The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-11-14
Responslbility for prosperltr.

Times have improved. Not only
has wholesale and retail trade
picked up great deal, but there
is gratifying degree of resump-
tion in manufacture. We hear
even of farms looking up little.
There will have to be a revision Of
political humbuggery. The calam-
ity line on which politics has been
run for year or two is not suit
able to the new and improved con-
ditions. Directly after the last
presidential election, when the pam
ic was in his conception, the Re-
publican managers set up the cry
that times were going to be hard,
that would be closed,
that there would he scarcely any
market for farm products, that
trade would dwindle, that soup.
houses would multiply, and that
there would be great deal of
trouble generally. They said that
this gloomy prospect was all on ac-
count of the action of a majority of
the people of the country placing
the Democracy in power, on plat
form which would require a revis-
ion of the tariff. The prospect Of
tariff tinkering by the Democrats,
it was said, would do much harm;
but still greater distress was to
come merely because the reins of
government had been placed in the
hands of the Democrats.
There is no sense in denying a
fact to bolster up an argument. The
Democrats were obliged to bear the
burden of the panic, though the or
igin of it antedated their restora-
tion to power. They have plowed
through two years of embarrass-
ment. A change has come. Fur
ther change for the better lies in
the immediate future. We have
been watching this matter for some
time, intending to congratulate the
Democracy at the proper moment.
We have been curious, too, to see
how the Republicans would take it.
We may have been disposed even
to gloat over what we naturally
supposed would be their discomfit-
ture. Here was prosperity coming
at leaps and bounds, almost under
Democratic Observation-Disclosures
ocratic Senate and a Democratic
House of Representatives; and
right on the heels, too, of Demo-
cratic revision of the tariff, and fol-
lowing the resolution of the De-
mocracy in favor of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver. Wasn't
this a situation to make Democrats
happy and Republicans ashamed of
themselves /?
In this delightful vision, though,
the twinkling Times-Star had not
been reconed. 1t dashes the cup of
nectar from, The Democratic lip, and
puts cold poison in its place. 1t
saved its awful information till the
very moment when the Democrats
were about to enter upon a season
of excusable intoxication. 1t was
artful in its cruelty. 1t was cold
and calculating in determination
to worry it's opponents. 1t has just
made the overpnwering announce
! ment that the cause of the return
Of prosperity is the prospect of the
Republicans carrying the elections
next month. We give it up. There
is no use i'll Democrats trying to be
happy. They get the worst of it..
They had the hot end of the poker
two years ago, and have been hold
ing on to 1t all this time. And now
when they take hold of the other
end they find that has been heated
too. Had it not been for vigilance
of the Times-Star we might have
been able to make the people be-
lieve that as prosperity came under
Democratic administration Demo-
Gratis were entitled to credit for it.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
EVEN Wilson, the author of the
| best tariff bill that WAS ever nassad