The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-26

su>skey. and congratulate you on that
fsct. gLasghterI TSo years ago VI
corntry as not only the most pros froos
~rrntrx In the rorsd--f0r that u hsd ceeh
bsfore-but Il stood upon the hagnest
nsnnarle Of prosperity that Is had ever
Attained. lCheers. Ibis Is not .ne ssl-
dict OF politicians; |. IL the veroies o. re
commercial Representatives, - 80
~xry~.-ed s,psuIon IL those men who make
: profession Of studying business cohal-
lions. The last two years have besn years
~ dtstrexa and disaster: the losses
~ them defy the skill Of the
ealeutator. II has been said. ano
think not without reason, tbas tney
exceed the cost Of the great eivn war.
These losses have not been cssss .ossss,
~ steeks and bonds has found bis wealth
shrinking, and so has the farmer, and me
workinrman has found his wages shrin 4
ing There has been q genera partsclps-
tiou IN the ealanities Of the past two
years, ~ there was = general participation
IN tbs prosperity OF the prsceding ysa,s
Great nations. losses. ike those on 1ns
EVIL w.r. have somstlues their adequase
conversations
Great as was the civil war OF the
Union, We feel that IL was ads9uaseiy
compensated in the added glory fhat was
siysn 10 the Gag and in the added security
that was given to our civil Snstslulohs
and the unity of the nation. ltnsers.I
gus the losses OF tho Iast two years have
no such COMPENSATORY thought There Is
no good to BE- gotten out OF them
flaughterj except for guidance. they
ss<m 10 have been OF retrfeutive nature.
Like the ssamp into which Traveller
was unconsciousiy driven. 10 has no
ameiEorating suggestion except That they
teach him to keep on the foothills and on
the roads that are on the hsii-tops-
We were told that the rich were
ssrtfng richer and the poor poorer
10 cure that imaginary i'll, our political
opponents have brought In times IN when
everybody 10 getting poorer. lOreat APP
pIausel I think / remember to have
heard once an inscription on tombstone
that ran something like this; 1 was well !:
/ thought to DO better; took medicine,
anu here lie.'
.sOur Democratic friends have passed a
tariff bill that Is approved. 90 far as l can
learn. by six Democratic senators and by
nobody else. Mr.. Cleveland has repu-
dated il, and has declared thai IL Involves
psrfidy and dishonor; that IL was so
Shameful In It's character and influences
that he would not even put his name to
1t. All the leading Democratic papers
fn the country have condemned it
both those OF the old .talwart variety and
of the Mugwump variety. The Demo
cratic chairman Of the ways ana means
committee has condemned IL and the
entire Democratic majority of the house
Of representatives has condemned II.
Now, that is misfortune. 1t ~ misfor-
tune that the Democratic party was not
able TO evolve q tariff bill that the party
would accept az settlement OF
the tariff question. But it is not
accepted as settlement Already
We have proclamation from Mr..
Cleveland and Mr.. Wilson that this Is
only the beginning of the crusade against
American industries. Now that Is mis-
fortune IL we could have been told by
our Democratic friends that we ara at the
bottom of the well. dark. damp and dis
mai though II be, we would have begun to
look up to see II We could find some star Of
hope. We would have begun 10 anoint
our bruises and try to build some scaffold
by which we might climb out But we
are told that there are lower depths in store
for US. So this country Is 10 be held in o
state Of suspense.
that 10 by an overwhelming Republican
victory In November. When New York
eives Levi p. Morton rs 600 majority and
Indiana her state ticket rs. 900, and Illinois
and those states that have wavered come
into the Republican fold IL will be an
assurance that We have found the end
OF this disastrous condition. [Cheers. ]
/ think the Ohio Democrats the
other day declared that all these disasters
of which We speak came upon the country
under the MeKiniy bill. Well, TO be sure,
the Mckinley bill was o law until the 10Th
Of August when the German bill was
passed, but it had been arrested. We were
listening from day to day to prophssies
that In two weeks TO three or four IL would
be repealed. IL was not law In any sense
that any merchant or manufacturer
could act upon IT. II was dead in
q business sense. though alive on
the statute books. Why, sir, il would
be Just about ~ reasonable TO complain OF
. man who had been arrested. handcuffed
aud locked mp In cell for not supporting
his family as TO complain that the Nc
kiniey bill did not give prosperity during
this period of suspense. And then We are
told that under the Mckinley law the
price of wool went down. and that since IL
has been made II IL going up; that sugar
on the free list Was higher than IL was
under 40 per cent. duty"