The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-04-05
DEMOCRATIC DISASTER.
A Showing of Nothing But Reductions
 and Deficits.

weak president and a traitorous cab
 met left the country financially pros
 trated and on the verge of bloody civil war. It is most remarkable how
 the financial conditions have repeated themselves after the lapse of so many years. The panic years of 1857 and
 1858, toward the end of James Blu chanan's term, are being duplicated in the beginning of Grover Cleveland's term, at the close of which the demo- crats will be again driven from power There the similarity ceases.
 There will not be second civil war.
 The democratic panic years, 1857 to
 1858, eclipsed all previous records of disaster the country had known. The panic of 1857 was bat zephyr com pared to the democratic cyclone of 1857. But as the democratic panic of ls5T-S was to that of 1887, so is the democratic panic of 1Sy3-4 to that of
 1S57-s. The country has increased in population and magnitude, and the dem ocratic party in numbers and in folly. Hence is the panic greater and the dis aster more widespread. If that was a cyclone. this is cataclysm.
 The indemnity which Germany wrung from France after the close of the Franco-German war was five milliards of francs, or one thousand millions of dollars. This is an enormous sum.
 But it is as nothing compared to the penalty paid by the American people for placing the democratsi in power It is in the nature of things impossible to make accurate figures on such an amount, but an attempt has been made by statistician, Mir. Joseph R. Bu- chanan, and he has published a series of elaborate tables in a New York pa per- These tables fill columns of fine type, and cannot be reproduced here; but some of his totals are of interest. He gives the number of adult males in the United States as 13,G00. 900; of these, 6, 1000, ,000 arc in argricultual pur- suits, and 1000, 900 are proprietors of va rious establishments This leaves G. OO0, 900 male wage-workers. Of these, 3.393, 1000, according to MT. Buchanan, are out of work He gives his figures, sources of information, etc, all care fully classified according to various oc- equations He gives the wages of the various callings, percentage of loss where wages have been reduced, and amount of loss where men are out of work. He thus figures up the loss of wages to workingmen during the seven months beginning with September, 1893, at the enormous sum of nearly a billion of dollars-to be exact, $685. 5I6, 400.
 The shrinkage in wages alone is about one-half the national debt. But the tables go on. He compares the prices paid for last years crop of wheat, corn, cotton. oats, potatoes and rye; for last years output of silver and pig-iron at present prices; for the shrinkage in value of stock exchange securities, mortgage bonds, etc; and adding these to the loss in wages al- ready given, he makes a total loss to the American people, since the demo- cratic party went into power, of near ly three billions of ofdollars-to be exact, S2,717, l9s, ,5GS.
 Democrats may sheer at these figures, and call them mathematical romancing. But they are borne out by the figures of the United States government Its decrease in revenue alone shows the extraordinary diminution in the pur- chasing power of the American peo- pie. For the month of January, the dutiable imports were S22, POS, 193, against S39 1909, 525 for the same month in 1893, decrease of about A per cent The customs revenue in Feb ruary decreased s6, 546, 900 compared with last year, or Ss per cent. In articles of luxury the demand fell off over 50 per cent; in partially manu- factured articles, 40 per cent; and so on down to dutiable articles of food, which fell off about 15 per cent
 In the face of the fact that the pur- chasing power of the American people, and consequently the revenues of the government, are falling off in this enormous proportion, the democratic president and his ''cuclioo''N congress are seriously attempting to wipe out what revenue remains A few days ago in the United States senate it was shown by q treasury statement that there was a deficit of SIS, 900, 900 for the current fiscal year; in addition to this the Wilson tariff bill, even as amended by the senate, discards S76, ,O00, 900 of revenue, making total deficit of s154, 100000. To repair this hole in the revenue the democrats - who have caused it-now propose to levy so- cialistic income tax, tax which will divide this republic into the classes and the masses.
 Any thinking man, whether he be a democrat or a republican, must be inn pressed by this colossal folly. The most charitable view that can be taken of the present democratic con- gress is that its members are stricken with form of acute dementia. It would not be an unmixed evil for the American people if, like a certain other assem blaze of demented animals, they should be possessed of devil and run violently down steep place into the sea.-San Francisco Argonaut
 sB The interminable conflict over the tariff bill has disgusted the coun- try and paralyzed the democratic par Ivy tuhinh # ;t xuant ta on oloo@;o,,