Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-05
NO LONGER DECEIVED
PEOPLE NOW KNOW THE COSTLY
CONSEQUENCES OF 1892.
The Acarse Cry Of the Calamity
Croaker e Drowned as the Thunder
of Moving Wheels In Mill and
Factory Increases in Volume.
Turn In the Tide.

Factory Increases in Volume.
Turn In the Tide.
The Republican majority in Oregon,
large ut first and steadily growing
larger as the returns from the remoter
townships come in, is a sign of the
times. Six years ago the country and
its people We're doing fairly well, but
a majority thought to improve things
by making n CHANGE" and they made
1t. Demagogues said we were taxed
too much; that the many were made to
pay in order that monopoly might grow
rich, and the thriving mills, factories
and furnaces owned by corporations
were pointed to as proof of the asser-
ton. People forgot, or neglected to
observe, that they We're themselves
sharing equally in the prosperity which
was so easily apparent in the large
establishments, where it was easiest
seen, because the shares of many were
united in one concern.
make yourselves ricll," said the
demagogues to the multitude, 'by max
Ing those giant monopolies poor" and
the multitude tried to do 1t. The tariff
was remodeled, protection was with
drawn. The worlds markets. were
thrown open, and instantly it began to
be apparent that all the grand advan-
tages we had long enjoyed were
thrown away. The worlds markets"
we had gained access to were far away
0n6 vx,n Dnu11 1soonh f1,oy, o,,1vy of uNnot
cost, and when we did reach them we
could sell in them only at the prices Of
others. Our own markets, the best in
the world, We're divided and given to
the Modes and Persians.
We then began to see the handwrit-
ing on the wall, but those who UNDER
took to interpret it confused the pub
lie mind for a time as to its meaning.
A certain Stuffed prophet" pointed
out that the trouble was all caused by
a thing that was likely to cause trou-
BILE in future, and called a special ses-
sion of Congress to remove 1t. So a
trouble that IA not yet due was called
down upon nj already grievous
enough. The Populist prophets and
other demagogues in great number,
each with Il special specific of his own,
appeared and promised loudly to cure
what they did. not understand. and
people We're for a long time confused
with cries of 10, here" and 10, there"
Our gold continued to so abroad, u
goods stayed at home. Paralysis pre-
vailed everywhere. Monopoly, corpor-
alton. and individual suffered alike,
where formerly they had prospered
alike. without approaching 1t.
Then 1t was resolved to go back to
the old methods. The advance Agent
of Prosperity was called in, and as a
first step toward the accomplishment
Of what was wished for, the tariff was
%re-enacted. The demagogues protest
ed. 1t was necessary to close the doors
against them until the necessary legis-
lation could be taken. Bryan continued
to hold up his "crown of thorns'' and
"cross of gold" Teller tearfully in
sisted that the tariff could do no good,
but he would perslit it to be tried in
order that a deluded people might be
convinced.
The people are no longer deceived.
The vote in Oregon proves what has
long been ap~parent-that many now
realize that ''the change made six
years ago was not needed, but was in
all respects a great misfortune; that
the prosperity Of u larger establish
ments is not n sign Of danger; that we
cannot sell more than we buy without
producing something to sell, and that
we cannot reverse the course Of nature
by statute law. The hoarse cry of the
demagogues has been growing fainter
as the thunder Of the moving wheels
increased. The advance agent Of false
dollars at 45 cents each has ceased to
draw crowds. The advocates of I'M
limited paper to be loaned on valueless
security through Government sub
treasures is now only a curiosity
which busy people have no time to
look at. The enthusiast, big with
schemes for getting pay for less
work, has gone into that retirement
where less work is surest found, while
the. busy multitude is finding more pay
and more work, and is happy with.
both.
The people Of Oregon have found!
out, what the elections this fall will
show, what people Of all other States
have discovered, and that is, that 1t is
wise to let web enough alone, or If at
tempt is made to improve it, to make
it along those lines where improve
ment has been found before.-Tacoma
Ledger.
A Anew Departure"
Although by means Of the Dingley
tariff law the Government has become
again q silent partner of the sheep
raisers, yet 1t was the Wilson law
which put them on their own resources
and caused them to make a new de-
parture.-Kansas City Times
Here is q brilliant and ingenious apol-
ogy for the ruin and devastation in
flicted upon a prosperous Industry by
the free wool clause of the Wilson-Gor.
man atrocity of 1894. The new dc
parture" to which the Kansas City