New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-01
STRANGE FISK TO TIKE.

I'm several cities Democratic anxiety ab0u'
the votes of business men this year has found
cxnrcssion in numerous interviews, wherein
men are described as declaring that they Will
MT desert their party on account Of It's financial
and industrial misunderstanding. That many
such men can be found is not surprising. The
number of those who, upon inquiry, decline
to make satisfactory statement Is nowhere
reported. If only one mar in ten votes as
his business sense prompts him To vote the
Democratic loss will not delight the advocates
of Free Trade and wildcat money.
The Democratic journals give highly inter
eS.ing editorial assurances. They betray a
strong hope that nobody will believe the Dem"-
cratic party when it says II means TO do any
thing. Thus one solemny aflirms u: " business
men know it is all nonsense 10 suppose that the
Democrats will disturb any industry by a
change Of duties or bring back wildcat bank
notes instead of the National currency" Pre-
cisely; il is all nonsense to suppose that the
Democratic party ever means what it says, or
will do what it promises 1t Is all nonsense 10
suppose that its latform contains anything but
deception, or that its pledges are not Ike PIE
crust-made to be broken. 1t is all nonsense
TO suppose that Democrats in power will do
what Democrats out Of power have tried II do.
The last reliance Of this great party Is that
nobody will give it credit for honesty, good
faith or manlincss. One would think a National
organization might better be beaten than dis
graccd by such plea. Do these men really
believe that practical American voters will trust
them with power on the express ground that
they cannot be expected to do what they prom
ise? individuals there doubtless are whose
partisanship is of that frantic variety, but are
all the Democratic voters supposed to have so
little + ason? Especially are all Democratic
business men supposed TO be willing to take
such a risk?
Here are changes Of tariff for which the
Democrats in Congress have already voted.
Are they to be expected TO make the changes
if they have the power. OF will practical men
take it for granted that nothing of the sort
will be done? Over forty new works are en-
gagged in making tinplatcs perhaps fifty in
making cotton ties, perhaps sixty in making
pearl buttons, and many in other manufactures
which did not exist in this country before the
new duties were imposed, and could not exist
if such duties were removed. Is it anything
but an impudent lie to assert that the repeal
OF those duties would disturb no industry u?
What is to be believed then; that the Demo-
Gratis who voted to take of duties from tin
plates and cotton ties and various other articles
would do no such thing if they had the power !?
The whole Democratic party has denounced
and voted against the National bank system
ever since it was first proposed. A man can
scarcely be found who is ignorant of the ira
ditional hatred Of that party for National banks
or of its blind prejudice in favor OF note
issues by State institutions. The party uttered
nothing but the wel-known truth about itself
when it declared in its platform that it wished
TO repeal the tax by which State banks Of
issue are prevented. But is it all nonsense
TO suppose that the party would do that very
thing if it could get the power?
Business men are not in the habit of taking
foolish risks when they can just as well avoid
them. They rarely lend much to man who be-
gins by saying that his notes are always dis
honored. and he never means to pay any of
thom. good business man does not often