Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-08-31
DEMOCRATS CONFESS:
ACKNOWLEDGE THE CANVASS
WAS BASED ON FRAUD.
Bourbon Newspapers Now Tell Us that
Reductions In Wages Can Hardly He
Avoided. and that Men and Industries
Are Bound to Suffer.
Change Their Tune.

Democratic confessions that the
Cleveland canvass was based on fraud
and falsehood are coming thick and
fast. The other day the New York
Press called attention to the statement
OF the New York Times that the over
throw of the protective tasiff meant
necessarily protracted and painful
surgery" for American industries. The
free trade Evening Post asserts that re-
ductions in the high wages OF Ameri-
can labor "can hardly be avoided" Ex-
isssiuN ie's'iaFy q 95JfhGEhssdX JfhG EhsdXy NJ Whitney. IN an
Democratic organ, declares that "men
and industries which have thrived on
governmental favor arc bound to suffer
when that favor is withdrawn
Mark the contrast between these
ominous confessions and the ante-elec-
ton pledges of the Democratic party.
Not a line is to be found in any Demo-
cratic campaign editorial or speech
about painful and protracted surgery"
wage reductions or loss to men and
industries" as the result of Dem cratic
victory. From the official declaration
Of the Chicago convention to the cleo
tion Of Grover Cleveland every Dem j.
cratic utterance promised immediate
benefit to the American people as the
consequence of Democratic return to
power. The wage Garner and the
farmer were assured from every Demo-
cratic platform that the election of a
Demo cratic President and Congress
meant special prosperity for them.
They were told that Mr.. Cleveland's 3
triumph would at once remove the
burdens" from their shoulders, that 1t
would increase wages, raise the price
OF farm products and make money
plentiful everywhere. Misled by the
lying promise of dollar wheat and
"better times" multitudes of farmers
and workingmen voted the Democratic
ticket. Every factory that closes,
every mill fire that is banked, every
loom that lapses into idleness, every
drop in the price of wheat and Of wool
bears witness to the folly Of the voters
who put their faith in the gigantic
Democratic conspiracy OF falsehoOd and
deceit.
Where are the men who, ex-Secre-
tary Whitney coolly declares, are
"Eound to suffer-" when the shield OF
protection against foreign pauper labor
is snatched away? They are the silk
weavers Of Paterson, confronted with
the threat OF id'eness and poverty;
they are the ten thousand plate glass
workers who have been turned into
the streets by the shutting down of
every plate glass factory in America;
they are the twenty Thousand idle
Michigan miners; they are the scores
of thousands of factory operatives in
the New England States who must sub
init to loss OF wages and independence;
they are the farmers who see the prices
of their products steadily falling; they
are the multitudes Of unemployed in
New York and every great Industrial
center of the nation. These are tho
chief victims of Democratic policy,
whether that policy consists Of gem
eral ad valorem tariff OF 25 per cent. on
all imports or whether it cOmprehends
some other device for wrecking Ameri-
can industry and beggaring American
labor. Mr.. Whitney did not state the
particular scheme of destruction which
the Democracy will adopt; but he told
the truth when he declared that under
Democratic rule the workers OF Ameri-
Cd were bound to suffer-" 1t is pity
that neither he nor his political assO-
ciates had the manliness to tell the
truth in the last Presidential cam
paign.