The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-03-24
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YawpinE Ffotection,et..

Centre dlctofv Declarations Of this TsUs-
Yawpink Ffotection'st..
Almost ever since the adjournment
OF the special session of congress very
many of the beneficiaries Of Mckinley
lem and nearly everyone of their organs
have been exciting themselves with in
creasing energy to deepen the depres-
sion necessarily following the silver
protection panic.
Employers have attempted to reduce
wages, sometimes with success. and
threatened to reduce them further in
the event of the passage Of the Wilson
bill. They have suspended work IN
many instances and threatened to s,'s-
pend in many more without good rea-
son and for no other purpose than to
coerce their employees into protecting
against the passage of that measure.
and to brighten the ma ority in congress
into the abandonment of even their
small beginning st tariff reform. They
have taken every advantage of the stu
alton resulting from the panic to op-
another panic. Their organs are Gu
gagged in the same despicable work.
Day after day they :srcan for the poor
working man. They tell him that the
present industrial depression is all ovv-
ing to the Wilson bill and that his
wages must go down, down until
''labor in this county and Europe will
I've on the same plane and level, having
the same hours of work and the same
pay and poverty" They even say that
the panic of last summer was caused
by the prospect OF tariff reduction, and
that it. is still ''raging.''
That they know bette, Is proved con.
elusive by the fact that their ueterances
are now in fiat contradiction of their
'ttterances from four to six months
ago. when the panic really was raging.
Then they admitted the truth that
manufacturers were not alarmed by
the result Of the elections Of Novem-
Der. 1892. although they knew what
that result meant as we'll then as now.
They admitted the fact that manufac-
turers continued to increase the num-
her of their establishments and to eu-
large their plants for eight months af-
ter the election. Like Thomas Dolan.
president of one Of the most rabid as
sociations Of protected manufacturers,
they admitted that the panic was
caused entirely by the si,ver-purchesin;,
policy, and that the coming reduction
of tho tariff had nothing whatever to
DO with it. They admitted that it was
a money panic, and pot z tariff pan
at all. They have no way of e-xap-
from the conclusion that they are now
deliberately lying every day when they
call it tariff panic. and when they
attribute all it's necessary and unneces-
sary consequences t. a very moderate
tariff bill which cannot go into effect
for five or six months to come.
They ought to be BILE to see by this
time that they are not accomplishing
their purpose by pursuing this course.
They do not make friends of working
men by lying to them: worsip9men
have memories and know what these
Same would be panic breeders said
few months ago. They do not frightcu
congress at all. On the con trary, the
house has shown itself more coura-
geous and radical than its ways and
means committees. The over ,vhelming
ma jorities by which amendments cut
ting the committees rates are adopted
should teach the Mckinley organs that
the scare policy is fat failure.
IT they caunot see 1t now they will
see it at no distant day. when events
falsify all their calamity predictions
regarding employment and wages
They will not earn public confidence
and good will by melting employers to
acts of cruelty or by lying about past
events. or by eudlessly reiterating
false prophecies of disaster. Chicago