Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-11-09
Mills, of Texas. proclaimed in the open SEN
ate did not have the approval of 1000 people in
the InIf6d states IAnnlanaa

~ Va IL tuO OVCu SSus
ate did not have the approval of 1000 people in
n the people Of the country are a:ked to
after the country had waited for nineteen
months for some settlement of the question
s sGGiEsei as se eney s eertsi Mas ts Ssffe TT. than n n1 9bat we
may adjust our business to that was the
cry Of the business. men of the country. and
nounced that that law was no settlement stss Of
the tariff question at all [laughterI; that it was
only the beginning llaughter!; that It was the
but the first step toward free trade. Mr.. Cleve-
land himself declared that The war had only
Just begun. and he called all the friends Of tar
with elbow, n prepare for . fresh assault
upon the industries of tho United States. He
called every Democratic Senator and every
stood in his place and begged the Democratic
Congress to stay its destroying hand and let
[Applsuse.l Traitors thew may have been, but
II traitors to anything they were traitors to
their party and the tens OF thousands, aye.
hundreds of thousands, of Democrats whO this
year will be traitors to their party. [Grcat APP
plause.l
The Genesis Of the Law.
And 1t is infinitely better to be a traitor to
s ssss d Ps 8 .sS,o t staS ~ Z 5 people. to the sacred inter-
But, my fellow-citizens who made that
law Three senators made It. 1t never had
Of Ways and Means, or Of the Finance Com
mIittee Of the Senate, or Of the Conference
Committee between the two houses. Thirty
turned over their sacred trust to the three
Senators. Who were these three men that
made this great tariff law forthe people of the
Missouri, Jones of Arkansas. And those three
Senators from these three great manufacturing
aud industrial States Iianghterl enacted a law
the minority voice of the country, for you were
never consulted: and the voice and the law
They say they have reduced the duties to
remove the burdens from the people. But we
have not had any such burden in fifty years MS
the Democratic party has been to this country.
daughter and applause.l And yet / see Demo-
cratic orators going apOut the country saying:
We made wool free. and no sooner had wool
Well. now, II that be true. then the tariff ia
not atax. Then free trade Is u tax. And they
say they put a duty on sugar, and sugar went
down. do not know whether that is true or
not. but II 1t be true 1t only proves that a
tariif Is not Q tax, and that the more tariff you
put on q thing the cheaper it becomes. lLauGh-
But thew say they have reduced the tariff so
as to increase the revenue. Well. we never
needed revenue worse in our lives than We do
now. lLaughter.l They have reduced the tar
lit to increase the revenue. Now, I need not
tell this Intelligent audience that IL you re-
duce the tariff on foreign goods that compete
therefrom, YOU must multiply importations.
Well: now. the more we import into this coun-
4 VI kOuuCU6 WHICH We mAKe. Inc IeQa Wa
will make. won't we?
Thu More IMPORTS the Less Manufactures.
We cannot, my fellow-citizens, we cannot
buy our goods abroad and make them at home,
and the more goods we import from Europe
goods we will make at home. The less labor
viii re employed at home. and II We have our
goods ses,Is MADE ABROAD the labor abroad will be
paid abroad. and the wages will be spent
abroad. II we make our goods at home the
labor y. VIII be employed at home. the wages
I1RRassSs;1 d III this 1i ssTia QUESTION ss : shs sh wnG he
tariff. but i do know il / buy q ton s Of iron I'm In
The EnRlishmsn cots the sao;s but II 1 buy q ton
plause.l
then you want to continue the Democratic
Well: see That you don't. TAppisuse.I A's'''''
But they say, my fellow.citizens, that II we
e ass . Free s Ws1f, We .ls x4s's sh aaEs , ahssp 3 l1ss!s
oSsspsss Are s Wages too H hisha 1 fGries e NJ ~
country and It's future and its citizenship and
It, civilization want wages brought down any
lowerY Well. wages viii come down unless we
shop by . protective tarif.
IL the wooi-groweE getting too much for bis
wGole = met . wool-RrOwer IN Nebraska the
other day. He told me that in 1892 he had
voted for free wool. and he said he had come
within 8 cents OF it. The last l saw of him he
was heading . Republican procession. Laugh
teri He told me subsequently that in 1882 he
had voted for his party. but that in 1894 he
meant to vote for his property. [%Laughtcr.I
The Reduced Cost of Living.
Mr.. Stevenson. the Vice President Of the
United states. and . citizen of this State
lhtsses], in 9 speech made in the city OF Brook
llyntw or three nights ago. said boastfully and
IN defense Of the present administration that
bought in 1899. Yes. the cost Of living, doubt
less, ha. gone down.. (Cries of starvation"
lsushter.l 80 the power to make . living
isnothing cheap to the American people that
comes from Europe. that enforce. idleness 1t
t tas.. sh .pS1,s yssTs 81 &; . }RPssssssa. , sss,1t:
tai November day I'm 1897. We lived un.
der the protective tssi6. and during al
those years every man earned his own soup