The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-09-18
SINISTER THREATS
by Republican Leaders Against our Re-


stored National Prosperity.
The real significance of the attitude
assumed by three of the Republican
leaders of Ohio, and feebly echoed by u
fourth, ooght to impress itself on the
raind of every thoughtful man. regard
lees of his political bias. Each of them
uttered threat as to what was to fol-
low a general Republican victory, and
which, If carried into execution, would
sweep the nation with another cyclone
of commercial and financial disaster,
more destructive than that which began
to gather i'll 1890, and broke in 1893
Assuming in the face of the historic
facts to the contrary, that the country
was riding on the crest of prosperity i'll
1892, when, as the industrial commissions
of that year show, it was being seized
by the throes of coming panic, they
declare for the restoration of the policy
and order Of things which brought ON
the great industrial and commercial
prostrations from which the country
has'no happily emerged, under q wiser
and more enlightened policy.
Finding it impossible to deny both
commercial and industrial restoration,
and return of national prosperity,
they concede 1t, but scoff at it and SUI
perciliously declare that it is no greater
than it was before the blighting hand
of the Mckinley bill wjthered and de-
stroyed it, and left the whole land on
the verge of desolation.
Then follow their boastful threats to
destroy the newly restored national
prosperity, and substitute for the en-
lightened tariff policy which produced
and is still producing, it, the prohibitive
Mckinley bill, with radical additions
and Celebrations, at tho cost of prosper
ity which has come upon n sound basis,
and as the result Of enlightened and
progressive policy.
John Sherman, the senior senator
from Ohio, couchel his threat in these
significant words:
What we mean to do, and will do when we
have the power, Is to provide tariff and tax
bill that will yicld sufficient revenues to sup
port the government.
The Mckinley law, with such chunge9 rs time
may make necessary, win accomplish this pur.
pose.
The Mckinley law, condemned by the
unprecedented majority Of more than
2,00O000 votes in 1899, with still more
odious features added 70 it, is what SEN
ator Sherman offers to the people as
reward for giving the Republican party
victory at the polls in Ohio in 1885
No less lmonacing 10 the commercial
and indu3trial futuro Of tie country is
the throat of Governor William Nc
Kinley, the putatiyo father Of the meai
uIe, who said:
SO our rca contention in Ohio ia on the sub
jcct of the tai ilf, and notably ono of approval
on disapproval by tha people of the state of the
Democi attic tariff Law of 1894. al
Whatever mry be our future tariff legislation
It will be founded and built upon the protec-
tion principle. Sche |
ules may be altered and rates changed to ncct
existing cond tons, but the principle of pro- !
lection can NJ, be changed. 1t is unaltorable |
A Republican victory iii Ohio, accord |
ing to Governor Mckinley, is to be fol- !
lowed by a ripping up Of schedules, and
q general upheavel Of existing CONNER |
.cial conditions, Says Governor Foraker,
candidate for United States senator:
II viii not be necessary, probably, to do
away completely with the present tariff law,
but it will he necessary TO make somo very
radical changes in it's provisions. =
10 begin with, the whole subject of the tariff
will have to be revised on protection lines
A general pulling to pieces and tear
ing down cf the whole business fabric
of the country, is the very least that
will satisfy Governor Foraker. Asa S.
Bushnell, the candidate for governor,
not to be out of fashion, foebly pipes:
There is no doubt but the people are sick and
tired of Democratic policies which starvo
American laborers and send the money they
ought TO have to foreign countries, and are
ready at the first opportunity to place the
management of tho affairs OF the government
in the hands tf those capable Of administering
them for the best interests and welfare of the
nation.
The other gentlemen having declared
in favor of the restoration of Mckinley
ism, i'll radically enlarged form, Mr..
Bushnell felt bound, of course to give it
his grandiloquent Endorsement, and ap-
prove the general wreck of commercial
To this sort of feast Sherman, Nc
Kinley, Foraker and Bushnell call upon
the people by their votes, to invite the
fangs of famine and the jaws of hunger,
that monopolios may again be rehabili.
tated, chat trusts may be put beyond the
stroke of justice, and that privileged
few may absorb all the wealth of tho
country, under the hollow pretense thai
they are taking care of the wage Garner.
These threats we have collated from ,
Ihe speeches of the gentlemen, and com {
mend them to the public. II they are
TO be carried out, the future is indeed {
The present tide of re- {
Iurned industrial and commercial pros .
perity will suddenly recede, and in its
stead will be seen the reefs and shoals ,
If disaster, strewn with the wrecked {
Of the people. :
We commend these threats to the c
bankers, the business men, the merch. {
lnts, the shopkeepers, the retailers, the !
the professional men,
he manufacturers, the traders, the
armers, the toilers, all men who be-
ieve in the principle of "live and let
i've, here in the state of Ohio, and APP v
zeal TO them TO know whether they will
'ote to set back the hands of time and 7
invite disaster, or by remaining away I
rom the polls permit, by absentation, I
lhio IN ha enrolled on tha side of do. 1