Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-08
DESPICABLE WORK.
Contradictory Declarations of the Panic
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Contradictory Declarations OF the Panic
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Almost ever since the adjournment
Of the special session of congress very
many Of the beneficiaries Of Mckinley
ism and nearly everyone of their organs
have been exerting themselves. with in
creasing energy to deepen the depres-
sion necessarily following the silver
protection panic.
Employers have attempted to reduce
wages, sometimes with success, and
threatened to reduce them further in
the event of the passage of the Wilson
bill. They have suspended work In
many instances and threatened to sus-
pend in many more without good srea-
son and for no other purpose than to
coerce their employees into protesting
against the passage of that measure
and to brighten the majority in congress
into the abandonment of even their
small beginning of tariff reform They
have taken every advantage Of the stu
alton resulting from the panic to OPP
press their men and if possible create
another panic. Their organs are en-
gagged in the same despicable work.
Day after day they groan for TIE poor
working man. They tell him that the
present industrial depression is all ow-
ing to the Wilson bill and that his
wages must go down, down until
labor in this country and Europe will
be on the same plane and level, having
the same hours OF work and the same
pay and poverty" They even say that
the panic of last summer was caused
by the prospect of tariff reduction, and
that it is still raging"
That they know better is proved con-
elusive by the fact that their utterances
are now in fat contradiction of their
utterances from four to six months
ago, when the panic really was raging.
Then they admitted the truth that
manufacturers were not alarmed by
the result of the elections of Novem-
Der. 1892, although they knew what
that result meant as well then as now.
They admitted the fact that manufac-
turers continued to increase the num-
Der of their establishments and to en-
large their plants for eight months az
ter the election Like Thomas Dolan,
president of one of the most rabid as
sociations of protected manufacturers,
they admitted that the panic was
caused entirely by the silver-purchasing
policy, and that the coming reduction
of the tariff had nothing whatever to
do with it. They admitted that it was
money panic, and not a tariff panic
at all. They have no way of escape
from the conclusion that they are now
deliberately lying every day when they
call it tariff panic, and when they
attribute all it's necessary and unneces-
saly consequences to very moderate
tariff bill which cannot go into effect
for five or six months to come.
They ought to be able to see by this
time that they are not accomplishing
their purpose by pursuing this course.
They do not make friends Of working
men by lying to them; workingmen
have memories and know what these
same would be panic breeders said
few months ago. They do not frighten
congress at all. On the contrary, the
house has shown itself more coura-
geous and radical than it's ways and
means committee. The overwhelming
majorities by which amendments cut
ting the committees rates are adopted
should teach the Mckinley organs that
the scare policy is dat failure.
If they cannot see it now they will
see it at no distant day, when events
falsify all their calamity predictions
regarding employment and wages.
They will not earn public confidence
and good will by melting employers to
acts of cruelty or by lying about past
events. Or by erdlessly reiterating
false prophecies of disaster. Chicago