The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-02

! freightage of the internal commerce
which has come from our superb devel-
opments.
"At the high tide of national prosper
ity the country has voted for reversal
of the policy which has produced these
results. The policy which, since the war
has brought the country the phenomenal
prosperity which it enjoys today, neces-
sarily created theIopportunitiesfor master
fui men who have the genius for making
| money, TO make it. It doubled the wages
received for the same work by the arti-
sans predecessor; it increased the pur-
chasing power and thereby still further
added 10 the amount OF mis- remunera-
ton.
The country has voted, however, for
a reversal of the system and is entitled
to its trial. Inauguratin day has come
and the victorious allies march up Penn
sylvania avenue. The parade over, the
| brass plate on the White House door
| changed from Harrison 10 Cleveland
and the trouble begins.
"a mine-owner and manufacturer,
who voted to bring about this result,
| said to me:
g 1t is criminal on the part of you
Republicans to egg on Dir. Cleveland and
| his advisers to carry out the principles
Of their platform. You know if they
were carried out as they were enunciated
at Chicago, the results would be disas-
trous TO the business and the prosperity
of the country
My answer was: NV dear friend
and speculative voter, you are entitled
to trial of your experiment; and the
people whom you have persuaded that
their conditions would be bettered by
the experiment will never be satisfied,
and the country never at rest, until it is
tried
"The Republican party stands in the
position of the educated and experienced
physician, who, when he finds that his
patient has lost confidence, and wants to
try the quack doctor. urges that the trial
be made at once. SO that after the exper-
iment the resources of science and of
demonstrated skill may save the patient,
both from the difficElties of his disease
and the rostrums of the quack
The strength of the Republican party
is that it has always kept its pledges. Its
platforms were not made to get on, but
to stand on. The utterances Of its con-
ventions are the statute laws of the laud.
IL DAtlSCh IloCll w saw Jl1c tEDuULlO, anu
it saved it. 1t pledged itself to recon
struct the Union, while preserving every
principle of the Declaration of Independ-
ence and eliminating the curse of slav-
cry, and it reconstructed it. 1t pledged
itself to restore the national credit and
to place money upon a basis which
would make it as good as the best cur
rency of the world, and such it is today.
1t pledged itself to repair the losses and
devaSlations of the civil war, to bring
prosperity to the land, to provide the
industries which should take care of the
rising generation, and absorb the half-a-
million of immigrants who come here
every year; and, the fullfilment of the
pledge is evidenced in every hamlet and
town and city of the country. Have the
Democracy fulfilled their pledges2 They
have been out of power for a generation,
because they gave nc pledges. The peo-
pie always want something positive.
Negations have no place in the success
of life, whether they are human ciphers
or fruitless policies"
Mr.. Henry Watterson, the editor Of
the Louisville Courier-Journa is man
who thinks he knows more about
hHduCe, tdl III dhu IAC pOllllOobL loouCS VI
the day than any man either in the
universe or out of it. What he don't
know about these subjects he does not
consider worth knowing by anybody.
The following is the statement of this
gentleman in regard to the program of
the new Democratic administration,
copied from late issue of his paper;
son lines perfectly clear and broad,
the new administration and the new
congress will begin to remove the house
that has been condemned. Time will be
given its occupants to get out; to re-
move their effects; and then starting
with the roof, the Democratic party
will proceed to rae it, story by story,
to the ground, and when the rotten
are reached, to remove
them, preparatory to the erection in its |
place of tree-trade temple, i. e., tariff |
only, laid upon the fewest |
of articles possible to the rev.
enues actually required by the govern |
ment, and these articles selected, as far
as possible, from commodities not pro- |
duced in this country. In other words, |
the doctrine of protection |
for what it is, an imposition and fraud, |
abhorrent alike to the constitution of the |
United States and the true American |
system, the Democratic party will not |
weary of well-doing until the statute
books are no longer disfgured by the |
shadow of any tariff duty having pro-
lection for its purpose"
1t will be seen by this statement that |
this modern Sampson thinks that the
Democratic party is strong enough to
remove the great superstructure that |
has stood for thirty-three years tower
Of strength over the whole length and |
breadth of this land-a protective tariff |
and establish on the foundations on
which it rests, free trade temple that is
going to do wonderful things for the |
Mr.. Depew IN the foregoing |
quotations indicates what protection has |
done for the country. But the protec- |
i've system which Mr.. Watterson de-
nounces as San imposition, fraud alb
lorrent like to the constitution and |
.he true American system" is not stand |
ing upon a rotten foundation; but by the |
lime he gets the roof off and one or two |
stories removed, ne viii suddenly dis
cover that this protective system rests
upon foundation of solid granite that
cannot be removed without re-
moving tie very pillars upon which
he government itself is based, and |
ong before he gets to the foundation, he
viii find something tumbling upon his
OWN head that will crush both him and |
lis party. Already the signs of dis
content, disruption and danger are APP |
oearing.