The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-08-05
They Dine Off the Farmer.

Mr.. Kelly, Of South Dakota, has the
far Vests frankness. His arraign-
ment of the prosperity howlers'' has
called forth responses from press and
politicians. Secure in his facts, he has
declined to retract anything he has
said, and has circulated his speech Just
as it was spoken:
OF course the same farce is acted out in
this bill that is in every. tariff bill the Re
publican party enacted, namely. protecting
the farmer" | wish to say to the RepubI
can members of this house that you can no
longer deceive the farmers of this country.
They know that it is Impossible to afford
them any commensurate degree of protection
when they send abroad to be sold in the open
markets of the world more than $500 900 900
annually of the products of their industry
But however bad this hill may be. however
much ii favors trusts and monopolies. ma
jority of the people of this country voted
for the Republican party, knowing that some
such measure would he the result if they
were successful. and ! know of no better
way to prove to them the utter folly of ex-
pecting relief from such measure than to
give them all they want of it. Hence I
want to see the Republicans make this bill
exactly to their liking and l believe that it
will prove quicker than anything else the
hollowneSS of the claims that are made for
1t.
Not deferred by the facts, but few weeks
ago a triumvirate of prosperity inhaterS.
three men of acknowledged leadership in
wealth, amazed the idle and unemployed by
proclaiming simultaneously, with flourish
of trumpets in the East. that the wave was
upon us and the slow plodders would have
to clear the track or be engulfed. Seventy
five millions Of Americans have waited in
silence for the onset, but as usual have been
doomed to disappointment 1t is well to add
that these three false prophets had no soon
er heralded these tidings of their magina-
tions than they hied themselves aboard Il
boat and departed for a foreign and far-dis
tant country.
Following this faith in fiction. the advance
agent Of the advance agent, the honorable
Secretary of the Treasury. Mr.. Gage, having
heard the rumbinS from Chicago, Canton
and Cincinnati, went to the latter city and
proclaimed to the business world that pros
perity was again our own, that our birth
right had returned again.
Since that time the newspapers OF the
East played upon their fancy and tried to
play upon the credulity of the people by an
nouncing in one column that prosperity was
upon us. and in another rccounting list of
failures, strikes and despondency. With
this comes the evidence of Brafl>trcet that
Improvement has not appeared. that the
metropolitan press is false in efforts to
nounce il, that any increase in the quan-
tity of trade is lcSscncd. in comparison with
other years. hy the reduced price of the
commodity. Supporting Bradstrect is the
"Still. small voice. of cN-Secrctary JohD A.
Wanamaker. bewaling the fate of hmeelf.
his party and his country. and charging hat
the administration WIS false and faitk-ass.
1t is time. Mr.. Speaker. that the controllers
of prosperity should treat this stubborn
case hcroically. and instead of trying TO re-
iuVpnate this inanimatr object by blowing
into it the blighted breath let them turn
their boarded wealth into the Western ar
teres of trade. The people want more mon
ey, moi promises, and unless they get 1t they