The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-02-16
INFAMOUS TACTICS.



Xawping Proteesionssts-
Almost ever since the adjournment
Of the special session Of congress very
many Of the beneficiarics of Mckinley
ism and nearly everyone 81 their organs
have been exerting themselves with in
crcasing energy to- deepen the dcpres-
sion necessarily following the silver
protection panic
Employers have attempted 10 reduce
wages. sometimes with success, and
threatened TO reduce them further in
the event Of the passage Of the Wilson
bill They have suspended work IN
many instances and threatened TO sus-
pend in many more without good rca-
son and for no other purpose than to
coerce their employees into protesting
against the passage Of that measure.
and to frighten the majority in congress
into the abandon mcnt of even their
small beginning Of tariff reform They
have taken every advantage OF the situ-
alton resulting from the panic to OPP
press their men and II possible create
another panic Their organs are en-
gagged in the same despicable work.
Day after day they groan for TIE poor
working man. They tell him that tho
present industrial depression is all ow-
ing to the Wilson bill and that his
wages must go down, down until
''labor in this country and Europe will
he on the same plane and level. having
the same hours Of work and the same
pay and poverty" They even say that
the panic of last summer was caused
by the prospect Of tariff reduction, and
that ii is still raging"
That they know better is proved con-
elusive by the fact that their utterancee
are now in Hat contradiction OF their
utterances from four to- six months
ago. when the panic really was raging.
Then they admitted the truth that
manufacturers were not alarmed by
the result of the elections Of Novem-
Der. 1892. although they knew what
that result meant as we'll then as cow.
They admitted the fact that manufac-
turcrs continued to- increase the num-
Der of their establishments and TO en-.
hrgc their plants for eight months al
ter the election. Like Thomas Dolanv
president of one OF the most rabid as
sociations of prote cted manufacturers,
they admitted that the panic wac
caused entirely by the silvcr-purchasina
policy. and that the coming reduction
Of tie tariff had nothing whatever to
do with it. They admitted that il was
q money panic, and not tariff panic
at all. They have no way of escape
from the conclusion that they are now
deliberately lying every day when they
call it tariff panic, and when they
attribute all its necessary and unneces-
sary consequences 10 a very moderate
tariff bill which cannot 60 into effect
for five or six months to come.
They ought to be able to see by this
time that they are not accomplishing
their purpose by pursuing this course.
They do not make friends Of working
men by lying to them; workingmen
have memories and know what these
same would be panic breeders said .
few months ago They do not brighten
congress at all. On the contrary. the
house has shown itself more coura-
geous and radical than its ways and
means committee. The overwhelming
majorities by which amendments cut
ting the committees rates are adopted
should teach the Mckinley organs that
the scare policy is a fat failure.
IL they cannot sec 1t now they will
see it at no distant day. when events
falsify all their calamity predictions
regarding employment and wages.
They will not earn public confidence
and good will by melting employers to
acts of cruelty or by lying about past
events. or by endlessly reiterating
false prophecies OF disaster. lineage
Herald