The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-19
suNeLINe OF DEMOCRATS.
Incompetency Rapidly Emptying Unels
Sans Purse.

/ Incompetency Rapidly Emptyfng Uncle
| Sans Purse.
C7e hears a great deal nowadays
about the return of good times under
the present democratic administration
and its mougrel tariff law. There are,
to be sure, number of mills and fac
| tories that have restored the old wage
scale, but they are in the minority at
that. No one wonders why this is
! thus.
There has been constant consump-
ton of goods during the two years
period of suspension, until now the
supply has been exhausted, more or
less, and these mills and factories have
been able to resume operations and pay
the old wages at least for a time. In
addition to this cause for a return to
the old wages is that the repu blican
victories of the past eighteen months
have brought confidence to the manu-
facturer and he now hopes to experi-
ence a return of complete prosperity,
when another presidential election
rolls around and the republican party
is fully restored to power again
1t seems strange that with all of
this marked return to good times
that Is being experienced in the minds
of our democratic brethren, that no
new industries are being developed
and that capital is not being brought
into use by the building OF new plants,
whereby labor might be employed at q
good wage price. In this particular
more than in any other lies the true
result of good times, and not until cap
ital is so employed viii we again ex-
perience the prosperity and blessings
that were given us under the admins
tration of Benjamin Harrison
The most striking result of demo-
cratic tariff bungling and party incom-
potency, however, is revealed by the
figures setting forth the condition of the
national finances at the close of the
fiscal year. Last year the deficit was
S7O,OO0,OOO and this year it reaches
nearly Sl5.OO0.O0O Next year there
will certainly be another deficiency
unless the republican house of repre-
sentatives is careful to cut down every
appropriation, even though this expe-
diency cannot result in any great ben
eft to the government service. Besides
all this there have been bonds issued
to the extent of S162, 4OO, 600 since Mr..
Cleveland took bis seat as president,
not to speak of the big robbery of the
peoples money by the foreign bond
syndicate which was allowed by the
administration when the last issue Of
bonds was made.
This record when contrasted with
that of the republican administration
needs no comment to show people what
buncoing has been going on at Wash
ington during the past twenty-eight
months. The public debt was reduced
during the republican administration
to the extent of about $50, 600, 900 each
year, with no Issue of bonds to keep
up the treasury reserve and no annual
deficit to be provided for. The two
years and four months of democratic
rule will show difference in the con-
ditiOn of the finances of the country,
when contrasted with the same period
of Harrison's administration, of over
$500, 900, 900 in favor of the republicans,
not to speak of the countless losses of
business throughout the land on &C
count of the panic.
NOwOnder the people want change.
Uncle Sans purse strings have been
cut off and the money bag is getting
empty mighty fast Albany Journal