The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-05

The resolutions adopted by the Demo.
cratic state convention attribute the pres
ent business depression 10 the legislation
OF the Harrison administration and de-
nounce the Republicans as responsible
for ali the distress from which this coun-
try Is suffering.
OF course this statement must be in
tended to fool the fools, for II certainly
cannot fool anybody else. The American
people were never more prosperous than
they we're when in November. iss2. the
labor vote OF America "shot its granny
by defeating Harrison and elccting Grover
Cleveland.
From that fatefui day dates the begin
ming OF that gathering storm Of disaster
which has reduced wealth 20 poverty and
vastly increased the ranks Of the involun-
tary idle, curtaiIing the opportunities OF
employment as well as reducing the
wages of labor.
All this has taken place since the Demo-
cratic national victory of 1882. The effect
of the election of Cleveland was to arouse
apprehension for the future, which devel-
1888. when 1t was clear that the United
States senate was under the control of the
Democracy.
The nomin alton Of Mr.. Carlisle as sscre-
tary OF the treasury. who was free silver
tie as late as August, 1897, put Wall street
almost into panic. CarlisIe's threatened
refusal 10 maintain gold payments fright
ened foreign investors. who now began to
withdraw their loans from the United
States. Gold was exported on every
steamer; the India minis were closed to
free silver coinage on the belief that the
silver OF tho United States would be
demoneslzed and sold. The fall of silver
both alarmed and enraged the fanatic
popuiists and free silverises west of the
Mississippi. and bankrupted great railroad
corporations like tho Union Pacific and
Northern Pacific.
All branches OF trade. industry and
finance began TO reflect an utter lack of
confidence 10 do business. Money was
boarded the money market became 50
tight that clearing house certificates were
rssorted to In order to ailay public alarm
and give relief.
This financial fright was associated with
the dread Of revolutionary tariff revision
and reform. Factories. furnace, and work.
shops we're closed down and reductions OF
wages were made all along the line.
Uncertainty prevailed for year; IL con-
tinues 10 prevail today. and IL viii prevail
so long as the Democratic party. with its
threatened oblitsration of protection, re-
mains In control OF congress.
The enactment OF the Wilson tariff did
not relieve this uncertainty, which Is the
death 10 anything bat pieayune business.
because when this wresched tariff was
substituted for the Mckinley Law the
promise OF renewal Of agitation and un-
certainty on the tariff question in Deem
her was given out by the president ana
his friends.
Tho Yakima platform will not fool any
body but the fools in the state Of Wash.
ington. and the Democracy always has
the fools. like the poor. with them, fact
which ought TO make its fusion With the
Popalists an easy because natural, sron-
taaeous effort. Tho attraction of cohesion.
which makes one fool stand by another
fool. ought 20 make Democracy and Pop
uhsm blend as easily as two bottles Of
"moonsalne" whisksy.
Nobody bat the fools this year will for
get that peace. plenty and prosperity
marked Republican rule in ISa2; that dis
turbanee. disaster and depression have
marked . year and q half OF Democratic
Supremacy At Washington City.
Tom Reed bits the nail exactly on the
bead whsn he posnts cut that the ineffaes-
abls thing In the Democratic record slnes
shs Inauguration Of Cleveland Is the utter
Ineapsrity Of the Democratic PARTY TO
govern dsesntly when they have the prssl-
asat ana bath houses of oongFes.
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