Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-07-14
Written for the Hcrald-l
Democratic Times.

Democratic Times.
The Democrats having carried the
day and had ample opportunity to
give the "dear people a splendid
sample of the ful6llment OF their
promises Of good tines we have
waited for, 10. these many days. with
sorrowful impotence, the dawning of
the Democratic millennium. that was
to do so much for our people who
have SO long suffered under the cruel
tortures and expressions Of that awful
Mckinley bill. As the Democrats
have always been SO honorable and
truthful, we expected they would
scorn to deceive the people
The neeessaries of Life were to be
relieved of the tariff taxation" and
we hoped to buy sugar for three cents
a pound, coffee ten cents, pork two
cents, flour two dollars a barrel and
corn and potatoes shilling bushel,
with all the winter vegetables thrown
in free as a token of Democratic love
and sympathy for the downtrodden
people.
Then, as wages were to be raised
when produce and manufactures were
lowered. the season of unparalleled
prosperity was promised as certain to
be close at hand The poor would
have plenty with little labor; sickness
and sorrow would flee away from their
happy homes, and druggists and doc
tors would serve them without money
and without price. The poor and the
rich would ride together iii gilded car
riages, dressed in foreign broadcloths,
made up by London and Paris tailors
and paid for with a few bushels of
Kansas wheat, bale or two Of cotton,
or bullock from Texas. Even the
colored coachman expected suit of
French cassimer, with hightopped
silk hat and patent leather boots
dressed in gorgeous attire at the
cost of few hours of luxurious serv-
ice.
Tariff taxation was to be removed
that the sun might shine its brightest
upon Free Trade" country, where
Coxeys army gould devour the saw
ings of honest people, and the loafer
could fill himselfwith "free lightning
for nickel, or make a public nu;-
sance of himself for wildcat dime.
This, and much more, we expected
wien we allowed the Government to
be ruled by England through Demo
cratic of1ice-holders. How glorious
has been the fulfillment Sorrow and
distress from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific, marching rampant in mine and
workshop; the poor poorer, the rich
richer, and the farmer and laborer
ground to powder between the upper
and neither millstones of Democratic
incapacity, wrangles, and blunders in
Congress and elsewhere. Not know
ing how to control the tempest of pub
lie indignation now reused and sweep
ing the country as a consequence OF
the utter lack of ability to grasp the
necessities of the situation, or apply
proper remedy to the wounds Of the
public credit and confidence. caused
by their handling of sharp-edged tools,
that the whole people bewail ever hav-
ing placed in the unskilied hands of
plantation statesmen who have not
sufficient political sense to let we'll
enough alone.
Republicans are biding their time,
and have only asked to be permitted
to enjoy an humble share in the bless
ing q of the Democratic jubilee, and
to be allowed to live in peace in a
country that has been so fearfully
blessed for time with the ascendency
of the great and good Democracy. We
have lived to see British and Sugar
Trust Democracy flourish like Jonah's
gourd in the hour of success and then
wilt under the scorching rays of an
outraged peoples righteous indignas
ton, and we hope to be alive when it
withers and dies. and our country
which now suffers by its errors, will
know it no more forever.
DAVID THE SCRIBE.
Winchester Va