The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-23

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, A CONTRAST.
! A little over five years ago there was
apolitical battle being fought between
the democrats and the republicans.
Democratic orators, stump speakers.
and papers, prophesicd that IL the re-
publicans got into power they would
pass a protective tariff hill that would
ruin the country, that the prices of
every manufacture would go sky.
high, while everything the farmer
raised would be at bottom figures.
The democratic slogan, throughout
the campaign, was the ''poor mans
dinner pail" etc. Well, the election
came off, and the democrats were
right In the prophecy tlrlta protective
tariff bill would he passed. 1t was
passcd-but how about the high prices
for manufactures aud low prices for
farmers produce? We need not
answer: every adult person can re.
member for himself what prices were
from 1889 until 1893. But the demo-
Gratis not only prophcsicd about high
and low prices, but they said the Nc
ktnley bill would destroy the com.
mercc of the country and an era of
hard times would Immediately follow.
Did 1t? Was there hard times from
1889 to 1893? AS we said before every
adult has a memory of his own and
can answer for himself.
A little over a year ago We had an.
other political battle. This time the
republicans did some prophesying.
They said IL the democrats are sue.
ccssful the business of the country
will be upset, uncertainty will rule,
factories will close, workmen be out Of
employ, farmers products cheapened
because of lack of demand, and hard
times will result.
That was only Il little over a year
ago. Are the predictions made Dy the
republicans fulfilled? In this case the
boys and girls can answer: even the
children are only too certain of the
results.
! The democrats have tried to evadc
the responsibility in two ways-frst.
by blaming it all to silver. Well they,
or Il part Of them, tried to fix up
silver, but the result hasn't been very
brilliant.
Then they say 1t is the result of re.
publican misrule. Well, the republi.
cans ran the government for thirty
years, but nobody ever saw such times
as these.
Five years ago the government
changed from democratic to republi.
can. There was no distrust. Tho
Mckinley bill was passed, and even
republicans feared the changes might
disturb the current of business, but
no. business went right along, and the
volume for 1882 was'greatcr than ever
before.
A little over year ago the news
came that Grover Cleveland was
elected, and for the first time 10 thirty
years the democrats were to have
complete control. When didthe panic
and hard times begin? Just then.
Everybody knows that distrust began
last November, increased until March
fourth, and grew worse and worse all
summer.until the farmers, with their
crops, began to ease up the financial
situation. A week more and the
democrats have been in sole posses.
sion of the government for a year.
Whether they or the republicans are
to blame for the hard times, what
have they done to remedy them ?
Not one single thing. Not only have
they not done anything, but they have
not, and do not propose, any remedy
whatever.
A year ago they said protection is
fraud, is unconstitutional. To-day
the Wilson bill-a protective tariff bill
in theory just as much as the McKin.
ley bill, but in practice not.ncarly SO
just In its provisions, stands as com.
pletc revocation of the Cincinnati
platform and complete confession of
democratic conviction that the
panic of the present year was caused
by the fear OF the people that the
Cincinnati platform was TO be carried
into actual legislation.
In thirty years the republican party
has faced almos, every phase of ma
tional exigency; war. war debts, hard
times, reconstruction, resumption,
tariff, and the statute books prove
that in every case, without hesitation
a definite policy was proposed, and in
spite OF the always opposition of the
democrats, carried out, and rarely
indeed did they make a mistake.
In all the thirty years the republi.
can party has never been without a
definite policy of progress, clean cut to
suit the issues and problems of the
day. The democratic party have had
no other policy than opposition, and
now that they have control their occu
patton is gone; they are completely a,
sea. They have killed the officers ant
the pilot. and not one of them know.
the way to steer the ship of state GU,
from the breakers, and they are com
PEELED to ask the few loyal republi
cans to come In and help them settle
their own differences.
The only definite democratic polio,
observable to-day is the great question
whether Grover Cleveland or Davi6
B. Hill is the greatest STATESMAN. >
Even the Wilson bill is to be passed O,
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