Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-09-23
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 Under the above caption, the Chi cago Tribune, in 1892, just after P-a -asident Harrison had delivered his last message, to congress said Of 1t editoriAlly:
 ~In his recent message President Harrison spoke thus of the present condition of the United States:
 The general conditions affecting the commercial and industrial con ditions Of the United States are in the highest degree favorable. 4 comparison Of the existing condI- tions with those of the most fay ored periods in the history of the country. will, believe, show that 50 high 6 degree of prosperity and So general 8 diffusion of the com forts of life were never before en- loved by our people. . There never has been a time in cur history when work WAS So abundant or when wages were so hlgh. whether meas uued bv the currency iR which they are paid or by their power to supply the comforts and necessa-ies of life
 This general prosperity, thus succiuctly stated, IS the oatceEs of republican tariff. fiscal and other policies. Will Presi6Sat Cleveland, when he writes his message in ls96 be able 10 speak of the condition of the country in the words used by his predecessori
 "What will be the state of affairs which he will have tO relate ss the outcome of democratic tariff Tor revenue only; of the repeal of the reciprocity clauses of the present law and the subversion of the agree ments based on them; of unlimited importAtions of cheap foreign com Peting goods, and q the unchecked issue of wild cat state bank notesi
 1t has been the fate of previous democratic presidents to write very gloomy messages after the country hsd made g thorough trial oi demo cratic tariff and monetary policies h December, 1851, President Bu- chanan sent to Congress 8 message which described accurately the then state of the country. He said:
 ~'Our country Is at the present moment in a deplOrsble condition. h the midst of unsurpassed plenty in all the productions of agricul- ture, nd ID all the elements of rational wealth. We find our msuu factures suspended. our public works retarded, our private enter prises Cf different kinds abapdOued. and thousands of useful laborers thrown out of employment and re duced to want. The revenue of the government has been greatly re- duced. Under these circumstances a loan may be required, but this, although deeply 10 b. regretted, would prove to be only a slight mis- fortune when compared with the suffering and distress prevailing among the people.
 This state of things, unknown to the present generation, was the out come of democratic tariff and of currency, fostered by the democrats, made up chiefly of irredeemable state bank notes. II the people will wait, they will have an opportunity to see how history repeats itself, aad to b-4r MT. Cleveland echoing in 1Sy5 the words of MT. Buchanan il 1851.
 When that distress comes which democratic policies always engender those who will be- the hardest hit and will suffer most scutely and for the longest time will be as s general thing the very ones who voted 1galus, Harrison and good times, and cas- their ballots for Cleveland and what might happen, or who voted for Weaver and idiocy or Bidwell and impracticable fsnaii- cism."
 The above, published nearly four years ago, seems 10 have been pro phetic, and when NIT. Cleveland starts to write his last message to Congress, to be submitted to that body in December of this year, he can find no truer, no more appro- priate words to express the existing conditions of affairs ID the country !. al this time than those used by MT. in 1851, just as predicted | four years ago by the Tribune.