Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-02-13

3Tv 1T is further worthy OF note that the
periods contrasted are during times when
the respective laws were uDcmbarrassed
in their freest operations While tho re-
publican law showed some surplus con-
tlnually during it's operations, It is not a
surprise that the revenues under 1t ma
terially fell off during the years of 1893 and
1894, after the election Of Mr. Cleveland
and democratic majority In both houses
of Congress with their avowed purpose to
reduce tariff rates on imported articles.
The same causes which tncn operated to
reduce the revenue production under the
republican law are now operating to in
crease the revenue production under the
democratic law.
HOPE REVIVED.
The business world has the assurance,
| in the present republican majority In the
House and in the State elections of last
| fall, that the republicans are to return to
power and bring with them not only Il
revenue producing policy, but a policy OF
protection to home Industries. As the for
eign manufactures, during the last months
of the republican law, waited for more
favorable opportunities to enter our mar
kets, so now the foreign manufacturers
during the last months of the democratic
law, are anticipating less favorable oppor-
tunities to do the business in this country
which belongs to our own farmers and
mechanics.
A MORE SERIOUS CHARGE.
A failure to supply sufficient revenue to
run our family Is not the most serious
charge which we make against the demo-
cratic administration and its policies. To
its inefiiciency in furnishing revenue to
supply the common wants of a great ma
tion, with whose public business 1t has
been intrusted, it has Joined destruction
to private business and a lessening of
prosperity in every branch of employment
and enterprise in which our people are en-
gagged. Democracy is hostile to the pro-
tective tariff as IA system. Cleveland dem
ocracy is antagonistic 10 a tariff which
places the consideration of American in
dustry in advance of the industries OF
competing foreign nations. a few years
ago majority of our people would not be-
lievc this blunt statement To-day the
evidence of the fact is seen and the capital
and the labor of the country have suffered
in its demonstration. You can not have
prosperity without business. our people
want work. and they have a right TO em-
ployment in all the diversified channels of
industry to which their natural resources.
their industry and thrift and ability en-
title them. They want "A home market for
their products. and they want that market
sustained In accord with the conditions of
living and labor which have become Amer
| ANohiS'N NIc OptldAlOil VI a. HIOAtNA-
i've tariff which established and main
tanned an American market for American
products.
There Is even more patriotism in continu-
ing such a state of things than there Is In
assuming guardianship over South Ameri-
can republics This Is our country and
there Is more sense in recognizing the
industrial rights of our people than the
be.ligerency of the most oppressed de-
pendency on the globe. Any administra-
tion. any party, any legislation. which.
| ever so slightly, neglects the industrial
| rights OF our people or subjects them TO
competition in their home market with
foreign workmen, is not up to the republi-
can standard of American patriotism.
POOR BARGAIN FOR THE PEOPLE.
The bargain which our people made with
the democratic party on that November
day in 1892 to run their national affairs for
| four years has proven a bad one. 1t has
been a hard bargain for the people. Ii
probably was a good one for England. We
have been doing business, both public and
private. ever since.>at q loss. Had not we
more confidence in ourselves, and the rest
of the world more confidence in our re-
sources and our second thought than I'm
the democratic party and It's administra-
| ton, we should have been petitioned into
bankruptcy before this. To maintain its
tariff policy the democratic administration
has become a bond-issuing rather than a
| bond-paying administration, a debt in
creasing rather than debt reducing
agency. The last republican administra-
tion that of benjamin Harrison. than
which the country never had a cleaner
ADLER and more patriotic one, reduced tho
public debt by 1896, 597, ,6G6 TO- The present
democratic administration, that of Grover
| Cleveland, than which the country never
had a more disastrous one, has, in less
than three years. increased the public debt
by $962, co., ,2i527. To run the government
according TO democratic notions this ad.
ministation in three years has borrowe ed
S2G2, 900, 0O0 That is $S7 900, 600 for each yeai
OF its existence $7,277,777 for each month
and s2i2. $50 for each day. including Sun
days. and $40, 107 for each hour, and $40 fol
each minute. Such is the cost of this eX-
pensive and inefficient democratic agency
in conducting our government. preserving
our peace, maintaining our credit and de-
stroying our businesses. And ii has been
with the greatest difficulty that public
opinion and the mutrcrings of an enraged
people and the threats of a republican
House of Congress have compelled the last
loan to be offered to our own people and
not negotiated in private with a syndicate
| friendly to the Cleveland administration
but foreign 20 the American people
WILL NOT CONFESS.
Now, then, there are some folks who
when they have gone wrong. are frank
| and honest enough to admit the fault
Mr.. Cleveland and his democratic support
ers do not belong 10 this class-confes-
sion will never delight their souls. There
are other folks who ever seek to relieve
themselves of responsibility With them
| II is always the woman who tempted and
the serpent that beguiled. Mr. Cleveland
and his democratic supporters belong 10
| this class. They are still possessed of the
old Adam. and, like their father of Old
! they have heard IL voice in the garden, and
they are afraid because they are naked
and they hide themselves.
| With u willful and per.r~ont evasion
of truth, this democratic administration
conceals its lack of revenue and jugges
with treasury statistics. 1t diverts. or
seeks to divert, the public attention from
revenue and tariff to greentacks and
treasury notes, Why, the greenbacks and
treasury notes are oder than this Cleve-
land administrator. | believe they have
the confidence of our people, and In "A
sense represent the strength, the dignity
and rhe credit of the nation beyond any
form of currency now extant. The green
backs particularly have history which Is
precious in the memory of every loyal
man and important in the record OF patri-
otc and successful achievement during
the civil war period.
But Mr.. Cleveland asserts that the
greenbacks and treasury notes have pulled
down the propensity of our country, have
threatened our credit and have worked all
the evils under which we now stagger,
He claims that the currency OF Lincoln
and Chase and Sherman Is the cats paw
which pulls the chestnuts out of the fire
NJ al foreign lu r.