Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-11-02

eWocSatic party. uiSheveled and torn.
'nt!nucs to promise. But there is mo-
ason why the Democratic Leaders should
OF making promises as long us the public
Ill take them. They will never be re-.
emed. We Republicans cannot com.
,es' We expect to pay our promises
Vice President Of the United States
$ seen lit to slorify his party much over
ee lumber and ua,axed homes. Time
~ snow. but 1 venture the prediction
NJ the Kansas and Nebraska farmers
III nave no cheaper homes. In the long
IN the small products of Canada cannot
ctate the price exceDt On the b .rlcrs
mere much troutls will ensue. but In tho
ID tho tarin tax which won't into the
uited States Treasury. will be found in
% treasury Of Canada. while the Western
rmsr. with wheat ut 90 cents In Chicago.
III md that the cheap home. which he
'es M ret. will DO far from a happy ono
ie Vice President adOrnS his speech with
phrase which gives me calm and solemn
" He says his party should lie admin-
ereo nv its friends Its friends? Who
. they? The Democrats? Why. after u
'st careful reading OF all tho Democratic
ought the Senate bill was a founding laid
the party door-steps by base pe;sons
10 werc going to lie incontlnently
ummed out of the family.
But ] had not finished what I had tc say
excuse OF the Democratic failure to
~ - SEouU III SlOTUuIloO w ttlS y'EUus
attic party has always been its Southern
inection-not the South. but the Scuth-
Democrats. AGAINST the South. I have
= one word to say. The South in time
IL right itself. TN good work has be-
n In Louisiana and will s"read. In the
'antime. the Southern Democracy arc
control. BY virtue Of thor majority in
rty councils, they hold tho keys Of honor
q advancement. The Northern Domo-
its would not destroy our industrial, sys-
n. They are too familiar with lite thriv-
Villages and great cities. Not SO tho
doctrines OF McDufRe and free trade.
'eir workinzmen needed no advance
mt ana could have no wages. for they
re slaves. From this state of feeling
ey have never graduated. 1'hcy have
idea how our Northern Industrial sys-
ence Why should they COVER us by
use OF the machinery Of the
fty? II they were in the majority
'mselvcs that would then DO right.
unset no sectionalism. All say is the
'nority should not govern. In saying
$ i am not appealing to Republican
at might seem both sectional and parti-
n. am appealing to Northern Demo-
pats not to allow party discipline 10 pre-
ut them from living up to thcir real
e''nions. and Southern patriots not Co be
met their " interests ut the beck of
,,o . who are riding in power on the false
We. that the North or any portion of IL
crates to govern them in any matters out
c;n,of federal obligation. or oven inside.
pt by lawful or constitutional maiori.
wor 1 have said nothing OF FOUR local
We % aud did not mean to AS a citizen
atne. 1 have my opinion, with no right
plesterfcrence But rs IL citizen of the
@ iied States. of which o are a most
srful single party. l have q right To
prl' you to rise with all the owe and
paSkv nj fh0 Epns NtRn GtNHn orH -.
'p out of place and position those who
oVee assumed to control the great Cow
MS 4oent without either the courage 20 con-
1T manfully OF the wisdom to preserve
TO ON ruin.
% The Loss of Billions.
anoae American Economist has re-
thiscd replies from manufacturers
begdent in thirty-nine States and Ter
;rrie in response to its circular of
ny .iry as to the number of PEOPLE
whlaoyed, the rates Of wages paid, and
ouy output of factories during tho
;nriods between January and June,
~. and the corresponding months OF
ana. The showing made by 32O re-
tirsts is that there has been q decrease
of 70 per cent. in the number of rer-
8 employed, of 45 per cent. in the
h'3unt of wages paid, and OF A per
yEt. in the output of factories.
RThe figures may Ee tabulatcd thus:
Jan: t. June. Jan. to June,
anne industries. l,:2 1891.
pleput Of factories. 1o5 per cent. SO per pe"e cent {.
lib his is a decrease Of S.. s6s. GOO in the
allount of wage paid by Bog manrfact.
h .,g conce MS during the first half of
year, as COM Ell to the first half
lons9.-the Mckinley year, in which
ca.we.e unusually prospe Gus. bit in
f,.e.ch the Democratic press prote ted
=, t We we @ going hcadlong to pow
NY AMI destruction. If, US is prob.
Scis the reduction of wages and cut
ial in all the factories of the Union
> ire in proportion to that of tho 80
/. at make answer to the Economist
n ,uiries, the purchasing power of the
h'ople must have been reduced by
rlnd. eds of millions of dollars under
tho administration of Democratic
policy.
1t is quite susceptible of proof that
such reduction has been Effected. Tho
year 1872. or the first half of it. was u
period o. universal prosperity, and it
may he unfair to contrast present con-
ditlons with it. Eut 1890 was an aver
year, anu tlC CELSIUS fcUJTUS snow
4. .OD.C0O PERSONS employed in all kinds
of manufactures, and the wages earne4
by them amounted to S..2o. : III.
NOW q 40 Ter cent. reduction from this
wage fund means q decrease of more
than @ billion of dollars. 1t is cas-, to
for the prevalence of poverty
by the decrease of q billion of dollars
in the wage fund of the country.
We might enla ge on the future i'm
poverishment by decrease of the value
of material used in manufactures,
which was estimated at So, 600, COO, 900
n 1880. and So. GOU. OUO,O 900 in 1884. But
he shrinkage of the wage fund is in
self sufficient to account for the hard
. hes through which we are passing,
from which We cannot hope wholly
: .scape until a return to a policy OF
lection secures a return of pros
i ity: 49,
sc Ths Depleted Treaaury.
pl, is not necessary to study long nor
did to find an answer to the ofs-re-
re ted charge that the present alarm
su condition of the United States
ar lsury is due to the last Republican
OF Illustration.
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