The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-25

to Chinatown. The hilarity of the English
and Belgian manufacturers was only re-
strained from full and complete expression
Dy the rear OF melting general strike
among the Wage-earners and peasantry for
an advance from 10 cents a day TO ID. The
Democracy was again lifted up and Re
publicansm discounted The South was
cnce more in the saddle and the North
again mounted behind. Free trade doomed
up TO the eastward. and protection got
ready TO flee TO the mountains. The Demo-
cratic newspapers removed from the head
OF their editorial columns the black-letter
price of wheat, to make room for object
lessons in poultry. The price current had
been placed there to catch the rural
rooster" and they caught him. He had a
TO be the kind of crop that brings ST. a
bushel for wheat. Not this year
And now they say it was Republican leg
islation that made wheat fall lower in this
Democratic year than it has been since the
buchanan era Perhaps they refer to the
legislation that opened millions of acres of
wheat land in the great West If SO, that
takes the price of wheat out of politics
except as it may be affected favorably by
protective tariff and well-paid customers
brought on the panic of isss? Wa Was it the
Sherman law? If so, who was to blame in
1890 for the adoption of that fool-killing
1912 towards repeating tin the Demo-
cratic House? What party was at last
mainly Instrumental in securing it's repeal +?
Was the panic of '93 caused by pension
legislation? All the pension laws in this
country were passed by Republicans. Why,
then, does the Democratic Congress not
hasten to fulfill the promise of the South
ern brigadierS-to wipe every vestige Of
pension legislation from our statute books"
Why do the authorities at Washington
keep up their traditional practice of har-
assing the crippled old war veteran by
prodding him in the back? Why not
at least give him a chance to say where he
was shot and which side he was on?
Was the present distress brought on by
the passage of the federal election law?
blame hltf no
Sun and the confederate press? In the
election of 1892 they made 1t distinct issue
and gave the people their choice between
the local shotgun and the United States ar
senal and the former won. Surely the Sun
and its Southern allies have had ample
election, and thus restore confidence and
prosperity-at least in the vicinities of Five
Points and Yazoo;
the mills. the banks and the mercantile
houses? Did the tariff on iron cause the
Homestead riot in 1892? If so. why did the
HomeSteaders vote almost unanimously for
protection at the late election? Did the
duty on glass pay the blowers from 81 to
1893? -
Shall this be the political historians prece-
dent-a fact of record that thirty years Of
glory and honor. of growth and power
tions, must of necessity be fol-
tpes and suffering ana retrPg l1o Gan
it be shown, then, that there is Il plain
e-and-effect relation between progress
and poverty between good times and soup
houses? between Republican craftsmanship
and Democratic misgovernment? We think
not. We think these alleged relations are
decidedly strained"
The fact is. this attempt TO connect Re-
publican legislation with the present
troubles is wild and witiess subterfuge.
The people have had their primary lesson.
and they stood up and recited 1t lately in
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, New Jersey and
Massachusetts. They will recite il again
in 1891. In 1896 they will kick out the in
competent pedants and maxim makers. and
give the world a new object lesson in po-
Htical economy. j.. e. OCHILTREE.
Marion. Ind Dec. %.