The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-04-12
WORkINGMEM IDLE.
Industrial Conditions Under Democratic
 Supremacy.
X local democratic paper saws:

tndustrial Conditions Under Democratic
 Supremacy.
 local democratic paper says:
 "All these years the republicans have been promising to give full employment to all at high wages by their tarin method They have had the field to themselves. In 1890 they car ried protection to the extreme. They gave every applicant all he demanded, and to some they gave moro And as the fruit of this policy they promised the industrial millennium; plenty to do for everybody and princely wages
 'They have of late been forced to confess failure. They and great numbers of men uu. employed ana labor 10 account for tho phen- OmcnOn without admitting any fault in thoir system of reciprocal rapine'"
 The republicans not merely promised to give employment at good wages to all who chose to work, but they gave it. Such was the prosperity of the country up to March of 1893 that the man who was idle was the man who wanted to be idle The wage average was higher than ever before. It is unfortunately true that the con dition of affairs to-day differs widely from that of 1890 and the years immed- 3ately following. Work is scarce, wages lower, and for one strike then there are scores now.
 The republicans have not been forced to confess failure," however, so far as confessing failure implies that they have lost faith in the efficacy of protection. They are forced to cou- -fess that they do not have quite as high an opinion of the intelligence of the American people as they had prior to November of 1892. When they saw the majority of the voters casting their ballots for free trade after it had been explained to them just what the conse- quences of a march toward free trade and away from protection would be, and when they saw the readiness of the people to discard system under which they had prospered for third of a century, they were willing to con fess that there was failure of intelli- gence
 The republicans are not surprised that great numbers of men are out of work now, and they have no trouble about explaining it They predicted lack of work in lS93-'9I if the demo- crats were successful. Their predic- tions have come true. They said demo- fNIdllC SuCCtSS NOull lONtT "dRtS. u has done SO They said that there would be innumerable industrial con flicts while the country was trying to adapt itself to the new democratic wage scale Those conflicts are going on now.
 Of course, it is not the fault" of pro- lection that these phenomena of scant work and low wages are visible every where, for, while protection is still the law, that law is practically dead let ter. It has been known for months that a low tariff bill was to be passed. The minute the people made up their minds that such was to be the case they began preparing for it. They did not wait for the day when the bill was to go into force to take the necessary steps to adapt their business to the new order of things. So, while the McKin- ley law is in force to the extent that the reduced quantity of dutiable goods imported must pay the duties fixed by the law of 1890, the protective effects of that tariff have disappeared largely.
 Every prophecy which the republic ans made in 1892 as to the conse- quences of democratic triumph has been fulfilled. The democratic proph. ,ecics have not been. The republicans make another prediction. It is that if the democrats will drop the Wilson bill wages will jump up forthwith to the old standard, there will be work for every one, and the employers of the men now out on strikes, being able to give what they demand, will tell them to come back at once.
 The voters are so well satisfied that this is what would happen were the Wilson bill thrown into the waste bas- ket that they are preparing to elect republican house this fall and a repub- lican president in 1896. They have learned at last that protection is not failure, and being far more intelli- gent than they were in 1892 they will restore it as soon as they can.--Chicago Tribune.