Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-06-15
THE SOUTH SEEKS PROTECTION American Ecouom,st

of Grover Cleveland. Statistics show
ing the ces alton OF production, the
depreciation of values, and the reduce
tlon OF wages are not needed to impress
tho situation upon the people. Expert
ence has driven the les on home in ev-
cry community and every hou ehold.
From the new commemorative that
look out upon the Pacific to the long
established Eastern States whose soil
was trolden by tho feet of the Pill
grim; two centuries and q half ago,
from the border line of Canada to the
sheep ranches of Texas, the depres-
sion of every firm of business. the
stagnation of every kind of industry,
and the gradual c%ontiscation of the
Esoperty of American citizens have
hsen the familiar features OF national
life.
With incalculable which
are only beginning to be unlocked:
with seventy millions of the most en-
lightened, industrious and progressive
people on earth: with the most com.
pr hensive and perfect equipment for
manufacturing in existence, tho Unit
ed State; has steadily grown poorer
for the past fourteen months. The
achievement OF the American people
in providing for the enormus expendi-
tnre required for the suppression of
the rebellion has excited the wonder
of FORE n statesmen and aroused the
admiration OF foreign economists. Yet
the pecuniary loss of the last few
months is greater than the three thou
sand millions of the national debt
which was piled upon the shoulders of
the nation by the most gigantic civil
war on record. The mighty contest
which convu' sed the country for four
years was less expensive in dollars and
cents than the misru'e of Grover
Cleveland and the Democratic party
Tor a year and a quarter.
There is no danger that the people
will forget these things. They have
been branded on mind and heart too
deeply to be effaced. But it is esscn-
tial that their full import should be
constantly borne in mind by Northern
Senator's at Washington. The people
of the North have gone to the polls
and demanded by Overwhelming ma
j~orities that protection should be up
held and prosperity restored. They
have demanded that the Mckinley law
shall be maintained. They have de-
clared with ominous emphasis that no
Northern Senator who fails to oppose
the Democratic scheme of treason and
spoliation can look dor honor or prefer.
ment at their hands. Never in the an
nails of this republic has the will of
the nation been more unlnist Akablv ex-
pressed at the ba lot-box. Never have
the commands of the voters been m,ie
explicit or more imperative. Never.
has the path of honor, of duty and of
patriotism been made more plain for
the elected repre- :entatives of tho
American people.
The tariff bill now before the Senate
would be ridiculous if it were not de-
testab.e and contemplate if it were
not dangerous. The very men who
support it under the parry lash despise
it. The leading Democratic newsf q.
pers of the country brand it as the
product of corruption and tire schery.
An open free trade bill would at lea t
be Ineligible. A bill putting all raw
materials on the free list would at least
be consistent. Both would be parni-
cious and destructive. Both would de-
serve and receive solid Republican OPP
position. But the nondesc, ipt c-m-
pound Of barter and sectional revenge
the fourth or fifth in the succession
Of tariff bills brought forward by the
Democratic managers in the last six
months-has not even the merit of
consistency. It bears the same rela-
ton to an avowed free trade measure
which the sneaking guerrillas who
fought from ambush and whose sole
object was plumber, bore to the Com
federate ermies who faced the soldiers
Of the North In the open field. The
guerrtllas received no quarter. The
guerrilla bill for the destruction of
Northern industries deserves none.
The Bourbon smteasure eisslUGsly- de-