The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-10-19
''DEMOCRATIt TIMES. I"
The Country l. Entering Upon an Era
Of uncIampled Prosperity
And The Occupation Of the Calamity
IIowlcr Is Gone.

u.pahlican Papers and Republican Lead
er- Acknowledge That the Advent Of
Good Times Has Come Through the
Enactment NJ the New Tsri6-Factories
Resume Operations Ia all Directions
aud Give steady Employment to labor.
The Banks Let Loose Of Their Hoardcd
Treasure and Business Everywhers Re-
Gin. to boom Democratic Times ut
Hand.
Republican orators and Republican
pap.rs have had great deal TO say in
the past year about Democratic times"
though all the while the country was
suffering from the effects Of Republican
legislation.
This talk has suddenly ceased. The
raa,on is not hard to discover. At last
the Democrats in congress, after long
and desperate struggle against the Re-
publican obstructionists. have succeeded
in placing genuine Democratic legisla-
tor on the national statute books. The
consequent benefits were instantly dis
cernible. Business, which had so long
croaned and sickened under the blight
ins influence CT laws enacted by Repub-
hcan congresses for the benefit of the
protected barons, the trusts. the COM
bines and the grasping corporations,
Immediately began to revive; wheels in
the factories began to revclve; wage diff
fcrcnces between employer and employe
wer, quickly adjusted and the toiling
masses not only resumed work but also
realized an additional benefit in the in
creased purchasing power Of their wages
gwen by the reduced tariff duties.
The revival Of business and industry
in the past 30 days is really phenomenal
Factory towns are manifesting their old
activity. merchants are pushing their
trade and the banks are already putting
into circulation the money which has so
lung been idle in their vaults
Democratic times have come sure
enough.
Depew's Testimony.
And they have come TO stay. Bust
n,~s men recognize ii, mechanics and
laloring men recognize il. farmers rec
ognize it; yes, even the Republican poll
ticians who have been doing nothing
hut howl calamity" for two years rec
o-nizc il and are ceasing their dismal
crlakings Here is Chauncey Depew.
who has himself interviewed in Europe
On the situation. Depew says:
The settlement Of the tariff question IS
nv 'eginning Of new era Of prosperity.
There is no end OF idle money which will
now seek active employment. In less than
two wears the panic Of 1885 will be for
gotten Mines, furnaces. mills and fac
tories viii b. In full operation. railroads
Will W. conveying profitable traffic and the
movement of internal commerce and the
fire. circulation Of currency or the equiva-
lent N business and wages will certainly
increase the demand for everything pro-
dlc,d upon the farri or elsewhere. We
arr ripe for a long period Of prosperity in
business good wages and full employment
for labor.
However. this testimony Of Depcw
wasn't necessary to inform the people II
thc United States that times were bet
ter since the passage Of the tariff bill,
nor To convince them that we were, as u
nati9n-thanks TO the wisdom Of Demo-
cratic legislation-about to enter on an
era " unexampled and genuine prosper
ity. prosperity which, being founded
on right principles. il bound to end--re.
The Geographic columns Of the papers
arr full Of il. Every day the telegraph
brings news Of the resumption Of opera
tons by big factories. the establishment
q new industries and the improved con-
dition Of trade. The st. Louis Globe
Democrat, one of the ablest as well ~
one q the most intensely partisan Re-
publican papers in the land, says of the
situation:
Two or three months hence the improve
ment IN business will he so marked and 10
Persistent that the croakers OF today will
~ confounded and Inundated. Partisan
capital cannot he made out Of the gloomy
VACCINATIONS which emanatc from certain
Republican journals and statesmen ut this
time
The improvement In Indiana.
IA Indiana the improved business sit
natiun Is most marked. The Indianapo-
~ Journal, intensely Republican, con
lnnS daily testimony to the improved
condition Of trade. In its weekly re-
view Of the situation in indianapolis are
'"nnd these statements. among others:
The lockwood Manufacturing company
hpprtS business improving This week il
shipped sawmill TO Hayti. one Of the
Nr~' India islands. one to Kentucky. one
y tennessee and two 10 Missouri. II also
,nahr large shipment Of pulleys to the
ra't a Whitney company. Hartford.
"nn All the departments are running
wv ilne, and the company il especially
'uss y ~ foundry, having just booked
eral large orders for gray iron castings.
i~Ne hrothcrs. proprietors Of the Indiana
''.n miil, are preparing To increase their
F'.ihction by putting in leo more looms.
though the Gamers OF fruit and sege-
VIII not put up two thirds as many
'hls season ns last owing 10 the
n'enIt' which cut Off crops. they are just
Nv pushing business. giving employment
some l.Jn men and women
~ manufacturers ~ bicycles are much
'pris'n that their husincs~ is Keeping mp
well Usually all are shut down in Au-
SnN' Ahd September, but now they are run.
"'nE with fair forces.
r, ~ iioosicr WOODEN mills are running
s nave orders to keep them busy the
INN iNe weeks. and hope before that time
!, 'Ne nriers 10 keep them running In
'i'f present mauunr f,r n tx....... ,s,.,.