Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-24
THE CAMPAIGN IN IOWA
DE- nger to Industry In the threatened
Continuance Of Lower Tariff
AgftatiOn.

United States Senator Allison opened the
campaign in Iowa Saturday night at OF
tumwa, speaking to an unprecedented
crowd.
After describing the growth of the coun-
try's wealth from 1881 to 1893. when the
democracy regained control OF the govern
ment, Senator Allison said:
THE farmer In his field. the mechanic
in his shop. the toilers i'm the factory. the
merchant i'm his store, the men engaged
in transportation, the domestic and day
laborers were all occupied and all con-
Stunning the products thus created. and
all contributing to the aggregate of pros
perity.
Financial Disasters of 1893.
This vas the situation in outline when
Grover Cleveland again became President
of the United States and a democratic Con-
gress convened 1t was not certainly
known that the Senate would be democra tic
deadly blight appeared, increasing i'm in
tensity as the days and months came and
passed away. This sudden and marked
change should be attributed to two poten-
tial causes, aided by third and minor
cause There was a Just fear that a demo-
cratic Congress and a democratic Presi-
dent would carry out their proclaimed pol
Icy respecting the tariff; that the six thou
sand five hundred millions of capital in
vested in manufactures would be imperiled,
IL not destroyed; that the four millions of
laborers would be thrown out of employ
ment or be compelled to work on short
time at greatly reduced wages; that there
would be a sudden and large influx of for
eign commodities thrown on the market at
greatly reduced prices; that the nine thou
sand millions OF manufactured products
would dwindle because Of the influx of
foreign fabrics. and because of the destruc-
ton af the consuming power of the people.
impoverished from want of work or work.
ing at reduced wages: that the earnings
of railways. built up i'm relation to and
a part of our Industrial system, would
81 eatly diminish, and their power to make
dividends would cease wholly or be greatly
diminished; that new enterprises would
cease or be greatly curtailed. thus throw
irg out OF employment those engaged In
the building trades; that the accumulated
earnings of laborers in savings banks
would be partially withdrawn, and that
In consequence the business of the coun-
tainty of what would be the final outcome
in this transformation increases the trou-
bles.
Business Will Revive.
Then came the Wilson bill, full of free
trade and full of distress for the working
man and for the business man; but there
was feeling that soon We would know the
worst, and that we could begin again or
surrender. Then came the struggle in the
Senate and the result 1t is rot as bad as
we anticipated: but it is bad enough. Fires
will be rnkindled, many industries will
start UP again with reduced wages Others
will not be able TO live under the rates of
the act of 1894. with continental and En-
glish prices for labor in competition even
by reducing wages. So that the great dis
tress and disaster of the last eighteen
months must be laid at the door of the
democratic party, and no sophistry or spe-
cia1 pleading can change the plain facts
which fixes the true cause of this distress
directly upon the organized democratic
party.
THE new bill does not satisfy President
Cleveland, who joins in this denunciation,
and. therefore. instead of having a season
of rest and stability as respects our great
that this adjustment and arrangement of
shall be ipturned and uprooted. and a
more radical measure substituted if the
democrats shall again secure a majority OF
the House. OF course. nobody believes that
this will be done at the short session next
winter. Everybody knows, or ought TO
know, that this German bill, with what
ever merit IL has and with all its dement's
must stand until another House of Repre-
sentatives is elected, and IL the next House
shall be democratic, they promise and
pledge their party that there shall be a
renewed agitation of this subject and that
the war of determination shall go on until
the democratic policy for revenue only is
established