Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-09-20
STATEMENTS of the Congress
sional Committee.
WORK OF THE PARTY REVIEWED
A Statement of the Reforms
Accomplished.
of the Present Tariff Law
Win the Mckinley Bill-Mr. Cieve-
lANd's Two Tariff Letters-The Cause of
WIN Panic of IS93-some Interesting
Il Nk3ures.


eulntion tomorrow. Tho book, as al
ready stated, has been carefully pre-.
pared, and is full of important informa-
tlon for the voters of the country. While
y large portion of the volume is devoted
to comparison OF the present tariff law
with the Mckinley bill, the committee
has not depended upon mere statements
to show that an earnest effort was made
figures in each schedule of the two bills,
so that the people may judge for them
selves which portions of the new law
are praiseworthy and which fall short
of the expectations the party promises
had caused.
Mr.. Cleveland's two letters regarding
the German bill, the one TO Chairman
Wilson of the ways and means COM
mittee, while the measure was in the
hands of the conference committee, and
the one to Representative Catchings,
are printed in full, as is also the national
platform of 1892. All this tariff material
can lead 10 but one conclusion, that is,
the party has done the best it could
with Senator German and his allies In
the Senate standing in the way of a
better reform measure; but tariff reform
is still the prominent issue, and the
\ duty of the party is to redeem all its
pledges and fulfil all the promises con-
tanned in the Chicago platform. Great
stress is laid upon what the party has
already accomplished. In its predatory
pages, under the head of "What the
y Democratic Congress Did," the book
< makes the following statement:
VI ut repealed the Sherman silver law,
which required the government to pur-
chase annually 54,000,000 ounces of sill
yer and pay for the same in gold obliga-
lions, thereby menacing the credit Of the
government and imperiling the stability
of our commercial, manufacturing and
8 financial interests.
at removed from the statutes the
Federal election law, the most odious
and undemocratic measure ever enacted,
and thereby restored to the people OF
the sovereign States full and complete
control over their elections, free from
the intervention of supervisors and
deputy marshals, whose sole duties,
under Republican supremacy, had been
10 intimidate, arrest and imprison cleo.
tors before they had cast theirlballots.
sit reduced the expenditures of the
government below those of the last Re.
publican administration more than
$2S, 100000, thereby relieving the people
from the payment of that immense sun
into the Federal treasury to stimulate
extrayagunt jobs.
sit reformed the abuses in the various
departments and by the aid of the head!
oil the same dispensed with useless posi-
lions, Whereby reducing the salary lis
more than $l,000,000 annually.
at repealed that most obnoxious, i'll
formed and oppressive measure called
the Mckinley law, and substituted il
Its stead measure of revenue reform
That will revive trade and restore pros
pefity.
sit destroyed the policy of paying GU
pf the public funds in the treasury, de
rived from taxes collected from thu
people, millions of dollars annually il
the way of bounties to aid private indi
aiduals in the prosecution of thei
private industries.
M "It provided for the taxation b,
States, counties and municipalities 0
y more than three hundred millions 0
taxable values which had heretofor
Va not only been exempt from taxation
but had enabled INSCRIPTIONS person
by fraudulent practices to escape fror
their just share of the burdens Q
domestic government
cit placed upon the statute books th
most drastic measure against comb
nations, trusts and monopolies engage
in foreign commerce ever enacted.
sit provided for an income tax upo
the wealth of the country, thereb
placing upon the shoulders of the ric
w due share Of the burdens of govern
/ment.
1T recognized the dignity of labor b
providing by law national holiday
the District of Columbia upon whic
the working people may cease from to
Land unite in peaceful celebration {
II their achievements and triumphs.
&N at enacted more than 200 laws for til
benefit of the people i'll different section
of the country"
In discussing the causes that led
the panic of 1893 it is shown conclusive
that the false economic system whic
the Republicans had inaugurated an
adhered to through the years they col
trolled the government was the basis
the evil. In this connection the boo
states
of protective tariff could have brougl
wealth and happiness to people
measurably have preserved the san
from destruction by the ingress of j
furious competition, most assuredly II
last 90 should have been years Of uni
terrupted prosperity. Have they beer
We challenge the advocates of prote
ton to point to period of like dur
A. t. =, SNf 10 A,
country during which there has been
many depressions, such serious co
flicts between employers and employl
more factories closed or a greater nul
Der of commercial failures recorde
From 1878 to 1882, inclusive, the nul
Der of failures was T4,37S, with liabl
ties aggregating $l,64S,3l0,5l1. Fro
1883 to 1890, we were constantly on /
verge of financial crash. The Seci
tary of the Treasury was continual
forced to purchase bonds and prep
interest TO check the alarm. With a
however, that could be done, we h
the stringency of 1883, the panics
Is 1884 and of 1890.
"The number of failures during Il
period, including the years 1883 a
1890, exceeded $4,000, with liabilit
more than $l,250, 100000. The failui
which numbered 6,73S in 1893, rose
B,1S4 in 1883 and 10,907 in 1880, w
liabilities aggrcgating $lS0,s56,064. \
since the tariff revision of 1883 We
Into effect has the number of failui
fallen below 5000 in single year.
"During this period the confli
between employers and emplo,
Increased until riots and bloodsf
became so numerous as TO excite
little interest except in the most extre
Eases. During the years 1888, 1884, II
md 1886 we had 2,977 strikes in H.,
Establishments, embracing 1,039,011 c