The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-01-31
THE DEMOCRATIC STATUS.
Beginning of the End of the Nntion's
 Back Cappers.

Beginning of the End of the Nations
 Back Cappers.
 This country has wonderful recuper- ative powers. It is even able to stand two years of democracy without los ing more than about 30 per cent. of its business. The congressional block heads who imagined that their free trade theories would introduce the millennium, having no eyes to open. fail to see that the prostration of in- dustries and the prostration of rev enues go hand in hand. The imports in the last four months of 1892, before the old duties were disturbed, were $272, ,OOO, 900 and in the last four months of 1894 the imports were S21l ,oO0,O in value, a decrease of about 2215 per cent. The duties on imports in four months under the new tariff have been S40, ,OOO 900, and in the same months of 1892 were S54, ,0O0,0O The treasury is in trouble simply because their wages have been reduced. Their wages have been reduced because employers had to face the probability of sharp compc- tition with foreign producers on new terms.
 It pleases our democratic friends to assign other reasons by the score for this tremendous change. But nobody ~ is convinced and nobody deceived. They do not even cheat themselves. Even while they yociferate in congress thas the t2aal. haF made no difference, they pe'' ladlly know better. The av- ln,,, ,f knows as little as it is convenient to know about things generally, but he had pounded into hi.n by angry con stituents and their votes last Novem- Der some definite knowledge of the prostration of industries in his own district, and of it's cause. He would consider himself a traitor to his party if he should utter in the house one word of what he has thus learned, but he knows what defeated his party, nevertheless.
 It would be treason to the party. he thinks, to advocate any restoration of duties. Perfectly well he knows, by this time, that thousands of his con stituents are getting less wages than two years ago because of the great change in possibilities of profits for manufacture, but he is not going to confess any such truth. He knows that men who receive So per week, but used to get SIP, cannot buy as many things of foreign or domestic produce tion as before. If the man were suf- fcicntly uRmuzzled to tell the straight truth, he would admit that 25,O0O,O0 nine-dollar earners cannot buy as much as 25,O00, ,OOO twclve-dollar earn CTS, by 5000, 900, 900 yearly. But he is too good democrat to tell tales out of school, and so he robustly insists that all the trouble is due to republican cur rency and other laws.
 Very we'll gentlemen of congress, it is your bed and you have'made t. Until March 4 you will lie in it. But when the republicans get at business, their first duty will be to help the pco- pie to earn more and buy more. That is the first step toward relieving the treasury, and the first step also toward reviving European confidence in Amer ican investments and preventing the withdrawal of foreign capital. A democratic president may not like to have repeal of the tariff of 1894 thrust before him, as the necessary first step toward financial and industrial health, but he need not be surprised if repub- lican congress begins in exactly that way. What it may devise afterward, in the way If revision of duties, is, of course, uncertain. Butif President Clevc- land does not have chance to permit the bill of ''pcrfidy and dishonor" to go out of existence, if he likes refusing to sign the repeal as he refused to sign the act itself, it will probably be be- cause he contrivcs in some way not to call an extra session of congress.-N. Y. Tribune.