New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-11
RFUIND THE CLOUDS,

| In an hour of unexpected defeat some minds
are apt to lose their hold on permanent facts.
In Success they have visions Of victory forever.
In defeat they see no gleam of hope and no
future. anticipate continual defeat for genera
ton, and forget that behind the thickest clouds
the stars are always shining. Certain perma-
nent facts may well he remembered at this
time by men of both parties. One is that a
party of ncgations can never have lasting
| triumph.
Democratic armies have been shouting Z" No
Force bill, No Mckinley bill No mOnopo-
lies I" Very we'll the people have given the
| Democratic party power to prevent any new
| Election bill and to sweep away all United
states laws regulating elections. They have
given that patty pOwe" to repeal the Mckinley
bill and substitute tariff for revenue only, or
abolish the tariff altogether. They have given
that party power to eXtirpate all existing trusts
and monopolics, whether in manufactures or
mining, in currency or in transportation and
to make similar combinations forever impos-
sbe When all this has been done, what
next? Negatons are barren. For more than
thirty years the Democratic party has not
originated a single measure or policy. Until
what has il to exist for after its noes have
been duly recorded? The instant that party
passes beyond the region Of barren negations
and attempts to do anything, the radical hos
tility of its elements, one to another, must
begin 10 operate just as the explosive forces
in powder are set free by a touch of the live
coal.
One other permanent fact is that the party
and policy under which the people have en-
oyed the highest prosperity they have ever
known cannot go out like snuifed candle
In the minds of all men that party and policy
will live, challenging comparison every hour.
When President Harrison was elected, indus
tries were depressed, business was extremely
dull multitudes were out of employment. thou
lands of wheels were still. The progress OF
the county during the four years just ended
has been mexamped in history. The month
preceding his. defeat was the month of the
largest business ever known in the history OF
the country trade was never more confident;
industries had never been as well cmrl)yed,
and hundreds of new works were III process OF
erection for the employment OF host OF
American workers. while wages paid t. labor
were higher, on the whole, than had Cv beer
raid at any previous time. The cost o. living
was lower during mis- Admnst ration than ever
before, and the increase in savings Of labor
vas greater.
70 do better yet is tho task to which the
pcoDlo have called the Democratic party Ii
has walled over calamiiies abuses, robbciic',
wrongs until the people have answered: "Go
ard 60 better if you can stop all abuses and
wrongs put an end u all robbeIiCs and cllan-
tieS. and let us enter into the millennium OF
marvellouSly greater prosperity which you
promise" Every one OF IL will rejoice il the
Democratic party can do this thing Every
hour will be test Every weeks wages for
every worIingmln, every purchase by every
housewife. every months Transactions by every
mer. liant or manufacturer or railway will sug-
cost to the mind the question: Has that
promised millennium come, and is pros ity
gr, alter for me and for all than ii was in Ccto-
Der 1882? ?" There is not sensible Democrat
in the country who does not feel that the com
parson is sure t. be trying one. Republican
principles and the r publican party cannot die,
nor lose their hold upon the minds of men, until
some other party and its policy have brought
t. the American people greater prosperity than
they now enjoy. and greater progress than
they have witnessed within the last four years.
When the Democratic party has worked
miracles it will be time for Republicans to doubt
and despair.