Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-10-04
INDUSTRIES REVIVAL.
IT'S BUT THE SHUOOER OF A
HALF -STRANGlED BODY.
Democracy Audariously Promises Ia lie
newei Attack "n Its Victim The Po:i-
icai ksNuis. .oa In Stat. - that Have Held
E;ectious-W What Congress Has D"ne.


Democratic organs ae bu-ily at
work. prophesying revival OF indus.
try" under thi, new ia i'll law o. the
sugar trust and the Democratic Con-
gress. 1t would b strang If the .
were no. some movement The | emo
cratic arty has been throttling the
country for these many months. and
now that it ha tenn ,orarily taken its
hand- from the victims throat, it Is
only natural that the half st an2 led
body should shudder and try to fill its
lungs. But the democrats pro Nise
only d brief breathing space. Pre,i-
dent Cleveland Chairman Wilson, and
all of the fteetrade fanatics ay that
the clade' o. prote .tion is not yet
stormed," and promise Il renewed "a
tack. Let us hope that bv tie time
another Congress meet the coun'r,
will have recovered ON its tran,itory
mani /. and te egatei lhese indu tria
lunatic, t. the political limb, whe. e
they belong. We may hope hi with
contid nee Il fla "a concerns the Re-
p cs ,ntatjNes, for the peope elect
them. 4 10 the Scnit r. :we hall
lave thsln, by the gra e of the sugar
tru t, for varying period ami Hresi-
dent Cleveland we must endure tor
Ovef two Year, more,
But how about the revival Of in
du,tr,:" of which the Democratic or
gans talk: We fear that it will be
| only temporary movement. stocks
have been allowed t. run down by
merchants all over the country. while
| they waited for a tardy Iemocratic
| Congress to t Ike action on the tariff.
| Now that the sugar trust tariff his b.
| come II law. the merchants vii rcpien
| ish their depict ,d stocks, and there
will he Il temporary movement OF mon
| ey. So, too with the whis ty-de ilers
all over the United States during
| TIE ten days when Grover leve and
| fretted over the swindling bin which
| he at last " a hamed to sign. the
! whisky trust was taking whisk, out of
| bond. In front of every gin-mitl
| throughout the land were row, on
rows of whisky y-barrels, taken out OF
| bond 10y tn trust to avoid the in
| creased duty. sold to the VII, lesalers
| on k ne u it, and sold by them to the
| ii mill keepers. This also will eau .
| marked movement OF money: in
| fact the amount paid in for custo MS
and Internal revenue duri g the two
| weeks follow z the passage OF the
bill was more tn IN in many preceding
M tbs. But this as we said j. trans
| Itory. and AS soon as tie merchants
stocks are reple ished and the rum
seller. cellars full this iartitious
monetary movement will ceise.
What then? Does any honest Dem
crat believe that the millions Of idle
| workingmen throughout the land are
| gong to obtain work under this beneti-
:ient law Does any h nest Demo-
crat b e e that all the idle looms, the
| shut down mines, the closed factories,
| whose run was caused by tn Demo-
cratic free-trade panic of 1872. are go
| ing to be set going again b. the Tenn
ocratic Sugar Trust Tariff OF 1894:
\ part of the workingmen will get
employment and ME of the mi Is ard
| factories vi be set going again, iiu,
| The country is already being delugod
with imppt' The bonded warehouses
| are bur tiac with good Already the
balance Of trade has turned against
Us, and cur god res rye. which has
| dwindle 50 rapidly under Democratic
| maladministration, will disappea, AS
| American gold gees out of the count y
TO pay for foreign goods Every
manufacturer will be sub ct to
sharp foreign competition from Eu-
| rope. He will be forced to reduce
| wages to continue business. The re-
duction of the duty will represent the
reduction to be made in wages. A
manufacturer cannot run his blsine ~
at loss: he is connecting with the
cheap labor of Earope his prices are
fixed by European prices his work
men wages must be fixed by Euro
| bean worAmens wages, The remain
| ing two years of emocratic mi rule -
Ihe last let rs hope, for many Years --
| will see lower wages pal to wora men
than have been known in the United
States for geGe alton. while the last
two years of Republican government
under the system OF protection, aw
| the highest wages ever paid In the his
| tory of the world.
Yet the work ingmen. des ,ite this
| fact, voted in ls9. against Re Jublican
,rotection to American lab n. Fools
and blind. They have wed the
wind now they must reap the whirl-
| wind.