Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-09-27
~P'|!!i's|!.sse, Discussed
Protection, Prosperity, Con-
tentment, Progress, and
Republicanism are
Synonymous.
comparison of Figures-East VS.
West-Which knocks the Pop
Calamity Iowlers into
A Cooked Hat.
Expense Of Running the State under
Republican Rule Consider
aole Less than the
Pops Rule.

The Hon. RobertJ. Gamble, Republican
candidate for congress, delivered an ad-
dress at the opera house, on Monday
evening to a fair sized audience. The
address was plain but bristIed from start
to finish with good points and sound
logic. He referred to the great prosperity
OF the United States during Republican
rule and protection, and 10 the condition
OF the country when the Republicans
took hold Of it in 1861, down to 1892,
when the Republican party lost complete
control and the democrats gained the
president and both houses OF congress.
He referred to the fact that the democrats
in their platform and from the stump, in
1892, proclaimed that all protection
laws should be wiped from our statue
books and that the country is today
reaping the result OF that threat; that
during protection, the highest wages in
the world We're paid to the laboring man
and it was then that the tiIlcr OF the soil
received the highest prices for his
product. He referred to the fact that to-
day there are but practically two nation
al parties-the democratic and Republi-
can, that the populist party is in effect "a
local affair; that in the election this
| month in Vermont, there was less than
800 votes cast in the whole state, while
| the Republicans carried the state by over
10000, and in the state of Maine when
the Republicans carried the state byover
10000 majority, there was less than
5000 populist votes cast. The speaker
truthfully said that the populist party
was nothing more than "a tail to the
democratic kite. The populist claims to
be n party OF principle but in this state
the leaders of the populist party and the
| democrats were trying to fuse-in North
| Dakota and other states they havefused.
Where is the principle in that, except the
principle of getting Office? Thepopulists
by fusing have trampled all their alleged
reform principles in the dust. Senator
Kyke has acted with the democrats
right through from the beginning-even
voting with the democrats for the fraud
ulent & trust and for raising the
price of sugar.
The speaker further said that the pop
ulists were crying the east against the
west and that Mr.. Knowles, thepopulist
candidate for congress, was going over
the state with u blackboard making
figures showing the wealth OF Massachu-
sets as compared with the Dakotas and
other states. The speaker said this
was unfair and unjust to compare the
wealth of New England with these new
states, but that it was better tocompare
the increase in wealth between the east
and west from 1880 to 1890. The in
crease in wealth in the whole OF the New
England States from 1880 TO 1890 was
1904, 600. 900 while it was in the two
Dakotas alone $644,000, 600. but that
this was not a just comparison because
the Dakotas were settled during that
time.
Mr.. Gamble went on and showed that
in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Michigan and other states,
where the comparison is just and lair,
that the ~increasein individual wealth is in
favor OF the western; that the average
wealth of each person in Massachusetts,
il & 1.252, New Jersey $1,000, Penhsyl-
vania $1,117, New Hampshire $500,
while i'm South Dakota the average
wealth OF each individual is Sl,293, Ne
braska s1,2O5, Minnesota $1,000, aud
Oregon 1852, thus showing that the
west has increased in wealth ~ fast as
the east and that all this cry OF the east
AGAINST the west il raised for the purpose
OF getting votes without reference to the
truth.
The sneaker further said that a great
cry il being made that the appropriations
made by the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
legislature OF 1891, was less than the re-
publican IL legislature OF 1893, thereby try
ing TO show that the expense oil running
tbe state IN 1891 and 1892 was less than
in 1898 and 1894, because the appropri-
ations in the first two years was smaller
than in the last two, but MIR. Gamble
held in his hand nm official report
the Auditor OF this state, showing the
actual amount paid out in 1917 ana
1899 as expense for running the state