Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-09-28
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just now all things are not WORKING
eo&etner Tor the good of the republic
an ciaim that this years business de-
preston was due to apprehension of a
revision of the republican tariff rather
tnan to the operation of the republican
snver policy. In truth, nothing is
working for the support of that allega-
tlon except the tongues of the republic
:, an speakers and the pens of the repub-
mean writers, howbeit the same repub-
csn speakers and writers as recently
rs last spring ascribed the business de-
preston to the Sherman act, and
sought to score a partisan point by at
lacking the democratic president for
NOT at once calling congress together
20 repeal that act. : -
Inese brethren complacently ignore
the fact that if the people so feared
tarln reform last spring and summer as
70 become panic-stricken there is even
more reason to-day why they should
rear IT, and yet we are already speak
ing OF the panic as thing of the past.
indeed. business is rapidly reviving and
every day the prospects grow brighter.
Money is coming out of its hiding
places and seeking the banks and the
Ordinary channels of investment: sus-
pended banks are throwing open their
doors; while mills and factories, the
very industries which the republican
prophets of evil declare have most to
lose from tariff reform, are resuming
operations on all hands.
WIN ia n %ha~ <hok A.. e. -
tariff reform was so po tent a few months
or few weeks ago, it is not equally or
more potent to-day, when tariff reform
Is certainly closer at hand? Since then
we have had a message from the presi-
dent reiterating his devotion to the
cause of tariff reform and reempha-
sizing the purpose of the dominant par
ty to redeem its pledges in this partic-
ular-pledges which, at the very time
when the panic began. these republic
an oracles assured the country had
been repudiated by the president and
the democracy. Moreover, since then
the congress elected to reform the
tariff has met and the lower house, hav-
Ing voted to clear the way by repeal
OF the Sherman ect, has set to work
through its ways and means committee
upon its duty of reforming the tariff.
Certainly, therefore, it will not be held
that tariff reform is farthe.. away or
less probable than it was when it is
alleged to have plunged the country
into a panic. Indeed, who is there to-
day who has not better reason than he
may have thought he had four months
age to believe that the administration
intends to fulfill the tariff promises on
which it was intrusted with power?
And yet, as we have said, the people,
Notwithstanding the fact that every day
brings them that much nearer to tariff
reform, are going about their business,
regaining their old-time confidence
and concerning themselves again not
so much to hide money as to make
more money.
The partisan republicans understand
this as well as anybody. but there is
absolutely no other card left for them
to play but this old tariff scare. They
base their only hopes upon the ignor-
ance or credulitv of the masses There
has been a panic; every man who will
accept the assertion that the tariff re-
formers are responsible for the panic is
. clear gain on the side of the party
which now has nothing to lose. And
the leaders Of that party have not en-
tirely lost confidence in the ignorance
and credulity of the masses. They sus-
tanned upon such foundation the So
called protective system too long not
to trust much to it still They yet hope
that there are enough people who
are capable of believing that . tariff
on American wheat can increase the
price of that product, or capable of be-
siieving that they can be made rich by
being robbed, to restore the party OF
protection" to power.-Louisville