Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08
One Million Men Out of Employment.

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What has become of that business pros
perity guaranteed to workingmen By
Democratic speakers in 1884? Over one
million men are now out of employment
and wages are lower than ever they were
under Republican rule. There is somt
consolation in the prospect that this
Democratic free trade administration
will be the last one. N. Y. Tribune.
1t is now one year and four months
since President Cleveland was inaugu>
rated. For three years and four months
the Democrats have had control of the
House. Yet nothing has been done
either by the President or the House, tC
make times and wages better. The Dem
ceratic speakers and newspapers prom.
ised at all times and everywhere that
upon the advent of Democratic admin
istration there would be inaugurated an
era of plenty of work and Of great pros
perity. Congressman Foran promised
his deluded followers that he would
bring about legislation to provide "a
more fair division of profits between
capital and labor" He has been in Con-
gress neaily four years. Now what is
the result? A million men are out of
work and wages are lower than ever.
President Cleveland has not been able
to make any recommendation in his mes
sages, nor has the Democratic House yet
offered single bill, for creating work
or increasing wages. Mr.. Foran has not
yet manufactured his patent legislation
to help matters. On the other hand, the
House made times worse by endeavor+
ing to pass low wages tariff for the
benefit of English, French and Belgium
manufacturers, and at the expense of
those in this country. This alarmed our
manufacturers, and they commenced
turning out less goods for fear of having
a stock on hand when the threatened in
fiux of low priced European goods took
place. This resulted in a hundred thou
sand men being thrown out of work.
Instead of being consumers OF goods
they became non-consumers, for they
bad no money to buy goods with. This
made business dull with merchants, and
thousands other employees were thrown
out of work, adding still more to the
general depression. All this had the eff
feet of making other business dull, and
other men were thrown out of employ
ment, and this course of depression kept
working on, and the army of idle men
kept growing larger and larger till they
now amount to million. 1t is not over
production that caused all this. 1t is
under consumption. People out of work
cannot buy, hence consumption is less,
and manufactures have not enough to
do. All this is due to the frantic annual
effort of Messrs. Morrison & Co., to scare
our manufacturers and business men into
the belief that the products of pauper
Europe will be poured into the country
under the effect of the low wages tariff
these demagogues are trying to get thro'
the House. That is the cause of the
underconsumption which has resulted in
our hard times, and it will continue just
so long as the Democratic Congressional
lunatics continue to tamper with our
present productive tariff.
We invite workingmen to look back
over the last twenty-five years, when
work was plenty as compared to now,
and when wages were higher than they
are now under a Democratic admins
tration, and then look at the times as
now under Democratic administration.
Further arguments will then be need
less. One million men out of employ
ment, many of whom are starving with
their families, is sad argument against
a Democratic Administrations Cleve-
land Leader.