Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-03-08
A BANKRUPT NATION.
UNITED STATES Almost AmEho'-
CANT IN MONEY cENTERs.

! CANT IN MONEY cENTERs.
nepublicsns Have Had No Part N the
! Great Drama of National Dishonos-Dem-
! ocr.ts Unable to RUM Their Contract.
The Spells System.
In 1892 the Democratic party made
an open bid for the management Of the
sational affairs Of the government. In
making this bid they filed certain speci-
dcations which were to be binding on
their part if they were given the con-
tract. Before proceeding to show what
these specific promises were let us first
notice that they also distinctly made
known their estimate OF the undartak-
ing. :.
They proclaimed from the housetops
all over this country just what kind Of
a government we had, the condition Of
its finances bankruptcy; the nature Of
its public service-spoils, the quality Of
its public officials-boodlers robber
barons, etc. AS to the truth Of these
statements it is not essential In this pa
per that We controvert the question. Let
us, for the sake Of argument, admit all
that the Democrats said, and in 80 ad-
uniting what defense have the Demo
Gratis against the Republican party?
When they asked the American people
to place them in power, that they might
administer the affairs of the nation, we
ask, What nation? Their answer must be
the only one-a bankrupt nation. They
bid in the open market for bankrupt
nation. They confessed through the
press and on the platform that they
were capable Of taking bankrupt ma
ton and giving to it stability and credit
aud prosperity.
Have they discharged any part Of tho
promise made to the people concerning
this part Of the contract? If the govern
ment was bankrupt when the Democrats
took possession Of it March 8, 1898,
what must be said Of its condition to.
day, after two years of Democratic man.
agement? All that can be said is that it
is pity that we have no adjective capa-
BILE of expressing the embarrassed condi
ton of the nation today, as compared
with that of 1892, when it was declared
to be bankrupt.
Notwithstanding all this, however,
the Democrats are making this the for
tress of their defense. They are charg-
ing upon the Republicans the great
crime Of transferring to them bank
rupt nation. There certainly was no
crime committed, because it was bank
rupt nation they demanded and asked
then they were deceivers Of the people
by so representing national conditions
during the campaign Of 1892. If the NO.
tional credit has become impaired, sure
ly the Democrats are responsible for it.
for they have proclaimed 1t long and
continuously. They have dragged down
national credit from that high STANDARD
that has attracted and caused the admi-
ration and wonder Of the world to look
toward Americas shores until it is to-
day almost a mendicant in the money
centers, begging for gold.
Surely the Republicans have had no
part in the great drama of national dis
honor that has come to the United
States. OF Democratic birth and origin,
it has been formed and shaped by Demo-
cratic intrigue and deception until the
nations Of the earth stand aghast today
and wonder how such change could
come over the prosperity Of the people
in SO short time.
The only answer is that we are per-
mitted to see in the example before Us
just what the Democratic party is oapa-
BILE Of doing. Its Heterogeneous theories,
its complex ideas and it's unbelief in
Capitalization is responsible for all its
ills and misfortunes.
Have the Democrats in Office for two
years changed the currents of national
patronage? They declared in 1892 that
the purpose of the Republicans was
"spoils, and that if they were intrust-
ed with power they should reform that
branch of the service. We ask, Have
they done better in this than any other
department Of the national administra-
ton? The only answer that we see pos
sible to make in the controversy is, if
there is any place Of public trust filled
by a Republican since 1892 that the
Democrats have not spoiled" then are
we at loss to know how complete the
reformation had become. Even the
Dockery commission Is charged in the
open congress of the United States with
paying its own officers the most exor-
bitant sums known in the public service.
In the Democratic administration Of
two years it is pertinent to inquire, Have
all the boodlers and robber barons been
displaced, and are we now living Under
the beneficence Of laws made and exc
cuted by honest men? If SO, against
whom shall the Sugar trust frauds be
charged, and the Ubiquitous Wilson tar
if bill, by which one section Of the
country is made to pay tribute to an
other, or the iniquities Of all income
tax that compels one class of people to
pay the running expenses of the govern
ment while another class is exempted?
If these legislative acts are to stand in
the records Of party history by which
in the future we may judge of the char
acter of Democratic legislatures, we fear
for day Of accounting in 1896.
Tn cOnclusiOn Lot ra saw with all