The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-10-12
SAD CALAMITYITES.
ONE REPORT AFTER ANOTHER DAzED
THE DEMOCRATS.

This Has Been Decidedly Bad Year for
Them-Cleveland and the NIugwumps
Have Internationally Surrendered to
the "GanG''-what Curtis Has to Say.
This is very bad year for the Demo
cratic party. The hearts of the mem
bers of the British Golden club may
well be wrung with anguish as they
contemplate the successive disasters
that have befallen. their American free
trade allies. In the first place the ex-
cellent crops and the unparalleled in
dustrial prosperity of the country were
great blow to the calamity party.
Short crops and bad business always
work for Democratic success. Then
came the report Of the United States
senate committee, signed by the ablest
Democrat in congress, John G. Carlisle,
showing by incontrovertible proof that
the wages of worlsingmen had increased
while the prices of manufactured pro-
ducts had diminished under the Nc
Kinley law.
Then there followed in quick success
sion the official reports of Labor Com
missioner Peck and Bank Superintend-
ent Preston, both Democrats. The free
traders had insisted, with all the noise
and pertinacity of professional bowling
dervishes, that the Mckinley tariff was
expressing industry and lessening the
reward of labor. Commissioner Peck's
report proved that In one year under
this tariff there had been in the single
state of New York an increase of indus
trfo aalN
600, an increase in the total amount of
wages paid to factory employees of more
than 100000, and an average individ-
ual increase of wages amounting to
sea. II for 265, 900 workers in sixty-eight
manufacturing industries Superin-
tendent Preston demonstrated that the
savings banks deposits in New York
state had increased from 1915, $3.50, ,7e6 on
Jan. l., 1889, to $40, lie ,s73.49 on July
1, 1909, while the depositors had in
creased in number from ,802, ,e52 to
1866, ,138.
These heavy blows sent the Democracy
into a panic. They brought about a
speedy and unconditional surrender on
the part of Mr.. Cleveland and the Mug
wumps to Bosses Croker, Sheehan, Muir
ply and the "semicriminal organiza-
ton" of Tammany Hall. But there was
still more misfortune in store for the
luckless Democracy. Mr.. George Tick
nor Curtis, the most eminent living
Democratic authority on Constitutional
law, has publicly announced that he
will not sanction, even by silence, the
outrageous dogma that protection to
American industry is unconstitutional.
More than this, Mr.. Curtis, whose
name commands respect and whose opin-
ions carry weight among citizens of all
parties in every state in the Union, has
declared not only that protection is con-
stitutional, but that it is in the highest
degree beneficial to the nation at large.
This veteran Democrat, whose constitu-
tional opinions have been quoted as au-
thority by the Democratic press for 80
many years, states his position with all
the clearness and force that the English
language can give to it. He says:
"In common with many other Demo-
Gratis cannot follow the leaders of the
party in denouncing Republican protec-
tion as fraud upon the labor of the
great majority of the American people
for the benefit of few, nor can sub
scribe to the doctrine that protective
tariff is unconstitutional. have no pe-
cuniary interest in manufactures, but
know what protection has done and is
doing for this country. If it operates
for the benefit of the few am not one
of that few. am one of the many-one
of the great majority benefited by it,
including those who denounce it for the
sake of obtaining political power. II
the leaders of a political party assem-
bled in national convention for the pur-
pose of nominating candidates for the
presidency and vice presidency choose
to stultify themselves by falsifying
history they cannot expect to be followed
by others who have any habits of indie
pendent thought and action"
This last disaster is one of the worst
that has yet befallen the Democratic
politicians. The facts of the labor mar
ket and of the country's industrial de-
yelopment are all against them, and
now they are openly denounced for their
dishonesty and lack of patriotism by one
of tho most prominent and most highly
esteemed Democrats in the United
States. Mr.. Cleveland and his follow
ers may well wonder what is coming
next.-New York Press.