The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-04-25
A WAeE.EARNERs. REVOLT.
Tho Roal Reason ot the Rebellion Against
 Democratic Rule.

| Tho RoaI Reason ot the Rebellion Against Democratic Rule.
 The results of elections throughout the country show conclusively that there has been no change adverse to republicans or in favor of the demo- cratic party since last November. Here and there democratic apathy or indif- ference is named as cause of results which are nevertheless simply inex- plicable, unless for the apathy itself an adequate cause is found. It is not in accord with experience to attribute these results to the bad conduct of off, fcials in certain states or cities It would be more creditable to the people if they had shown greater readiness to punish rascality or crime; if :he shame- ful conduct of rulers in New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Chicago had been more swiftly resented and pun ishcd by respectable voters of the party thus dishonored; if many men in other cities and smaller towns. and even in rural districts, had risen up in body to teach their party that it could not retain decent support any where if it made itself the hired tool of blackmailers and criminals in the most important cities. There has never been evidence that the great body of democratic voters were willing in this effective way to punish their own lead CTS for wrongdoing. To attribute the vast deluge of democratic disapproval which has swept over the country to the misconduct in certain cities would be contrary to all experience and ab- surdly unphilosophical.
 Displeasure because business is poor is not sufficient explanation, because business is distinctly better than it has been, but the flood of popular in- lignation and rebulie is plainly not abating, but rises higher every month. There has been more business in March than there was in October, but the majority against the democratic party and policy rises higher in April than November. It is n cumulative iispleasure, and obviously grows as people get more undeceived regarding the nature of the democratic policy and the real causes of their misfor- tunes. When the panic came democrats falsely asserted it was the fruit of republican law which must be re- pealed, but the repeal did not help things, and the people saw that the pretense was false. Again, when con yress was spending months in chang ing tae tariff, democrats continually asserted that abounding prosperity would come with removal of burdens imposed by republican laws. But the democratic tariff, when it came, brought no relief, and again the people saw they had t.een cheated. Even then 1t was asserted that only little more time was needed that the new law had not yet manifested its benef- cent results. But with every week the people see that its results are not beneficent, and grow more angry be- cause they have been cheated.
 The practical effect is felt in wages more than anywhere else. For thirty years men have lied to the voters, say ing that the tariff had nothing to do with wages. All last year democrats were asserting that their duties were everywhere high enough to compen- sate for the difference in wages be-" tween this and other countries. As soon as business settled to the new and more blessed conditions, people were assured, they would get as good wages as ever. Business has been recovering, democrats tell us daily, but the work ing people do not get the old wages. Every weeks payment brings home to them the fact that they have been per ,istently cheated, and that the demo- cratic policy was not intended to and, n the nature of things, cannot main- tain the wages formerly paid. That discovery is the one thing which affects the minds of the great body of voters, because most of them are wage-earners. They are learning that the sort of busi- ness revival for which democratic statesmen look means more severe com petition with the labor of other lands; that its coming does not restore wages, but only makes it more clearly impos- siblc to restore them, and that the policy of the democratic party is in it's very nature calculated to grind down the worker by removing the defenses against foreign competition. - N. Y. Tribune.