Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-10-27
CAESE ANn EEEECT

! per rs evidently tired OF Democracy and
gives its reasons So thou.htfully and
earnestly that comment is unnecessary -
At the head of the column today are found
| the names of the Republican candidates for
Governor and Lieutenant Governor. They
occupy the same place in the column that the
names Of the Democratic candidates did last
year. II is with deepest regret that the Free
Press acknowledges that il has lost faith in
the Democratic party. and that il firmly be-
lieves that the present industrial stagnation.
| financial stringency and general distress cx-
| isting throughout the land is the result OF
Democratic supremacy.
Such conclusion should not he reached.
nor the statement bc made without re tsuns.
One year ago this country was enjoying n
prosperity such as had never existed before.
There was not an idle mill in Massachusetts.
In this city there was not water wheel that
was not turning. not spindle idle not "A
loom that did not send its pleasing hum out
| on the breeze, not paper engine or machine
that stopped from Monday morning till Sat
urday night nt midnight; all was life and
activity in this, the greatest paper producing
city of the world. There was not n large
mill in the city of Holyokc that did not run
over time. So great was the output of pa
per. cotton. wooden, silk and machinery that
the railroads kept double force of men at
work with extra locomotives all night. as
well as all day, handling the enormous out
put of manufactured goods that were being
shipped to nl parts of the known world.
And this condition of affairs existed from sen
to and from the Canadian line to Mexico.
The whole world looked on and wondered ut
affairs one year ago.
Last November Grover Cleveland, our no.
BILE President. was elected to the highest office
in the gilt of the American people At the
same time the Democratic party was put int u
control of the national House OF Representa-.
tvcs and the Senate. The Free Press believed
with a majority of the American people that
the nation was destined. under Democratic
control, to reach still higher plane OF pros
pcrity than it had ever cached before. greater
than even that of the year 1892.
The Democratic party has now had nhSu-
lutte control of the affairs of the nation tor
seven months, and the reSult--thc most sor-
rowiul time the nation ever saw. Business
paralyzcd. industries shut down, wages cut
down, Il financial panic. such a strnGtncy in
the money market that bank after bank,
business house alter business house, has had
to close their doors, hundreds Of thousands
out OF work.
a year ago every mill in this city MAS
rushed with orders they could not produce
fast enough for the demand Today there is
! scarcely mill in the city that is 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. An awful change for a
year The friEhtiui condition OF affairs APP.
pealS strongly to the American citizen who
has powerful weapon III his hand, the bal
lot. 1t WAS the ballot that has brought
| about this great change from prosperity 70
poverty. from industrial activity to indus
| trial staguation from financial asccndcncy
to financial depression
The present industrial StaEnation il with
out any doubt the result OF the tree trade
plank that was inserted in the Democrat,
national platform of 1892 That platform
denounced the protective tariff policy under
which the nation has grown and developed
| from n child to a giant. and declared that i
| the people iutrusted the Offices Of the nation
| in it's hands il would wipe out every trace %
that policy. The people who voted that tick
ct did not believe that the platform would b,
carried out to the letter. They had faith il
| Grover Cleveland and other Conservativ,
men But the last few months have Showr
that the President cannot control his party
and i'll his brave and uucompromising fight
for the repeal of the Silver bill he is looking
not to his own party tor support but to the
| n-r~hiis"-'s '''h" possrd th" hill. ard ~ht
now stand shoulder to shoulder with the
| President in his noble tight for repeal. TIL,
absolute free traders have secured control u
! the Democratic party. They intend to make
great alterations In the existing tariff laws
| The manufacturer cannot start his mill or
| full time, he can only fill his present orders
He dare not make goods for the future Tor /
| the tariff IL lowered ON the goods he manu-
features and the forcign-mnde goods art
brought in direct competition with his. h,
must lower the price of his commodity. II,
cannot pay the present high scale of wage
and compete with foreign goods, made b!
poorly paid help. If the tariff laws ar
| changed, as proposed by the National Demo
cratic platform and insisted upon by the fret
| trade Democrats who control the party. thcr
the manufacturers must adapt themselves t.
| the new condition Of affairs. II the tariff il
removed on such goods M are made by thu
Farr Alpaca mill and the Glasgow mill the,
would have to close them down tight or re
move their plants to Europe, where cheaper
| labor can he secured. The same is true Of
portion of the MerriCk mill. II the tariff Il
| removed from the spool cotton thread thu
spinning department would he shut dowi
and over 1000 hands thrown out of work
for the Merrck Thread Company could ther
purchase it's cotton thread from Manchcste
cheaper than they could make it. Even uu
der the existing tariff law this company ha
Mt times found it necessary when rushed will
orders to buy Manchester cotton. The Ger
tainty that the Democrats will make rndica
changes in the tariff has been the principa
cause of the cut down OF the mills.
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