Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-06-22

Alive to Their Own beat 1ntereata the
Next Congress VII Settle tho Question
OF Hard Times.
Restore the Mckinley Law.
The Dolgeville IN. W Herald has
received from n of its readers a let
ter, inclosing his subscription for an
other year, in which he writes:
II is harder to get tnese So I send you
than 1t wus to get ten twOyears ago. am
q farme and out OF debt. and I believe my
case is a fair sample OF all tho farmers
throughout tho great State OF Now York
all property on tho shrink. Please tell US
when the end will come.
We cannot, of course, name the ex-
act date when the prevailing depres-
sion will end, says the editor IN reply,
but it is safe to say that it will last
until the farmers and workingmen re-
store to power the party that is
pledged to protect their respective in
dustries. 1t will not end with the on.
aetment of the tariff bill now pending
in the United States Senate, that is
sure, although the Democratic organs
persist in declaring that tho Wilson,
Noorhees-Go German atrocity is framed
in the interests of farmers and
workingmen. Let us see how it
will benefit the farmers. In the first
place, it will save; American farmers
the trouble of raising sheep for wool.
They can kill off their iocks and send
them to market to be sold as mutton.
The proceeds thus derived can be laid
WHY be be' s sasa'e viii gISe the f arms, -
more leisure. In the second place,
American farmers will have no further
occasion to ra Sc hay. Hay being on
the free list, Canadian farmers, with
the cheap labor of Canada, will be
able to supply all their needs. This
will give our farmers still more leisure.
Eggs, milk, butter and cheese being
on the free list, why should the Ameri-
can farmers worry about raising chick
ems and COWS or making dairy products,
when the Canadian farmers are not
only willing, but eager to take all that
labor and worry off their hands.
The bill, on the whole, will enable
Canadian farmers to flood our markets
with the produce that formerly consti-
tuted the basis of the prosperity of
IL own husbandmen. The Canadian
farmers will be very busy, while ours
will have nothing 10 do. Then when
the American farmers have spent all
the money acquired from tho sale of
VlC1i oAOCP, G1Cy CdA luOIOHdSO Ul1ClE
farms to the Canadians and still live in
idleness: only there is the inevitable
foreclosure in prospect. AS the A.meri-
can farmers Will not be abe to com
pete with the Canadians, where will
they obtain money with which to buy
clothing, books and other comforts and
luxuries? We are sorry to say the bill
does not provide for that. II simply
seeks to give them leisure. The Can
adams may be willing to send over
their secondhand clothing and books.
They ought to be when we make them
q present of our whole market. So
much for the farmers.
We think that the workingmen
know that the bill seeks to give them
q plenty of leisure also. When the
factories and mills shut down again,
because they cannot compete with the
cheap products of European manu-
fa%cturers, u workingmen will have
time to hang around street orner
and discuss the prosperity they form
policy Of protection. The bill will
clothing that can be bought very
cheaply. But where will the work.
ingman get money with which to buy
even the very che ap clothing if he has
no work? Unfortunately, the bill
makes no provision for that. 1t sim
ply provides that in America tho work.
ing people shall revel in leisure and
poverty, while in Europe the wage
earners must slave night and day for a
pauper's pittance.
The end of adversely will come when
the principle Of protection again pre-
walls; when the American husDandman
raises the wool used by Am rican man.
ufacturers in making clothing for
American workingmen; when the
products of the soil are sold to Ameri-
can consumers, and when our own home
markets are closed to the products of
foreign cheap labor. Our correspond
emit can judge as to how o 10 this de-
voutly to be desired contamination can
be reached. A new Congress is to be
elected next fall. and If the farmers
and workingmen are alive to their own
best interests. the next Congress will
be one whose first act will be to restore
the Mckinley law, under which they
formerly prospered so abundantly.