Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-09-27
DEMOCRATIC wArcHwORD.
Our Washington Correspondent Lays Bare the Policy Adopted by
 Congress.

ing gotten fully into power for the first time in over thirty years their mission, as they look upon the situ- ation, is to repeal all republican Possibly they may not succeed in wiping off the statute books everything that the republi- cans have put upon them in thirty wears. but everything that is offeE- sive to the democratic party is slated to go. Election laws, tariff laws. tobacco tax, state bank tax, pension laws, cotton tax law, cap tured and abandoned property law, silver law, laws for the en- of American ship building and ocean traffic, all laws Tor the protection of the ballot box all these must go.
 This IS the programme of the de- to tear down m one con greSs and in one administration what took the republicans thirty years in building up. Just how far they are goinglto succeed in this Is hard to say. tt must be confessed they are not making very rapid progress so far. Congress has now been in session six weeks with the one object of repeal ing one piece of republican legisla- ton, and has made very little real progress in that effort. Indeed there are many wise and experienced leg islatorS. men who have been here a quarter of a century in that capac- ity' who say they do not believe the effort to internationally repeal the Sherman law will be successful. It Is probable that if it could be brought to a vote in the senate to day the repeal proposition would get a small majority. But it cannot be brought to a vote today or at any time that can now be named. There is no rule in the sen ate bv which a vote can be forced at any given time. and the silver peo- ple, we'll aware of that fact. are standing upon their constitutional rights" and seem likely to stand there forever. Meantime the busi- nssS situation continues to slowly improve and the people of the coun- iry and the legislators themselves grow more thoroughly convinced that the silver law was not respon- sible for the panic.
 Let me give you an illustration of what is the real cause of this trouble" said a prominent attorney of this city, a southern man, who has just returned from two months visit to New Mexico. You would think that New Mexico would be about the last place to look for a solution of the problem and espec- ially to prove that the trouble is due to the agitation of the tariff, but l found ample proofof 1t even there. The wool producers of New Mexico got from fifteen to sixteen cents per pound for their wool last year. This year they are offered only only five cents per pound for their wool and there Is very little sale for it even at that. The reason of 1t IS the pros pective change in the tariff. When they attempted to sell their wool to the New England manufacturers this year they were met with the statement we are not willing to buy wool at anything like the old prices now. for Secretary Carlisle assures us that wool will be put on the free list very soon and if so, we can i'm port it from abroad for much less than American prices. The result of this Is. as | have said, that this great industry of New Mexico IS at a dead standstill and the people who were accustomed to receive large sums of money at this time oi the year for their wool clip are re, ceiving nothing. Not only this but the attitude of the manufacturer: in regard to these purchases show: that they are doing nothing anC that their mills must be idle. They say frankly to the wool producer: that they dare not manufacture ar ticles in excess of their orders be cause they do not know how cheaply that same line of articles can be brought in after the enactment o the new tariff law. So IL IS evident from what | have seen in New Mex ico alone. that not only the entir' wool producing industry of tho country is paralyzed Dy the attack upon the tariff, but also the grea woolen manufacturing industry which furnishes employment tC hundreds of thousands of men anC women. And if this is the case witl reference to one item of our manu featuring and producing interests as seen from the distant standpoin of New Mexico, what must be tn, situation generally throughout the country when all similar interest
 are similarly affected. The wonde
 isthat the depression is not greater.
 There is prospect of hot fgh
 in the House over the proposition to repeal the election laws. Tn
 Democratic leaders, especially thos
 from the south are determined tha
 ali federal election laws shall b wiped of the statute books. The
 have promised it. and they are de termincd to redeem that promise a the first opportunity. This IS pal
 ticularly the.cass with the souther
 members. It distresses them to SC the negroes go to the polls and vot
 without interference and withou
 Democratic dictation. So now tha
 the opportunity has arrived the
 are determined not to rest until tn election laws are wiped out.
 makes no difference to them tha
 there is to be no election whicI
 would affect for more than a yea
 they are impatient to get at then
 The president is anxious that th
 matter be postponed for he know
 that it will stir up party bltternes
 and reduce the chances of RePut
 lican cooperation on the repeal C
 the Sherman law in the Senate
 But the southern brigadiers in tn
 House are determined. They ar
 out of patience with the fact tha
 they have been beaten with tn
 Northern Democrats, includin
 President Cleveland. in the silve
 fight and refuse to obey his furthe
 dictation in regard to the electio law. So there is a prospect of
 pretty fight within Democrat ranks.
 Meantime the preparations fo slaughtering the tariff goes calml. on. The committee which is to fran the tariff bill will close its hearing within a few days and set to wor
 upon a bill. The result it IS saiC will be a measure practically llk
 the Mills hill, and one which wi