ami SEE.
tI'ousa .ldsm eli and women, boys aud
girls, "ld and Young. black and white vi
all nations. crowdlng and jostling each
Otll-r, almost lighting for Il first chance.
arting more like hungry wolves thar,
human beings in Il land of plenty. II
is only by li- continuous efforts of two
policemen that the crowd can be kept
in order or made to wait till the food is
ready for distribution. Such Il seen,
may be seen every day hetwern 4; and
O'clock around tile corner of Orange.
and Chatham streets. where charity
gives IL dinner tn the poor, and soup
and bread to others to- carry to their
miserable families. On Saturday up
wards of thousand people were f.d
with "a pate of soup. Il piece of bread
and ~ pi-cc of meat, Oh tile premises,
and in all more than 1000. On the same
day 1880 portions of soup were dealt out
from Slewart's ''soup kitchen" in the
rear oi tile great store. AT the rooms
OH duane street for the relief of the
poor, OIL tile same day, they gave food
to 225ti. In the Sixth ward alone over
5000 persons were fed by charity. Aud
this is only one day in one ward. Mean
while. scenes "f Il like nature are being
enacted all over the city. A procession
Of several thousand persons kept march,
ing about the streets yesterday, with
flags and banners which bore such III
scrip,iuns as Hunger is a Sharp thorn"
"'rle Last Recourse" "I.iv- and Let
Live" 1--WE Want Work." etc. Such
are the srenes that are being enacted
daily before our eyes, while the cry of
Ii .rd times reaches us from every part
of the country. Fact, ry hands. road
makers, carpenters. bricklayers and la
burers are idle, paralysis is rapidly en-
bracing every pursuit in the country.
Tie cause of all this s oppage of circu-
lation is to be found in the steady out
flow of gold to pay foreign labOrers fOr
the cloth. the shoes, the iron and the
other things that cDuld be produced by
American labor, Tut which cannot ue
SO produced under our present revenue
system. If We could stop the import
"f the foreign articles. the gold would
cease to flow out to pay for them, and
m..ney would then again become more
abundant. labor wOul,i Il Ell again be in
demand. shoes, clothing, and other
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