Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-23
BUNKO THE FARMERS.
GOLD BRICK swlNpLEclvEswAY
TO THE SILVER DOLLAR.
Honest uu.bandmen Should Not he De.
ludesi by the Silvery Promises of the
Political Fakir-S0me Plain aud Proven
Truths.

luded by the silvery Promises of the
| Truths.
We have in tnis good land of ours cer-
tain people known as confidence men,
who have done considerable posing in
er is but little in town who lives a
comparatively isolated life, whose trad
| ing is confined to the sale of his own
| products and the purchase of supplies
for his own needs; and who. having hon-
estly fulfilled his own engagements. nat
urally believes other people to be hon
est; is very apt to rely ON u plausible
| tale told him by graceful, bold and
glib-tongued stranger: Vendors of pat.
ent hay forks, lightning rods, and gold
rural districts where there is little trade
and the daily paper is least read, but
the. Tribune always has. and always
will, so far as possible, give its readers
fair warming against these gentry.
There is now new class of farmers
| friends who are perambulating the coun-
try and seeking personal gain from the
farmer. not by the gold brick but by the
silver dollar scheme. Out of love and
Kindness to the sturdy cultivators of the
soil these bold gents exhibit the silver
dollar as an object lesson, and promise
! sAAS aioiASSt AtiLlucl tIiiI IL Ae Will give,
not his written contract nor his prom.
issory note payable i'll bank. but will
| give to the chief of these wanderers and
his, friends the control of his own future
and of the destiny of this great nation,
| the value of his farm and ull of its in
crease shall he doubled
Now we advise the farmer not to be
deiuded by these silvery promises. The
value of the wheat, and corn, and beef,
and pork. which the farmer has to sell
| depends upon the markets of Europe and
cannot in any way he changed or altered
by these new tangled confidence men,
and no one knows it better than the con-
ldence mars himself. He proposes to al
low any owner of silver mine to take
an ounce or million of ounces of silver
to the mint and have every so cents
worth of it marked a dollar, and asks
the farmer to believe that when he gets
two of these irrcdeemal,.e coins he will
be richer than when he ke,s an honest
gold dollar. DO not trust these men;
they are trying to swindle you. They
have deceived you before and if you
take their advice they will do it again.
-Four years ago some of these same
lmenl told you how you We're being i'm
poverished by Republican tariff legisla-
tion, and promised that if YOU would put
them in power you would have good
times, YOU would all ride in better. COR.
riages, he better clad ana fed, andt;on
like lords. You took them at their 'si"'l'
You helped them elect just such lA.epr,
dent and Congress us they wanted
They came into power in March. 1893.
and for two years have had complete
control of all of the legislation and ad-
ministration of the United States govern-
mcnt, and fixed up muttcrs just to suit
themselves. and now they come around
| again and tell you that You are worse off
than ever before, and ask You To take IL
new kind of remedy for yonr ills. Have
you not had enough of their wares? Do
you desire again to invest in any Of their
peculiar agricultural implements? Do you
| want any more of their patent hay
forks, or gold or even silver bricks?
-Four years ago. they promised us n
tariff which would contain such provis-
trusts of projection. but over the objec-
tions of President Cleveland the baser
part of the Democratic combination er-
acted patchwork unsymmctrically
framed according to the dictation of
Senators Gorman and Brice. the repre-
continent. And here is the way they
protected the Western farmer; they put
tariff of 40 cents pound on iron ore,
3O or 40 per cent. on iron, 1h cent on
every pound of rice raised on the South
tariff on wool, leaving the Northern
farmer unprotected on this. one of his
most important products. We refer to
this as well-known instance showing
how much regard these gentlemen have
\ for your interests. Do you want to trust
| such friends again?
One of the greatest and most powerful
combines in the world is the sugar trust
with its capital of $1J.O00.00O. hut the
enemies of President Cleveland. after
putting a tariff of 40 per cent on brown
sugar, put an extra protective tariff of
One-eighth of 1 per cent. on all refined
sugar. the effect of which WAS to give to
the great Havemyer sugar trust IL COM
plete. monopoly of the refining; OF sugar.
Of its capital in the. sum of $S.UOD.ouD
We are not aware that these gentlemen
did anything OF IL like character for the
Northern farmer. On the contrary, ow-
Ing ing to ,,t their revision i. Of The tariff;
the protection that the farlnnr then had.
The Tribune told YOU i'll 1883 that you
would be deceived and injured and we
ask you as sensible men ii our prcdic-
tions have not come true? Dave yoll
fered to you by these bold strangers or
do you want another dose:
And now the tariff having been al
tered and changed and business demoral-
lied, factories shut down and workmcn
out of employment and the nation sick
is suggested. Bryan and his associates
propose to cure all our ills and make us
wealthy by calling 80 cents Il dollar and
then advise you to relieve yourselves of
what little debt you may individually
or politically owe by swndling your CON
fiding creditors out of one-llalf of their
dues. We trust you will take our WARM
ing. We verify believe that the farmers
Of Indiana, although in the honesty of
their heart, they may he deceived, will
always Indignantly drive from their
doors every man who asks them to save
little money by rcpudiating their hon
est obligations and will add their num-
bers to the majority that will make Nc
Kinley President and save themselves
and the flag of our country from dishon-
or and disgrace.-South Bend Tribune.
Dressed Meat Compared with Gold.
There are few things with which we
can compare gold with some reason and
assurance, and l wish to call your at.
tention to some of them. There is
dressed meats. for instance. Dressed
meat is an article which is manufactured
from time to time to supply an imme.
date demand. Our packing -houses are
not obliged to keep large stock on hand
In the mere expectation of market. II
the market is glutted they stop killing