The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-11-15
POLITICAL AFTERMATH
What Have The Republicans Gained BY
The UpheaVal
JOHN L. WILSON FIXING FENCES
wide Hollow Becomes u Regi.,ra-
ton Precinct-Yakima city Votes
10 incorporates .frigid Ratifica-
ti0n Meeting.


sion Meeting.
The great political circus is over, at
least for this season. The musicians have
put away their horns and drums; the
ringmasters have cracked their whips
and had their last say the clowns will
not repeat stale jokes Ind musty anec-
dotes for some time TO come, and the
agile gymnasts have wound up the per-
Torrance with equalling the greatest OF
records for political somerssults. Opin-
ions differ as to the character of the show
The republicans view 1t as very moral
entertainment OF mastodonic proportions
and the democrats as sideshow where
the winning characteristics were the
highly colored canvas banners in front,
and used only as cstch-pe affair to
gull the people before the beginning OF
the three-ring performance under the big
tent The poor deluded populists think
it is bad in every sense-that is il they
can think at all.
Soberly it was wonderful performance,
but mainly as showing the vacillating
character of the American voter. The
Mckinley high tariff bill became law 10
1890 and from that period until its repeal
and the substitution OF the Wilson bill OF
1894 the condition of the country contin-
ued to grow steadily worse, until bank
failures and business failures resulted,
property valuations deprecated half,
the country was thronged with tramps
and people who were unable to obtain
work, and suffering for the necessities OF
life was experienced on bill sides.
The overturning of a great governmental
policy or principle liz no small undertak-
ing and the democrats who came into
power on the 4th OF March, 1893 were a
year in accomplishing that result, and
then not fully to their satisfaction, owing
to the obstructive tactics OF the republi-
cans and few in their own party, who
had fattened under the unwholesome
privileges granted the favored class by
.&he Mckinley act A few short months
ago, in July ofthis year, the Wilson bill
Observation-Disclosures to be surrey became
q law and business has steadily picked
up ever since. The bank clearances oil
the country, which are the best index Of
the volume of trade, show surprising in.
crease, and the weekly reports of the Dunn
and Bradstreet commercial agencies have
with every statement shown an improved
tone Of business, as well as greater vol.
ume, fewer failures and the resumption
OF work in many of the great centers oil
employment. Loaning agencies which
had previously closed their strong boxes
absolutely for all purposes, except to re.
ceive returns from loans which they fore
cd the borrower to pay under great sac
ritices, once more are offering money on
satisfactory security. This same improv.
ed condition can be perceived. in all lines
of business. The improvement hasn't
been with rush and the people haven't
jumped headlong into speculation, it ID
true, for there has been great scare and
tradesmen, as well as capital, have been
taught to be cautions and that in conser-
vatism there is safety.
What are the results of the election
Both houses Of congress have been lost to
the democrats and gained by the republi-
cans; but President Cleveland still has
his strong hand on the wheel OF the ship
Of state. II it was not so it is doubtful If
the republicans would undertake to over
turn the principal measures passed by the
democrats. Thomas B. Reed, of Maine,
has indicated bis disapproval of the Nc
Kinley tariff bill, as has also John Sher-
man, the leading republican of Ohio, and
many other statesmen of the successful
party. There are few now of any mental
weight in either of the great parties who
do not concede that high protection is a
measure of the past and cannot be OF the
future. The present bill may be modi'
fed in some points where the trusts got
in their work, but the changes will be
downward and in favor of the people, for
any party that endeavors to place the
trusts and monopoles in the saddle again
will find its political grave from which
there can be no resurrection. With this
view what have the republicans to gain
on the tariff question?
The next congress, with its republican
majority, will not endeavor to re-enact
the law taxing the people $4,000, 600 or
more q year to divide among less than
Q thousand Louisiana sugar planters.
They will not try to repeal the democratic
bill that forfeited and restored to settle
ment 50,000,000 acres OF public land that
were being uulawfully held by railroad
corporations. They will not dare to re-
enact the federal election law that took
the management of elections out OF the
hands of the people and placed them in
those of partisan judges like Woods, nj
blocks-of-fve infamy, and that gave to
men like Johnny Davenport power to ar
rest citizens by the hundreds to prevent
their voting, and then discharge them
after the election without trial. These