The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-05-31
Calamity nowlers to the Rear.

The mission of the calamity howl
ers is about ended. lie has had g
free field during the last two years
From causes entirely beyond the con.
troll of the present administration
there was serious financial and indus
! trial revulsion, and he has contributed
largely to the general distress of the
people. The partisan howler who has
spoken through the columns of nearly
every partisan organ, has systematic.
ally and perslstenily played upon pub
lie distrust, and greatly aggravated the
sorrows which fell upon the people,
not only of this country but OF every
civilized country of the world, because
of the general industrial depression.
The United States was the last to
feel the general revulsion in industry
and trade that prevailed throughout
other countries, and it is the first to
recover from the blow. Our vast and
varied resources with the wonderful
adaptability of our people, have
fastened the return of prosperity
and oday nearly every leading indus
try of the land has restored the re.
duced wages Of panic times, and in.
dustry is vastly better rewarded than
it was under the monopoly McKinly
tariff that taxed the necessaries of
life without increasing the pay of
workingmen.
The fact that Mr.. Dolan and Mr..
Dlsston of this city, the two leading
manufacturers in their respective
lines, have each restored wages to the
highest point paid under the McKin.
ley bill, is conclusive evidence that it
was not the tariff that paralyzed bust
ness and compelled reduced pay for
labor. Each of them contributed
llberally to secure the Mckinley
tariff, and again contributed literally
to maintain it, but to day they confess
that the tariff has not affected wages,
by restoring to their labor the full
wages paid under the Mckinley
tariff.
The general depression that prevail
ed during the last two years was the
result Of causes which are gradually
becoming understood. Our financial
complications were the origin of the
trouble, and every financial measure
that aided in producing the financial
revulslon was enacted under the po.
litical authority that turned into organ
lied calamity howlers when it was de-
feated in 1892. Every depression of
industry and trade was imputed to the
prospective repeal of the Mckinley
tariff, and now with the best tariff the
country has ever had since the war,
the calamity howlers are compelled to
confess its wisdom and restore wages
to labor.
Under the Mckinley bill there was
not single industrial establishment
that we can recall whose labor receiv-
ed increased wages, while hundreds Of
employers reduced the wages of labor
under that tariff. To day signs OF
prosperity are visible on every side /;
general confidence in finance, industry
and trade is rapidly being restored,
and before another year shall have
passed, Philadelphia industries will be
more prosperous than they have ever
teen since the war, unless there shall
be fresh disturbance by the destruc.
ton of national credit and the success
Of the free silver craze.
One of the grandest results of the
overthrow Of the calamity howler in
industrial and trade circles is in the fact
that as prosperity is diffused amongst
the people the free silver fanatics will
be speedily lessened in number, and
made utterly impotent if one year of
prosperity can be attained. The ca
lamity howler has been sent to the
rear; the free silver demagogues
must follow, and in little time we
shall have established honest money,
absolute credit and general pros,
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