Middletown transcript., 1894-08-25
VIEWS OF A DEMOCRAT.
How His Eyes are Being Opened to
Democratic Dishonesty.
Four CORNERS, AUGUST %. 1894.

Four CORNERS, AUGUST %, 1894.
EDITOR OF THE TRANscRIPT:-In the glori
ousDemocrat times one feels kinder inspired
as it were, to note what is going on in th,
various phases Of life and business as wei
as our leetle affairs at the Corners. Like al
good Democrats, feel considerably disap.
pointed in the actions of our Representa-
tives in Congress. It appears to me tha
they have made grave mistakes, as they
passed Tariff Bill that is not satisfactory
to any one nor themselves either. Twas in
hopes they would depart from their ancient
custom and really do something towards
beneftting the poor farmer and working
man, but they have failed to do it. To be
sure we could not expect to see their grand
and glorious plan of Tariff Reform worked
out in day and feel its benefcent effects
| at once. but it seems that the nearer we
come to the perfection of the plan, the
lower the prices go down for the produce of
the farmer and the workingman's chances
grow less for job. Our esteemed friend,
Senator Gray surely must have known
what he was talking about when he said to
us openly and above-board, your wheat
will go up to 81 .25 bushel and there will
be two (some say he said four) jobs for
every workingman," and yet the sad fact
stares us into the face that wheat has gone
down to as low as as cents bushel and
starvation is staring the workingman in the
face, and there are higher four men to ajob
than otherwise. Fellow Democrats this is
not what we bargained for; Fellow Repub-
licans who voted the glorious old Demo-
cratic Ticket of our fathers, this is not what
you bargained for. Oh, we have been sadly
deceived 1t appears to me that our pride
and boast in Jeffersonian and Jacksonian
principles have been in vain. have al
ways felt pride in our grand Republic. un-
divided and the most liberal of all Nations,
and my heart has gone out to those "Boys
in Blue" who fought that We might enjoy
the blessings of liberty and | cannot help
but feel, as have noted the changes that
haye taken place, that the Democratic
party is no more, that we have been be-
trayed by that solid South, and that now
by the passage of Tariff Bill, that is nei-
ther one thing or the other. they have won
by the ballot what they could not do by
the bullet, they have put the workingmen
of the North on par with the negro of the
South, and under the guise of assisting the
efarmer Of the North and West, they hav
killed the source of revenue, and have de-
monstrated by the aid of corrupt Sugar
Trust. that Cotton Is King, Fellow
Democrats. this is plain truth, we who love
our country and who were and are ready to
defend it, did not vote to have such re-
suit. We were deceived, BETRAYED by those
who we looked up to as leaders in the past,
but who have signally failed when the test
came. We must not, cannot allow this
state of affairs to continue; we must look up
new Moses to lead US to the Promised
Land. and then may we indeed under a
wise and impartial Legislation realize that
there is room for all and that there is pol |
icy that will treat all classes with equal
justice and the prosperity of one will be the
prosperity of all. This is possible, but until
we enforce upon our Legislators that there
is such thing as Patriotism and unswer-
wing integrity, We will still wander far from |
the true principles of a Democratic govern
ment.
Sincerely Yours,
A SoRRoWING DEMOCRAT