Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-23
PERTINENT EXPRESSIONS.

1.-The republican party stands for
honest money and the chance to earn
It by honest toil."-Wm Mckinley.
"1f had my way l would demonetize
gold. l would refuse it the power of
Of legal tender. IS # % But you say
The gold would all leave the country.
hope it would. That is just what
want" r. r. Pettigrew in his speech
at Sioux Falls, February 10, 1896.
"Free silver is not and will not be a
panacca for all our ills. 1t is only a
step in the right direction. The popu-
lists will never stopat free silver. That
will not help us much, and we want
other things, and I favor free silver
only because it is one stop towards the
paper money."-H. L. Loucks.
"Dressing Billy Bryan up in populist
raiment makes Billy an attractive fig
ure to our admiring gaze; but as long
as he remains mixed in with tho scrub
sheep of the democratic flock, we are
much inclined to say to him in the
language of the ancient anecdote, "We
love you Billy, but d-nyour company
If they could not give us free silver when
the party was united on it, how can
they give it to us now when the party
is divided on it?"--Tom Watson.
"Kyle and every other popullst sena-
tor but PETER voted against continuing
the reciprocity provisions of the Nc
Kinley law, under which the duty on
flour was reduced by Cuba from s5.35
to 81 per barrel. Kyle and all the popu-
lists but PETER voted against proposed
amendments to the Wilson bill placing
duty on hay of 83 per ton; 6 cents a
pound on butter; s6 per ton on broom
corn; 3 cts. dozen ON eggs; Goa bushel
on buckwheat; Is cts. on oats; Is cts. on
corn; 3-5 of a cent pound on flour,and
1 ct. on oatmeal. The same senators
voted against a duty of 40 cts. a bushel
on beans but in favor of 20 cts. on rice.
These proposed amendments would
have restored the Mckinley rate on
these articles, under which the market
for s6,OOO,OO0 worth of farm produce
was taken away from CANADIAN farmers
and given to the farmers of the United
States. Kyle lodged vote to place a
duty of Is cents II pound on hops to
increase the duty on ale, porter and
beerand to increase the duty on brandy.
He also voted against a duty ON sheep
and hogs and $50 on horses. On u di-
rect vote to place sugar on the free list,
Kyle and all the populist senators. ex-
cept PETER, voted no.-Senator Petit
grew on Kyle's record in the senate.
"That some may be rich shows that
others may become rich and hence is
just encouragement to industry and
enterprise. Let not him who is home.
less pull down the house of another
but labor diligently and build one for
himself, so thus, by example, assuring
that his own shall bc safe from violence
when built Abraham Lincoln.
"It is true that if you take the labor
ing man of today or any individual who
is working for a salary, that, so far us
his personal or selfish interests are
concerned it is for his interest to main
tain the single gold standard. con
cede that as a proposition applying to
an individual Judge Palmer at Matli
SON, August 7th.
''As a republican am proud of many
things, but l can sum up as the highest
satisfaction I ever had in tho party
and it's career, that the prospect of re
publican success never did disturb
business. From Harrison's Speech
Mr.. Bryan tells us that lower prices
are due to the demonetization of silver
But he did not always talk that way
Before he became the candidate of the
blg silver trust. in a speech i'll congress
in 1892, he said: "You must attribut.
it lthe reduction of prices) to the in
ventive genius that has multiplied /;
thousand times, in many instances, the
strength Of IL single arm, al enable.
us to do today with one man what fifty
men could not do fifty years ago. That
is what he's brought down prices il
this country and everywhere"