Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-11-05


There never has occurred in the same
period Of time SD great q change in
messed since the election OF 1892. For
many years previous to the election of
1892 there had been such growth in
wealth. developments and numbers in
this country as had no precedent in tie
advance OF individual prosperity or in
the building OF nations. The genius of
the people, stimulated to prodigious
activity by our wise protective laws,
had given to business an impetus that
brought reward alike to capital and
labor, and every man, woman and
child beneath the flag could easily pro
cure all Of the articles of lie necessary
/ to make them comfortable. There
| never was time in this, or any other
country. when investments brought
surer return, or the dollar earned by
the laboring man would buy SO much
of everything essential for the welfare
y
wheel was running, every loom sing
| ing, and everybody was receiving
good wages.
With the incoming Of the Democ-
ratio administration on the fatal fourth
of March, 1893, everything was
changed. Prosperity yielded to adj
versity, gain to loss, labor to icleness,
plenty TO pinching wait. In the last
| twenty months the history OF every
day has been Il story of panic, loss and
suffering. Fortunes have been wrecked
business crippled, investments rendered
Improbable and labor driven into
idlancss. The Democratic promises of
better times, larger profits, higher
wages, cheaper living, more eof every
thing desirable and less of everything
| hurtful, have all remained unfulfillcd.
/ industry has been para wed by delay
and uncertainty. The cause of the
disastrous depression is found in the
attempt to wipe out protective lcgis-
lation. and to substitute for it The doe
trine of revenue tariff. 1t is the
doubt as to the future that has in
trenched itself into every mans bust
ness. closed the mines, put out the
fires in the mills and factories, reduced
the wages and filled the times with UNI
rest, apprehension and disaster.
| Nht, pt
full control of the government for
almost half a presidential tel IN. and
during that time has abuudantly de
monstrated that it lacks both the in
tentioa aud ability to give the country
fair and wise government. Neither Ill
the presidency or III congress has there
been found courage or competency
The promises Of the Democrats have
proved dclusions and their theories
dangerous. We Judge them not by
their professions, but by their prac-
tees: not what they promise to do but
what they have done. They now ask
support for the future that they may
rectfy the mistakes of tho past. Not
satisfied with twenty months OF mac
: tlvlty and misrule, they seem to pro
tract tie uncertainty that has blighted
every business interest and brought
loss, if not suffering, to every indiv-
iuual
The people must look to the Repub-
ican party, that has brought them SO
much prosperity in the past, to bring
them relief from these perilous and dis
tressing Democratic times. 10 bring
them out of disaster into prosperity;
out OF laWlessness into peace This
can be done only by enacting an intel
ligent aud equitable tariff law. shut
ting the gates against the cargoes OF
manufacture goods that are intended
to displace those made here. and there
by turn into the streets American
workmen who should be employed to
supply the home market. Republic
cans. if given the power. will restore
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