The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1894-11-02
CAMPAIGN ISSUES.
Democrats Fear to Meet
Facts.
Their Speakers Try to Avoid
Issues of the Campaign.
Again Trying to Misleao
Voters.


requires their speakers to try to call
the attention of the voters TO some
thing and anything besides the real
issues of the campaign. These speak
ers have followed this plan faithfully.
Two years ago these speakers and
the Democratic press told the electors
that they should vote the Democratic
ticket and thus benefit themselves and
the country. They claimed that if
the Democratic party were given full
control of Congress the financial con-
dition of the country and of the
voters would be Immediately improved.
They promised that their party would
at once do something for the country
and the people and charged that the
Republican party had not done this.
This was the plan adopted and car
ried out by the party when Cleveland
ana democratic congress were elected
two years ago,
The voters of the county took them
at their word. They expected that
party to keep its word. They had u
right to expect better times, more
work, more business, better prices, and
continued prosperity, because the
democratic speakers and press had
promised the people these.
The election gave the democratic
party the President and his Cabinet, a
majority of democrats of nearly loo in
the House of Representatives, and
clear democratic majority in the Sem
ate, over the republicans and pOpullsts
combined.
THE REAL ISSUE.
The real issue or question now before
the people is, Has the Democratic Par
ty, iCith It's large majority, Kept its
promises!
When placed in full power with
President, Cabinet, House of Represen-
tatives, and Senate, and with the full
power to make just such laws as they
chose, what have they done to improve
the condition of the people?
When they came into power they
found the country fairly prosperous;
manufactures were running on full
time; laborers were employed at fair
wages; money could be obtained for Il
reasonable amount of security. I'M
mediately after they got control as
, above stated all this became changed.
The people know for fact that bust
. ness became paralyZed laborers were
idle; money could not be obtained for
any amount of security; factories clos
3 ed; mines suspended operations; labor
ers became paupers; subscription lists
, were circulated to keep people from
want and starvation.
THE CAUSE OF DIsTREss-TARIFF LEGIs-
LATIoN.
, The democratic campaign speaker
/ seeks to pull the wool over the voters
: eyes by stating that all of this change
9 took place under republican laws
, This is not true. 1t began with the
, incoming of the democratic party. 1t
e reached its heighth when then they
1 were tearing down the tariff legisla-
t ton enacted by the republican party
! for the protection of our own people
5 and country. When the democratic
=, party met at their National Convention
l in 1892 they asserted in their platform
: that the protection tariff of the repub-
5 licans was wrong and unconstitutional,
| and asserted that they would change
| that tariff if the people would put
e them in full power of the government.
: Our people who were producing and
r selling our own goods here at home
| realized that if the democratic party
7 kept its promises and repealed the pro-
. lection tariff laws, thus allowing the
= people of foreign nations to sell the
] goods that our own people had been
e making and selling, then our laborers
= could no longer be employed to man.
I ufacture the goods here. The manu-
: facturers also Immediately realized
3 that if the foreign manufacturer
l should be permitted to come into our
Y markets with his goods free of duty, or
+ at reduced rate of duty, then our
4 people here at home would not have
1 any use for the goods that had been
| manufactured here at home. They
g realized that if the democratic party
! kept its word their markets must be
s destroyed. Realizing this they did
: what any prudent business man or
+ farmer would do-they stopped turn
Y ing out millions of dollars worth of
goods as they had done; stopped pur-
chasing the wool and other products
of the farms as they had done; stop.
= ped paying out millions of dollars in
7, the factories, lumber camps, mills and
t mines as they had done, and waited to
n see how far the democratic party
would carry out their threats to let in
foreign products free ana thus ruin
:, their business. These were the real
{ causes of distress and the utter paraly.
q ZatiOn of business, even before the
\ laws passed by the republicans had
y been changed.
+ The peoples lack IF taih in tn,
IT democratic majority jR Congress ruin
o cd the business Of the country!
Our people realized that we have
. laborers enough right here at home t.
II do all of the work necessary TO pro
IS duce all of the goods that our people
10 need to use; that our farmers are rails
ing enough of their products to pu
C into these goods; that we have timbe
enough. iron enough, coal enough
machinery enough and money enough
- to manufacture all of the goods tina
e our people need.
d They also realize that if these good
IS are made here by our own people an,
* sold to our own people and Others
- then the money is spent here at home
. our laborers are furnished work; on
IT farmers find market for their pre-
lr ducts and our mills, factories, mine
n and quarries are all busy.
!, If however, we purchase these sam
~ goods from foreigner then he get
our money; his factory runs and our
remains closed; his laborers are bus
III and ours remain idle, the foreigne
.~,,e ou,,, ,Nonnla otorva