Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-27
DEMOCRACY AND iTs PxEsl-
DENT.


IL Lacks bnt few DAYS of Q year
since the Democracy won its great
triumph. 1t lacks but lew DAYS
OF year since the people Of the
United States turned over the Exec
utive and Legislative branches of the
Government to that thing called the
Democratic party. It lacks but .
few days of eight months since the
party took full control of the Gov
eminent, and behold the spectacle
now presented by our country! Not
one pledge Of the platform has been
fulfilled. Rather, every pledge Of
the platform stands violated up to
date. There is not one acre of the
Republic, from Maine to Texas or
from Florida to the EXTREMIST limit
OF the Northwest, where the people
are satisfied, where the producers Of
the country feel that they are getting
any reward. Great industries para
lyzed, congestion everywhere, the
products of the earth do not bring
prices sufficient for their production.
The great industry of one-t third of the
Republic is absolutely paralyzed.
The fear of what is to be in case the
one pledge which the Democracy is
liable to fulfill should be carried out,
paralyzes every factory wheel and
banks the fires of every forge and
furnace. Railroads are going into
the hands of receivers, banks are
practically suspended all over the
country, and although we possess =
land unequaled under the sun, land
with every variety of soil and climate,
filed with a thousand slumbering re-
sources, equipped for career of per-
feet prosperity, the real condition of
affairs is but little better than that of
Turkey or Egypt, or of any other
debt-enslaved, hopeless nation. We
wonder, if the election were to be
called again tomorrow, how many
States, North and South, the Democ-
racy would carry west of the Allie
ghany mountains. Certainly, so pit
iful failure has never before been
recorded, in all the annals of all the
nations that have existed since the
light of civilization was first kindled
in Egypt. There is no satisfaction in
saying that all this was pointed out
by the Tribune before election last
year; that with such ability as it pos
sessed, it called on the people to re-
fleet that not one word that Grover
Cleveland had ever uttered or writ
ten contained in it promise of good
for his country. His obstinacy was
perfectly shown; his stolid indiffer-
ence to the suffering of the masses
was perfectly portrayed. The fact
that on no subject in the world is be
thorough, the fact that on the two
most vital questions which affect the
people of this country he had never
devoted ten hours of study, was point
ed out. And yet, with the eight or
nine hundred thousand Republicans
that stolidly remained away from the
polls, he was able to pick up enough
votes to be elected President. To-
day he sits in the White House sur
rounded by the solitude of his own
obstinacy; uses his high Office to bull
doze coordinate branch of the
Government; he violates laws with
impunity; refuses to execute any law
that does not suit him, and yet there
are men who still cling to the belief
that be is a great and wise and pow
erful man, though there is no evidence
on earth that will guarantee that be.
lief. In his private life he is sullen
and coarse. The whispers that come
out of the very sanctuary of his home
are despicable, and that such man
should be able, by the help of the
great merciless bankers, to sit as q
despot over the American people, and
to rule Congress as though it were
but his puppet, is one of the marvels
of the age, and is such an impeach-
ment of the courage and the self-re-
spect and the sense of right of the
American people as never had an ex-
hibition before.
$50 you have got wife," said