Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-06-12
Democratic VS.. Republican Party.


ed operations till the danger of demo
cratic interference with business inter
ests should have passed. There are
,aanufactories of Importance in Ohio,
begun within two years that have new
er lightel, their fires, waiting to see what
democratic congress would do. If
what they tried to do had been consu
mated, their fires would never be light
ed, and the capital already invested
would have been lost. Important in
dustries were saved to the country by
the Independent action of few demo
cratic members who were wise enough
to see the ruin that would follow the
unchecked madness of the majority of
the leaders of the party.
The fact is, the existence of the dem
ocratic party is standing menace TO
the business interests OF the country.
1t stands opposed to the best interests
of labor, for ii would, if it had
the power, drive manufacturing enc
tirely ont of the country. 1t is oppos-
ed TO the best interests of agricultural
products in this country, for it would
give England the power to make the
prices OF our prouucJs. At 10 opPosecr
TO the interests OF the capitalists for II
would dry up all the uses Of capital.
1t would transfer our industries to
England, and compel the skilled labor
we have TO be content with the starva-
ton wages of English operatives. 1t
would make America merely an agri-
cultural country. at the mercy OF the
English manufactures and capitalist.
The country is and has been during
the continuance of republican rule,
prosperous. During that period it has
made progress that the widest vision
airy did not anticipate or hope for. 1t
has filed up states sparsely settled,
and made new ones. 1t has built rail
roads, established lines of coinmuni-
cation, and developed manufactures
miraculously. Cities and towns have
grown. and grown in a solid snbstan-
tial way: their increase of population
being proftabiy employed. The farm
er. mechanic and manufactures have
all prospered, and the era Of prosperi
| ty has only commenced. Under con-
tinuance of the same policy, the prog
ress of the past twenty years cannot
! but continue.
Under the wise and pr'ldently pro
gressive rule OF the republican party
the country has been made independ-
ent of foreign countries in hundreds of
lines of necessities, and il capturing
the others rapidly and surely. Our
imports are daily decreasing and our
exports increasing. In many lines of
goods we are competing with our rivals
in the markets of the world. Iithin
twenty years we have emancipated
ourselves froui the thraldom of En-
glish manufacturers, and. so far as our
own Industries are concerned, are com
peting with them in fields outside.
All this the democracy, led by Car
hsle and Iurd would reverse. They
would do what England most desires
and what England, with money and
influence, is trying to secure. 1t would
cripple our existing manufactures Nnd
strangle those i'm their infancy. 1t
would bind us hand and foot, and put
us back where we were thirty years
ago, with the additional loss to the
country of everything since invested.
In other respects democratic sue
cess is equally threatening. The par
ty has no settled policy as TO currency
or anything else. 1t has as many ide-
! as, almost, as there are congressional
districts. The members Of the demo
cratic congress now in session have not
: been able 10 agree upon "A single point
of policy, and the only effect Of Their
deliberations upon the business of the
country has been to create nervous
feeling Of distrust and fear. This feel
ing will be intensified just in proper
tio- as the party gains power to harm.
The republican party has policy
and well defined one 1t is commit.
ted 20 honest money. faithful payment
OF the national debt, i'm money, i'm.
/ provement of the rivers and harbors,
t honest and economical administration,
protection to American industry, and
equal rights for all. 1t has bad men
in its ranks, and there is much yet to
be done TO correct abuses. but its head
is set in the right direction, and it may
| truly claim the control of the coun-
p try in the future, by what it has ac
, complshed In the past.
Under the rHle of the one party nor,i
ing can be expected but wide spread
T. disaster: under the rule Of the other
: confidence, stability, and such meas
ure of prosperity as good government
can give us.
+ The people will never vote out the
p republican party until the opposition
I offers it something better -7oiedl
+ Blade.