The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-08-08
THE QUESTION oE lss.uEs.
Tricky Tactics of tho Democra,ic Botch
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 Again there is an outbreak of demo- cratic anxiety to make is sues for re- publicans. This is nothing strange, for it is good tactics to fore an enemy to fight on grounds of your own choice, if you can. So there is another anx- ious and evidently concerted effort, in democratic newspapers likely to be steered from headquarters, to convince republicans that ISe :honey question must overshadow all others, and that the tariff question will have to take a secondary place, because with business revived and active nobody will be will ing to have the issue reopened. It is a spacious and cunning argument, but should not decelve anybody. The truth is that issues are made for par ties, and not made by them The things about which the plain people, who are not mere politicians nor mere partisans, actually have the. greatest interest and the strongest desire, neces- s2rily become the predominant issues because the politicians and party are forced, in spite of themselves, to seek the preference and the votes of those not certain to support one party or the other. Now it is fact that consid- erable but apparently diminishing mi nority of the people want change of currency, in the direction of free silver coinage, more paper, state banks, or ''soft money" in some form. The de- cided majority of the people, apparent ly increasing from week to week, de- sires no such change, feeling that the money we have is absolutely safe and in quantity ample for all real neces- sities. It seems probable that this opinion will so far prevail that the money issue cannot predominate in coming elections. The only voters who want change, and whose support politi- cianS might seek to gain, demand measures which are so overwhelmingly opposed by the sound sense of the great majority that an attempt to court the favor of these voters would be fatal to any party.
 1t is natural that democrats are anxious to have their action on the tariff forgotten and showed out of sight. In that way, they calculate, the tariff may gain sort of popular acquiescence which can be interpreted as approval. The business of this great country has such wonderful re- euperative power, and adjusts itself so marvelously to almost any conditions, that democrats hope it will thrive even under tariff which they have most savagely denounced as a sur render of all their principles, barter and . botch. Then they can cry: ''See how we prosper under reduction of duties" The facts will have to die tate, however, in spite of all politicians and planmakers, and If business and industries do actually prosper, giving to industries greater development and to labor better wages than were ever attained under any other tariff, the republicans will have to face that fact, for in that case the desire of the peo- pie for a change of. tariff will fade.
 That state of facts has not come, and the Tribune does not believe that it will come. The people do now desire and demand a restoration of intelligent and consistent protection in place of the infamous barter and disgraceful botch democrats have enacted. They know that at this time, after all the l improvement of the last three months, their wages are by no means as high as they were in 1892. This is the neces- sary consequence of another fact, which the people also know, that the indus tries of the country are not yet by any means as prosperous as they were in 1892. The more severe competition with foreign producers in great many branches makes the restoration of former wages and of former produc- ton as yet impossible. Thus several thousand workers in carpet mills at Philadelphia are on strike now, because the manufacturers feel unable to grant partial restoration of wages, amount ing to only seven and a half per cent.
 Predictions are cheap, but the actual results will inevitably turn the scale, and the people will know those results by their own personal experience. They are not satisfied to-day, and would vote by overwhelming majori- ties in every northern state for over throw of the bill of sale. If they are not satisfied in far greater measure next year, all the chatter of democratic organs will not persuade them to drop the tariff question, and accept the tariff of 'perfidy and dishonor" as finality They know that they have no occasion to fear republican revision, which means greater protection, less foreign competition, better wages and more business. The country always thrivcs when a change of that character is in prospect. The people do fear, and with great reason, any democratic re- vision, which invariably means worse business and lower wages for AmSri- cans, and more business and better wages for the people of other coun- l tries.-N. Y. Tribune. 
 EB-The official reports of all the United States ports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, are making bad showing for the Gorman-Wilson tariff, so far as it's taking employment from American laboring men is concerned. The total amount of the duties col