New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-11-22

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people2 For one, my faith in that CON-
mittee is weak-that is, in the Democra-
tic portion of it. More than one-nalf of
the Democrats on that committee lack
business sense. Not to exceed four out
of the eleven have much knowledge of
business affairs. They really know moth
ing OF great commercial and industrial
enterprises. At least six of the eleven
have had little or no experience in indus
trial institutions. They have done little
business of any kind. know nothing of
business principles anu less of business
neccssities.I doubt if to exceed four of the
eleven ever carefully examined the work
lngs of single great manufacturing in
dustry in their entire lives.
NO wonder such committee stopped
taking testimony after sessions of only
fourteen days. They do not desire the
statements of men who run the great in
dustrlesv OF this country and have practi-
cal knowledge of all the facts pertaining
to the industries which they manage and
control. 1t is not facts that these men,
bers OF the committee seek. They pro.
pose to draw bill in accordance with
certain theories put forth by visionary
doctrinaires without regard to facts.
see whether or not my prediction
comes true! Congress will soon meet
in regular session. Watch the .sWilson
DILL as it Will be called. I predict that
1t will he vicious in the extreme.
committee made up of such men can pre-
pare no other kind of tariff bill. That
such measure will meet with deter
mined opposition from all the Republi-
cans IN the lower house goes without say
Ing. Yet, in my judgment, it will be
passed by the House in very bad form.
1t will no doubt meet with decided op-
position in the Senate. 1t will probably
find hard Shedding there. There are a
few Democratic Senators who see the
handwriting on the wall. They seem to
understand the cause of the recent up-
heaval. A few of them may listen to the
voice OF the unemployed, and it requires
only II few members of tie Senate to
block the passage Of the bill. Smoke
less chimneys and silent machinery may
teach few Senators the important les
son.
Men without work, when pinched with
hunger, are going to ask 'the reason Why"
Such men vote with "condition not q
theory gnawing at their stomachs. 1t
is useless to indulge in long-spun theo-
ries to men who are demanding meat and
bread.
The demands and desires of British
manufacturers will have little weight
with men who cannot get work here in
the United States. Food and CLOTHING
come to the bulk of our people only
through employment. Constant employ
ment comes only through prosperous
factories, shops, mills, mines and agri-
cultural pursuits. Paralyze one indus
try and you injure all the rest All kinds
of industries are dependent for prosperi-
ty upon each other. Produce stagnation
in them all, and distress and ruin become
widespread.
Woe to any party which causes gener-
al depression and long continued bust
ness disasters. The country has already
had taste of what bad legislation, SIM
ply threatened, will do. The manufac-
: turing States have now expressed their
opinion Of such proceedings. Go on,
gentlemen, if you wish. Proceed with
the destruction of home industries if you
dare. The wall of the unemployed will
follow you in your mad career, and the
ruin OF the perpetrators of such a crime
against our own people sure and swift 1t
would please me greatly if the suffering
of our industrial classes i'll some way
could be avoided. If the American Con-
gress take no heed Of the voice of the
people, and enact laws that cripple our
American industries and keep our own
wage earners out of work, the party in
power will lie held responsible, and it's
overthrow will follow at the earliest pos
sible moment.
Any party which has no more business
sense than to pursue such course of
legislation in the face of the present bus
mess stagnation is worthy of neither re-
spect or confidence. The sooner the men
OF such callbre are relegated to the rear
the better for any nation like ours, which
is so full of men and women who are not
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