Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-05-24
WAITING
Tn. Wheels of Industry Would Revolve at
the Word from Congress.

wAiTlNGl
Tn. Wheels Of Industry Would Revolye at
thu Word from Congress.
Every American who has Travelled is
familiar with the specta lie Of tn loco
motive engineer standing with his
hand upon the throttle, waiting for
the conductors signal to release the
mighty power that slumbers beneath
his fingers. Every rod and piston.
every valve and Joint is in its place.
The fire is hot in the furnace. The
imprisoned steam giant is really to
leap into instant action and carry the
pondercus train flying thr, ugh the
country at fifty miles an hour. YeS for
the moment the forces within the
great mass OF iron and steel are chained
and helpless. The wheels will not re-
volve until the hand of the engineer
pulls open the throttle; the engineer
will not move until he receives the Or
der OF his official superior and knows
that the road is clea".
There is a remarkable similarity be.
tween this picture and existing condi-
tions OF American industry. The vast
and complicated indust ial machinery
representing hund eds of millions of
capital, and atfordiny when in opera
ton q comfortable livelihoo to several
millions of American citizens, is p"ac-
tically ~pa"alyzed. 1t IL still intact.
still powerful to accomplish its legiti-
mate task, still able to produce all the
varied fabrics which are necessary to
supply the wants Of a great nation.
American factories are 10 yet dis
mantled. American looms and forges
and mines are still maintained IN a C IN.
dition OF readiness for work. But
manufa turer; and bushes 81 men are
waiting for the news that the home
market will be a suled to them and
that it Is sale to go ahead. Let Con-
gress give the signal TO advance by
killing the Wilson bill: and within a
single month eve " mill and spindle,
every mine and foundry would
hum with busy lie and vib ate
with activity. Within thirty days
there would not re an idle
man in the United States who was
willing and able to work. The specter
OF tie armies Of "Coxeyism' converg-
ing upon Washington to demand bread
and work would vanish like II x.ous
fog before the sunlight. American
wages, American prosperity. American
contentment, Independence, and prog
ress would be restored at nee If it
were known positively oHmorrow that
the Wilson bill would never pass the
Senate of the United States.
1t is for Republican Senators to give
the signal Of release to waiting indus
tries. 1t is for them to bring back
confidence and employment, comfort,
and plenty to the waiting millions of
American citizens who a~nxiously scar
the papers daily fer indications unfa-
vorable to the Wilson Gill. BY united
and resolute action they a keep the
bill from coming to a vote until enough
votes can be arrayed against it to XIII
1t. Smash the Wilson bill and give
the signal which shall restore prosper
ity and revive industry in every Amer
lean commonwealth.-New York Press.
The i. STUFF ed Prophet"
Grover Cleveland Is more separate,
several, and distinct kinds Of Politician
than ary one who has ever occ lpied
the Presidential chair. and this does
not except even Andrew Johnson. He
is continually seeking to make loliti-
cal capital by appeals and %pronuncia-
mentoes addressed to the psactita al
po, iticiaps OF his party, in the mean
time ignoring the tody to which, IN
der the Constitution OF the United
States, he is not only authorized but
instructed to convey from time to time
information OF the state OF the Union.
and to recommend for. its consideration
such measures as he may deem neces-
sary and e~xIedient. A notable in.
stance of tits speciality OF Clevelands
DIRE ssed q letter to C%hauncey +. Black,
President of the National Association
of Democratic Clubs, declaring that
the best services OF that association
has been the enforcement and demon
stration Of the truth that the Demo-
cratic party Is the best organized and
most powerful when it strives for prin-
ciples instead of spoils, and that it
quickly responds to the stimulus sup
piled by an enlistment in the reople's
cause. This is the very midsummer
madness Of demagogy. Where or
when, under what conditions or at what
moment, since Cleveland's last election,
has the Democratic party striven for
principles instead OF spells? With a
complete working majority in each
house OF Congress, and with a presi-
dent debating the policy Of the party
through his faithful and devoted
cuckoOs, Congress has accomplished
| literally nothing in the line of iemoc-
racy as expounded by the Chicago plat
form; and vet President Cleveland, in
stead Of sending a message to Congress
reproaching it for its failure to carry
out its pied 2es and abide by it's
promises, writes one of his celebrated
phraseful letters to the Presi-
dent of the National Association
of Democratic Clubs, congratulating
| him on the devotion Of the Democratic
party to principle. The people OF this
country. no matter what their politics
may be, have had enough OF Grover
Cleveland. They know him now as he
really Is, and the aptness OF Dans,'s
| designation of him-the STUFFED
Prophets unive sally recognized
| When the history OF the United States
| come to be written from a philo. ophi-
| cal and unprecedented standpoint, az it
will be in a century OF two, one OF the
things that will puzzle the scholar and
historian will be the rise of Grover
Cleveland. His decline and fall will
not D. ent 80 many points OF difficulty:
but TO account for the Fictitious and
| fictitious reputation he has attained, to
explain his wonderful political success,
and to analyze the conditions under
which he wa, able to keep himself so
long before the American public, will
be q task OF M mean order for some
future Gibbon, Hallam or Froude.
10 SCARE Ttm.d senator.
A We hington dispatch says that
rumors have been floating around the
Capitol for some time that .tho pro
tected interests proposed to spend hun
| dreds OF thousands OF dollars, and mill,
| iona IL necessary, to prevent the pAe-