Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-08-29

ing classications, full of sinkholes to.
catch unwary Democrats, but making in
Vulnerable ri1epits from which protection
ism may pour its volleys into our line of
march. No free list everything not
taxed free. One single bar of import
duties, embracing those foreign prod
ucts that yield the most revenue-Sugar,
tea and coffee to head the list-down
through those domestic products duties
on which will yield the most revenue,
discrimination to no interest, favor to no
class, heed of nobody and nothing, except
the public purpose of raising the money
needful to support the government eco
nomically administered.
If we cannot have Il simple, honest
revenue tariff now. let us bide our time.
1t we cannot advocate such a tariff, let
us. at least, have done with shutting and
pretenSe The people will not be de-
ceived or misled. The effort to deceive
and mislead them will recoil upon the
trimmerS who try it. We want men III
public life who will stand by their colors
and redeem their pledges. or so down
fighting for truth. We want honest pol
tiles. The country will not sustain two
protectiOniSt parties. If it wants one. 1t
will take the straight Republicans, not
the half-and-half Democrats.
Posting the Books at the End of Cleve-
lands First Year.
In speaking about the Democracy be-
ing an expensive luxury. the New York
Recorder makes the following exhibit:
This administration is making mark
that will give it Il peerless place IN our
history. 1t is breaking even the Buchan-
IN administrations record for business
disaster, financial trouble and general ma
tiOnal distress.
AT the end Of the first year of Mr..
CleyelandS second term there had been
an increase of the national debt of $780,
INNV : +hn tyX-ArO -
four years of Republican control. from
1860 to 1898 inclusive. there had been an
average decrease of the national debt of
$50 100000.
Whence it appears that the net differ
ence between 4 year of Republican rule
and year of Democratic rule at Wash
ington, so far as the national ledger is
concerned, is S169, 900. 900. 1t costs the
nation that much in extra taxation to in
dulge III the luxurious lunacy of Demo-
cratic administration.
IF Mr. Cleveland and his party go on
to the end of the fOur-yearS' rope as they
have gone thus far the American people
will have their load of national debt heav-
Ter by just about S616.0O0.000 March f.
1897. than it would have been if they had
not voted for "a change" in 1892 And
on top of that are the losses inflicted on
private business. These have been esti-
mated by Bradstreet's and Duns agencies
rs amounting to the enormous total of
S12,0O0,OOO, 900 for the first year of Mr..
CieyelandS term alOne-that is to say
for the year ending March last
And there are two years and a half
more of the kind of currency reform
and tariff reform that has worked this
way yet to be endured
The Queer Case of d Farmer Founding
a Suit on Democratic False
Pretenses.
Two years ago William Stanley.
farmer living in Indiana, heard Mr.. By
mum, who was stumping his district for
reelection to Congress. make Il speech
in which he made the bold statement that
If he and Mr.. Cleveland were elected the
farmers would certainly get 81 for their
wheat, which was then worth only from
50 TO 30 cents Il bushel. Mr.. Stanley
wanted 81, of course. and in a moment
when good sense was dethroned he took
stock in what the Democratic member
OF Congress said about the price of wheat
and when election came he voted for By
mum and Cleveland. The first year after
voting for Cleveland Mr. Stanley got 90
cents for his wheat; and this year As is
the highest he has been offered The
present condition of Mr.. Stanleys feel
ings are thus stated by the Chicago Trib-
une:
'Mr. Stanley feels now toward Bynum
rs other farmers feel towards the light
ming rod man and the man who sells
and promises to buy their crops at still
fancler prices, and the other men who
with honeyed tongues and wicked hearts,
prey on the agriculturist Therefore it
is the intention of this Indiana farmer to
begin suit against Bynum to recover
$500 damages, that being the amount he
thinks he lost by taking Bynum's advice
and planting his land to wheat when he
might have made another and more profit
able use of it.
1T is fortunate for Democratic speak
erS and editors that suits of this kind
cannot be maintained. If they could be,
those speakers and editors would be hope
leSsiy bankrupt even it they had the
wealth of the Sugar trust and Whisky
trust and all the other Democratic ac-
cumulations Of capital behind them. For
the farmers are not the only ones who
would be entitled to sue if men were re-
sponsible for the deceitful statements
made on the stump or in their papers.
The wOrkingmen Of the United States
were told by the Democrats, big and lit
tie, that in the event of the election of
Cleveland and Democratic Congress
they would get the same wages they had
been receiving during the high protection
regime, but the foreign goods which they
were in the habit of buying would be of
fered to them for greatly reduced prices.
The workingmen swallowed this greed
lily. Convinced that they had everything
to gain and nothing to lose by voting the
Democratic ticket they did So They
have had an opportunity to learn which
party told the truth in 1S92-the Demo
Gratis, who said their wages would not
be lowered if Cleveland was elected, or
the Republicans, who said they would be
lowered if Cleveland came into power.
Every employee who voted for Democratic
candidates because he was deceived by
those Democratic promises can figure out
without much difficulty how many dollars
he has been cOntiuenced out of
There is no remedy in the courts If
there were Democratic campaign orators
would be more guarded in their promises
in the future than they have been IN the