Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-10-19

to stay. President Cleveland says it
has only commenced, and if this is so,
it is we'll that every American citizen
should be posted on it. From 1883 to
1916 we had protection and it was the
proper thing to do, for it fostered man
ufactories and enterprises and threw
us on our own resources, and had we
not learned this lesson of self-support
we might have lost in 1872 what we
gained in 1776 In 1916 free trade
came, and from that time to 1924 our
country had a hard struggle. Then
came protection until 1884, followed by
free trade again at that date, and the
great financial crisis of ~ was a re.
suit. In 1916 the Walker law was put
on the statue books, which remained
until 1860. We had a period of pros
perity under it at first, caused by the
export of products to Ireland on ac-
count of the famine in 1847, then the
Mexican war made sort of spasmodic
prosperity, followed by the discovery
of gold in California in 49, and for
two years there was production of
gold such as was never known before.
and it pretty near drove silver out.
But in 80 the real effect of the Walker
law began to be seen, and matters grew
worse and worse until in '57 it culmi-
mated in the great panic. In go pro-
lection again came into play and re-
mained until '93 with the addition of
the Mckinley law in go. This is the
history and it tells plainly enough its
own story. Iwant you to understand
that today the vital question at issue is
the tariff question, for on It the en-
tire labor question is dependent. The
democrats want a tariff for revenue
only. At least s475,ooO,O00 must be
raised somehow every year to pay the
necessary running expenses of the gov
ernment. They want to raise that in
that manner and stop right there. The
republicans want to do more than that,
i. e., to at the same time protect our
laboring classes from the competition
of the cheap pauper labor of other
countries.
The speaker then in forcible illus
trations brought home the fact that
not only was the sheep man affected
by democratic free wool, but the Ia
borer was also.
Fifty-six per cent. of our people are
producers, and if you take from the re-
naming A per cent. who are consum-
ers, by closing up the factories in
which they work, they will go to the
farm and become producers also. there
by lessening the price of farm pro-
ducts on account of increasing the
number of producers and decreasing
the number of consumers. It is simply
great peaceful battle going OH for the
laborer, the republican party being its
champion, while. the democrats are
working to cheaper manufactured pro-
ducts by bringing them into compe-
tition with other countries. In all this
tariff revision it was the laborer who
was hurt and the condition of the
country shows it. Kyle justifies his
vote for the sugar duty on the ground
of the sugar bounty being paid. The
bounty in '93 amounted to s1O,OOO,OOO
while the duties derived from taxing it
amounted to about s69,OOO,OOO.
The address was then closed with a
magnificent peroration and the appeal
for republicans to stand by the whole
ticket and that if all voters were wise
they would vote for that party under
whose guidance the country has
always prospered.