Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-12-11
the spring brings the birds and sweet
flowers, putting the broad ocean lie.
tween him and American politics.
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feats after one of the biggest victories
recorded in the history of American
parties. 1t was suddenly borne to the
highest pinnacle of power and with the
same amazing celebrity dashed suddenly
down far below the general level of its
reverses. Yea, verify, the party has
struck a fat lead Of hard luck and the
end of its discomitures is not yet in
sight. In the confused and confusing
speculations attempting to account for
this c~yclonic revolution there is an
overflow of explanations that do not
explain, and the ordinations and re
ordinations between the Democrats
themselves throw no light upon the
subject, about whicl there is no mys.
terry at all.
The election of Cleveland at a time
of popular dclusion and indifference
with his well known opposition to Pro.
lection and determination to smash the
tariff, alarmed the manufacturers of
the country and they at once set about
to protect themselves against the i'm
pending peril of competition with the
product of the pauper labor of foreign
countries. Their output already ex'
ceeded the demand, they unloaded their
stock before the foreign product could
take its place, and did precisely what
every sensible business would have
done-shut down. The fires out in the
furnaces, mills and workshops stand
ing with closed doors, the machinery
of industry as useless as if rotten with
rust, and the great army of working.
men and workingwomen out of employ.
ment, money, food, raiment and shell
ter there followed such piteous scenes
of sore p~rivation and dire distress as
have never been witnessed in this free
and plenteous land. Benevolence and
charity stand aghast at the spectacle
of naked and hungry want, powerless
to alleviate the suffering of the people
forced into idleness.
The panic was promptly Oh hands,
the keen capitalist boarded his wealth,
the banks had no accommodation for
the mOneyless man, though he had
holdings of focks and herds, palaces
and lands, for their value had vanished
like the dew diamonds on a midsum-
mer morn.
The bright mind and clear vision
of the Democracy said that the Sher.
man law, authorizing and compelling
the monthly coinage of two millions of
silver had brought this financial pros,
tration and industrial distress upon the
country, and forthwith in Cleveland's
extra session of Congress this Pandora
jar was sealed up everlastingly close
and air tight, but the trouble only
thickened and what was infinitely bad
grew lntOlerdDly worse.
And then some erratic genius, wan
dering through the tangled mazes of
Democratic imbecility discovered what
is known as the Wilson-Gorman law
an incongruous mass of lot spewed up
from the mouldering %sepulchres of
freetradery and bearing the Presiden-
tial brand of ''perfidy and dishonor"
and gave this as a sure and speedy
cure for the suffering and distress.
And nov the result. This law has
never sent the light of joy and hope of
returning prosperity into n darkened
and desolated home. 1t has not Sc.
cured to a single workingman a days
labor, not a pound of meat and flour
and not a stitch of clothing for him.
self and family. But it is increasing
the National debt at the rate of one
hundred millions a year, and having
exhausted the Treasury, the Admins
tration has twice been compelled to
borrow money of foreign bankers to
meet current expenses, with another
big deficit at the present time that
must be supplied at once. With no
foreign demand and the home market
destroyed, the prices of agricultural
products slumped below the cost of
raising, and what little the farmers
ear squeeze out of the general impov.
erishment is eaten up by taxes and
mortgage interests.
And thus this travesty on statesman
manship, gr%otesque if 1t were not ruin
Gus, this criminal trifling with the con
idence, patience and hope of the peo.
pie has progressed until the sovereign
power of the land baffled aud discour.
aged, betrayed and outraged, disguised
and frenzied, has risen as the sea rises
when navies are stranded, hurting
the unfaithful and incompetent from
power and still reserving the larger
share of its wrath for 1.-THE day of
wrath" when the entire control of the
Government will be passed over to
those who know how to protect its in.
terests aud maintain its integrity.
The phenomenal surprises will be
complete in the general round up of
1896.
When most needed it is not unusual
for your family physician to be away
from home. Such was the experience
of j. Y. Schenck, editor of the Caddo,
Ind. Ter, Banner. when his little girl,
two years of age was threatened with
a severe attack of Group. He Essays: MY
wife insisted hat l go for the doctor,
but as our family physicians was out of
town | purchared a bottle of Chamber.
lain's Cough Remedy, which relieved