New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-28
sr1,ECTIONs FROM THE NAIL
THE cAI.sE IS NO MYSTERY.
ON TIE nusIyEss DEPRESSION TO DE
vo,SD IN THE DEMOCRATIC WAR

on PROTECTION.
To The Editor OF The Tribune r,ua,,,
10 IN" ,, y,or,ocrats and Muewumps have Wildly
Ian the air in the endeavor 10 iu'""'
or but the right one Tor the Na'ioii"' p'."e
.sa., h,rh prosperity into idleness anu u'o'.~. ~
,n. tho Cleveland Government came me- ~ A.,
.s..,,har the Democratic Administration nor INC
Vein" ,,h,ng 70 do with bringing about the
'","a Az, s,,uation." said prominent Democia' ho'
pr ,roe ..Vhat has done IT." said Il fepuo'..
.o"' "T.be misdeeds OF the Republican par|, -,
90. Tho ranlv such as what for eNainp'e'
,%,,v the treasury was overfowlns when "'o'''
cleveland went out: now 1t is empty
..put the money flowed In under fepupi''''n ..a,
ID tho democrats damned us for that-say'ns ''la'
the accumulation was a n'ena,e =" .o1 ne for
W. then spent some Of 1t and they damhe" "' ~
~. They elected a Democratic Congress WIZ
Int ne one better and spent not oniy oii''V.
,r, something more. and they damned US 10Y ''"'.
r,a fact Is the Democrats damn the hep"0
,hen their clothes do not fit them 49,.
"rrue. large sums were expended under heP.D
,oan rule. but the inflow was large since 'ne
so,t Of the Democratic Administration business
has been crushed, the inflow mas proper
o.sed and a state of things has came ABOUT WIZ
ont parallel since James Buchahahs 'e,
~. .s.,,n,s,rat,on before the War. What produced
ensncial disaster at that time was De''o''"'N
administration with its Free Trade prNe'p',s
..I,et us sec IL the cause OF the prese"' 'U"D
,,,o,on cannot be traced to the same soui'e,
',.snn, anv needless groping among profound
mysteries for an explanation. suppose you "e'e
democrat a Republican, FIJI lsiahue'' vi
. Hottentot, but you, were in TINS county a' 81"
importer With the full knowledge that ''e Dei''o-
cratic party placed in power Oh inc eSp. 30
promise that the tariff should be smasheu' anu WIN
its further threats since coming into pow, ''''
1t would do it at once-wouid YOU ''"''''
mo: frankly. should not
"Vel, that is what all the importers say so
that branch of business is in large measure
stopped, and one stagnant industry Is accounted
fer
"But IL instead Of being an importer you were
a purchaser of American goods from American
manufacturers. would you send your orders to the
mills and pile up your shelves s, Win nj gooas'
.Ws, am that ii is What all the purchasers have
sa,d-and they long since stopped their orders 10
the mills and that accounts for stasnant industry
in their turn is say Sow1 III oil ns
ohpers think they are our gons WITH
at the present high American wages anu ia wa rs
1nT u The ioe have
stopped and the mills closed This accounts LOT
The thousands of operatives who filled the mills
and were told vote the Democratic ticket aganst
tariff which was mace to enTf ams IN the
facing % for ioe nrs has
thirty years r Stopped and the small dealers who sup
nIv their wants view with dismay the approach of
iss rn AND Traders Of descr
tion have been hit like row OF bricks because sne
every Industry along the line, and nothing more In
the matter of stagnaton IL left to be accounted Tor
and distress that cannot be explained upon the sim
plest principles of cause and effect! Is there any
fhe ordinary stock phrase of former timec. loss
q wnsh t was p wne
the business world with its destrncye wna a d on
eea snS and publicly
press and by public speakers throughout
Of f la men n chass of the Cows
ecnmen; were accnratsy and truly descroea h n It
ieges and their Muewunp disciples said it was
but IL has come sooner and with terrible
severity than the most pessimistic imagnayion had
party produced entire conviction with
p9B that :, be done II has saa nsS
faithfully to IFS traditions since the 9TH Of March
O. has sepe Be n1 a.s Of to
thing which never existed. and there has never
in ssa minds Of u Of
WHO conduct the serious business of this country;
ruptey following the same line OF policy with re-
gard to the tariff years ago under the
and the specimen examples since of civic and State
Democratic laundering and misrule had produced
ruin would again follow the advent Of the Demo
cratic party to power. Whether those apprehen.
experience of the ncapacty Of that party were
Of or the the Of s
Providence r. l., Nov. g. 1893. C.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE OUT OF DATE.
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir WIN you kindly answer the following po-
liiicai conundrum: II Grover Cleveland is so very
anxious to assert the Monroe doctrine in not
allowing the restoration of the monarchy in Brazil
or elsewhere the American Continent. why is
Il that he overthrows the action of the late Re-
publican Administration in restoring his great and
this and an g0Sd hsrsr, defeat the the aim
ection of Great Britain or Germany? III any man
,aus down the American flag. shoot him on the
'De'A' s'''e'"@"' 81. JAMES Il. KEw1NGER
Alexandria. Va, Nov. Ii. 1885,
SITE OF THE BATTLE OF HARLEM PLAINS.
10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Last evening was called on by a fellow-mem-
Der Of Society of the Sons Of the Revolution.
Who wanted information relative TO the Battle OF
Harlem Plains. where. he said. he appointed to
lnveil tablet He said 1t to be set at
;leventh-ave. and Observation-Disclosures ird-st,
md told him It would be ridiculous to do such a
hing, for the battle did not come within mile
md half of that point and moved away two miles
n the other direction. My engagements will not
'ermit to go to seek the author Of this piece OF
ulpabls ignorance. II knew him, so seize
nent to send you a line thereon
The engagement where Colonel Knowlton was
Iilled and Major Leitch wounded on September Is,
7e began below Point OF Rocks, ManhattanvIe.
they fell In Morningsde Park. l can show nearly
he spot The enemy were pursued over Vande-
waters Heights TO the British outposts and head
quarters. at Jones House, on the bank of the Hud-
on near OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The battle which occurred at the point indicated
vas two months later. When Magyar was attempt
n4 to defend Fort Washington he detailed Lieu
enant Colonel Lambert Cadwalader. Of Shees Phil
ideiphia Regiment. about 800 men, with one 49,
FOUNDER, to the line OF defence on the south. Lord
percy came up from below with LOO English and
iessians. and Colonel Sterling with the 42d High
anders and two battaons OF the Second Brigade
;rossed the Harlem River and came up the slope
lpout one hundred-and-iftys th-st. to cut Cadwa-
der on. The latter detailed Lenox. Edwards and
ludor 10 meet this force at theSop OF the HILL them
weakened by this reduction, outnanked and out
numbered :, IN front and warned that Sterling
ne nil ana likely to cut him off, Cadwalader re-
reated to the fort, which soon after surrendered.
Our society was established for the preservation
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