San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-13


DEMOCRATIC MSRULE."
But, Mr.. President and fellow citizens,
when we look at things as they have eX-
listed In this country during the past
eighteen months, 1T shows very plainly
that the Democratic party is not capa-
BILE OF conducting the affairs OF this gov
ernmeat,-that they have not got the
confidence of the people.
During the campaign of 1892, the peo-
pie Of this country was deluded into the
idea that they must have free trade,
and in order to have free
trade they must vote the Dem
Ocratic ticket,-that notwithStand-
ing the fact that they were doing we'll,
the working men enjoying steady en-
ployment at remuneratiye wages, pro-
ducts of the farm were selling at good
prices, merchants doing a prosperous
business, in fact all avenues OF trade and
commerce were teaming with activity.
They were promised in the north, If they
| would vote the free trade ticket and elect
it, that wheat would 90 TO Sl.5O per
buShel, that corn would bring 75c. per
buSheI, and other products in proportion:
| Thousands of farmers in the north and
east believing in this piece of sophiStry.
went to the polls and voted the Demo
| cratic ticket. The men In the work shops
and mines being blinded by the same gilt
| tering promises, pumped IN votes for the
free trade ticket, till the ballot boxes
became top-heavy with De mocratic
| votes.
| They were not satisfied with the unex-
ampled prosperity with which the coun-
| try was then blessed, they were not salts
fed with prices obtainabIe for products Of
| the farm, they were not Satfied with the
| princely wage that were being paid, as
compared to those of other countries, but
they went all over the land crying for free
| trade and the good old Democratic times
"be'foh the wah'-And 40 and behold"
through a series of misrepresentation
| and false pretenseS and promises, Democ-
| racy's magic wand, backed by millions OF
money, contributed by the sugar, the
whiSkey and other trusts and com bines,
| succeeded in capturing all branches of the
! government from president down to con-
| stable.
And what was the result? The manu-
| featuring and moneyed interests of the
| country trembled, when they began to
| realize what great mistake the people
| had made. The free trade cry during the
campaign, now threatened to become a
| living realty, manufacturing industries in
| which millions Of money had been in
vested and that employed hundreds
of thousands of wOrkmen, were now
threatened with class of competition, in
the event Of free trade, that they could
| their employees to the pauper scale of their
competitors, they must either do that or
| close down.
| Capital began to pull in its oars, bust
ness began to drop off, factories began to
| close down, stocks and securities of all
| kinds began to weaken and depreciate,
and were dumped on the markets by the
| hundreds of millions to be sold at any
price they would bring. And then came
| : ba MI Of Of hn
| this country has ever known. Bank and
| commercial failures were the order of the
| day. The failures of 1893 reached the
| enormous number of 1850, fifty-two per
| cent more than in 1892, with liabilities
| aggregating over four hundred and sixty
| millions Of dollars, as compared with one
| hundred and eight millions in 1892, seven
| ty-three railroad companies with a tOtOl
| mileage of thIrty-twO thousand miles,
| owing to the Shrinkage in their business
| brought on by the general depression,
| were forced into the hands of receivers.
| Wheat, instead of going up, as predicted
| by congressional candidates in the north
| to $l.50 per buShel, has gone as low as 35c.
| Cotton, owing to the lack of confidence in
| the Democratic party and the consequent
closing down of mills has been making a
| lower price record nearly every day. The
| decrease in the value of farm products
| during 1893 reached the enormous sum of
over 1863 millions of dollars. This is the
| result of the misplaced confidence on the
part of the people In the election of 1898.
| This is Democratic prosperity with ven
geances. These are5the good old Demo-
| cratic times the people cried for, and all
| this Generalization, all this uncertainty,
| due entirely to the free trade threat. Now
! II all this results from mere threat,
| what are we to expect from the real article
| itself? I'll tell you as long as this remainSa
| free government, as long as the policies
| of this government are controlled by the
people-as long as the spirit of self inter
| est can exert itself, this country will not
| tolerate the free trade. Projections ban
| ner may sometimes trail in the dust and
| it's forces may be overcome for a time, but
| there will always be found millions, who
are in favor of America and American
interests, who will take up the banner Of
| RepubicaniSm and carry 1t on to victory.
THE NEW TARIFF"
The Democratic party in its last nation
| al convention, in one of the plankS OF its
| platform, denOunceS protection as uncOn-
stitutional and yet it comes before the
| people now with its Wilson German
Tariff Bill" which, while it reduces the
! duty to some extent on many articles, yet
| yet it is a protection document in every
| sense of the word. In that, it gives more
| protection to the trusts, than any other
| tariff bill ever passed by Congress in the
history of this government
| When you take the platform and prom
| iseS Of the Democracy previous TO the last
| national election, and compare them with
their deeds and actions afterwards, you
must inevitably come to the conclusion
that their political belief is nothing more
than batch of glittering political incon-
SiStencies, but as they seem to thrive on 1t
so remarkably well, (at times Ihave about
come to the conclusion that a man can't
| be a blown in the BOTTLE JimSon juice,
dog fennell Democrat" unless he is in
thoroughly stepped in inconsistency. We
need 60 no further than the Democratic
state conve ntion held in Dallas last Aug
ust. The money plank in their platform
which WAS made To coincide with the