The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-17
A ROTTEN RECORD,
The Disastrous Results of Democrats
Mismanagement.

The Disastrous Results of Democrats
Encouragement
"Let us have peacer' is now the fer
vent cry of business. The same prayer
comes from the west and east, from |
the homes of millions of wage-earners
and from the offices of half million |
manufacturers and as many merchants ]
The rich and the poor join in one |
PRAYER: "Let tariff war end and let us |
have peace" Then may the wheels
start again, and idle hands find work,
and plenty come in place of want to
millions of homes. Surely congress
men cannot be aware how much their
weary strife over this question has
cost the people. In the one month OF
july the difference between this year
and last in payments for products and
for labor will be about $1,000, 600, 600.
But this is the fourteenth month OF
continued and sore depression. In
these fourteen months the actual pay
ments through all clearing houses
have been SIS, 500. 900. 900. and in the
preceding fourteen months the aggre-
gate was s72. 900, 900, OOO-a decrease OF
SIC, 400, 900, 900. The business done in
cludes profits for traders and manu-
facturers, for transporters, farmers,
miners and lumbermen, and wages for
all the hands they employ. The enor-
nous loss represents decrease in wages
and work and profits for all concerned
more than 20 per cent. of the entire
business for the fourteen months.
The wage-earners, or rather those
who would earn wages II the demo-
cratic party would let us have peace.
being IS per cent. of the people, num-
Der "a, 600, 600 The wages at the rate
of 1890, reckoning about a third at the
farming and the rest at the average
rate for all manufacturing hands &C
cording to the census, were $500 year
" for each. But instead of S., 600, 000,-
900, these people are probably earning
at the rate of 81, 400. 000, 900 less, part
being unemployed and part working
at lower rates. The great iron indus
try, which should employ in all It's
branches 600, 600 men, as it did in 1s9o,
with a yearly production OF 81, zoe, O00,-
600, instead of full consumption OF
o, 800, 900 tons of pig actually consumed
in the last twelve months about 8, 1O0,-
OOO-less than IS per cent-which
would imply decrease of 100000
hands, and $40, 100000 in value OF
yearly product provided prices had
been unchanged. But prices of iron
products have been reduced at least SO
per cent, or nearly 5000. 600, 900 on the
reduced output. The textile manufac-
| l,a1f million
sons, have reduced hands and output
somewhat less, and yet very largely.
In MANY other industries the mere loss
in value of products must be reckoned
by hundreds of millions.
Do democrats mean to say that the
frightful losses result from the pres
ent tariff, and not from their attempt
to change it? Very well, give us peace
and let us test it. Let the country
have a chance to find out whether the
claim is false or not. Stop agitation
until next January, and see whether
industries will not revive and business
improve under the tariff as it stands.
Instant and full recovery could not
be expected, of course. Complete re-
covery with the threat of change still
hanging over industries could not be
reasonably expected. Yet the demo
Gratis dare not face the test. They
dare not let the working people and
the business men of this country see
how sudden and great relief would
come if democratic agitation woulo
but take itself out of the way, ever
for a few months only.
They do not dare, or they would have
tried it long ago. 1t is almost yeal
since this congress met in extra ses
sion. Before that it's chosen leaders
!, and treasurer and other experts hac
been at work for some months trying
,, to frame a tariff bill. After more
than year of incessant labor and agi
tation and shameful humiliation the
party is Disguised to find that it can
not agree upon or pass anything tina
looks like q democratic tariff. IT.
wrangles, its amazing corruption ant
shameless bartering, its contemptuou
disregard of public opinion. of decen
CIV, of pledges and of principles, mad'
, its respectable leaders long for an ad
iournment months ago-only they di'
/, not dare to let the people see what thu
maligned Mckinley bill would do TO
!. THEN Industries if they let it alone
|. But think once more, democratic
!, friends. Would it not pay better t.
!. let the people have little taste o
prosperity before the next presiden
tial election?-N. Y. Tribune.