Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-05-25
! should BE- possessed OF . devil, and run
violently down Q steep place into the
triumph of tha Trusts.


Tariff bill the third has been pre-.
pared by the Democratic managers.
OF the Wilson bill 1t now hardly is
necessary to speak; 1t is dead. mutilat-
ed, and mangled. trampled upon and
denied Christian burial by those who
should have been its champions, the
Chicago Inter Ocean says. 1t was the
first, and it will be the last, of country
school teachers tariff bills. Where Is
David A. Wells? Where is that incor-
porated lie, the alien importers club,
that called itself the New York Re-
form League? Where is the STAR
Eyed Goddess? Where IRE the sappy
gentlemen that followed in her train
and that composed her masquerading
court: Why do we not hear their
voice of lamentation? Why do they
sit in dumb despair?:
Bill the third shouts defiance to tho
Democratic tariff resolution of 1882.
That said: We declare it to he a fun
damental principle of the Democratic
party that the Federal government has
no constitutional power to enforce and
collect tariff duties, except for pur.
poses of revenue only" Bill the third
proceeds upon the assumption that
revenue is q secondary consideration in
tariff legislation
Bill the first made coal. iron and
sugar free OF duty. Bill the second
imposed duties on all OF them, avowed-
~ for the purpose of protection. Bill
the third increases the measure of pro-
lection afforded by bill the second.
Bill the first made serious reductions
in tho duties on cotton goods. Bill
the second modified those reductions.
Bill the third makes still moro prptec-
tive notifications. 1t is thus ali along
the line of the go products of mines,
mills and factories. Any and every
thing made or produced BY capitalists
anything and everything of Southern
origin is protected. Northern labor
and Northern agriculture are about
the only things deprived wholly of
protection. The Northern wage-earn-
er is deprived by bill the third of the
blessing of cheap sugar that the Me-
kinley law bestowed upon him: the
Northern farmer is deprived of pro-
lection to his wool.
The Northern manufacturer of WOOL
en- goods, after being bated with free
raw material" smarts under the
springs of the Democratic tariff trap,
which are SO adjusted as to give more
protection to the lower grades OF cot
IOnE goods than was contemplated by
bill the second, while diminishing the
duties on imported woolens. But the
Northern manufacturers of wool were
not united; part of them went astray
after free raw material" The South
ern manufacturers of low-grade cot
tons hung together" ana by so doing
obtained not only "free raw MATERIAL
but increased duties.
Bill the first was sectional, bill the
second was moro SO, bill the third is
the most sectional that can be devised.
1t is protective to Southern industries,
protective to trusts, oppressive to agri.
culture, menacing to several of the
more important Northern manufac.
lures, and blighting to the prospects
of white labor. 1t is a bill of lodges
we cannot dignity them by the title OF
expediencies-it is a compromise be-
tween the idiocies of Wisconsin and
Wellsism and the trickeries of back
stairs legislation. 1t will not bear de-
bate; if passed it will be passed under
gag rule, and if thus passed will i'm
crease the lack of confidence in com
mercial conditions. 1t is q measure
wholly devoid of stability.