The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-02-20

In the closing months of Buchanan's
Office his secretary of the treasury stole
the treasury empty, and the democrats
took the money to inaugurate the rebel
lion. The Pensacola navy yards were
seized by order of the democratic secre-
tary of the navy and our war ships sent
to the farthest corners of the garth.
Now let us follow briefly some of the
doings of the republican party. The
president elect, you will remember, had
to go to the capitol in disguise to escape
assassination by the democrats, and was
finally assassinated by a democrat near
the close of the war. With the govern
ment torn to pieces; with subversions
everywhere, and turmoil and discord;
with foreign policy not much better
than Cleveland's foreign policy; with
our flag disrespected on the high seas;
with depleted treasury; with the arms
and munitions of war turned over to the
revolving states; with no national
credit, the republicans gathered up the
fragments and carried on four-years
war with eleven revolted states and re-
stored the Union. They made the ma
TONS credit good all over the world and
our flag respected wherever its folds
touched the breeze; they freed four
million slaves and made them citizens;
they passed the homestead law and
gave the, public domain to the needy
American. citizen; they built the Union
Pacific railroad; joined the oceans to-
gether with iron bands; they opened
the gold and silver mines, and made the
miserly mountains pour their vast
wealth into the commerce of the world
and furnish money 70 redeem the war
greenback and the war bonds; they
raised the blue smoke from thousands of
factories; they protected the spindles
and the shuttles that clothe the Ameri-
can people, and made American silk
upon an American lady as honorable as
Partisan silk; they protected the fleece
upon the sleeps back, and protected
the bare-footed shepherd boy that
watched them Craze; they protected the
wool, the yarn, the cloth and the peo-
pie that wear it; they made the best
money and the most of it that has ever
been known in the history of mankind
in the time.
What was the democracy doing all
this time? Well, will tell you: In
1865. 1872, 1876 and 1880 they told us to
fetch in that grindstone if we did not
want it eaten up. In 1884 they said
they wanted ''a change" They wanted
an income tax for revenue only, and not
for protection of American labor or COM
merce; they wanted less money in the
treasury, and they wanted the surplus
absorbed. They have their wishes graft
fed now, but still are not happy. The
democrats regarded prosperity as
crime, ard today we are reaping the
fruits of "a change" that the people
thought they wanted. You must re-
member that the United States has
been suffering for many months from
the results which follow democratic
rule. The democratic party, with an in
has brought the people to the very verge
OF ruin. The shadows of semi-free-
trade policy are already cast upon
the entire business of the nation.
The viciousness of its provisions are be-
yond my power of description. The
whole spirit of the administration seems
to be to prevent the doing of anything in
help the business men of every other
nation. There is no reason for this, nor
no good sense or justice in it. The flag
is just as large as it ever was, the soil is
just as rich, the sunshine just as warm,
and the rains come in their season, corn
will grow just as good as it did when
Harrison was president, cows will give
the same quantity of milk under the
same treatment, sheep will yield the
same heeces, but the democrats stand
between the producer and his markets
with three years. lease of power. The
republicans want to give every American
citizen an equal chance.
The party who has just voted for the
Wilson bill was voted into power by
wage earners who were led to do so by
false pretenses, they were told that
revenue TOR tariff only meant far better
wages. They were told e. q. that free tin
meant that they could get dinner
bucket for 1211S cents that under repub-
lican rule would cost them 15 cents. But
the democratic orators omitted to men
tion that they could get no dinner to
put in the bucket. They were eNpromised
cheap goods, but were not told that they
would have no work. Cheap goods is
doubtful blessing with no money in ones
pocket to buy them with. The demo-
cratic party formerly paid for the labor
that made their prosperity with thelash !;
then labor was degrading, they took