Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-24
IT'S A PARTY OF RUIN.
DEMOCRACY AND DESrRUc-
TlON GO HAND-IN-HAND.
The Magnificent Credit OF the Govern.
ment which Republicans Built Up Ii
Now Threatened by the Unpatriotio
Politicians at Washington.
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When Mr.. Cleveland was elected
certain persons were sanguine enough
to believe that the Democratic party
had somehow changed its nature.
These individuals argued hopefully
that by this time the Rourbous who
had once brought the country to the
verge of industrial and political ruin
had reached point where they were
able to learn and to forget; they as
serted-in spite OF the declaration of
war on American industry in the
Democratic platform, in spite Of
Democratic shotgun domination in
the South and Democratic vote -steal-
ing in the North, in spite OF the no.
torious hostility of an overwhelming
majority Of Democrats to every prin-
ciple of sound flnance-that in some
myterious, inexplicable way the Dem
ocratic party had become tolerably
patriotic and progressive.
1t would be interesting to know
just now what these optimists think
about the capacity of the Democratic
party to govern. They wanted "a
change" and they have got it;
change from progress to stagnation,
from industrial development to sharp
and sudden contraction, from the
sunlight of assured prosperity to dis
NAL uncertainty and gloom: from
safe and practical methods of nation
al fnanclering to a shuff1ing policy
whose cowardly evasions have aroused
the contempt Of enlightened men of
affairs the world over; from universal
public confidence to universal public
fear. This is what the Democratic
party and the Cleveland administra-
ton accomplished in Two
months time; and the work of tear
ing down is only beginning. The
course of the Treasury Depart
ment has been worthy of the
party whose representatives in
the last Congress voted by a
sweeping majority in favor of free
silver coinage, and whose latest ma
tional declaration of principles con-
tanned demand for the revival of
wildcat currency. It has been dis
gracefully silly and weak from the
first. Mr.. Carlisle's pessimistic and
ambiguous statement, for which
the President, with it's author, must
be held jointly responsible, was
gross blunder; his begging letters to
the banks, with his expressions of
doubt as to the financial ability of
the richest government in the world,
were blunders; the refusal of the ad-
ministration to fortify the Treasury
by selling bonds or even to announce
that it will sell bonds when the
Treasury reserve shall have been de-
pleted to certain point, is the worst
and most dangerous blunder of all.
The New York Press predicted, in
the event Of Democratic success,
general contraction of business en-
terprise and widespread lowering of
the wages Of labor. The business
men and wage-earneFs who were fool
ish enough to vote into power the
party that is the implacable enemy
Of American industry will yet see
these predictions fulfilled to the let
ter. The fulflllment is coming with |
remarkable rapidity. The fact that |
the Democracy has pledged itself to |
bring about free trade bias aVailed to |
work widespread Injury to- American
Industries even before the Demo
cratic measure of destruction is FOR
mulatedt The policy of makesAifts
and meRdicaDcy that has been pur-
sued by the Treasury DepartmeuShas
been a. powerful factor in hasteBiag
the inevitable. The shrinkage.in the
value Of securities al over the coun.
Try mounts upinto hundreds Of mill
IONS. The loss, to the people, already
enormous is growing greater daily:
The confidence of selle1s in the abil-t
Ity of buyers to- pay has, been. Swept
away in a food OF distrust; the mag
liflcent credit Of the Government it,
elf, which, Republicanism built up
with 50 much pains and labor, iS
by the incapable and un-E
patriotic politicians who are in con-