The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-06-28
WITHOUT An OCCUPATION
The Busy Hum of Industry Has
SilenCed the Calamity HowIer.
Arguments of High Tariff Partisans
Fall to the Ground. Wages Re-
stored to the Highest Point
Under the Mckinley Tariff.
Best Tariff Since 1865.

The mission OF the calamity howlcr
is about ended, says the Philadelphia
Times He has had FREQ field during
tho last two years. From causes entirely
beyond the c6ntrol OF tho present admin
lstratiOn there was serious financial and
industrial revulsion, and he has con
tributed largely to the general distress
Of tho people The partisan howler who
has, spoken through the columns of near
~ every partisan organ has systematic
ally and persistcntly played upon public
distrust and greatly aggravated the sor
rows which fell upon the people, nor
only OF this country, but of every civil
hZod country of the world, because of
the general industrial depression.
Tho United States was the last to feel
the general revulsion in industry and
trade that prevailed throughout other
countries, and it is tho first to recover
from tho blow. Our vast and varied re-
sources with tho wonderful adaptability
of our people, have fastened the return
of prosperity, and today nearly every
leading industry of the land has restored
tho reduced wages of pnnic times, and
industry is vastly better rewarded than
it was under tho monopoly Mckinley
tariff that taxed tho Decessarics of life
without increasing the pay of working
men.
Tho fact that Mr. Dolan and Mr..
Disstou of this city tho two leading
manufacturers i'll their respective lines,
have each restored wages to tho highest
point paid under the Mckinley bill is
conclusive evidence that it was not the
tariff that paralyzcd business and conf
pellcd reduced pUy for labor Each of
them contributed literally to secure the
Mckinley tariff aud again contributed
literally to maintain it, but today they
confess that the tariff has not affected
wages by restoring to their labor the
full wages paid under the Mckinley
tariff.
Tho general depression that prevailed
during tho last two years was the result
OF causes which arc gradually becoming
understood. Our financial complications
wcic the origin of the trouble and cv-
cry financial measure that aided in pro
ducing tho financial revulsion was en-
acted under the political authority that
turned into organized calamity howlers
depression of industry and trade was
imputed to the prospective repeal of tho
Mckinley tariff, and now with the best
tariff the country has ever had since the
War the calamity howlcrs are compellcd
to confess its wisdom and restore wages
to labor.
Under the Mckinley bill there was
not single industrial establishment
that we can recall whose labor received
Increased wages, while hundreds Of en-
ployers reduced tho wages of labor I'M
der that tariff Today signs of prosper
ity are visible on every side. general
confidence i'll finance. industry and trade
is rapidly boing restored, and before an
other year shall have passed Philadcl-
phia industries will be more prosperous
than they have ever been since the war,
unless there shall 10 fresh disturbance
by the destruction of national credit and
the success of the free silver cr.uA