Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-09-27
THE CONTRAST


 It is not only the right but tbe , duty of people of the United States
 to take retrospect of the hist ory
 of the country and the administra, tlons thereof by the two prominen, partles-repubiican and democratic
 James Buchanan, a northern man
 and democrat, was president from
 the 4th of March, 1857, to the 4tb Inf
 March, 1861. The congress during
 that period was generally also den,9
 ocratic, or at least claimed to he
 such. The south was then. as now
 dominant in the counsels of that ad
 mlnlstration-in the saddle-and
 that dominant power claiminO to ha
 true democrats, laid their plans of
 treason between the election of Nr
 Lincoln m November, 1860, and his
 inauguration on the 4th of March. 1 1861.
 The administration of Mir. Buchan-
 an was like himself, weak, vascillat- ing and lmbecile, consequently tha ! southern democrats, who were tban
 the ruling power in the nation, and
 had been for many years, deter
 mined to dismember the union rather than submit to republican rule. The hrst tocsn of war wGs the lombard ment of Fort Sump.er in Charles ton harbor in 1861 by the men who had been the ruling power in the l administration oi Mir. Buchanan and | who claimed to be par excellence democrats. Four years of bloody | rebeilion-continued until the capture of General Lee and his forces by that Napoleon of the 18th century, U. :. Grant. But unlike Napoleon after subduing the enc mes of his country, he delivered up ms sword and retired to private life. The republican party now held con trol oi the duties and responsibil- ltles oi the administration of the government. And notwithstanding the enormlty and burden of the public debt, the wise and intelh- gent statesmanship of the republi- cans made provision for the gradual extlngmshment of that debt, and at the same time so administered the : government that no part of our his | tory was so prosperous as between lSoo and the 4th of March, 1893. 1t { IS true there was an episode during the lncumbency of Andrew Johnson, ' but 1t had no perceptible influence 1 upon the general prosperity of the people. During the above period T prosperity was visible on every a hand, wages of the laborer were suf- l q lclent and we'll paid. merchants i as they never had before | nanuiactories dotted most every a and valley in the land. and ( n sh 'rt all classes from the lowest ] W O the highest were contented and | ti lappy as no other people on the l z ace ofthe earth were. Ii is also q rue that from March f, 1885. to O. larch 1. 1889, Grover Cleveland. a ci emocrat, held the office of Presi-
 ent, but he did not have a majority
 | Congress with him, consequently
 @ was handicapped, with a minor
 y ot hls friends in the senate. and ol ould not destroy the wise leg;sla- ol on ot the republicans since the tl lose of the rebellion. W In November, ISSS, the republi- hl ms regalned their lost ground of ~ SSi, by the election of General h, enJamln Harrison. No clea Ter. oi urer or wiser administration has al cen had than under President HaI- co son. The country prospered as of b' ore under former republ. can
 gimes. au But now for the contrast. From le' gorous life and healthy prosperity m Tor to November. 1892. we have bu e closing of. manufactories. the tn lure Of large mercantile houses, faI oken banks, and last. but not SUI ist, the thousands and hundreds of IT of laborers who are idle tn llle winter Is closing in upon them od thout bread m the locker or Ill 'ney Tn store with which to feed an cir wives and little ones. Such 4 thl SIS has not occurred during the mo asent generation. tot The present status of the country acl mainly attributi ble to the doe bey ne of free trade as held by Cleve .d and the democratic party. The COT Jority in congress seem incompe- are t to grasp the situation. Assert- of that the repeal of 5f the sherman mai : MlIIhHeaaii all the present diff on ties, when in truth every sensible of n both in and out of congress mo )ws that such repeal is not the the ledy for the existing status of the less Intry. W. II. McGRIw. ren
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