The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-08-16
A SHAMEFUL SHOWING.
The Disastrous Results of Democratic
 MIsmanagement.

mIBmhnABement.
 Let us have peace" is now the fer
 vent cry of business. The same prayer
 comes from the west and east, from
 the homes of millions of wage-earners
 and from the offices of half million
 manufacturers and as many merchants.
 The rich and the poor join in one
 prayer: Let tariff war end and let us
 have peace" Then may the wheels
 start again, and idle hands find work,
 and plenty come in place of want to
 millions of homes. Surely congress-
 men cannot be aware how much their
 weary strife over this question has
 cost the people. In the one month of
 July the difference between this year
 and last in payments for products and
 for labor will be about $l,0O0,000, 900.
 Dut this is the fourteenth month of
 continued and sore depression. In
 these fourteen months the actual pay
 ments through all clearing houses
 have been $53, ,500, 900, 900, and in the
 preceding fourteen months the aggre- gate was SIP, 900, 900, ,0O0-a decrease of Sl9, 400, 900, 900. The business done in-
 cludes profits for traders and manu-
 facturers, for transporters, farmers,
 miners and lumbermen, and wages for all the hands they employ. The enor- nous loss represents decrease in wages and work and profits for all concerned more than % per cent of the entire
 business for the fourteen months.
 The wagc-earners, or rather those who would earn wages if the demo- cratic party would let us have peace, being 35 per cent. of the people, num- Der 24, ,OOO,0 900. The wages at the rate of 1890, reckoning about a third at the farming and the rest at the average rate for all manufacturing hands ac- cording to the census, were SiO0 year ly for each. But instead of S9, 500, ,000.- 0cO, these people are probably earning at the rate of g., 400, 900, 900 less, part
 being unemployed and part working at lower rates. The great iron indus try, which should employ in all its branches coo, 900 men, as it did in 1890, with n yearly production of Sl, 200, ,000,- 900, instead of full consumption of $500, 900 tons of pig actually consumed in the last twelve months about 5, ,l00,- O00--less than 55 per cent-which would imply a decrease of 270,o00 hands, and s54o, 100000 in value of yearly product provided prices had been unchanged. But prices of iron products have been reduced at least 30 per cent, or nearly s2OO.OOO, ,OOO on the reduced output. The textile manufac- lures, employing half a million per sons, have reduced hands and output somewhat less, and yet very largely. In many other industries the mere loss in value of products must be reckoned by hundreds of millions.
 Do democrats mean to say that the frightful losses result from the pres ent tariff, and not from their attempt to change it? Very well, give us peace and let us test it. Let the country have a chance to find out whether the claim is false or not. Stop agitation until next January, and see whether industries will not revive and business improve under the tariff as it stands. Instant and full recovery could not be expected, of course. Complete re- covery with the threat of change still hanging over industries could not be reasonably expected. Yet the demo- crats dare not face the test. They dare not let the working people and the business men of this country see how sudden and great relief would come if democratic agitation would but take itself out of the way, even for few months only.
 They do not dare, or they would have tried it long ago It is almost year since this congress met in extra ses- sion. Before that its chosen leaders and treasurer and other experts had been at work for some months trying to frame tariff bill. After more than year of incessant labor and agi- tation and shameful humiliation the | party is disgusted to find that it can | not agree upon or pass anything that | looks like a democratic tariff It's | it's amazing corruption and | bartering, its contemptuous | disregard of public opinion, of decen- | cy, of pledges and of principles, made | its respectable leaders long for an ad- | iournment months ago-only they did | not dare to let the people see what the | naligned Mckinley bill would do for | .hei industries if they let it alone. But think once more, democratic | friends. Would it not pay better to et the people have a little taste of | before the next presiden- .ial election?-N. Y. Tribune.