New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-01
DEMOCRACY AND DISASTER.

Is il not n strange and significant fact that
only one party in this country can proiit by or
rejoice in National prosperity Everything that
adds 20 National WE'LL being helps the Kepub-
leans Every disaster or calamity, every fail
ure or strike or collapse Of industry, is expected
TO help tho Democratic party Its one hope is
that the people may suffer and blindly resent
their suffering.
Short crops help the Democratic party. There
forc a long dy spell in summer, burning up
the corn and dcpriying millions OF men ana
animals Of sustcnancc, is Democratic argu-
mcnt. A destructive storm or flood in harvest
time is Democratic argument, and an early
frost. The rpening grain, the fayoring sun
shine. each opened boil of cotton, reason and
vote for Republican candidates, while every
pinched ear or stunted stalk or frost-btten
blossom is distinctly Democratic Has any
Democrat the courage to tell why? II there
is a bad failure anywhere. be the cause what
il may, is Democratic ammunition and
awakcns ] emocratic rejoicing When mer-
chant takes account of stock and finds he is in
trouble, when factory closes and hundreds of
hands are driven out to seek employment and
livelihood elsewhere, the Democratic party
gains and is happy. But new mill offering
now machinery for hundreds Of Americans to
work, new industry keeping at home millions
that were formerly sent abroad to pay for for
eign labor means JOY for the people and Re-
pubican votes The fires that are lighted in
every new furnace brighten Republican pros
meets. Cold and dead ashes, chimncys that
never smoke. wheels that stand still and homes
without earnings, gladden. tho Democratic
heart and swell the Democratic vote.
Ii has come to be the fact that Democratic
journals passionately deny the existence of Il
new industry, and strive desperately to prove
that il does not and cannot thrive because It's
prospcrty would damage the Democratic party.
They hate and pcrsistcntly SANDER the manu-
Iacturcr who offers goods heretofore imported,
and break his credit if they can. To them he
is an enemy, because his success would go 10
proye that the Republican policy is wise and
right Accused be the man, in Democratic
estimation, who offers cheaper goods to con-
srmcrs he is a missionary OF Republlcanlsm.
The manufacturer who prospcrs must be rob
bing the people, and only he who fails and
charges his failure to the tariff deserves hon
orable mention. So if the dinner-pail is empty
Democracy has hopes. If the table is bare, and
the children cry for bread, Democracy takes
courage. II the workngman tramps the streets
in vain, because Democratic agitators have
closed many a mill his weary footsteps sound
like joy-bells to the Democrats who want office
The prosperity of the millions which is the
public prosperity, must help the Republicans,
and how can Democrat enjoy it? His party
lives on calamity, fattens on private suffering
and want and is compelled to hail every Ma
tional disaster as political reinforcement.
Did it never occur to Democrats that party
must be false in its theories and unworthy Of
support, when it cannot joyously welcome an
expansion of industries. an extension of trade
with other countries, or an advance in wages :?
What does it mean when great party looks
for National calamity as o partisan gainp Is