Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-31


The Philadelphia Ledger sharply
rebukes Mr.. Chauncey I. Filley of st.
Louis, Mo-, a member Of the Repub-
liean national committee, for somo
contemplate, untrue and unratriotic
statements. Mr.. Filley, in an inter
view with New York reporter, had
said: There is temporary activity
in some lines of manufacture, but that
is wholly misleading and already wan.
ing" Further he declared the revival
of activity to be slight, only Just such
as twas necessary TO renew stocks, -
merely from hand to mouth, and
that it will last no longer than there is
money to pay for the new output.
After that, he said, depression and
disaster will again fall upon the coun-
try's business.
Mr., FiIley is one of the genuine Re-
publican calamity -howlers, who would
rejoice to see the business of tho entire
country go to smash, in the hope that
thereby Republican success would be
assured at the elections next year.
The Ledger" rehukes Mr.. Filley and
Others of his unsavory class, in the fol
lowing cutting style:
Mr.. Filleys is one of those peanut
politicians who is always here, like
Flanagan of Texas, for the offices, and
who palters with the truth as if in sin.
certify were a political virtue, and par
tisan expediency, as he measures it
with his little one foot rule, excuses tho
grossest misrepresentation and perver.
sion of fact. This reckless and un-
ecrupulous politician represents a
vicious, mischievous class of his order,
who do an infinite amount of harm to
business interests by their efforts to
impair or destroy public confidence in
the stability Of mercantile and financial
conditions He is of class that have
come to be known as calamity howl.
ers'--a class that puts party before
country and the most insignificant
political concerns before the great ones
of the people. If Mr.. Filley could only
get votes for his party by doing so, he
would bring TO a standstill the present
extraordinary activity of everyone of our
industries, even at the cost of deriving
every wage Garner engaged in them OF
work and wages. A practical poll
tician, whose only political principles
are the spoils of office. Mr.. Finley
makes statements which are not only
not true, but which he knows are
unyeracious. The above is a fair speci
men of the sort of gross misrepresenta.
tion in which he and his class indulge.
As every well-informed person knows,
it is AN irrefutable fact that our manu-.
featuring establishments in nearly all
the industries are unusually active
that they have orders far in excess OF
their ability to fill them in the neal
future; that capital invested in manu-
featuring is reaping generous returns,
and that our manufacturers are so pros
porous and feel their trade to be upon
such stable and enduring foundations
as 10 induce them Of their own free and
liberal will, from one end of the coun.
try to the other. to increase, as Tia,
never been done before, the wages al
their employees. In fact, the time VA,
never known when industrial employ
crs, OF their own yolition, withou
coercion of any sort, without sugges
tion even, so largely and so general,
increased wages Mr.. Filey's state
ment as above set forth, is absolutely
untrue, and is proved to be 50 by tn,
activity of the manufactures which Ii,
says are already languishing and Twin!
from hand to mouth. His statement i
made, not because he beliyes it to b.
true, but because he wishes it wer
true. His petty politics sees in it
trap and guile for voters, and bcyon,
that narrow purpose his restricted in
telligence and scared conscience canno
go. As for public spirit, he has none
he is the mere creature of machin
politics.