The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-22
DEMOCRATIC WORK.
As Set Forth in the Commit
tees Campaign Book
THE WORK OF THE PARTY REVIEWED.


A Statement Of the Reforms Accom-
plished-Comparisen Of the Present
Tariff Law with the Mckinley Bill
Mr.. Oeveland's Two Tariff Letters.
WASHINGTON, Sept. I5-The ad-
vance proofs of the campaign book
have been received by the Democrat
ic campaign committee and it will
be ready for circulation tomorrow.
The book, as already stated, has
been carefully prepared, and is full
OF important information for the vet
ers of the country While q large
portion of the volume is devoted to
comparison Of the present tariff law
with the mckinley bill, the com
mittee has net depended upon mere
statements TO show that al earnest
effort was made to reduce taxation.
but gives instead the figures in each.
schedule Of the two bills. So that the
people may judge for themselves
which portions of she new law are
+ praiseworthy and which fall short Of
the expectations the party promises
/ had caused
Mr.. Cleyeland's two letters re.
garding the German bill, the one to
/ Chairman Wilson, of the ways and
means committee. while the measure
was in the hands of the conference
committee, and the one To Represen-
tatiye Catchings sTe printed in full,
as IS also the national platform of
1892. All this tariff material can
lead to but one conclusion, that is,
the party has done the best il could
with Senator German and his allies
in the Senate standing ia the way of
a better reform measure; but tariff
reform is still the prominent issue,
and the duty Of the party is TO re
deem all its pledges and fulfill all the
promises contained in the Chicago
platform. Great stress ia laid upon
what the party has already accom-
| plished. In it's predatory pages, an
der the head OF "What the Democrat
ic Congress Did, the book makes
the following statements:
1t repealed the Sherman silver
law, which required the government
to purchase annually $4,000, 600
ounces of silver and pay for the same
in gold obligations, thereby menac-
ing the credit Of the government and
imperiling the stability of our com
mercial, manufacturing and financial
interests.
ut removed from the statutes the
| federal election law, the most odious
and undemoeratic measure ever Gu
acted, and thereby restored to the
people OF the sovereign States fuH
and complete control over their cleo
tions, free from the Intervention of
supervisors and deputy mafshals,
whose sole duties, under Republican
supremacy, had been to intimidste,
arrest and imprison electors before
they had cast their ballots.
at reduced the expenditures of
the government below those of the
last Republican administration
more than $4,000, 600, thereby re-
iieving the people from the payment
OF That immense sum into the federal
treasury to stimulate extravagant
jobs.
1T reformed the abuses in the
various departments and by the aid
of the heads Of the same dispensed
with useless positions, thereby re
dncing the salary list more than ST.
100000 annually.
at repealed that most obnoxious,
i'll formed and oppressive measure
called the Mckinley law, and sub
stituted in its stead measure of
revenue reform that will revive trade
and restore prosperity.
1T destroyed the policy Of paying
out Of the public funds in the treas
ary, derived from taxes collected
from the people, millions of dollars
annually in the way Of bounties to
aid private individuals in the prose
cution Of their private industries.
ut provided for the taxation by
States, counties and municipalities
of more than three hundred millions
of taxable values which had hereto
fore not only been exempt from tax
alton, but had enabled INSCRIPTIONS
persons by fraudulent practices to
escape from their just share of the
burdens of domestic government.
ut placed upon the statute books
the most drastic measure against
combinations, trusts and monopolies
engaged in foreign commerce enact
ed.
ut provided for an income tax up
on the wealth of the country, there
by placing upon the shoulders of
the rich a due share of the burdens
of government.
1T recognized the dignity of labor
by providing by law national holi-
day in the District of Columbia up
on which the working people may
cease from toll and unite their
achievements and triumphs
ut enacted more than two hun
dred laws for the benefit of the peo-
pie in different sections of the coun-
try"
In discussing the causes that led
to the panic of 1898 it is shown con
elusvely that the false economic
system which the Republicans bad
inaugurated and adhered to through
the years they controlled the govern
ment was the basis of the evil. In
this connection the book states:
iii ever the iphuence and opera
tion OF protective tariff could have
brought wealth and happiness To- a
people OF measurably have preserved
the same from destruction by the in
gross Of injurious competItic1, most
assuredly the last twenty should
have been years of uninterrupted
prosperity, Have they been? We
challenge the advocates Of protec-
tion to point to a period of like dura
tion in the history of this or any
other country during which there
has been so many depressions, such
serious conflicts between employers
and employees, more factories closed
or a greater number of commercial
failures recorded. From 1873 to
1882, inclusive, the number of fail
ures was 7497S, with liabilities az
gregating 81, 64S, 310,517. From 1883
to 1890 we were constantly on the
verge of a financial crash. The Sec
rotary of the Treasury was continu-
ally forced to purchase bonds and
prepay interest to check the alarm.