The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-04-12
"W" Writes From New Jersey.
NEWARK, April 5, 1894.

an order on my BOOK. Inere oiu
seem to be some movement IN
spruce, but / can find no one that
wants to buy.
During all the years that the Re-
pubiicans under Harrison and under
the operations of the Mckinley bill
were driving the country to wreck
and ruin if l had offered lumber
within two dollars per thousand OF
what ! am trying to get for it now
| could have sold my entire list;
but the angel of Reform with big
R overshadows the land, and a
deathly quiet pervades the centres
of trade which a few months ago
we're all life and animation. II
Daniel Webster Voorhees, and the
rest of the patriots of that ilk had
made public declaration of their
purpose and intent to destroy or
cripple the industries OF the country,
to shut up the factories, the mills
and the shops, to reduce the wages
of labor or to stop it entirely the
voters who hoped, and possibly very
foolishly believed, they would better
their condition would have said {:
Very good, gentlemen; we have no
further use for you, your services
md you are cordially invited to
step down and out and give your
places to men who are willing to
legislate for the good of their own
country" o."
The time has gone by when the
masses can be so controlled by their
party prejudices that they will will
ingly vote against their individual
interests, and when the southern
origadiers discover that they can no
longer control the voters by the
prejudices engendered uring the
line they were striving in another
way to destroy the Government
there will be a halt, and an about
face, and no party will again at
tempt to ride into power on the
prejudices and the ignorance of a
deluded people.
BY the persistent declarations of
party leaders and the misrepresen-
tatlons of our INSCRIPTIONS party
press the voters were made to
believe that protection was for the
benefit of the manufacturer and not
# the laborer and they accordingly
voted the very men into power that
they don't want.
But thirteen months of stagna-
ton in which wages have been great
ly reduced, in which no new enter.
prise has been undertaken; thirteen
months of distress, of doubt and
uncertainty, in which a very great
deal of the work done has been done
1T loss to the manufacturer; thir-
teen months of masterly incapacity
md floundering at Washington
have convinced the people of the
mistake they made by voting into
power IN 1892 the worst enemies
which the business interests of the
country ever had.
The people are now brought face
to face with the problem of free
trade-free trade in lumber, free
trade in wool, and reduced protec.
ton on every other product, and
they begin to realize as never before
what this cutting down of duties
means to them-it begins to have a
personal significance, and they at
last begin to comprehend it.
The recent elections testify to
this. Last fall in New York, Ohio
and elsewhere, the party was con-
demned, and more recently II
Pennsylvania, when Galusha A.
Grow, the Republican candidate
for Congressmanat large, received
nearly two hundred thousand ma
ioritv. Still later, in the spring
elections when the Republicans
from the plains of Dakota to the
Atlantic swept everything before
them, and only yesterday when
little Rhode Island scored the big
gest Republican majority of recent
years, the condemnation of the
party in power is so emphatic and
unmistakable that he who runs may
read.
The handwriting is PLAIN and
unequivocal and whetherMr. Wilson,
Mr.. VOORHEES, & Co. will admit it or
not they and their policy stand con-
demned by the country to-day and
1t is rank treason to the will of the
people to go on in the prosecution
of policy, or a theory, if you
please, so emphatically condemned
by the voice of the people.
| heard the remark more than
once to-day from New York lum Der
dealers, "we expect to buy spruce
in cargo lots from Canada and New
Brunswick very low this year and
we do not care to invest at this
time"
Who will it benefit? The poor
man or the man Of moderate means?