Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-02

never saw anything that Cleveland
favored that was satisfactory to me-
says the pickerel statesman. He for
got about the Hawaiian episode evi-
denly, and lie failed to recall that
Cleveland opposed the Mckinley bill
all the time, and Pettigrew voted
against that measure too. ret he de-
clared he favored protective tariff.
quoting his speech in the senate
against the Wilson bill to prove ii. and
then in five minutes he was reading
from his scrap book and going over
some charts he had ON the wall, aid
others he had Ell Blalcy mount the
judicia, rcstrum and hold. to prove that
the Wilson bill was better for this
country than the Mckinley bill: that
"every Importation decreased under
the Wilson bill, except wool and at
the same time our revenues we're
greater under the Wilson bill than
under the Mckinley bill herein up
holding Clcvclana's administration.
while openly denounciug it yet ne-
glecting to explain why it was ncces-
sary, if our revenues were greater, for
the Cleveland administration to go
into the issuance of bonds as it did.
The truth of the matter is, accord
ing to the records, that under the first
fxx,o, a, <,,,., LII
law the revenue receipts were s65l, 1885,
500, while for the same period under
the Wilson law the revenue receipts
were s557 ,6l4, $50; or loss to the gov
ernmcnt of s93,5l9,2lo. And still Mr..
Pettigrew announces that there is only
six per cent difference between the
laws-but in the aggregate that total
counts for something, explaining i'll Il
measure, the necessity of bond is
suance.
Those figures are for the first periods
of the two laws, while the comparative
statement of the treasury department
for the fiscal year closing June 30,
1896, shows the total receipts from all
sources for that year to have been
1896, 1926, and the expenditure to
have been 1862 ,223l ,47O, leaving u deficit
of s26O45,2244. The total excess of en-
pcnditure over receipts from Jan.
l, 1893, to June 30, 1896, aggregate
s14O, So, ,123.
Only six per cent difference, but that
six per cent comes from our wool
producers, our cattle interests. our
lumber trade, and many other indus
tries that directly affect the west.
The senator paid q glowing tribute to
the prosperous condition of the MeXi-
cans, saying that country had made
greater progress during the past twen-
ty years than any other nation in the
world, except Japan, which is also a
silver using country. This statement
in the face of the fact that no country
ON earth has made such material prog
ress-eXpended SO much in industrial
enterprises, the construction of rail
roads. building cities, opening up
mines. developing farms, rs the
United States. This country takes
second place to no other in the world
in the matter of material and indus
trial progress and we know of nobody
but Pettigrew who would make such
preposterous assertion i'll the face of
the facts as given us by the best au
thorities i'll the country, as we'll as by
hundreds of personal experiences and
letters from those who have visited or
himself did not maintain his own prop
osition concerning Mexico throughout
his speech, for before he got through,
after rambling about to a great extent
in discussing the money question, he
ridiculed the idea of republicans COM
pairing this country With Mexico, and
declared it was preposterous to COM
pare our people with those miserable
poems: you should compare this gold
country with some other gold country
like Turkey" said he; "do the gold
men want to Turkeyize us:" queried
the senator: "do they want us to begin
butchering the Armenians?" continued
he. Thus Senator Pettigrew, after
lauding Mexico. aud himself declaring
that it had outstripped the United
States, and every other nation in the
world, in material advancement, re-
turns to the subject and ridicules the
republicans for comparing this coun-
try with Mexico. It's such scaly stuff,
doubtless, that gave him the slippery
title of the "Pickerel Statesman"
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In explanation of his chart compari-
sons of the relative value per bushel
aud ounce of wheat and silver, respec-
lively, Senator Pettigrew stated that
"from '77:} to '94 the production of wheat
decreased every year: wheat decreas-
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