The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-27
Not a safe Issue.


. conducting their campaigns on the issue
that the country is going to ruin, and that
! the Democratic party is responsible for
the hard times. are discovering that they
are losing ground. In Pennsylvania, New
/ York, Michigan and other states in which
there are large manufacturing interests
/ business is improving greatly. The ca
/ lamity howlers therefore find themselves
/ handicapped when they begin to talk Of
/ hard times and assert that the Wilson
/ tariff has closed the factories and thrown
/ hundreds Of thousands OF wsrkmen out of
employment.
/ Last summer the calamity howlers had
/ everything pretty much their own way.
/ There was great depression in all kinds Of
( industries. The country was just recover
ing from the money panic caused by the
purchasing clause of the Sherman silver
law, and there was great doubt as to what
the terms of the new tariff would be-
Under the circumstances It could hardly
be otherwise than that there should be
industrial and business depression.
There has been remarkable change for
the better within the last month or two.
Almost everywhere there is industrial ac-
tivity The factories that had shut down
are resuming operations and an impetus
has been given to business that is making
/ all classes of people think that the Wilson
tariff is likely to be a blessing and bring
to the country greater prosperity than it
has enjoyed in many years.
A long dispatch from Michigan, publish
ed in a republican paper Of Washington,
D. c., Thursday. states that there has
been such remarkable chage in the in
dustrial and business situation in that
state within the last month, that the
democrats, who were greatly depressed
during the summer, are now jubilant, and
are making an aggressive campaign with
a good prospect for success. The republi-
can stump speakers have been compelled
/ to cease their calamity bowls, because
their audiences heard them with visible
| signs of impatence.
In Pennsylvania, a similar condition of
affairs is reported. The democrats have
not of course any prospect of carrying
that state, but they are making converts
rapidly, and on election day it will ap-
pear that the Wilson tariff, although there
has not yet been time to give it a fair
trial. has not done the Democratic party
any harm.
! 1t is worthy of notice that in New York,
! the calamity talk with which the republic
| cans opened the campaign has been practi-
| cally stopped. 1t was found that it was
| not helping the party There has been
! such steady Improvement Of business and
Industrial conditions that it would have
been an insult to the intelligence of the
! people to have continued it.
The people are gradually understanding
that the hard times largely due to the
| Sherman silver law and the Mckinley
tariff had begun before the end of the
| Harrison administration. and that it is
unfair to charge to the account of the
Democratic party that for which the Re-
publican party is responsible.
The day of the calamity bowler is prac-
tically over. Under the conditions the
Democratic party has fixed the country is
growing prosperous, and it will continue
prosperous if that party is permitted to
remain in control of the government.