Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-10-25
COULD NOT STAND IT
A Holyoks, Mass. Democrat Pa
per Deserts Free Trade
TO SUPPORT REpuSLlCANlsM
It's Reasens SCI Forth I'm . Disp.s-
ssonaie ststcus>st Reviewing HE
cent Political History.

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world. An examination a. your note
paper vill reveal the Holyoke Ssster
mark in nine cases out q ten. SiEce
the election % Mr.. Cleveland the great
paper mills of Holyoks have been seTi.
ousiy crippled and the town has parted
with It's Characteristic activity. The
Holyoke Daily Free Press has always
been a staunch supporter Of the demo
erat party. But II has reviewed the
political field as related TO the industrial
condition of tho county. and upon such
review has deserted the democrat party.
In 4 recent leading editorial IL says
At the head u the column today are
found the names Of the republican can
didates Tor governor aud lieutenant gov
ernor. They occupy the same pace In
the column that the names OF the demo
crat candidates did Last year. II is
with deepest regret that the Free Press
acknowledges that il has lest faith In
the democrat party, and that 10 firmly
believes that the present industrial stag
nation. financial stringency. add general
distress existing throughout the land
are the result of democrat supremacy.
Reasons for Change.
Such a conclusion should not be
reached nor the statement be made with
out reasons One year ago this country
was enjoying q prosperity such as had
never existed before. There was not an
lille mill In Massachusetts,. In this city
there was not waterwheel that was not
turning. not spindle idle. not q loom
that did not send its pleasing hum out
on the breeze. not paper engine or
machine that stopped from Monday
morning till Saturday night az midnight;
all was life and activity IN this the great
est paper producing city in the world.
There was rot a large mil In the city of
lIolyoke that did not run over time. so
great was the output OK paper cotton,
woolen.. silk. and machinery that the
railroads kept double force OF men al
work with extra locomotives all night,
as well as all day. handling the enormous
output % manufactured goods that were
being shipped 10 all parts of the known
world. And this condition OF affairs
existed from sea 20 sea. and from the
Canadian line to Mexico. The whole
world looked on and wondered at such
prosperity. Such was the condition OF
affairs one year ago.
Last November Grover Cleveland, our
noble president. was elected To the
highest office In the giit Of the Ameri-
can people. AT the same time the dem
ocrat party was put into control % the
national house of rcprescn tatives and
the senate. The Free Press believed,
with a majority OF American people.
that the nation was destined. under
democrat control, to reach still higher
plane Of prosperity than il had ever
reached before. greater than even that
OF the year lo52-
Record OF Democracy.
The democrat party has row had alb
solute control Of tho affairs OF the ma
ton for seven months. and the result
the most soErowful tlmo the nation ever
saw, business paralyzed. industries shut
down. wages cut down. financial panic,
such a strlngency in the money market
that bank after bank. business house
after business house has had 10 close its
doors, hundreds OF thousands out OF
work.
\ year ago all the mills in this city
we're rushed with orders; they could not
produce last enough for the demand.
To-Day there is scarcely mill in the city
that ~ running full time. and Of the
large mills there is but one that has not
gone on half time or cut wages 10 per
cent or more "A awful change for a
year. This frightful condition OF af-
fairs appeals strongly To the American
citizen who has powerful weapon in
his aand-the ballot. Ii was the ballot
that brought about this great change
from prosperity To poverty, FROM indus
trial activity 10 Industrial stagnatiou.
from financial ascendency 10 financial
depression.
The present industrial etagnai;on is
without any doubt the result of the free
trade plans that was inserted in the
democratic national platform of ls.r2
That platform Denounced the protective
tariff policy. under whirh the nation has
grown and developed from child 10 y
giant. and declared that II the people
intrusted the offices 81 the nation in lts
hands il would wipe out every trace 81
that policy. The people y no voted that
ticket did not believe that the platform
would be carried out 20 the letter. They
had faith ia Grover Cleveland aud other
conservative men. But the last few
months have shown that the president
cannot control bis party, and In his
brave and uncompromislng hIht for the
repeal az the silver bill he IA hoking not
90 his own party for support out "a the
republicans who passed the bill. and
who now stand shoulder 10 shoulder
With the precedent in his noble fight for
repeal.
Controlled by Free Traders
The absolute free traders have ~.
cured control II the democrat party.
Tney intend 20 make great alterations
IN the existing tariff laws. The manu-.
facturer cannot start his mill on fail
time. he can only Gil his present orders.
Tie dare not make goods Tor The future.
soF II ihe tarid ~ lowered on the goods
be manufactures and the foreign made
guods are brought IL diroc. eOmpeiiiiou
With he be must ioEer the price ~ his
cummodity. lie cannot pay the present
high scale = WAGES and compete with
foreign goo.is msde ~ poorly paid help.
" The tariG iaas are not changed. ss
PROPOSED ~ TIE nnf'onai democrat pias
f0rm and iasisted upon BY the free
trade democrats Ebe conirol the party
then The nsnufaeiarrrs must sdspt
fheur~eivsstofhen new cteditioii - Affairs
II The tariff IS removed or such gtpatlz ~
are ussfie ~ The Farr alpaca all and
the .,issgcE mall fhot Fouia have q
csse down t4af or renssF. thrif piants
- Europe. Nnefr ctenpar labor eau 10
secured. the same 4 tfue - q portion
q tte H~-rt mill fsske tariff = r.