Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-11-15
Why the wins Resumed.

"Uy III Is IitS tNGSNr1e0.
The Washington Times says editorial.
ly, referring to the Dingley law:
1--WE may concede that there was not
Il general reopening of the mills until
alter that measure was passed; but
thai WAS merely because the manufac.
turing interests Were DESTROYS of point.
ing to the idle mills as an argument i'm
favor Of the tariff which they wanted.n
When so rabid a free-trade organ as
the Washington Times is willing to con-
cede even such a ~self-eyident fact us
tnat the mills We're closed under the
operation of the Wilson law, and did
not reopen until the Dingley law was
enacted. there is hope. The Only thing
which can account for the %f.ce-trade
delusion is the failure to recognize in
dustrial facts. The second part of the
sentence quoted is so manifest'y ride
ulous as almost not to call for comment.
Men are in business for the purpose of
making money. They are not SD blind.
y loyal to any economic theory lis to let
good business opportunities go by for
the sake of bolstering up their theories.
If the mills We're idle, as they were, it
was because it would not have paid to
run them. The pleasure of being able to
point to the Dingley law as Il restorer
of prosperity would hardly hare been
sufficient to make up for the lost dol
lars. When the free-tradcrs are driven
to take refuge in such absurd state
ments as this in order to support the
claims of the policy they advocate, they
but make more evident the weakness of
their position.
The Farmers Home Market.
If there are any farmers who imag-
inc that their branch of industry is not
benefited by the tariff On steel, and j in
fact by all tariffs that tend to promote
the establishment of manufacturing
industries in this country, let them re-
fleet what would happen if all the
worSmen now engaged in turning out
domestic manufactures We're removed
from this country and set to work. say
in England. Would not the home mar
ket for foodstulfs and other agricultu-
raj producers be curtailed by such de-
portation? Instead of selling such n
large percentage of farm products to
home consumers. the farmer would be
obliged to sell them abroad, and would
be mulctcd for the freight and charges.
The home market is the most profit
able market for the farmer, and any,
thing that tends to increase the home
consumption of products is Of benefit
to the men on the farms as we'll as to
the me in the workshops and the
stores.-Minneapolis Tribune.
Free-"radc and Savings.
There is no better way to Judge the
future than by the past. From their
experience, the people of this country,
especially the middle class and the
worllingmen. can readily ~foresee that
the abolition of protection. which has
enabled them to increase their savings
a billion dollars in the past four.
years, and the adoption of free trade.
with the idleness and want which fol-
lowed that policy before, would not
present any necessity for postal Say-
ings banks. During free trade in this
\ country the middle class and the
worlSingmen were more Interested in
md had more use for free soup houses
than savings banks, and the same con-
ditions would obtain if free trade We're
again Observation-Disclosures (Mont.)
Record.
Senator Hoar's Wise Words,
American manufacture, as it's friends
predicted, has outgrown the American
market. Now the manufacturers Of the
country are girding their loins for that
struggle. e it is proposed to begin
operations by making reciprocity trea-
ties with leading manufacturing ma
lions Of the world, especially with our
manufacturing rivals.
Now I do NOT wish IN ho undorstood