The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-01-20
d FALSE GOD.

A free silver Democratic exchange,
under the heading, "Are We God
forsaken2" makes the following wall:
"In a year of the most bountiful
harvest with which God ever blessed
the country, in season of profound
peace, and on good terms with all the
nations of the world, with a happy
exemption from plague or epidemic,
yet. here we are bankrupt nation
with an empty treasury, and forced to
borrow money to pay the current ex-
penses of the government"
The country is not completely for
saksn by God; but in Novenber,
1892. it made q trial of 'strange
gods" and is now suffering worse
punishment than the plaques that were
visited upon the people of Egypt in
the days Of Moses. But it does seem
a little strange for Democrats to growl
over the present condition of affairs,
when they worked early and late dur
ing the last presidential campaign to
bring about the "ehange," and it came
so fully and freely that they shsuld
be happy and contented. When Presi-
dent Harrison left the White House,
less than a year ago, business was
never brisker. capital received the
largest returns on investment it ever
did, and the bread winner received the
highest wages paid in any nation in
the world. Democracy was not in
power three months before blight
fell upon all industries, factories
stopped, money became boarded by
capitalists, hundreds of thousands of
teilsrs were thrown out of employ
msnt homeless and penniless upon the
streets and highways to starve, and all
this has come about. as our cotempo-
rary Of the free trade and free silver
persuasion says, sin year of the most
bcuntiful harvests with which God ever
blessed the country, in season of pro-
found peace, and with
happy exemption from plague or ep'
idenic." If God had forsaken the
land the harvests would not smile with
abundance, and the people would not
be blessed with an exemption from
plaques or diseases No, God has not
forsaken the citizens, the ADMINISTERS
tion or the land; but very many of
these have forgotten the god who in
sured our prosperity heretofore, and
are offering up strange sacrifices to
idols who have received the severest
condemnation of the fathers of the
republic. Protection, the peculiar
economic pelicy of Washington, Ham
ilton, Jefferson, jackson and Clay. has
been unseatsd from his throne, and
coy, British maiden called free trade,
occupies the position. She smiles
sweetly; but it is the snile of decep-
tion and death, the truth of which so
many are now realizing.
Our cotemporary ends the above
paragraph with speakiAs of an "empty
treasury, and forced to borrow money |
to pay the current expenses of the
government" This is the dilemma
that confronts us now, and Secretary
Carlisle is about to sell $50. 200, 900
bonds to relieve the disastrous times
the people are now suffering. 1t is
high time the citizens realized the fact |
that worshipping a strange Demo-
cratic god doesn't pay, and that the
faith endorsed BY the patriots and
Statesmen of the nation is the only
true one. Of course business will be-
come worse and worse while this fir
tation is kept up with free trade.
But Democrats should be the last to
and complain about the dis
astrous results Of the false and idola-
trous worship of this British maiden.
The position of the Oregomias, as
tba r;chtf,,l axnonant oe tha ;nta.o.t.