The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-29
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
Adding Insult to Injury.
Haverhill Gazette

Some simple-minded people entertained a
hope that with the enactment of a tariff re.
FORM measure the mugwump press and lis
democratic allies woull have the decency 10
stop the circulation OF falsehoods about the
Mckinley bill. From the beginning TO the end
OF the campaign of 1892 these thick
ana thin supporters OF President
Cleveland kept up continual chatter.
the burden OF the song being that
protection was robbery of the many for the
benefit OF the few, and succeeded in making
many working people believe everything
would be cheap under a low or no tariff. that
thls cheapening of commodities would cause
increased consumption woold make a greater
demand for labor. and that the increased de-
mand for labor would inevitably raise wagas
rms was what they asserted until its very
repetition made many of the organs and ora.
tors themselves believe they were telling the
truth, and made many an honest. unsus-
pectng workingmen believe that his EN-.
poyer was his worst enemy. What greater
injury could have been inflicted upon the in
uustfiai masses. both employers and en-
ployes, then the sowing OF the seeds OF sus-
plcion ana distrust between them?
This feeling was fostered and fanned IN
or"er 10 get the workingmen to support the
tariff reformers who held themselves up ne
the true friends OF the working people. In
ihs New England states they raised
the crS-that- all we-'+aated was free
ra" materials TO not only meet all our
own wants. out to capture the markets of
the world These and scores OF other de-
luslve and misleading arguments werc kent
up ad nauseam until the people, who had
neither the time nor the inclination TO Look
into the matter, took them at their word and
Ia true Democratic style swallowed tho Whole
unsayory mass in one gulp just as the lower |
house OF Congress recently swallowed the |
5orman bill with its six or seven |
hundred amendments, without giving |
my or them moments consideration |
Az some future time we may give more
detailed review of the course of the tariff |
eform agitation. Our purpose now is TO
all attention to the present performance
4 the reformers In Crying to throw the blame
or the present deplorable condition of things
n the Mckinley act. Every one Of the well.
rained pack Tray: Blanche and Sweetheart
including the Lowell News and Holyoke
taken up the scent and away
hey 60 in full cry, telling the workingmen
iat McKi,leyism is to blame for II
u. They forget, or, rather, they think the
lasses forget, that twelve months ago they
ere throwing all the blame on the sherman
IT, Repeal the Sherman act" they cried
and every business will flourish as never
fore" Those OF us who said that the Sher |
an act had nothing 10 do with the trouble
ere laughed and hooted at. But the sher-
an act was repealed nearly year ago. and
4 everything has gone on from bad TO worse
ith ever increasing momentum.
OF even ripple did the repeal
the purchasing clause of the Sher-
an act make upon the overiowing torrent
adversity. Two years ago, under the much
lied Mckinley act, there was no country on
G face of the globe so prosperous as was this.
he year and half of McKinlcyism set every
leel OF industry In motion, the hum of ,
lich gave the lie to the prophets of disaster
10 went up and down through the country .
ing she workingmen that McKinleyism ,
S ArnhAinG than There uapeE-ppss a pre-i-4L ,
ntioI election year like that OF o. Indeed. /,
; great rush OF business contributed largely ,
Democratic success, or, rather, to Rcpub- I
'n defeat Over confidence amcng the Re- Z
Dlcan managers and too much business q
ong the Republican voters kept enough a
publicans away from tho polls to have 4
ried every close State ani Congressional 4
trict. Mckinleyism had just begun 70 get 4
q work. The great flood of foreign goods 4,
he'd into the country before IL went into "
ration had been ABOUT used up Mills were b
ming night and day and then could not /
p up with their orders. Wages were com.
lcing TO be advanced all along the line.
never in the history of this or any other
ntry would the wages OF the workingman q
chase so many OF the necessnries and tbe w
forts OF life on that fatal sth uf Novem- In
1892 when they. the workingmep, went W
he polls under the lead of tho tariff re- fc
ners and voted for a change. @,
nd yet the mugwumps and their second w
Ter players, the Democratic orators and ca
'koo" newspapers. think. or appear TO II
K. that because they succeeded in deceiy- w
he working mass before. they can still te
mp the delusion. They think the toilcrs to
} forgotten lso2. III this be not adding in OF
10 injury. pray what Is? In
q that great teacher. experience. has so
abroad among the people. Lessons under al
tutor come high but they are never ne
1tten. And unless all human experience sol
'rthless aud AL the signs OF the times are ~
ptive. when the people get chance to 20 up
cpoils next November. there will bc such au
ttling heard among mugwump and wa
koo" bones as has never before been NV
or never will bc again until the day of Wv
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