Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-09-18
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

One of the anomalies of this cam
paign is that the business man whose
wisdom and experience is sought for by
farmers and laborins men in their private
matters. is considered by many of them
as an unsafe adviser in political matters.
The issues of this national election are
business issues. The question is. how
can the industries of the nation be re-
vived? 1t would seem as if the Judgment
of the men who manage the industries
should be consulted
1t is an odd spectacle to see a free sill
yer orator who never did days work
in his life, who has had no experience
in managing business affairs, who has
never organized or managed n labor en-
laboring man a dollar for work. and who
never evolved practical plan which
resulted in giving employment to unem-
ployeu people. delivering an Grafton over
the FALLEN ruins of dead Industry"
telling how it can be revived
1t took Bryan and the other Democrat.
lc orators two and quarter years to
been telling the American people for
thirty. years that they knew the tariff
question all by heart, and were agreed
as to what they were going to do. How
long will it take these same Democratic
free silver orators to pass Il free coinage
bill! And what will happen To the coun.
try in the meantime:
The Democratic orators talked tariff
reform thirty years before they got the
consent of the American people to put
their plans into effect. When at last
the people consented to let them try their
tariff reform, it took those orators two
and 81 quarter years to agree upon the
exact wording of their tariff law, In
the meantime. while they held the conn.
try in suspense, the industries of the ma
tion became paralyzed from doubt and
uncertainty. Ii ir took these tariff re- .
form orators two and onc-lalf wears to
make Il law after thirty Years of study,
how long will it take these free silye,,
orators TO make a law after only five
years of study? And if these two and
"ne-hall wears of dispute aud uncertainty
ON the tariff paralyzed the industries.
what will become OF these industries il
is hurled against them. seeing that these
Industries are more afraid of free coin
age than they were of free trade
The crop now in the fields of Nebraska
would under ordinary conditions be worth
Sl0o.OOOO00. II ti,e laboring men of
the country were at work there would
be Il demand i'll the East for this crop.
In every town of Nebraska the process
of loading this crop into cars woutl be-
going on all over the sta;u Az fast
as the. cars were loaded sight drafts
would be drawn on Chicago, New Work.
Baltimore aud other market centcrs and
by means of these sight drafts the bal
anrc OF credit would he transferred from
the East TO the West. Every bank in
every Nebraska town would be easy.
money would he plenty and we would
call that good times. Good timea viii
come TO the Western farmey When the.
Eastern laborer goes Ia work, and not
till then. Wha. would it avail the
Western farmer. to see trainloads OF sii.
yer bullion passing through the country
on its way To the Eastern mint 10 be
coined, ii the factories ia the East were
still idle. and the people out of employ
ment. Would the mere coming of these
Western silver dollars make a demand