The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1894-07-13
DEMOCRATIC RULE.

DEMOCRATIC RULE.
aov the Country Has suffered Under
Cleveaand's Admlnissratioo.
The democratic party asks the intel
iigent Judgment OF the American peo-
pie It asks 8 change of administra-
tion and q change Of party in order
that there may be a change of system
and . change of methods. thus assuring
the maintenance unimpaired Of insti-
buttons under which the republic has
grown great and powerful"
These are the closing sentences in
the platform adopted by the democrat
&c national convention Of two years
ago, and on which the Grover Cleve-
land administration assumed the reins
Of power. That was the promise. At
the close Of its first fiscal year of Office.
Included in the sixteen months that
have elapsed since Cleveland took the
oath, let US ask what has been the per
formancef
Fer the first time since the close of
the war the expenditures have ex-
ceedcd :he receipts, and the deficit is q
startling one. The revenues for the
year exhibit shrinkege of about
nice,y-three million dollars. and the
gold reserve is reduced to sixty mil
lions. or over forty millions below
wha. under republican administra-
tons was deemed to be the limit of
safety, and this though some fifty
eight millions have been obtained by
the sale of bonds. And the course of
events directly due to administration
misrule is even more disastrous to the
people. The clearing house payments
Of the country have decreased two bill
lions of dollars, or about as much as
the total deposits of the workers in the
savings banks of the country, while it
is estimated that the total OF deity
wages and incomes is fire million dol
lars less tnan two years ago, this de-
crease being twice as much as the
daily cost OF carrying on the ire
mendous way for the preservation of
the union. Truly the people have SUI
fered. They have paid dearly for
listening two years ago to the dema
Cogues who exhorted them to vote for
Cleveland and a change.
The business trouble began very
soon after Mr.. Ciereland took his seat
in the white house. Certain hints let
drop by his secretary of the treasury
were construed IS reasons for fear that
the parity between gold and silver
would not be preserved On this hint
foreigners sent home American stocks
and sold them for gold, and it was ex-
ported in large amounts, and what re-
y1ained in the country was locked up
from the channels of circulation. The
result was scarcity of money. which
induced fears of the banks. and run
ensued which made money still more
scarce for lending purposes, and in
dustrial operations were paralyzed.
Confidence in the soundness of the
currency was restored by the call for
a special session and the subsequent
action Of congress IN repeating the pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman act of
July IA, 1890.
But the president declared in his
message that congress must soon enter
on the work OF tariff revision and re-
duction to carry out the pledges of the
party, and the fear Of tariff reduction
made the industrial situation still
worse. Merchants were afraid to buy
stocks Of goods tina: would have to be
sold in competition with those pro-
duced under lower tariff and our
manufacturers curtaiied operations for
the same reason, IN addition to having
q diminished current demand for their
goods. Many Of them were forced to
stop because they could not get orders
fer the produc. os their establishments,
and others managed to keep open by
dint of offering their wares at a severe
cut in prices which made it necessary
to reduce the wages OF their employees.
The increasing competition of sellers
on q smaller market led to further de-
clines in prices. and this to more cuts
in wages, ill the compensation of
labor had been reduced by fully TWEEN
ty-five per cent. on the Average. and
still hundreds u thousands could not
end work atauy price.
The deceived .c:!ers whose votes had
placed in power that party that caused
al. this mischief grew dissatisfied. /
Many OF them struck for the wages
which employers had paid cheerfu!ly
during years of republican prosperity.
but could not afford to pay under the
order of things. The
strikes ON the Pacific railroads,
strikes of the miners for bituminous
coal, strikes il the Colorado gold fields.
The strike at Pullman, with Debs' order
it to nearly all railroads.
the scenes of violence involving muir
der in some cases. the calling out of
sheriffs posses and the military to re-
store order; great privation to the
strikers and their families, and no
small amount of unjust interruption
and loss to many who were not parties
10 the struggle-all this was directly
consequent upon democratic interior
ence with previous industrial condi-
tons and national prosperity.
Then there was an immense falling
Of in receipts of duties on imported
goods during this last fiscal year, be-