Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-17
A FEW REFLECTIONS.

Must A bide by Their rDecis1On-DemO.
 cratic Pledges and What Their Full
 6IIment Means. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The election is over, the returns are in, and Cleveland and free trade are endorsed by tho ballots of the people. It is useless to urge reasons why or multiply excuses for the result. The people by voluntary exercise of the ballot have declared for change of governmental policy, and that change will come and be as pronounced and radical as has been the vote.
 Already the financial lines of the coun- try begin to feel it's effects. Contracts are rescinded, building enterprises abandoned, manufacturing industries curtailed, and a feeling of business unrest throughout the country is felt, even by democrats under the second sober thought of the resulting crisis incident to the verdict.
 Stagnation in all branches of industry will be felt; money oenters are hedging for the change; commercial values will de- cline; the fruits of the farm and mills, the mechanic, the artizan and the laborer will feel the depression in prices. The in- dustries of the nation will fall from the most prosperous period in our history during the last four years under the re-
 publican policy and governmental action
 into gloomy, depressed condition in the
 next four years under the financial policy
 of the dominant party succeeding to
 power. Warning notes of tariff repeal
 and change of financial policy have been
 sounded all aleng the democratic lines
 during the campaign and are now kept up
 by the administration organs of the win
 ming party for immediate results.
 The wage earners to great extent,
 strange as it seems, have declared for a change from republican antecedents and promises to democratic antecedents and promises.
 Free trade pure and simple with all na- tions of the earth is the significance of the
 land will stand in the way of the experi- ment A radical change in governmental policy, both upon the tariff and the cur rency, and other matters outlined in the party platform and upon the stump may be expected and will be inaugurated and the business interests of the country may | as we'll begin to take shape accordingly Our manufacturing industries can stand the countries, on the same scale of prices for labor here as there. No country in the world has paid
 and is paying such high prices for labor in the factory and in the field to the mechanic, the artizan, the clerk, the accountant and the serv- ants in the kitchen as in the United States. No wage earner in the world has fared so well lived so we'll so well fed so well clothed, with such action as in the United States, yet with full knowledge of all this, the wage calls for change. Now let them have the fruit of their ballots, even if wages came down to the stand ard prices for similar work in the old countries This will be desirable in more points of view than one
 l. It will enable industrial pursuits in all coun tries to have common level for safe calculation for basis of profit and loss on the ledger Manu facturers and the labor will know just what tc | expect in the line of their energies.
 Z. A common basis of prices for labor in al countries will prevent much of the unsavory i'm ! migration of the foreign element now landing l upon our shores, under the stimulus of higf prices paid for labor here. Let us accept the
 situation with all it's consequences and gracefully | abide the result. L. E. MUNsoN