Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-19
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that was not the truth, for no man y
more independent to-day than the
farmer.
"The laboring man has no excuse for
being idle now. There. is plenty Of
work and good pay. Factories by the
hundred have opened. giving men I'M
ployment. They earn plenty of money.
and can now afford to buy the farm
ers' beef and pork. All. yes. 1t is supp
ply and demand, but there wouldn't be
such a demand were 1t not for our new
protection law enacted by our Repub-
lican Congress. Those men who trav-
eled over this country. persuading men
to Join their s0-called reform party,
We're false prophets. Would you con-
tinue TO believe them? You had bet
ter trust the sure captain, who never
lost q ship. When this Peoples Inde-
pendent party started as a party of re-
form we We're all anxious to Join it.
We We're honest enough to wish to be
on the side of reform. but, ah. gentle
men. time has proven that we don't
need free silver.
Free silver will soon cease to be your
hobby, for we all now know that we
don't need that. They can't deceive
us that way any more. l hope the gen.
here assembled will reason In
your minds that the man who deceived
you once may deceive you again.
Many of those who voted for free sill
yer didn't know what free silver
meant. and, believing that these Popu-
list speakers and papers told them.
thought 1t was their only salvation.
They nave been very pleasantly saved
without 1T, and ought to know better
now.
suppose n foreigner came to this
country and lie didn't understand the
English language. and some people told
him that he was a slave; that he'd
never get rich until a cyclone struck
him.
"Why. If he believed what they told
him. he'd probably pray night and day
for n cyclone to come. If he was wise,
he'd first find out what a cyclone
meant, then he might come to a diff
%jferent conclusion: but If lie made no
study Of the subject, no investigation,
of course he would never understand
until a cyclone did strike him; then he
would learn to his sorrow what 1t
meant, and he would curse the men
who deceived him.
"Now, these men who deceived us by
saying we couldn't have good times
without free silver, were false proph-
cts. Let's not believe them any longer,
but change IL politics. Let's treat
those gentlemen right who have
brought good times to our door, and
who have saved our country's honor
in time of war.
"You, gentlemen. who are favored
with the power to vote, l beg of you to
vote sensibly. There is no one more
contemplate than the hypocrite. II
you believe one way md vote another
you are committing n sin before God.
1 beg of you to reason for yourselves
and then vote as you co%nscicntiously
believe to be right, no matter what
others may think. Some people If they
find they are wrong, won't acknowl-
edge 1t. but n truly honest, upright or
Christian man is glad to confess his
mistake.
1--WE should not be foolish like the old
woman, that owned n goose which laid
a golden egg every day. Her neigh
bors told her to kill the goose and she
would find it full of golden eggs. Now
this old woman was prospecting. but she
wasn't satisfied. so she did as they ad-
vised her. She killed the goose, but to
her sorrow there were nc golden eggs
to be found: so she didn't even have the
goose left. because of her foolish greed.
Let us not do as she did. but let us
be satisfied with the good times we
now have.
you all know now why 1 will not nc
cept the nomination so kindly offered
me. I thank YOU" she said as she re-
sumed her seat.