Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1894-09-28
The Farmers Leader
SENATOR GALLINGER TALKS
The New Hampshire Yankee talks on
Tariff and Protection but Not
Word About Transporta-
ton or Money.
He Tells Some Miserable Ealsehoods and
Pleads for Protection and Said
Tariff Is Not q Tax.

A fair sized audience assembled In
Bedford Hall Monday afternoon to hear
New Hampshire representative in the
United States Senate talk politics, aud
we are convinced that his speech was a
sad disappointment to the people present,
and especially so to the republicans. 1t
was a rambling review of high tariff, low
tariff and free trade, with figures enough
from his note book to confuse every man
in the room. He made grand effort tc
show the evil results of free trade in this
country between 1883 and $780, just
after the revolution. He referred to this
subject nine different times during his
harangue. just think of the time anc
the circumstances for comparison 1888
! 1889. He discussed tariff from 1888 uI
| to 1894, and we are we'll satisfied tha
there was not one person who heard hin
who knows any more about the tariff
now than he did before, and if there is
just one republican who learned anything
new or learned anything worth knowing
from Gallingers speech, we want him tc
tell us what it is.
Galllnger wants protection for his
manufacturing industries down in New
Hampshire, and he wants the great pro:
ducing west 10 foot the bills.
Galllnger must take the people OF
South Dakota TO be ignorant. He had
the braZen impudence to tell an intelli-
gent people that the tariff is not a tax.
Galllnger knows better or else he don't
know much.
The people Of the United States are
paying about eight hundred and fifty
million dollars Il year as tariff tax on
everything they eat, wear and use; and
the poor laborer has to pay dearly as
much of this tax as the millionaire.
Everything you buy in the stores is tax
ed for the benefit Of the manufacturers
down east and Gallinger warts the peo-
pie to keep on paying this blood money
that the millionaire protected lords of
the east may roll in spleDdor and laugh
at the misery of the common people.
We are sorry to be compelled to speak
harshly Of the man, a man who should
have respect enough for his position to
at least tell the truth. He deliberately
misquoted census figures and lied about
the billions Of money demanded by the
populists. He made the statement that
the populists demanded a paper issue Of
fifty-one billion of money, but he failed
to continue the lie far enough to tell what
they were going to do with it. CALM
ger talk may SulG JnOSc pour, Hall SthlS-
ed factory slaves OF his down east. but
he is lust the man to make votes for the
populists in this state.
Gallinger is genuine Wall street gold
bug, who believes in the English money
standard, hates a greenback. despises
silver and wants the great producing
people OF the west to pay tribute to the
projected industries Of the east.
He jumped onto the whisky trust and
incidentally mentioned the sugar trust
Every trust in the country was created
and fostered while republicans were in
power. He didn't say much about trusts
and didn't say why the whisky trust was
protected (?) He said the tariff wasn't a
tax and cited steel rails and wire nails rs
an evidence that the tariff was benefit
The great mineral wealth of this country
was developed after the war. and machin-
cry and American energy did the rest
He had the brass to tell us a tariff re-
duced rails from Sl2S to S32 per ton,
and that this same tariff reduced the
price of wire nails Gallinger can stand
up before an American audience and
manipulate the truth better than any
ward heeler in Chicago.
Gallinger didn't speak about free coin
age He dare not.
Gallnger did not say one word in favor
of government ownership Of railroads.
He dare not.