The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-07-31

The Every Evening in its Saturdays
Issue says 1t Is not sanguine enough
to look for good times" editorially
Or otherwise, 30 long as the Sherman
Silver Purchase Law and the Mckinley
Tariff Act linger to cast their paralyz
Ing blight over American finance and
trade. We are now In the third year
OF this Republican legislation and Its
effect has been going on from bad to
worse. Our contemporary gets its
back up and calls US ugly names II
We accuse 1t Of advocating doctrines
which cannot but make times worse.
though 1t no doubt desires better
times. The Sherman Silver Purchase
Act Is not the least evil that hangs
over the country. 1t was never be-
lieved. not even by those who voted
for II at the time, TO be what the coun.
try needed, but was passed. merely az
q compromise measure to prevent the
passage OF an entirely free coinage
bill without any restrictions, by ma
joIity of the party to which the Every
Evening adheres.
There Is nobody more In favor o.
the repeal OF the Sherman Silver Act
than Senator Sherman himself. He
regrets the necessity which compelled
Its passage, and there is no question
that but for this compromise tn,
country would have been cursed will
an entire free coinage law passed b!
the Every Evenings party, instead o
the $500, 900 ounces month purchased
by the compromise measure.
In all that our evening contemporar.
has said about the iniquities of thi
Sherman Silver Act and in its attemp
to shoulder the whole responsibilit.
on the Republican party, 1t has neve
yet 30 far as we have seen made an.
effort to publish the vote by whicl
this compromise measure was brough
about, nor do we believe that 1t eve
will publish the vote. for by so doini
It would reveal the responsibility o
Its own party in casting a paralyzlni
blight over American finance. Nv
are now" says the Every Evening, ii
tbs third year Of this Republican leg
islation, and Its effect has been goin
on from bad to worse" We agree wit
our contemporary that this is tru
But when did the bad commence. an
when the worse2 We're there eve
better times than during the thrt
raf - "
getting better all the time until Il
election last November Then WI
when the bad commenced and ever
body knows times have been gettiI
worse ever since.
Nor is the hope that the Every Eve
ing holds out in any way assuring
the business of the country as Il
Sherman Silver Purchase Law and Il
; Mckinley Tariff Act are made Il
cause of casting a paralyzing big
over American finances and trade.
Is just such expressions as these tn
are shutting up the manufacture
Establishments all over the countr
just such expressions as these q
throwing hundreds OF people idle
Wilmington. They create an unce
tainty beyond which business will n
venture, and rather than run the ri
of adverse tariff legislation busire
men prefer to keep what capital tn
have and await the exlgencies of trat
II to-day Grover Cleveland and I
leaders of his party had the mainline
to declare beforehand that the tai
should nnot be interfered with. the
would be an almost rejuvlnation o
starting up OF manufactures who
and partly closed. and the silver qu
ton would be found to be but an |
important element in the way Of 81
cess.