Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-12-06
Business Interests"

This stereotyped headline of the cam
paign again ornaments the journals OF
protection and monopoly, '"The Gbusi-
snessinterests will suffer the Democrat
ic party succeeds!n has been the dismal
howl Of the especial advocatesof the ex-
elusive interests. ofawealth daringsthe
pendency of every election for these
many years, and now that the Demo-
Ecracy has partially succeeded, the howl
is renewed and louder than ever and
made more shameful by being joined in
by q few self-styled Democrats. We
are told that if Congress does its duty,
does that for which the people elected
bit tojdo, the business" ofsthe country
will suffer; that if the robber tariff is
revised so that princely fortunes cannot
be accumulated by the few from the
labor, deprivation and misery of the
many, that if the franchises of corpora
tions are in the least restricted, the ."bu-
siness" of the country will become
bankrupt.
What is this "business" interest that
it has become SO sacred that the whole
country must do it homage and pay it
tribute? Has the green grocer become
a potentate and the yard stick sceptre?
Are there no other interests demanding
and deserving the attention and protec-
tion of the government? Shall this
"businessu interest continue TO deafen
the ears of law-makers to the appeal of
the toiling millions? Are there none
but material interests in this land OF
ours nothing for the protecting and fos-
tering care of Congress but the golden
scales of traffic? These business inter
ests which it is claimed demand the ex'
elusive care of the government are the
banker syndicates which contributed SC
freely to the Dorsey frauds, the nonop'
|olists who paid to Jewelps campaign
fund, the railroads which rendered sucf
valuable aid totthe Republican party il
1880, the bullionists to whom Sherman
gave the fraudulent trade dollar and th'
brokers who have purchased at diseoun
and now seek the redemption at par o
the false coin. Such "business" in
terests the Democracy cannot conciliat,
and do not seek to-aid from such'
source would be fatal to Democracy.
The great grain fields of the West ant
the cotton plains of the South form {
very material part of the country, ant
deserve full as much attention from tn
Congress of the Union as the monop
olists and usurers of the East or the irol
mountains and blast furnaces Of tn
Middle States. To Congress the appea
has been made through the ballot Re
vision Of the robbers tariff and restric
ton of the franchises of monopolie
We're the battle cries by which we cor
quered- these were the notices on tn
banners carried by the people. Sha
? cowardice or corruption deter our Rel
resentatives from doing their duty an
thus make our triumph fruitless? "
trust not, but should any Democrat
Representative, or one who has bee
elected as such. falter in his duty, h
may as we'll bid long farewell to all h
: greatness. The people are In earnes
/ they want q change, they need help an
: they are entitled to relief; they will hay
5 IT, and they win not tolerate treason
3 their cause.
/; Is Vanderbilt, who, at every inspir
ton of indolent breath draws from tn
public treasury 1888, entitled to MOI
consideration than the. thousands I
human beings working for three wear
days on his railroads for less than II
government pays the bloated mountai
Of flesh for, every minute of his usele
life? If"businesso interests are thus
/ make traffic of human flesh and bloo
then business interests as the woma