The true northerner., 1896-01-24
"Calamity HoWlers. "

lncOmpetency Ol Inc uchhooi"'o
party in the management of national
affairs the NoRTHERNER has fire.
quently had applied to it the epithet
of 'oalamity howler," when we have
seen fit to call the attention of the
public to the downward tendency of
business affairs and to point out the
causes that we believe to have led
our business interests in the United
States to progress so rapidly down
ward. In what we have heretofore
said and will hereafter say, we are
actuated by no motive except to
awaken the people so far as our in
huence may extend to the causes of
the troubles that have been brought
upon them, and to open their eyes to
the dangers that confront them un-
less there is a square turning about
from the ruinous policy inaugurated
by the democratic party.
The bourbon press has been as
siduously throwing dust in the eyes
of it's readers to conceal che real
facts, following in this respect, with
marvellous cuckoo ability in imita-
ton, the leadership of the great Jug
glers of the party at Washington.
When argument has failed them, it
has been easy TO cry out against
''calamity howlers" and thus dodge
the issue. True, some instances
have been pointed out where single
factories have started up, where
wages have been raised-through the
pressure of local conditions, perhaps,
and these have been calmly cited as
proving a real ''revival of business" I"
None would rejoice more sincerely
than the NoRTHERNER were such a
revival to come, but we do not desire
to deceive our readers In the matter,
nor do wesmake statements in these
columns that we do not believe to be
backed up by hard, indisputable
facts, the witnesses to which we pro-
duce from time to time. 1t takes
more than the opening of single
factory to constitute revival of
business; our business interests are
larger than any single industry.
The condition of all our industries,
collectively, is what makes or un-
makes our prosperity. Viewing them
fairly, we are forced to remain among
the so called "calamityites," and
there we find excellent and able
company. Note the following from
Dun's Review for January 4, 1896:
"The progress toward better
things, which seemed assured dur
ing part of the year, has not been
sustained.
Rarely has there been a situation
so complicated, and the near flu
ture is difficult to forecast"
Dun's Review a calamity bowler
Dun goes on to recite the volume OF
manufacturing failures for 1894 and
1895, showing an increase in the Ii
ability of such failures from S67, ,363,-
155 in 1894 to $73,920,073 in 1895
with an increase in liabilities of this
kind of 66 per cent for the last three
months over the corresponding period
of a year ago.
The "calamity howl' seems tC
continue true so far as manufactur
ers are concerned.
The aggregate liabilities of trad,
failures for 1894 were $172,992,S56
which increased to $173,196,060 IL
1895.
The 'srevival of business so mucl
talked about in the democratic press
does not become evident from tn,
statistics of failures.
According to the bureau of stats
tics of the treasury, the total exports
of breadstuffs, cotton and provisions
in 1894 were $4O2, 2,993,253 which
decreased to $369,0O1 1868 in 1894.
The farmers of the United States
are finding ont that the effort to cap
ture the ''markets of the world' il
an expensive experiment, and tha
their progress is rapidly backward.
Dun's Review for Jan. Is say,
''The situation could hardly be NOR,
perplexing for business men,"
There is an occasional democratic
paper that is honest enough to ex
press it's sincere convictions OF
tho a., 1,,e4.;ol e;t,ot;o,, C,ob a. 80,