New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-03
KICKING AGAINST FACTS.

IF orr friends the enemy do not find ont
before long what they are fighting about this
wear there will not be much OF a fight. Here
are some of them wanting to know why such
dreadful documents as the annual report OF
Commissioner Peck are permitted to chill the
ardor and battle the efforts of Free Traders.
ON the other hand. though. "The New-iork
Sun, shines for all. il shines not for all with
cheering and life giving ray, but with scofch-
ing and devastating heat for the Free traders
day after day telling them that they are DONG
all they can to defeat the Democratic party
That is bad state of things. If these Dem
ocratic journals are right, substantially the
whole party is engaged in beating itself, one
wing by thrusting forward fatal issue and
the other by making that issue ridiculous or
odious. If Democrats cannot do any better
fighting than this the contest VIII wax "i'il-
tnrastino The worst of it is that both factions
are partly in the right 1.-The New iork
Times is right in declaring that the tariff is
the issue which must. in spite OF everybody
control the election and sway most OF the Vo'eS
cast But "The Sun is right in declaring that
the Democratic party is losing ground on that
issue wherever it is put forward and the more
it is debated 1t is a fa,al question for Demo
Gratis but il is the one thing they can in no
way dodge or deprive of the foremost place in
the consideration of voters
of what possible use is it, then. TO belabor
with dcnunciations those Democrats who battle
continually for the platform of Their party, pro-
claiming night and day that Protection Is I'M
constitutional and that there ought tp be no
tariff except for revenue only? The country
will not vote that way very true if it has ITS
owes omen and knows what it is about. But
how is il to be blinded or beguiled? Every
change in wages and every change in prices,
every new establishment that starts and every
mill or shop that stops. thlusts the tarlf q''eS-
tion 10 the FROM, Every factory and every
store is talking about it, Every customer is
either told of the tariff OF thinks about the
tariff in comparing prices at different shops
Every official document, whether from Demo
cratic or Republican sources, compcls men 10
ask themselves whether this is Free-Trade evl-
dence because every official record that tells
even fragment of truth goes to show that
the Nation is prosperous
Here is the savings bank report. II shows
an increase in savings deposits Of SlO'4l''oi'
in New-Yorli State. OF about Ia per cent,
during the first half Of 1892. The increase
during President Iarrison's Administration has
been $50, ,51G, and the number OF de-
positors has increased from l,3G2,s12 January
/ 1889. 10 .55G.l33 July l. 1892. Consider
ing all the Withdrawals for the purpose OF
changing residence building houses. going INTO
business independently, or profitable invest
mcnt. this increase d>closes q remarkable state
Of prosperity. But throughout the country
such an increase has been gong on. and II bears
most eloquent testimony Ia the beneficence OF
the Republican policy. In two years under TINS
Administration the increase in savings bank
deposits in all the States has been $40 ,Ooo,-
600. or 141-2 per cent. The number OF de-
poSitors increased from 4000,O 600 10 5000
600 in two years and is nearly 80 per cent
larger than il was ten years ago. The de-
posts we're then SS92 900. 600 in amount but
were 81 .G54, 600. 900 in 1891. an increase OF
about 81 per cent Now how is a Democratic
platform TO be forgotten or lodged which as
selts that the people OF this country have been
continuously and remorSelessly robbed when
such official reports as these are continually