Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-11-04

Where are the charts which they talked
80 loudly about, the charts which show.
ed that silver and wheat always rose Il
fell side by side. Where are the ora
tors who told you that the hard times
were the result OF the crime Of 1873,
that good times could not come again
unless you had the free coinage of sill
YER at 16 to I, that IL Bryan were de-
feated aud tho gold standard establish
ed in this country, times would grow
harder and harder, mortgages would
multiply, the farmer and tho working
man would lose his home by the thou
sands. failures would stalk through The
land in an ever increasing army, that
oats would fall to six cents a bushel
and that wheel would within six
months be sellii,g for twenty cents?
Where are the people who told abput
the money famine. about the money
power which was boarding all tho gold
Of the world and which would il you
clectde Mckinley wiring your last hard
earned dollar from you? They are
gone. All gone. They do not say any
thing about it this year. They do nc:
like to discuss the subject.
And the reason is as shining as the
sunlight of prosperity which has since
1896 risen over the eastern hills and
which begun to warn, into enthusiasts
life the blood Of South Dakota. The
people of this state would not stop and
listen to a repetition of the old calami-
ty silver cry. Their own experience
brings them the r%efutation OF those
honeyed phrases of tho demagcgue.
They have watched the course OF
events. They saw the election of Nc
Kinlcy restore confidence throughout
the business world. They saw failures
steadily and rapidly diminish. They
know that the first act OF tho new adj
ministration was to call congress in
special session aud displace the tisas-
trous revenue tariff under which We
had suffered Sc, deeply with the enact.
ment Of the nyst great Republican
promise. the Dinghy bill. They saw
that the stimulus Of that bill lighted
the fires which had long been dead
in the mills. They hi nd the renewed
hum Of the looms viii fe for four years
the cobwebs had gail cred. They head
the rattle of the dinner pail as a million
maAaleft the. SOM hn'ses and charity
kitchens and went ! lck 10 honest toll.
They found that VIXEN The weekly pay
day came around thu army of working
mon got an increase in wages. They
found that q million FAMILIES which
had been living on tho cheapest and
scentiest foods, again came into the
farmers market aud bought wat and
beef and pork.
A wear and q hull have rolled around
and The people CT South Dakota know
the result. They know that under the
restoration of confidence and the en-
actmert OF the beneiicicnt Republican
tariff the balance OF trade has turned
our way. Whereas. under the last adj
ministration we sent abroad W hum
dred million dollars for goods more
than VIC got fro-i the outside world,
since the advent of Mckinley we have
received niEe hundred millions moro
than we have sent. While under tho
Democrats SIC made a loss OF two nun
dred millions, under the Republicans
we have in less than half the time made
a profit of nine hundred millions. What
before we were buying abroad and
sending our hard earned dollars for
across the sea, now VIC arc manufacture
ing at home. And while we have built
up during the past two years q great
duulIlOUdl uOIIS lklGt aSI ~ SAa SAAS IVA
farmers have to sell. We find no in
crease in the goods We have to buy.
But the people of this state have
seen not only our foreign trade grow to
q point never hitherto reached and
commanding n profit whose splendid
proportions have never hitherto been
approached. they have seen q growth
in our internal m OF such daz.
cling size that the mind cannot grasp
It. We have read in the newspapers
about the increase CT traffic in the
railroads. We have read in the rom
mercial reports about a constantly aug
menting trade. But when We group the
statistics all together We are amazed.
The bank clearings OF Tho country arc
the sulest Suae,e OF the business done.
In the nine months ending On Scptem-
Der I of this year those clearings show
a business transacted in this country
thirteen billion dollars greater than IN
the first nine months OF 1896. Think oi
what that means IN creating an incrcas-
cd market for your products.
They talked about. needing more
money. Today there is in circulation
in the United States 1897. 0G0 900 more
than two years ago. The money which
was boarded by the people IN old stock
ings and broken sugar bowls and holes
in the ground has flowed out from Its
hiding places and s257. 900 GOO has gone
into the avenues OF trade. From across
the sea there have come TO us 1926. O0o.-
900 in gold and the government minis
have put out SIS. 100000 OF the yellow
metal. Is there a money famine today!
Every n knows that interest rates
were,ncvcr so low.
They told sou that falling prices
were the result o: the gold standard
that prosperity could never come until
the prices rose and you would neve,
Gee o general rise In prices excep,
through the free coinage of silver. Let
us see Bradstreets is admitted TO be
an unbiased authority. 1t is q non
partisan record OF statistics, upoi,
which business men of all parties rely
for their calculations. Bradstrecls has
compiled q record which stands ont in
letters OF fire which must per,ncate htc
brain of ever the silver mine cwncr.
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