The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-02

.ssuLr o, DxnocnArlC .ULE.

Every day brings fresh news Of mills.
ninss, factories. furnaces and workshops
siosing down and discharging Thousands
OF hands ~ result Of the election last No
vsmbss Of Democratic president and
Democratic congress pledged TO smash the
protective tariff under which the Ameri-
can people have prospersd for thirty-tvo
years. The Eastern papers report that en-
pioysrs Who have reduced the cost
Of production In all other d.
rsctions are now beginning TO insist that
the laborins msn shalt accept lower wages.
In the iron trade . heavy reduction Of
wages II sure 10 be made. This state Of
things 10 sure 70 continue and 10 increase
Until the tariff question IL settled and ad-
justed to the new conditions. IT the new
tariff Is In limo with the Democratic
national platform there will b no revival
d American industry until after another
presidential election. There will be no re-
vival Of national prosperity unless the
Democratic congress promises the country
there will be no tinksring with the Nc
xinley tariff.
II President Cleveland would acknowi-
edge tha. he and his party are mistaken
In regard to the tariff and would urge
eongrsss to make no changes In rates ~
they exist ~ present the country would
undoubtedly Immediately regain it, lost
prosperity. But President Cleveland 10
On obstinate partisan rather than .
patriot, and the chances are that the tariff
viii b framed BY the same "blacksmiths"
Who constructed the tariff plank OF the
Chicago platform.
The Republican Club. Of New York city.
IN IT, recently published report on 1.-THE
Democratic panic Of 1898" makes this de-
sunciatson Of the Democratic hypocrisy
which pretsnds that IL 10 the sherman
Law alone and not the spsctsr Of Stree
trads" that 10 responsible for the panic Of
1so3:
The silver purchsss repeal alone 10 not
. specific for present ills. Distrust Of sil-
yer did not cause restriction Of commercial
orders, nor the countermanding Of those
previously given. which began early in
The year. Il did not dictate the policy Of
retail dealers and small johbers to carry q
stock sufficient only Tor present de-
mhuue, nor otu ~ suk9eet ieafS Oh over
stocking TO the manufacturer, all Of
which features characterized the incipient
stage Of present troubles. Contraction all
along the line included necessarily work
mems wages and tho production Of raw
material. These in turn operating on re-
tail trade. made the circuit again and
again, contracting each time more and
more. until mills which have been run
continuously for thirty years during busi-
ness days have been eompellcd To shut
down for want Of work. This action and
Yeaction Was not The sudden creation of
the silver purchase by our government
III our tariff system must be revolution
Iced. posterlty should have the benefit of
test unembnrrassed by silver purchase
or by other complications. Ii Democracy
seriously intends To put tariff tor revenue
only TO the test. by all means let it be n
fair one. Ii the change must come. let IL
come at once. - that voters may pass an
Intelligent Judgment thereon at the con-
Grrsssona election one year hence II
there - To be no change. let that fact he nj
once known, 50 tina: dropping industries
NAV renew their vigor. business may re-
gaia its confidence. and the country, eur
rendered by the Republicans in une KAN
pied prosperity. may resume its progress
ioaasd financial, industrial and CONNER
Gal supremacy"