The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-05-04


Still the Enemy of American Industries.
From the New York Press.
Grover Cleveland has issued fresh dec
laration of war against American wages and
homes. Stripped of its verbiage, its pre-
lenses and its patitudes, the Presidents
letter to Chauncey F. Black is demand that
the democratic party shall persevere in its
work of destruction. Mr.. Cleveland never
says anything in a simple, straightforward
manner. He never speaks without an az
sumption of superior virtue and profess
sion Of superior wisdom which forcibly
recall that Pharisee who publicly rejoiced
that he was not as other men. The more
vicious and destructive the object which he
urges the more thoroughly does he adopt
the tone of solemn humbug. His free trade
message of 1887 the results of which have
cost the country more money than it took
to put down the Rebellion, was couched IN
terms of pompous cant. His letter to Free
Trader Chauncey f. Black in which he
urges that the Democracy shall finish its
work of impoverishment and ruin, is framed
in the same hypocritical phraseology.
Some of Mr.. Cleveland's friends pleaded
his confessed ignorance in regard to the
tariff as an excuse for his first assault upon
the interests of his countrymen. No such
plea can be urged now. On March A., 1898.
Grover Cleveland was inaugurated president
Of progressive and prosperous nation; a
nation in which there was work and wages,
comfort and independence for every in
dustrious citizen; nation in which labor
was rewarded as it had never before been
rewarded in the history of the world; ma
ton in which industry under the influence
of protective tariff had been developed as
as in no other country under the sun. In
thirteen months as the direct result of the
policy of tariff destruction embodied in his
own inaugural message and illustrated in
in the Wilson bill, the President has seen
prosperity changed to restitution and hope
transformed into despair. He has seen
every industrial community poverty stricken
by the threat of free trade. He has seen
factories all over the land stopping opera
tons, wages universally reduced, and hun
dreds of thousands of American citizens de-
pendent upon charity for bread. He has
seen the stern revolt of wage earners against
the intolerable conditions of misery and
degradation to which the democratic policy J
condemns them, their wives and their little
ones. He has seen every northern common |
wealth in which an election has been held, |
reversing the political current of 1892, and |
the death of the Wilson bill. |
He has seen the whole people rising up in |
defense of their industries, their rights and |
their homes, and calling upon Congress to |
kill the Infamous measure whose shadow |
has been curse wherever it has fallen and |
whose blight has withered every industry |
that il has touched. Yet in the face of all |
his poverty and RUM in the face of the
popular condemnation of his |
course and his party, this man comes before
he American people today and demands
hat the measure they have repudiated |
shall be passed and the policy they have
srampled under foot shall be enforced!
The people will answer the impudence,
he mendacity and the callous heartlessness
IF this utterance at the polls next Noven-
per. In the meantime every northern dem
,crat in congress knows that Mr.. Cleveland's
assertion that the people want the Wilson
Dill is an unqualified falsehood, and that
Mr.. Cleveand's power to punish or reward
must cease forever In less than three years
ime.
1t is said that the school patrons in Cor
lnna are making things lurid at present for
he board. The fact that Miss Nets will