Arizona republican., 1894-10-09

are for resumption and how they can ad just their business to the new con- ditions forced on them by the new tariff. But if the Democrats should be successful this fall and carry their threat into execution to still farther tamper with the tariff question the re- suit would be one of great disaster.
 The New York Tribune, a newspaper well posted on the matter, says that business as seen through political spectacles differs materially from the business which is seen by ,the men who earn wages and the men who have bills to pay.
 That is to say the political spectacles furnished by the tariff reform shop have the interesting power of impart- ing a roseate hue to all things. They also possess magnifying power for cer- tain facts, but, curiously enough, they reduce other facts in size, as if they were seen through the wrong end of a telescope. The wearer of these specta- cles can see with ease ct distance of thousand miles the resumption of work by a factory employing half dozen hands, with an aggregate pay roll of $100 week, but is quite unable to detect the stoppage of concern em- ploying several thousand hands within sight of Liberty light, or the reduction of 20 per cent in wages paid by con- cern whose payroll is $25, ,000 week. It has not been established as yet that these spectacles will increase the bal ance in the pocket of any wage earner at the end of the week, or the bank &C., count of any merchant, though such re- suits are earnestly desired.
 It is fine thing to be able to see a boom of prosperity rising. and glowing, and all the while rising, and some good men have been watching that brilliant spectacle ever since congress passed the silver bill last year. They privately state that they have not made much money personally meanwhile. perhaps because they have been doing business on an eleemosynary basis, caring only to record large transactions with no re- gard to profits. But most men are moi satisfied to face the unavoidable rlsks of business unless they can make some thing, and fail to enjoy an occasion which yields the maximum of hazard with the minimum of gain. That busi ness done on such narrow margins anC at such prices as now prevail is extra hazardous, and not extra profitable every man in business knows.
 It may also be get down as a solid fac that the average workingman does no prefer wages which leave the narrowes possible margin between him and starv ation. If he used to be saving a tentf } of his earnings: and his wages have been cut down fifth, he does not con slider that to be prosperity, and all tn, tariff reform editorials ever written vii not satisfy him that 1t is. Particularly If. after thirty years of glowing promise 7 that tariff reform would enormously reduce his cost of living, he finds tha it costs him within per cent as mucl to live es it did before, so that he ha to pay more than $85 for the Twin. . which used to cost h1m $90, while get ting $S0 in wages where he used to ge $100, he regards tariff reform as a frauC and Democratic prosperity as a thin, to be abolished as soon as possible That is precisely the predicament il which great multitude of wage -earner find themselves, and they know tha much of the business that is being don, is virtually made possible by takin, away part of their livelihood.
 To the men who have not the ad vantage of Democratic spectacles tn, great revival of trade is nothing but partial recovery from the prostratiol into which prolonged uncertainty abou the tariff plunged the people whel Democrats began to work for {" change" The volume of all transac tions through the principal clearin