Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-10-17

pect by still further changes in tariff
schedules or renewed agitation of the
subject?
After most bitterly denouncing the
bill they have just passed, democratic
leaders and press console themselves by
declaring that the new law, after all, is
better than the act of 1890. Better for
whom? Better for what? Where has it
given hope? Whose factories will it set
to work? 1t has improved no American
Interests whatever unless it be the sugar
and whisky trusts. 1t will not start a
single new factory at home. 1t will not
light a solitary new fire at home. 1t will
not increase the demand for labor at
home. Whatever hope it brings is TO the
alien and the stranger. Whatever in
dustry it quickens is beyond the seas; it
is not located beneath our flag, and yields
it no allegiance or support.
"Better than the law of 1890, a law un-
der the operation of which every man in
this country was employed at good
wages, every factory was running at its
full capacity, and the consumer was Sc
curing the necessities Of life cheaper than
he had ever received them before. Does
any thoughtful man believe that the law
OF 1894 will ever restore these happy con-
dltions here in the United States?
GLOW many industries in the United
States are paying the wages paid in 1892?
Tell me, workingmen of Ohio, how many
Of you are idle now who had remunera
tive employment in 1892, and how many
OF you, fortunate enough to have employ
ment now, have escaped a reduction OF
your wages? And what are your pros
poets for the future if you continue to
vote the democratic ticket and sustain
the tariff policy of the party now in
power? These are all practical questions
which every v%orkingman can best answer
for himself"
The Currency Question.
Passing to the subject OF the currency
Governor Mckinley said:
"The democratic party has been in
control of every branch OF the govern.
ment since the 4th day of March, 1893
Its legislative branch has been in session
more than twelve months, yet it has
given us nc silver legislation whatever
! CACCplt W BlilhC uOWu VIC CItIlIldu ldN
at the special session, called for that pur
pose, and in response to the urgent
recommendation of a democratic presi
dent.
Having disposed of the Republican
makeshift,' as they denominated the Sher
man law, they were going to give silver
an honorable place in the coinage of tht
country. Nothing has been heard o
this since. Nothing will be heard OF i
in the present congress. Nothing car
come Of it SO long as Mr.. Cleveland il
president, for it is well understood tina
he will veto any coinage bill. Yet tn,
Ohio convention went through the id,
ceremony of declaring for the free anC
unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio o
l6 to l mot, however, without seriou
opposition from 359 delegates), KNOWN,
that it meant nothing and could meal
nothing, and that it binds nobody at all
not even the delegates present.
Senator Brice, at the head Of the Obi,
democracy, himself in attendance upol
the convention, made swift to denounc'
that plank in the platform, after he hat
crossed the Ohio line, and openly an
nounces that he is not bound by it unles
he can be permitted to C onstrue it as h
pleases. 1t is mere pretense. 1t i
an attempt to raise a false issue. 1t il
another effort at deception.
"The era when democratic PROMISE
avail has gone by. The period of thei
fulfllment is at hand. The democratic
congress can no longer offer the excus
that the republican party stands in tn
way. Nothing can stand in The way ofth
democratic party executing the will OF tina
party. But free and unlimited coinag
of silver is not the crystallized will OF tn
democratic party, and it will not be
The party that has struck silver dow
and given II the severest blow it eve
had, can not be relied upon to give tina
metal honored treatment"