New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-16
RrSlyESS MEN And REPUBLICAN POL

in favor or the election Oh iIdillSoH an" 1900
and among the means it has employed 10 tha1
end is compilation printed yesterday III ils
columns, of what business men don want
with the painful suggestion that the llSt OF
terrible things rccited is what they Will get
in the event OF Republican triumph next NO
yember None can deny that If such tate
were TO befal the country as 1.-The World"
promises in consequence of Mr. Harlsons re-
election it would make patriots sad. But
when the facts and the prospects are CAREFUL!
examined they scarcely seem to warrant our
neighbor's gloomy implications.
Our contemporary says, for instance, that
the business men don't want another increase
of 500, OOO, 900 in the pension roll like that
made during the last three years" But no such
increase has been made. In 1889, before the
List Congress adopted its new pension law,
there was expended for pensions exactly
$50. O31. 96S and in 1891 after the new law
had fully gone into effect the expenditures
amounted 70 S11S,54S,959. so that the IN
crease as the result of Republican legislation
is not 500 900 900 but only 500 ,991
1.-THE Word' says that the business men
az don't want the country's resources squan-
dered after the fashion set by the Billon-Dol-
lar Congress" Then they must certainly vote
to turn out the Democratic party, which 1.-The
World" has truthfully convicted of spending
in the first session of the Lid Congress more
money than was expended by the last Repub-
lican Congress in its first session
THE World' says that the business men
don't want the Treasury bankrupted by the
granting OF bounties and subsidies" we
agree but every Chamber of Commerce in all
the important cities of the United states petl-
toned Congress for the passage of the Ship
ping bills, and all business men are distinctly
anxious for prompt and general revival of
our merchant marine And certainly The
World" will not desire to leave the sugar plant
crs of the Southern States, who produced in
1891 sugar TO the amount of 221OS9 tons, 10
be ruined by the inflow of free sugar from
the West Indies. 1t is only for the protection
of shipping and the sugar planters that we are
now paving subsidies, and the amount paid, so
far from bankrupting the Treasury, is less than
a cent and half per capita.
"The World' says that the business men
don't want new taxes at time when taxes
already Outrun the heaviest lcvieS of the war
period" The heaviest levy of the war period
was made in 1866, when S4sS,213,4G5 were
raised by taxation. In 1891 the revenue de-
rived similarly amounted to only S3G5, s,254.
SO that this is not a time "whcn taxes outrun
the heaviest lcvicS of the war period, but when
they are less by precisely the sum OF SOB, O65,-
211 which, considering that our population
to-day is very nearly twice as great as it was
in 1866, will seem 10 the average man OF in
tclligcncc wonderful reduction 1t is true
tlo. do, e.,
more money into the Treasury, but less and
for that reason the last Republican Congress
reduced the revenues in the amount Of 49,
600 900.
"The World' says that business men "dont
want the industries Of the country crippled by
the imposition of taxes on the raw materials
of manufacture" that they " don't want to see
trade iegisated against as if it were crime"
and that they don't want foreign commerce
crippled by cocky and bumptious foreign pol
icy.' IL may be assumed, we think, that these
propositions arc reasonably correct. The peo-
pie don't want their industries and commerce
crippled by anything. Nor have they been
In 1889. the last year Of the Cleveland Ad-
ministratiOn, our exports Of domestic merchan-
disc amounted TO S730,2S2.Go9, and in 1891
under the operation of the Mckinley Act they
reached the magnificent sum OF 1912, go, 2s3.
This year they will be vastly greater; for in
the ten months ending with April 30 they have
amounted to 1884 1923, 5si, and these figures
contain the sure promise that when the Gov
eminent year is concluded they will reach the
value of a round billion. While our sales 10
foreign countries have been thus immensely
increasing, domestic production has also grown
in almost incrodihIo amnunts Wo pro1ucoI
90 900, 900 pounds more wool in 1891 than in
1899; 1000, 900 bales more cotton 600, OOO
tons more pig-iron; $4,000, 900 barrels more
petroleum while our total exports of bread
stuifs for the eleven months ending May 81
1892, amounted to S272,476, O23, as against
81 % 956,9si for tho same period of the prev-
Gus year. During the two years succeeding the
last Democratic Administration our people in
creased their deposits in savings banks in the
amount of S25s, Ss3,190. They increased
their tonnage in the merchant marine 377, 900
tons. They took up 23 900, 900 acres of pub
lie land. They erected $3.50 new postofllccs.
They built 10000 miles of new railroad and
the general effect of all these feurcs must be
to convince the country, including our alright
ed contemporary, that the peoples industries
have not been crippled, that trade has not been
legisated against as if it were crime and that
our foreign commerce. whether in despite or in
consequence of President IIarrisons firm and
honorable attitude toward distant countries, is
getting along very well.
"The World" concludes its list of painful
negations by saying that business men "don't
want another four years of Benjamin Harrison"
and we have no doubt it is quite as near the
truth in that statement as in those preceding
WHY DEMOCRATS ARE DISMAL.
Mr. Wattcrson's confession is a presage of