The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-07-27
A Tribute from Honest rasmies.

rejoice over the country's returning
prosperity after many months of de-
preston and gloom? While the Dem
ocratic.party has reason to exult over
the triumph Of its policy, the calam-
ity hoWlers cannot conceal their cha
grin and disappointment over the
great Industrial revival that has so
completely baked their predictions.
1t would be cruel now to quote their
denunciations of the piracy and pc
dantry" and all the other wicked and
abominable features of the new tar
if. When the tide began to turn
they at first denied and disparaged
the evidences Of business prosperity.
But when the proofs could no longer
be resisted some of them have rever-
ted to their old trade of prophecy
and dismally predict that there is no
assurance of a continuance of the
good times. Others assert that as
the new tariff closed many factories
and threw thousands of workingmen
out of employment, the effect of this
bad measure will be to close the fac
tories again in little while. Still
others jauntily exclaim that this is
no Free Trade tariff, after all, but
that it is, indeed, "highly protee-
tive" measure.
"Thus one fool Tolls out his tongue at
another,
And shakes his empty noddle at his
brother"
In the general babble occasionally
sober voice is heard among the
enemies of Democratic policy, ThGs
the Bulletin of the Iron and Steel
Association, edited by Mr. James NJ.
Swank, declares: 1--WE do not hest
tate to say, having full knowledge
of that whereof we write, that the
iron and steel schedule of the pres
ent tariff, which should be rightly
named the German tariff. could not
have been SO satisfactory to our iron
and steel manufacturers as it is, and
could not have contributed to the
present revival of prosperity so large
ly as it has done, if Senator Quay
had not used all the influence at his
command to perfect its provisions. ~
1t does not matter much what name
shall be given to the new tariff, or
what share Mr.. Quay may have had
in its iron and steel schedule. The
main consideration is that the Off
cial organ of the iron and steel man
ufacturers acknowledges that the
present tariff is satisfactory to them,
and has largely contributed to the
present revival of prosperity, Com
ing from high Protectionist source,
and from representatives of the eoun-
try's greatest industries. this Ian
guage cannot be too much apprecia-
ted. 1t is tribute extorted from
the honest enemies of Democratic
policy who have no partisan interest
in perverting the truth.
Yet this is the same tariff that a
conspiracy of partisan panic mongers
recklessly misrepresented from one
end of the land to the other as a most
iniquitous measure of Free Trade
1t is the same tariff that had closed
the iron and steel and cotton and
wooden factories, and would keep
them closed until the people should
expel the Democratic party from
power 1t is the same tariff that the
bowling deryishes of calamity ignor-
antly and stupidity maligned on ev-
cry stump until panic-smitten voters
were driven into the support of men
for high offices who when elected
have developed into the mere chief
tains of a spoils hunting faction
But while the Campaign of Calamity
served its wretched partisan purpose,
it is no longer possible to successful
ly misrepresent Democratic policy in
presence of the evidences of it's sue
cess.
1t is but just to Mr.. Swank and
his associates to add that they lent
little countenance to the misrepre-
sentation of the new tariff when it
was under consideration and after
its passage. Mr.. Andrew Carnegie,
with his hard headed Scotch sagac-
ity and his courage, did much to
dissipate the fears of the iron and
steel manufacturers. But many of
them, consulting their partisan pref
udices, gave encouragement to the
false prophets of evil. They must
recognize now that the reckless and
continuous misrepresentation of the
new tariff and its effects tended
greatly to check the industrial revi-
val They cannot fail to perceive,
too, that a moderate tariff like the
present is much better defense
against sharp industrial vicissitudes
and labor strikes than was such an
exorbitant measure as the Mckinley
Pct. In this view the iron and steel
manufacturers, as well as their en-
ployes, will be among the last to seek
to disturb the industrial peace. Why
should they desire to change the sit
uation, when according to their off
cial authority the new tariff is sat
isfactory," and has "largely contrib
uted to the revival of prosperity"
A Country BOuntifully Blessedl
New York Tribune.
People would do well to bear in
mind the immensely of the area of
the United States when reading of
the terrible stories of ruin and dew