Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-12-02
A POLITICAL LOVE FEAST.
Prominent Republicans Have &
Season of Rejoicing.
They Wero the Guests Of tho Home Marke'
Club OF 6oston...M Mokinlsy and Tom
Reed Were There and
Took Part.

BosToN, Nov. 25.-Twelve hundred
Republicans sat down to love feast in
the lig Mechanics hall Friday evening
The galleries about the hall were crowd.
ed with several thousand mere. while
the mir was alive with enthusiasm. Gov
Mckinley Of Ohio was on the speaker.
stand. Tom Reed of Maine was there
also. and ut his side was Governor-elec
Greenhalge Of Massachusetts,. Governor
Fuller of Vermont and Congressman
Cousins Of Iowa, were in the midst OF
them. Collector Beard, the old Repub
lican warhorse of Massachusetts, wa,
present and by his side sat the venerable
Senator Hoar. President Bent of the
Home Market club was in the center of
them all After dinner he opened the
speech making with brief address. He
then introduced Senator George +. Hoa,
as the first speaker.
Applause Shook the Great Hall.
He was followed by Governor. elect
GreenlaGe who paid glowing tributes to
Mckinley and Tom Reed. At ths close
of his remarks Governor Mckinley was
introduced. He was received enthus
iastically and the applause shook the
great hall to its very foundation. He
said. This year in this state as il
..6hio business and politics unitedly
triumphed. It was discovered business
rests on confidence and certainty, and
industry is only the agency to meet the
wants of man. While the wants OF
mankind are the greater factor in our
industrial prosperity, the ability to graf
ify these wants is essential. The manu-.
facturer makes cloth because the mer-
chant will buy il and can give ample
wants it because his customers want il
and are able to pay him for his invest.
ment with profit. If the great con.
suming classes ars cut of in their in.
come and wages, the merchants
sales decline, and when this
occurs. the manufacturers orders
decline and when they decline,
the demand for labor declines
and the workman's wages decline. II
capital cannot get prof. out of its in
vestment it cannot work. and if capital
does not work, labor is idle. When
labor is idle, wages reach the lowest
point. even to the few who are em-
ployed. Capital must have faith in the
future. 1t must be able to calculate on
the future. The too common expression
that the tariff conld not affect business
is little heard now.
The Democratic Prescription.
"'More foreign goods, and more easily
to be obtained is the prescription
offered by the Democrats as sure to re.
open our idle mills. Will it helpl Will
1t do itf Free trade cannot rekindle the
fires in our factories. Free trade can
not increa, our production at home.
Nobody advocates it with any such
view. It's whole aim is TO increase for.
eign importations, which increase must
Of necessity diminish like domestic
production.
"The free trade congress is fearful
menace to the industrial interests of the
country. ! sound the note OF warning
here tonight, 1 wish it might reach
every corner of the country, that every
reduction of the tariff will be followed
by reduction of wages, that every cut
in the tariff rates will be followed by
cut in wage rates. A reduction in the
tariff will be instantly felt"
Has Great Hope for the Future.
Congressman Thomas b. Reed next
spoke. He said: "We have II glorious
victory, but that is only the beginning
of the war. We have three years be-
fore US, three years of sober endeavor.
We must not let the intoxication OF
victory overcome Us. have the great.
est hope for the future. No one sup
posed tho result would be so tremen-
dous. In Massachusetts there was pre-
vented the establishment of a dynasty
OF Russels. Iowa stands firmly in the
Republican party and New York, which
we had given up as irredeemable with
out Il special act of grace, gave up by
the simultaneous will Of its people and
joined the ranks Of the Republican
party"
Other speakers were Congressman
Cousins OF Iowa, and Hon. William
Chance of New York.