Omaha daily bee., 1892-09-24
uNoRrye rItE EVIDENCE.

The democratic leaders and organs
wholly ignore the facts which testify to
national progress and prosperity under
the present tariff, and content them
selves with the bold assertion that 1T has
had no such results as are claimed for 1T
by republicans. Not one OF them has
had the honesty and candor to take up
the statistics and attempt to prove that
they do not demonstrate She good effects
OF the tariff upon the material interests OF
the country. On the contrary the re-
pubicans steadily appeal to these facts
for the vindication OF their policy and
ask for them the careful consideration
of the people.
In his Brooklyn speech Senator Hill,
referring to the Mckinley bill, said;
''There is no satisfactory evidence that
it has increased our prosperity in any
degree or advanced the wages OF sin
gle workingman. Yet the senator ad-
mitted that the country is prosperous
and that its industrial development has
increased since the present la III law
went into effect Like other democratic
leaders Mr.. Hill pays no attention to
the facts and relies upon unsupported
assertions. 1t is much more simple and
convenient than would be the effort to
show even to n democratic audience
that the evidence of prosperity is in no
way due to the tariff. 1t would be
difficult task for any democrat to at
tempt TO prove that the growth OF the
industries of New York and Massachu-
setts during the year following the
adoption of the present tariff law, as
shown by the reports of the labor COM
missioners of those states, was in no
measure due to that law, but in spite of
it. The relation of that legislation to
the industrial progress in those states Is
so obvious that all but those who are
utterly blinded by their prejudices
against the policy of protection must see
| il. The capital employed in the protected
| industries in New York was greater by
about $l3, 100000 in 1891 than in 1890,
and in Massachusetts the increase in
the former over the latter year was $lo,-
| 600, 600. Ii this rate of increase prevailed
| in all the manufacturing states, and
| there is no reason to doubt that it did,
not less than Sl00, ,000,C COO more was in
vested in protected industries the year
after the passage of the Mckinley bill
than the year before. Can any reason
able man doubt the influence of that
measure in producing this result?
The plain truth is, and the intelligent
voters of the country recognize ii, that
the principle of protection as embodied
in the present tariff law, together with
the principle of reciprocity, have been
instrumental in increasing the business
of the country both at home and abroad,
and has most conclusively vindicated
the republican policy The tariff has
stimulated home industries, which are
now employing more capital ana labor
than they did two years ago, while re.
ciprocity has enlarged the markets for
the products of the farm. AS to wages
the testimony of the report of the senate
committee, approved by the democratic
members, and the reports of the labor
commissioners of Now, York and Massa
chusetts, is a sufficient answer to the
democratic assertion that the labor O.
the country has not been benefited by
the tariff. General denials will not be
effective in this campaign of education
Bare assertion will not be accepted by
the intelligent voters of the country
who are seeking accurate and trust
worthy information. 1.-THE day of tn,
prophet of calamity" said Presidcn
Harrison, "has been succeeded by tina
of the trade reporter" The people de
mand facts, and these the republican
party is prepared to give them in justi
tication OF it's appeal for THEW support
1t invites the country to consider con
ditions rather than theories. In thi
respect it has very great advantage o
its opponents.