Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-16
RAyARD ON TIDE SJTJrATION.

The views of Ambassador Bayard on
the political situation in the United
| States show that he is still under the
intl lence of that spirit of bourbonism
which has always controlled the larger
number of democratic leaders and
which is in no small degree responsible
for the present condition of the
democracy and the growth of senti-
ment which Mr.. Bayard deprecates.
The free trade democrats. of whom
our ambassador TO England is One of
the most radical, have continually told
the people that the policy of protection
was a policy for robbing the many in
The interest of the few. They have
told the wage eaTners that under that
policy they were not receiving a fair
share of the results of their labor, in
face of the fact that the wages of labor
steadily advanced. They told the farm
crs of the country that they We're being
robbed in the interest of the manu-.
facturers, although under the policy of
protection Il great home market was
built up for the benefit of agriculture.
1t was by this sort of preaching that
the democratic free traders created and
fOstered discomfort amOng the people,
which is now manifesting itself in the
demand for currency debasement and
debt reputation.
Mr.. Bayard still believes that protcc-
ton is responsible for existing evils.
He appears blind to the fact that not
until that policy was asSailcd by his
party and its complete overthrow
threatened We're there any Coxeys
marshaling armies of idle men to march
to the seat of government. He forgets
that four years ago. before he election
of a democratic president and congress
on n platform Which declared protection
unconstitutional, this country was en-
joying IL higher measure of prosperity
than at any other time in its history.
In the year when the people committed
the grave blunder of electing the demo
cratic party to the control of the govern
ment American labor received higher
wages han ever before in our history
and prosperity was never more general.
pul even lltH tue ueillocfillC. puTlN
was sowing the seeds of popular dis.
content and they brought forth bitter
fruit. from which the people are still
suffering. From Il condition of unpre-
cedented prosperity the country fell nj.
most Immediately after the advent of
the democratic party to power into a
condition of industrial and business de-
preston ana for three years this has
been operating TO increase discomfort
among the people. -Four years ago the
democratic party offered free trade as
the panacea for all ills. Its attempt in
that direction having proved a
miserable and most costly fail.
IRE, it now abandons that and
offers as Il means of relief the free and
unlimited coinage of silver. Its promise
to promote American prosperity by de-
stroying American industries having
failed, the democratic party now pro.
poses to make everybody prosperous by
debasing the currency and placing the
United States on a monetary footing
with Mexico, China and Japan.
The policy of protection, to which Mr..
Bayard ascribes all the trouble, made
this country the greatest manufacturing
nation of the world, developed its
agricultural resources, elevated labor
ana gave general prosperity. As was
said by Thomas h. Reed, in a speech
IN the house of representatives In 1894,
III spite of a great war and years of