Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-08-21

of 1879" said Mr.. Crawford, 81 feel lik
, saying. 'Confound you, go and rea,
the history of your country"
When we look about us and see tn,
marvellous development of the regiol
west of the Mississippi it is not sur
prising that Marshall Field or a Phi
Armour has taken advantage of tn
situation and profited enormously b,
!; it. Such men and the colossal interest
they represent are not the result o
a change in the monetary laws of ou
country, but are the natural result O.
the times. The speaker said that mo
nopolies and grasping corporation.
should be checked and referred to the
fact that the only antitrust Law evel
placed on the statute books os the
United States was placed there by the
republican party. Corporations and
combinations of capital are necessary
for the promotion of some of the
gigantic enterprises peculiar to these
times, as very few individuals have suf-
ficient capital to build railroads and
canals, develop and operate mines on
the extensive scale sometimes necessary
to make them profitable, and build the
mammoth founderies and factories of
the nineteenth century. Instead of
! being indiscriminately abused and con-
demned many enterprises of this char
acter should be commended and en-
couraged.
Mr.. Crawford gave an exhaustive
history of the coinage laws of this
country and explained at length the
SO called ''crime of 1873" showing con-
clusively that the bill was thoroughly
discussed, that it was we'll understood
and that it was passed almost unani-
mously.
The republican party, the speaker
said, is true friend of silver and is in
favor of the largest possible use of sill
YER in our monetery system. The re-
publican party believes that the
United States cannot undertake the
free and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio of l6 to l and maintain it at
a parity with gold. Even Harvey, the
great apostle of free silver. expresses u
doubt as to the ability of the United
States to maintain the panty at that
ratio. The speaker quoted from a
speech of Senator Pettigrew wherein
the latter draws vivid picture of the
widespread distress which prevailed in
India when that country was enjoying
the blessing of free and unlimited
coinage of silver. A letter written by
DIR. Francis e. Clark, president of the
Society of Christian Endeavor, who
has travelled extensively through Mex
leo and had an excellent opportunity
to study the ndustrialand agricultural
conditions in that free silver country,
was read. The writer says that the
silver has not yet found it's way into
the pockets of the masses and that no.
where are. beggars more numerous than
there.
Mr.. Crawford said that great deal
is being said about the debtor class
and the creditor class and that an at.
tempt is being made to array the one
''class" against the other. "Who are
the creditors and who are the debtors?'
he inquired. The four million work.
ing people in this country who have
savings deposits are the creditors and
the banks are the debtors; the nine
hundred Thousand pensioners are the
creditors and the government is the
debtor; millions ofourcitizens are both
debtor and creditor. What we need is
a stable currency and protection, and
a competent and Trustworthy admins
tration. The democratic party is re
sponsible for the unsettled state of ou,
finances and the present industrial de
preston. The era of republican ad
ministration was the proudest in the
history of our country and what VIC
want now and what the voters will
| NSh4eAhA al 4NOSoulDcF Is reSCOCdClOI
of those prosperous times.
| The speaker was frequently inter
rupted by applause and many who
were undecided on the questions a,
issue before the meeting were convinc
ed before the speaking was half thro
that free and unlimited coinage is 8
fallacy and that atrepublicans success will
restore general prosperity.
There seems to be a misunderstood
ing by some in town in regard to the
object of the curfew ordinance. It4
not the interest of its supporters to in
fringe on the rights of young or old
The aim of all law should be to re-
strain the guilty and protect the limo
cent. Tho young have undeveloped
judgment and are therefore unaware
of the extent of danger under tempta
ton; hence keeping such off the street
in unreasonable hours is doing them q
great good, for which in after years
they will be thankful.