Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-07-11
THE WAY iTLCOkS NOW.

and West. The leaders of the rebel
| army, the disciples of Calhoun and Da-
Wis, the foreign importers of our great
| cities, the mugwump fanatics of New
England, and the Democratic dOughfaceS
| OF the North constitute this great COM
bIne and conspiracy against the farmers.
| This hostility to the farmers is not con-
fined to his wool. They have reduced the
| tariff on all the products of the farm to
point where Canada. with her low
priced labor, can undersell the Ameri-
can farmer. From Maine to California
on the Northern border our farmers will
be sacrificed and their profits be reduced.
| This assault is Il comprehensive and sys-
tematic one, designed to cripple this great
| industry. Considered in connection with
| the careful protection by high tariffs of
all Southern industries, this attack upon
| the farmers is deyilish in spirit and pur-
! pose.
If John Ploughman forgets to resist
and punish this outrage, he will deserve
| the fate that has overtaken him.-North
Adams (Mass) Transcript.
Which Party is Responsible?
| When the Democratic state convention
of Nebraska was held a short time ago,
the chairman decided to give the dele
! gates specimen of his ability to lie
without blushing. His effort was won
|
men much older in the business of
Democratic campaign story telling than
himself. He said the present business
| depression was the direct result of thirty
years of Republican legislation; and that
| the harm the Republicans had done in
those thirty years of bad law making
could not be undone by the Democrats
in moment. The Chicago Tribune. in
publishing some of the audacious state
ments of the Nebraska blatherskite, pro-
| rs 11faIxr
A comparison of the census reports of
1880 and 1890 shows that during the
| decade ending four years ago the country
was emlnently prosperous. The manu-
| featuring industries and commerce of the
people increased steadily and at a rapid
rate, while the condition of the work
man was improved by substantial adj
vance IN the average rate of wages dur
ing the ten years term and also by a
cheapening of the necessaries of life In
reality the period of prosperity, without
! single serious break. lasted from about
| 1876, when the effects of the panic of
1873, caused by boom prices, began to
disappear, down to the close of 1892 or
| to a few weeks after the election of the
| Democrats to national power. In those
sixteen years there was a doubling of
production with an increase of about 40
per cent in the wage scale, so that at
| the end of the term the average work
man received S1.4O for the same amount
of work for which he received 81 six
teen years earlier-as measured by gold
values. And during all that time fair
prices were realized for the products of
! the soil, though the term comprised no
really short crop and included two or
three years of the most bounteous cereal
yield ever known on American soil. And
there positively was no let up to this
prosperity till Harrison was succeeded by
Cleveland in 1893 and Democratic free
trade policies were brought forth Then
the financial skies rapidly clouded over
and the storm began. The foreigners
holding American securities believed
what was stated last week in the Ne
braska convention, that the strongest
| hopes of the friends of free coinage (at
the ratio of 16 to II live with the Demo
cratic party and they made a grab for
all the gold they could get hold Of The
rapid drawing, down of the gold reserve
III the national treasury induced kindred
fears at home, and at once there ensued
a general locking up of gold in strong
| boxes and old stockings which made
money so scarce that the Wel-remem-
bered run on the banks resulted, and
| the Democrats had been in office three
months. Employers of labor could not
obtain the pecuniary accommodation nee
essary to operations on the same scale as
before. Many had to shut down entirely
and the rest curtailed production the
|
workers were thrown out Of employment
The buying ability of the masses was so
| greatly reduced by this calamity that
there was q badly diminished demand for
! the products of labor after the money
market became settled and easy on the
prospect that the purchases of silver
would cease.
''Then the Democrats began free
! trade work on the tariff bill, and the
fear that reductions in the duties on
imports would lower the selling prices
of goods caused both importers and do
meStc manufacturers to do business on
| the 'hand-to-mouth' plan, the result be-
ing further contraction of home prOduc-
ton and a marked falling off in the
federal revenues, which for the fiscal
| year now closed were but 76 per cent
! OF the amount collected for the fiscal
year ending twelve months ago What
rot to call this sharp falling off as due
! to Republican legislation for the thirty
years preceding the change!'
Promise and FulfiIment
Two weeks after the election of 1892,
Henry Willard gave a dinner in New
York in honor of MIR. Cleveland In the
course of the speech which the Demo-
cratic President-elect made on that oc-
caslOn, he said:
when / consider all that we have to
dc as party charged with the control
of the government | feel that our cam
paign, instead of being concluded is hut
just begun. What shall our performance
be of the contract we have made with our
countrymen, and how well shall we lust
lily the trust they have imposed upon us :?
l thank God that far above all
doubts and misgivings and away bevond