The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-05-18
COST OF THE CHANGE
NEARLY THREE BILLIONS HAVE
BEEN LOST.
Democrats Sheer at the Figures, but They
Are Correct. Nevertheless Tariff Bill
No. 3 Is a Triumph OF the Trusts-Po.
sitical Notes.
Grover and His Gang Going.

GrOVer anu oauk
The Dem cratic party was driv en-
from complete control of this govern
ment nearly forty years ago, when a
weak President and a traito rous Cabi-
net left the cou airy financially pros
trated and on the verge of bloody civil
war. 1t is most remarkable how the
6nan cial conditions have repeated
themselves afte' the lap OF so many
years. The panic years of 1867 and
1858, toward the end OF James Blu
chanan's term. are being duplicated in
the beginning of Grover Cleveland Is
term, at the ose of which the Demo
Gratis will be again driven from power.
There the similarity ceases. There
will not be a sec md civil war. The
Democratic panic years, 1857 and 1858,
eclipsed all previous records of disaster
the country had known. The panic of
1887 was but a zephyr compared to the
Democratic cyclone of 1851. Eut as
the Democratic panic of 1873 was to
that of l,37, so is the Democratic panic
of 1904 to that Of 1873. The coun-
try has increased in population and
magnitude and the democratic party
in numbe. and in folly. Hence IS the
panic greater and the disaster more
widespread. IL that was cyclone,
this is cataclysm.
The indemnity which Germany
wrung from France after the close of
the Franco-Germal war was five
milliards OF francs, or one thousand
millions of dollars. This Is an enor-
nous sum. But it Is as nothing COM
pared 10 the Iena,ty paid by the
American PEOPLE for placing the Demo.
Gratis in power 1t Is in the nature OF
things impossible to make accurate
figures on such an amount, but an at
tempt has been made by a statistician,
Mr.. Joseph X. Bucha ian, and he has
published a series OF elaborate tables
In New York paper. These tables
fill columns of fine type, and cannot be
reproduce here, but some OF his totals
are of interest. He gives the number
OF adult males in the United States as
l3,CC0, %: of these, f,C0O,O00 are in
agricultural pursuits, and 100000 are
prop 'ietor5 of various establishments.
This leaves 10000 male wage-work-
ers. OF these, 2,393, 900, according to
Mr.. Buchanan, are out OF work. he
gives his figures, sources OF informa-
tion, etc., all carefully classified ac-
cordiny TO various occupations. He
gives the wages of the various callings,
percentage of loss where wages have
been reduced, and amount of loss where
men are out of work. He thus figures
up the loss of wages to workingmen
during the seven mont Is beginning
with September, 1898, at the en- r.
nous sum of nearly billion OF do lars
- 10 be exact, s9G5, 5l6,4CO
The shrinkage in wages alone is
about Cnehalf the national debt. But
the tables go on. He compares the
prices paid for last years cop of
wheat, corn, cotton, cats, potatoes, and
rye; for last year output OF silver and
pig-iron at present prices for the
shrinkage in value of stock exchange
securities, mortgage bonds, ETC.; and
adding the 20 10 the loss In wages al
ready given, he makes total loss ID
the American people, since the Demo
cratic party went into power, OF nearly
three billions of dcllar5-to be exact,
81, IL, 1893, 569. Demo rats may sheer
at these figures, and call them
mathematical romancing. But they
are borne out by the figures OF the
United State; Government. it; de-
crease in revenus alone shows the eX-
traordinary diminution in the pur--
chasing power of the American peo-
pie. or the month CT January, the
dutiabe imports were 3D., 20s, 1913,
again ( $50, 800, 525 for the same month
in 1898, decrease of about forty-four
per CEN. The customs revenue in
February decreased ,5i6, 100 COM
pared with last yen, or thirty-eight
Cer cent. In articles Of luxury the de-
mand fell of over fifty per cent; in
partially manufactured articles, forty
PER cent; and 80 on down TO dutlabie
articles of food, which fell of about
fifteen Fer cent.
II there is any nation in the world
which Is eXtravagant in the matter OF
food, it is the American people. They
are more than eXtravagant-they are
luxurious, they are wastefuL Yet this
ore item of decrease in the dutiable
70 d supply sh WIS that the Democratic
Oppression has affected even those cpl
curean Americans who must bring
Injuries from over seas; those who are
not satisfied with TIE srcculent canvas
backs, the sugar-cured hams, the Blue
Point and Lynn Haven oysters, the
porter-house steaks, the hog ard hon.
my. the buckwheat cakes, the corn,
and wire, and oil viii h this fat and
juicy land OF ours prodLce', but must
import atties made from the livers OF
bloat d Strasburg geese, ieberwurst
made from the hepaiic organs OF Ger
man swine mortadella made from the
flesh of Italian donkeys, and Lyons
sausages made from French heaven
knows-what. If these people feel the
pinch, what must others feel! III
Dives, who lives on pate de ioie gras,
must retrench, what shall happen Laz-
anus, who lives on crumbs: La arus
must starve.
In the face o. the fact tina. the pur
chasing power of the American people,
and consequently the revenues of the
Government, a"e falling off in thi
enormous proportion, the Democratic
President and his cuckoo" Congress
ara seriously attempting to wipe out
what revenue rem lins. Last week In
the United States Senate il was shown
by Treasury statement that there
was deficit OF SIS, C00,0)0 for the cur-
rem fl. cal year; in addition TO this,
the Wilson tariff bill, even as amended
by the Senate, discards ST., 100000 of
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