The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-07-11
AN INSTRUCTIVE EVENT.
Democratic Defeat Ushers In Bus,pesu
 Prosperity.

Prosperity.
 President Depew is close ,bservor
 and his tidings from the west and
 southwest indicate steady chanpe
 in public opinion. One remark. con
 trasting the passionate intensity of
 feeling on the silver question in sopth.
 ern states with the comparative indif-
 ference elsewhere, may possibly create
 Q somewhat mistaken impression. There is no excitement now in con-
 mercial and financial centers, oceans.
 it is thoroughly understood that the
 existing situation cannot be disturbed
 by new legislation favoring silver
 coinage until after the next prcsiden-
 tial election. In the financial and
 commercial world strong feeling would
 be shown at once if there were any dan- ger, but it is believed that the people
 are gradually moving and will move
 toward better knowledge of the
 question, and it is perceived that the deafening discussion within the demo- cratic party is intended for political effect exclusively. Each democratic
 faction wants to get the upper hand within the party, and both fancy that republicans can be drawn into the con- test and weakened thereby.
 Practical men know that there is not the least occasion to desire more money in circulation than there is already, for so much of it is lylng idle now, and gravitates to monetary cen ters in search of employment at rates n nS low h,1 per annum, that the accumulation is actually embarrassing. The general advance in prices, ranging from thirty to one hundred per cent. in many i'm portant products, has occurred without 9ny influence one way or the other from the silver market, and the price of bullion has scarcely changed for two months or more, while cotton, wheat, hides and other products have made their sensational rise. There is nobody anxious to disturb the existing monetary situation except the theorists, whose fanaticism or ignorance blinds them to every experience. If this strange craze is passing away ct the west and ssouth, as Mr. Depew and others believe, it may happen that there will not be enough left of the money question to fight about when the presidential election comes, unless the struggles of democratic factions for the mastery carry them into open antagonism to each other.
 The primary intention of those who stirred up this excitement was to divert public thought from the effects of tariff agitation. This was so clearly per ccived by the republicans of the league convention at Cleveland that many were disposed to adopt strong resolu- tions on tho tariff question alone, until it was found that the organic law of the body forbade attempts to make platforms for the party. But the feel | ing in the convention was none the less | clearly manifested. That body was practically unanimous in desiring an uncompromising fight against demo- cratic frec-tradc theories and demo- l cratic blundcring and dishonesty in taritf-making. The work. of the last democratic congress, the industrial | consequences of deA0cratic success in 1902, and of republican success in 1891, | will beyond question be brought before | voters as the main issue in the cam paign of 1898, no matter who may be | the candidate.
 The general improvement in busi- ness, as soon as q beaten democratic ceased to have power to do evil, is one of the most instructive events of this era. Its meaning will not be overlooked by republican jour- nals and speakers, all may be sure, nor will the voters be slow to appreciate 1t. Indeed, it comes in such shape as to impress, not merely the more in- telligent, who arc able to trace the ef- feet of democratic defeat in reviving but the more ignorant also, who may only see that democratic vic- tory in 1892 brought twenty per cent lower wages and republican victory in 1891 brought ten per cent. higher wages Whether the connection be- tween the facts is fully understood or not, men remember their experience, and as a burned child dreads the fire, they will have a wholesome fear of votes for democratic free trade. The greater the improvement in business may prove, the more impressive will be the contrast, and the stronger will be popular confidence in that party whose defeats are calamities and whose are blessings to the people, \. Y. Tribune.
 The Democratic Tariff.
 Tho new tariff is not tariff for revenue, ipt,. rf, .lN I