The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-06-23
Business nepressia.r.


Business Depression.
What base SANDER it lie on the
American people for any one to say
that the present depression in bus-
mess is the result Of Democratic
administrator. Are the citizens OF
the United States capable of self-
government or notS Those who claim
that our farmers have been made
bankrupt, our factories closed and
thousands Of people who ale anxious
for work have been denied the privi-
lege, because Democrat is Presi-
dent, and the Democrats have ma
jority in both houses of the Federal
Congress, answer this question in
the negative, and who would change
our whole elective system by denying
the right of suffrage to the people.
Upon well defined declaration of
principles, demanding a tariff for
revenue only and denouncing ell
taxes levied for any other purpose
than that of revenue as unconstitu-
tional, the Democratic party won a
glorious victory. The intelligent
voters of the States are not such mis-
cradle changelings and towards as
to wreck our whole industrial system
for fear that the very legislation
which they had demanded should be
given them. No change has yet
been made. Gold is still the stand
ard value as it was made by the
Republican party in 1868; the Nc
kinley bill, with its prohibitory du-
ties exists as it came from the 51st
Congress, without so much of a
change as the dotting of an i, or the
crossing of a t, and yet all of our in
dustries are PROSTATE.
Reasonable men will look further
than to the mere changing of adj
ministration for the true causes of
the present depression, and they
will find in it the vicious class legis-
lation of the last quarter of cen
tury. Agriculture is the great source
of our wealth and when that is Grip
pied every other industry must suf-
fer with it. The small farmers are
the dependence of the country, and
the success of every other industry
rests upon them. 1t is the farmer
who buys the product of the manu-
facturer, and whose surplus exported
to other lands gives to us the bal
ance Of trade and brings back to
the country the money which has
been spent abroad. Through Re
publican legislation in the striking
down of one-half of the money of the
country prices for farm products
have been reduced, while under the
provision of the protective tariff the
farmer has been forced to pay to the
manufacturers of the country from
the small pittance which he has re-
ceived for his products, one half
more for the articles which he has
been compelled to buy than he would
have paid had he been permitted to
buy without restriction in the mar
kets of the world. In this manner
the farmer has been impoverished
and rendered unable to buy, and as
consequence, the retail merchant
has no customer and can not buy
from the wholesale merchants, for
like cause the wholesale merchant
cannot buy from the manufacturer
rand the American market being de-
stroyed the manufacturer is com
PEELED to close, and throw out of en-
ployment his workmen. Prosperity
can never be restored until all class
legislation shall be abolished, and
the farmers allowed once more to re-
gain their feet, then business will re-
vive and all classes of our people
will be furnished work. at remuner-
alive wages. This is what the Dem
ocratic party demanded; this is
what we would have had before now
had there been no traitors in the
camp. The principle ofjustice, how
ever, still survives and we must raj
ly our forces and show to the world
that the American people are still
capable of selfgovernment and thaa
their mandate shall be obeyed by
their servants.-Bdnner