The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-08-02
More pemooratIo confessIOns.

( From the New York Pres
Democratic confessions that the Cleveland
1 canvass was based on fraud and falsehOod
are coming thick and fast. The other day
! The PrSa called attention 10 the statement of
the New York Times that the overthrow OF
the protective tariff meant necessarily pro-
tracied and painful surgery" for American
industries The free trade EualiRg Post as
serts that reductions in the high wages Of
American labor can hardly be avoided
Ex Secretary Of tie Navy Whitney, in an
interview published in prominent Demo
cratic organ yesterday, declares that men
and industries which have thrived on gov
ernmental favor are bound % suffer when
that favor is Withdrawn
Marx the contrast between these Ominous
confessions and the ante election pledges Of
the Democratic party. Not a line is TO be
found in any Democratic campaign editorial
or speech about painful and protracted sur
gerry wage reductions or loss TO "men and
industries as The result of Democratic vic
tory. From the official declaration Of the
Chicago convention 10 the election ofGroyer
Cleveland every Democratic uiterance prom
ised immediate benefit 10 the American
people as the consequence of Democratic re-
turn 10 power. The wage Garner and the
farmer were assured from every Democratic
platform that the election Of Democratic
President and Congress meant special pros
psrity for them. They we're told that Mr..
Cleyeland's triumph would at once remove
the burdens from their shoulders, that i
would increase wages, raise the price Of farm
products and make money plentiful every
where. Misled By The lying promise Of
dollar wheat and .'bstter times, multi
tudes OF farmers and workingmen voted the
Democratic ticket. Every factory that closes,
every mill fire that is banked, every loom
that lapses into idleness. every drop in the
prsce Of whoa and Of wool bears witness to
the folly Ofthe voters who put their faith
in the gigantic Democratic conspiracy Of
falsehOod and deceit.
Where are the men who, ex-Secretary
Whitney cody declares, are bound to suf
fer, when the shield Of protection against
foreign labor is snatched away They are
the silk weavers Of Paterson, confronted
with the threat Of idleness and poverty;
they are the ten thousand plate glass work
ers who have been turaed into the streets Dy
the shutting down Of every plate glass facto-
" in America they are the twenty thousand
idle Michigan miners they are the scores Of
thousand Of factory operatives in the New
England States who must submit to loss Of
wages and ofiudependence they are the
farmers who see the prices OF their products
steadily falling they are the multiiudes Of
unemployed in New York and every great
industrial center Of the nation, These are
the chief victims Of Democratic policy,
whether that policy consists Of general ad
valorem tariff Of > per cent. on all imports
OF whether il c0mprehends some other de-
vice for wrecking American industry and
beggarng American labor Mr.. Whitney
did not state the particular scheme of de-
struction which the Democracy viii adopt
but be told the truth when be declared that
under Democratic rule the workers Of Amer
ica were bound to suffer" lisa pity that
neither he nor his political associates had
the manliness to tell the truth in the last
Presidential campaign.