Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-07-12
THE WAY lTLOOkS NOW.

and West The leaders of the rebel
| army, the disciples of Calhoun and Da
Wis, the foreign importers of our great
cities, the mugwump fanatics of New
of the North constitute this great COM
bine and conspiracy against the farmers.
This hostility to the farmers is not con-
fined to his wool. They have reduced the
tariff on all the products of the farm to
| a point where Canada, with her low
priced labor, can undersell the Ameri-
can farmer. From Maine to California
on the Northern border our farmers will
be sacrificed and their profits be reduced.
This assault is a comprehensive and sys-~
tematic one. designed to cripple this great
industry. Considered in connection with
the careful protection by high tariffs of
all Southern industries, this attack upon
! the farmers is devilish in spirit and pur-
pose.
If John Ploughman forgets to resist
and punish this outrage, he will deserve
| the fate that has overtak ken him.-North
Adams (Mass.) Transcript.
Which Party is Responsible?
When the Democratic state convention
of Nebraska was held a short time ago,
gates Il specimen of his ability to lie
without blushing. His effort was Won
derfuly successful. He put to shame
men much older in the business of
Democratic campaign story telling than
himself. He said the present business
depression was the direct result of thirty
years of Republican legislation; and that
the harm the Republicans had done in
| those thirty years of bad law making,
could not be undone by the Democrats
in moment. The Chicago Tribune, in
publishing some of the audacious state
ments of the Nebraska blatherskite, pro-
sents some timely and interesting facts:
"A comparison of the census reports of
1880 and 1890 shows that during the
decade ending four years ago the country
was eminently prosperous. The manu-
| featuring industries and commerce of the
people increased steadily and at rapid
rate, while the condition of the work
| man was improved by substantial adj
vance in the average rate of wages dur
ing the ten years term and also by a
cheapening of the necessaries of life. In
reality the period of prosperity, without a
single serious break, lasted from about
1876, when the effects of the panic of
1873, caused by boom prices, began to
disappear, down to the close of 1892 or
| to a few weeks after the election of the
Democrats to national power. In those
sixteen years there was doubling of
production with an increase of about 40
per cent. in the wage scale, so that at
the end of the term the average work
man received 40 for the same amount
of work for which he received 81 six
teen years earlier-aS measured by gold
values. And during all that time fair
prices were realized for the products of
! the soil, though the term comprised no
really short crop and included two or
three years of the most bounteous cereal
yield ever known on American soil. And
there positively was no let up to this
prosperity till Harrison was succeeded by
Cleveland in 1893 and Democratic free
trade policies We're brought forth. Then
the financial skies rapidly clouded over
and the storm began. The foreigners
what was stated last week in the Ne
braska convention, that the strongest
hopes of the friends of free coinage (at
the ratio of 16 to u live with the Demo
cratic party and they made a grab for
rapid drawing down of the gold reserve
in the national treasury induced kindred
fears at home, and at once there ensued
general locking up of gold in strong
boxes and old stockings which made
money SO scarce that the well-remem
bered run on the banks resulted, and
there was real money panic by the time
the Democrats had been in office three
months. Employers of labor could not
obtain the pecuniary accommodation nee
esSary to operations on the same scale as
before. Many had to shut down entirely
consequence being that vast numbers of
workers were thrown out of employment.
The buying ability of the masses was so
greatly reduced by this calamity that
there was a badly diminished demand for
the products of labor after the money
market became settled and easy on the
prospect that the purchases of silver
would cease.
''Then the Democrats began free
trade work on the tariff bill, and the
fear that reductions in the duties on
imports would lower the selling prices
of goods caused both importers and do
nestle manufacturers to do business on
the 'hand-to-mouth' plan, the result be-
ing further contraction of home produc-
ton and a marked falling off in the
federal revenues, which for the fiscal
year now closed were but Is per cent.
year ending twelve months ago. What
rot to call this sharp falling off as due
to Republican legislation for the thirty
years preceding the change!"
Promise and Fulfi1ment.
Two weeks after the election of 1892,
Henry Willard gave Il dinner in New
York in honor of Mr.. Cleveland. In the
course of the speech which the Demo-
cratic President-elect made on that oc-
caSion. he said:
when I consider all that we have to
do as a party charged with the control
of the government [ feel that our cam
paign, instead of being concluded. is but
just begun. What shall our performance
be of the contract we have made with our
countrymen, and how well shall we just
ify the trust they have imposed upon US?
| thank God that. far above all