Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-09-25

last week The Democrat tried to build a founda
ton upon which to hoist the glory and profit
Abeness Of the new administration. free trade
etc. We rejoice ut the miners good fortune
through the advance of this metal, yet we musi
beg TO differ as to the cause advanced (toI
political gain) and are confident that nine
tenths Of the public are with ns. But suppose
for minute that the new administration was
the cause, In the same pickering light how
would you account for the tumble in the price OF
drybone? This latter article Is OF far more i'm
portance TO this section than lead ore and If the
Democrat IL right then down with the new ad-
Observation-Disclosures.
The editor of The Tribune evil
IDENTIFY assumes that we wished to
claim that the advance in lead ore
was brought about solely by the
benefcent change of administration
which we have experienced in this
year of grace. But he is wrong, as
usual. That the wise administra-
ton of President Cleveland will tend
to hasten the return of prosperity
there can be no reasonable doubt.
But only a benighted protectionist,
who looks upon government as a
sort of paternal institution from
which all blessings flow, would
suppose that all the prosperity and
every streak of good fortune enjoyed
by American miners, farmers, manu-
facturers, and others, came from the
moddling interference of the govern
ment with the private business
affairs of its citizens. This is what
many of our republican friends
have believed and preached for
years and this is why The Tri-
buno should suppose that we wished
to claim that the advance in price
of ore was due simply to the change
of administration. We only called
attention the to rise in order to show
that rise in price was possible
under n democratic administration
not withstanding the gloomy pre-
dictions of the croakers last fall who
positively, and with owl-like wisdom,
asserted that the total destruction OF
our mining interests would surely
follow democratic victory.
The Tribune asks how would you
account for the tumble in the price
of dry bone2 Well, as there has
been no tumble, we wouldn't try to
account for it at all. Drybone is
now selling at about the same prices
Us on the fourth of last March, with
little better demand.
There is no use of them trying to
wriggle out of it. Those high pro
tectionists who prophesied low prices
of ores in case of democratic ascen-
dancy have been demonstrated by
the logic of events to be several
degrees less trustworthy than the
much despised weather prophets.
~
A case has come under our notice
wherein an honest, hard working
miner came to grief through placing
too great confidence in that portion
of the republican campaign literature
of last fall which related to the tariff
question. lie owned and was work
ing q mine near this city, which
yielded him fair return for his
labor. He was a republican and
looked upon his party leaders as
oracles who spoke words of wisdom,
and the refrain of Free Trade and q
Dying Land" sung by the Blaine
and Logan campaign singers, had
entered his soul. So, when the news
of the election of Cleveland and
Hendricks came he acted consistent
" and made haste to sell his inter
est in the mine, disposing of ii for
a mere trihe. After selling his in
terest in the mine he went west to
look for employment but could
find none, and soon returned home,
where ne has been ever since-most
of the time with little or nothing to
do. The mining industry of south
western Wisconsin has not yet been
destroyed and while his own sad
experience may open the eyes OF
this miner to the humbuggery of
protection and protection advocates,
he can never make up the loss
which he sustained by being con-
sistent partisan republican. II
among those who so loudly pro-
claimed the false conclusions upon
which he acted in good faith and ran
aground there are any who are now
willing to make good the difference
between his profit and loss account
of this year and what it would have
been had he not been guided by
their teachings, The Democrat would
like to hear from them. We will
furnish the name of the miner and