The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-03-16

ONE year ago, Sunday, says the New
York World, the Democrats assumed |
control of the national government after |
a total or partial exclusion from power |
for over thirty years.
They found the tariff taxes higher
than at any previous period in the histo-
ry of the government. They found a
treasury deficiency impending where
they had left surplus. They found
the free gold excess of nearly 800, OOO,-
600, turned over by President Cleveland
four years before, scattered III foreign
lands. They found the country on the
verge of a monetary panic owing TO the
operations of Republican silver pur-
chase law They found on the statute
book the skeleton of an elections force
law which the Republicans had desperate
" endeavored to strengthen with federal
bayonets at the polls.
What is the record of the year?
The Sherman silver purchase act has
been repealed. So mischievous had this
law, passed solely by Republican votes,
become that business men of all parties
united in demanding its repeal. The
firm attitude of the Democratic admins
istration secured an unconditional stop
page of silver purchase, and for the first
time since the passage of the Bland act,
in 1873, the currency of the country was
relieved of the danger of debasement.
The election law has been repealed.
With it disappeared the vestige of cent
rallied coercion, the fruit of the war.
Elections are hereafter to be free. The
threat of "a bayonet behind every bal
| lot"-of the party in power doing, as
Speaker Reed said the Republican party
intended to do, ''its own registration,
its own counting and its own certitica
toms removed. This achievement
alone is enough to have made the frs
wears of the Democratic restoration
memorable.
\ genuine tariff-reform bill has passed
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most scientific and just tariff measure
that has passed either House of congres
in thirty years. If enacted into law
will free the great body of the peopl
from needlessly burdensome taxes,
will relieve our manufacturers from
hindering handicap, it will enlarge tn
activities and increase the rewards of Ia
Dor. 1t executes the mandate of tn
people. 1t fulfils the oft-repeated pledg
of the Democratic party.
As to the reverse side of the pictur
there is this to be said: Every mill tha
c is closed was shut up under the Operatio
: of the Mckinley 30 per cent. tariff
Every workingman that is unemploye
is idle under the law that was frame
ostensibly to protect" him. Ever
dollar of increase in the public debt rel
resents a dollar of the Republican def
t cheney. Every lack in the treasury
due to the Republican law which Ct
4 revenue by raising taxes. Every el
e pedient to obtain gold to MAINTAIN tn
public credit is the necessary result {
/ the net loss of gold to the country durin
the Republican administration of ovt
. 1922, 900, 900. Every deficiency, il
V creasing payment from the public trea
r ury bears the sign manual of a Republ
can President.
That there are dangers ahead of II
!, Democratic party none will deny. Bl
the record of its first year in pow,
! challenges comparison with any simil:
period in the history os the country.