The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-05
SAD CAIiAMITYITES.
ONE REPORT AFTER ANOTHER DAzED
THE DEMOCRATS.

This Has Been "A Decidedly Bad Year for
Them-Cleve1and and the Mugwumps
Have Internationally Surrendered to
the "Gang'-What Curtis Has to Say.
This is a 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 We're
a 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 incontrovertibie proof that
the wages of w~orkingmen 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 S%uperintend-
ent Preston, both Democrats. The free
traders had insisted, with all the noise
and ~pertinacity of professional bowling
d~ervishes, that the Mckinley tariff was
expressing industry and lessening the
reward of labor. Commissioner Pecks
report proved that in II year under
this tariff there had been in the single
state of New York an increase of indus
trial production amounting to $3l ,000,-
900, an increase in the total amount of
wage paid to factory employees OF more
than sc, OOO, 900, and an average individ-
ual increase Of wages amounting to
500. II for 2S5, 900 workers in sixty-eight
manufacturing industries. Superin-
tendent Preston demonstrated that the
savings banks deposits in New York
state had increased from $615, S99, 796 on
Jan. 1, 1889, to $40, 112, 873.49 on July
/, 1892, while the %depositors had in
creased in number from 1862 52 to
1866, 1873.
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
phy 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 i'll 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 SO
many years, states his position with all
the c~learness and force that the English
language can give to it. He says:
Gin common with many other Demo-
Gratis l cannot follow the leaders of the
party in denouncing Republican protec-
ton as a fraud upon the labor of the
great majority of the American people
for the benefit of a few, nor can l sub
scribe to the doctrine that a protective
tariff is unconstitutional. have no pc
%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 l am not one
Of that few. I am n of the many-one
of the great majority benefited by it,
including those who denounce it for the
sake of obtaining political power. If
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 classifying
history they cannot expect to be followed
bv 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-
velopment are all against them, and
now they are openly denounced for their
dishonesty and lack of patriotism by II
of the most prominent and most highly
esteemed Democrats in the United
States. MI. Cleveland and his follow
ers may well wonder what is coming
next.-New York Press.