The Forrest City times., 1895-08-30
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 IL is largely zsszrned by our rePub- Iiez1 friends that t5e men Of demo- cratic s7teeedents who voted the re- publican ticket last fall will do so this year and next for the same reason Hence they entertain very lively hopes of a victory in Kentu sky this rear and Of sweeping the country next rear
 This view omits several important factors Last year the republicans told the people and made some of them believe that the democrats brought on the panic and were respon- sible for the depression in business They told the people that the tariff bill which became law last August would be followed by reductions of wages, suspensions Of the mills and general distress They also promised that if control of the house was giTen them they would put an end to tariff agitation
 In view of this plan of campaign. yet fresh in the minds of the people, Sen ator Lexow. of New York. recently said that the rise in wages must neces- sarily be temporary. for unless it was 50 the republicans were wrong and had been wrong all tbe time Yet the increase in wages has continued and now they are higher in some in stances than they were before the panic This is revelation to more people than Senator Lexow. It must be especially revelation to those who thought last fail that the democrats had caused the panic. What really caused the panic is thus told in an ex- change:
 The reaso1 for the passage of the SEsrn 2n Gct WAS stated long ago by Senator Jones e Nevada. who vas one 0. the conferrees- Tae Mckinley oiI was sent to the senate by the house aDoGt tEe middle Q. May senator Jones seryel notice oa his republican col leagues when the silver bill w2s ia conference committee cary la July Ina. fl The committee did not agree enough votes Of repu bliczn sen ators from silver states ToHld De cast azal7ss the Mckinley Dill which had not been taken up for consideration 8t thA. time. to defeat ft Ina: threat gas effective, aad The silver eoul- promise 0iii was passed. and then the McKin- ley Dill went through 2fterTard. Every one can see now that II you'd have been far bet ter for the republican ? lrty If that threat had been treated with indifference Had the re- sult been the defeat .; the Mckinley bill the democrats would have been deprived of the ammunition which enabled them 70 win the sweeping victories Of ls9) and iss2 and 70 pass the wilson-Gorman bill There would have been no industrial panic in ise3-9i If there had been 10 Legislation on the silver question there would have been no increased purchases Of silver ana no financial panic ia lss3
 The candid and truthful statement is taken from that well-known repub- lican paper, the Chicago Tribune, of July 6, 1895. In the light of the facts there set forth it is clear that the voters who hold the balance of power in the elections of last fall were buncoed by being made to believe that the depres- sion in business, reductions of wages and general distress were due to the accession of the democrats to power and the tariff legislation that followed. Such republicans as Senator Lexow and the editor of the Tribune see clearly enough now that this is not the case, and 1t Is not to be presumed that the democrats who were deceived last fall can be induced to vote the repub- ican ticket second time for the same reason.
 The extract cited from the Tribune shows that the corrupt bargain by which the Mckinley bill and the Sher- man bill became laws was at the bot tom of all the business trou bles of the last two years The Wilson bill. there fore, had nothing to do with them, and If business revival and advance of wages should not be permanent it will be due entirely to ma tiers affecting the currency, and not at all to the re- vision of the tariff. The currency agi- tation is the only thing which now threatens the continuance of prosper ity. Whether the republicans. when congress meets, will keep their pledge not to revive tariff agitation remains to be seen. At all events, it is pretty clear that they will not be able to work the tariff as. the cause of busi- ness depression for any democratic votes at the coming election. That de- ception has been pretty effectually ex- posed by the memorable logic of events. ts.s-Louisville Courier-J Journal.