Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-05-19

not conclusive, ii Is also tr,e that 81
lar as they are trustworthy they show
q Vastly greater percentage of increase.
both in aggregate wealth and wealth
per capita, during the low tariff decade
from 1880 to 1860, than in any of the fol.
lowing high tariff decades. Ii we
should make allowance for the ,xar.
geration OF wealth in 1870, due To de.
probation OF the currency. the differ.
ence would be still more striking. The
increase OF wealth per head of popula-
ton In the average for the three
decades OF protection was not much
II any. more than one-third as great
per cent, as it:was during the decade
OF comparatively Yree trade.
Labor WAS SO fa'l, employed AZ
good wages under protection, saws
Mr., Harrison. That gentleman is old
enough to know that there was com.
paratively little discon,en, among
working people during the s~o-ealled
free trade period. He is old enough ia
Know that the strike evil and the
tramp disease are almost wholly de.
Velopments under republican tariff pro-
lection.
Without directly referring to the
VoXey craze Mr.. Harrison strongly en-.
rourages IT He lays the industrial de.
preston from which the country Is
slowly recovering entirely to the pros.
pectiye reduction Of the tariff. He
tells the people that they owe their
prosperity not to their own intel.
iigence skill and industry. but to gov
eminent. He tells them that the row.
Is the source of prosperity
"hen 1T is in the hands of his party
ma ths source OF adversely when it is {
p the hands OF another party. He tells /
mem That the cause OF this present dis
istrous depression" is to be fonnd ..;n {
ne attempt to wipe out protection leg a
siatlon and to substitute for it the doc Il
r'nes OF a revenue tariff" Conuress |
'e Tells them, is to blame, and in So Ii
,o'ns ne encourages them to organize &
helt peace armies" and march on r.
'~ashlngton and demand that congress
prosperity. Il
MS Teaching ia calculated still fur e,
ner 10 UNDERMINE the ~self-reliance OF v
ne American people and to inculrate ii
belief that they are dependent upon ri
oVernment 1t is calculated to incite in
&c people 70 make utterly unreasona- tt
demands and enforce them by vio. ST.
nee And yet he talks glibly about ia
calm and temperate discussion ~ co
reat public questions ur
nus cain and Temperate expires. Tin
ep' would have people believe that ev
10 eN'st'ng depression is altogether vo
lie TO the prospect of some little reliey ise
tariff burdens and exactions, Rut
knows perfectly well that mo mani, W
'er occurred that was not followed Til
depression more or less severe and
olonsed He knows that there was
'ther panic nor depression until near Gle
E end OF last June, although reduc. gri
IN OF tho tariff was Just as well a. in
req nearly eight months before rs i, thy
y oeen at any time since. He know, Inc
az the panic originated In fear of a ing
I i'hi VI a 2
to the silver basis under the fall
of an act passed by a repub. bee
congress and signed by his own ant
lie knows that there was a tioi
''e in 1873 which was quite as disss. Tor
us as that of 1893, and which was Ion
by a distressing industrial de. She
'ss'on continuing for a period of five asc
x years He knows that that panic tina
."rred soon after the republicans emo
won u presidential election by an gre
'fwhelming majority, and when wo,
re was no possibility of any tariff tip
uctlon for at least four a oris
nc yet knowing all these things, OF
Harrison utterly ignores them, and Ii
Ks 70 make people believe that the mir
nc OF 1893 md the depression follow. the
were wholly due to the attempt to coul
70 ont tariff legislation. The truth couu
'ne matter is that the depression, cati
Oh had Its origin in the silver scare true
nght on BY republican legislation. ter
oeen made more severe by the bane. ter
'r'es OF protection from selfish mo-. vote
and is now being prolonged and NOR
by republican tflibusters IN tie
who are a~ctuated by like mo. mon
> ana the calm and temperate" glor
sees fl to both thro
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