, 1896-08-29
MORE RECENT GRIMES"

Mr.. Bryan in his speech at Albany
took up his old complaint against The
crime of 1873" and called TO his aid
hat grim and terrible prophecy made
Dy Secretary Carlisle nearly 20 years
ago. II may suit the cheap political
triCkery of the democratic candidate
to harp on this one string and gather
all the woes of the country in a process
sion with the decentralization OF silver
as the cause, but intelligent men will
naturally ask. Why then did the golden
age of industrial prosperity in this
country follow the crime of 1S73?'
They will naturally fix a more recent
crime or blunder, which will be more
closely associated in their minds with
thc beginning of the hard times. In
1892 we were happy and prosperous.
Every man who wanted work II
wages could find both for the asking,
and every man who wanted to sell
something could find n buyer. The
American people bIundered in that
year and the democratic party came in
to power. and came as near criminal
legislation as was ever written in the
statute books by enacting a bill which
struck down many of our industries
and turned thousands of laborers up
on the streets without means of sup
port.
Senator Frye of Maine has been
giving some attention to Mr.. Bryan's
speeches. and he reminds the demo-
candidate that there must haze
been some cause for Il troubles since
1873. for The most marvellous decade in
nur history was that from 1850 to 1890
followed by the banner year of prosper
Ivy IN 1899. Mulhall, the English states
r.fors to that decade as the most
marvellous in the history of any
nation. Senator Frye says that
Mr.. Bryan must have forgotten
that in 1892 these United States had
onc-nfth of all the wealth of the world,
and that more than half of it was made
after 1878. Great Britain, Germany and
France laid up from 1873 to 1892 $780,
600. 00O. 900, while the United States ac-
$3S, 600, 900, 900, or 5000, 000,-
900 more than the three wealthiest ma
tions of Europe combined. In 1873 our
product was worth $780,
600. 900, and in 1892 it was worth So
800, OOO. 900, or more than double that of
the year from which Mr.. Bryan dates
our downfall. Between 1873 and 1892
We paid 1882, 900 900 of our national
debt and saved sG5 900, 900 in interest.
In 1860 our manufactured product was
half that of Great Britain, and in 1892
it vas twice greater.
The cause of the hard times is easily
nearer the beginning of the hard
times. Senator Frye found that cause
in the democratic victory, the threat of
free trade, and the loss of confidence in
American enterprise. He found the
cause aggravated by the repeal of the
Mckinley law and the enactment Of the
Wilson law. In the last rear of the Nc
Kinley law we imported $40, 1000, 900
worth of woolens, and in the first year
Of the Wilson law we imported 6O,0OO,-
900 worth. In 1892 we paid SS6,o0O.-
900 to w%orkingmen in the wooden in
dustries, and in 1895 We paid only $4O,-
0O0, 900 to those employees. That gave
the employees in the wooden mills just
SAG. 900, 900 less to spend for food and
clothes in one year, and the farmers
lost a good share Of it.. What is r
of the wooden mills is true of other in
dustries. and, as every intelligent voter
knows that the hard times began in
1898. they will naturally associate the
cause with the political events that
proceed it. The voters Of this country
a great political plumber in
1892, and they know it. They are no
going into ancient history to find the
cause and allow Mr.. Bryan to bring up
the crime of 1873" any more than
they are going to allow some crack
astrologist to find the cause for
the hard times in the great comet OF
1863 or the transit of Venus in 1874.
The cause and effect are too closely as
ISOLATED to forget the blunder Of 1892.
Ocean.