The San Francisco call., 1896-09-26
THE DEMOCRATIC RECORD
PGnfcs, Disasters aud Debts Hare Fol-
IOsOed Free Trade Under DenuO-
cratic Rule.

Editor San francisco Cdll-SIR: lnaSmucn
as the campaign OF 1896 is one OF
greater Importance than any since 1S61-64,
it is well that the ehrst voter" as
he is aptly termed, should know the
record of the Democracy in the past on some
of the great questions affecting the countrys
prosperity and honor. The War of 1872 was
followed by years of depression, hard times
and National dependency. In 1924 and again
in 1923 protection tariffs we're passed, that
started the country on the highroad OF pros
perity. The record of the Democrats after TINS
is summarized thus:
They tried In South Carolina to nullify the
protect1ve-tariH system, as they did not neeu
II there, the Democrats OF that state haYlns
slave labor and found it advantageous TO deal
with English manufacturers.
In 1887 the Democracy repealed the tarin OF
1S24-2o and adopted tbeir so-called siding
scale reduction and times became worse than
ever and the crash of 1887 followed. Ihe
Wings in 1912 adopted new protective tariff:
Under Polk, who was elected by the vote OF
Pennsy ylvania, which State was deluded by the
Democratic cry of "The tariff OF '42," another
free- trade bill was passed, and after the indus
tries OF New England, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania had been ruined the crash OF 1897
came. When the Republicans came to the res
cue of the people the NJ Morrill tariff of 1861 was
enacted and this enabled the country to pay its
great war debt, pensions, National expenses
and rejuvenRted our industries at the expense
of England. The Democracy tried in 1876 and
in 1873 to pass iree-trade bills, which, though
defeated, caused SO much fear, loss OF cOnn-
dence and discrediJ to cause depression
and disaster largely. The attempts of 1886
and 1888 finally eliminating in the free-trade
bill OF 1898, are fresh in the minds of the peo-
pie. We find then in
1S37-Democratic crash.
1S57-Demoeratic crash.
1S7S-Democratic crash.
1S93-Democratic crash.
Not including intervals between these prin-
ctpal epOchs of depression and hard times.
The financial question is one on which the
Democrats have heretofore made an unenvl-
able record, as the following brief summary
viii show:
1s37-Large deficiency and $1O,oOo,oOo in
treasury notes issued.
183S-Another large issue of notes.
1S39-Issue TO meet deficiency.
1S40-Issue OF $5, ,000, 900 treasury notes.
1S41-Defclency for previous four years,
$32,OOO.OO0, ana another issue of notes to
amount of $12 100000.
1872 Deficiency of $14, OO0, 900 and issue of
| Sc, 100000 OF notes.
164S-Notes 10 extent of $1,000, ,231 Is to
meet deficiency of $l1, ,06S, ,977 issued.
| 1S46oPresident authorized to borrow $10,-
100000.
ordered.
184s-president to borrow Sic, 600, 600; big
/ deficiency.
1S57-$2O 900 600 loan.
| 1859-Another loan of $40, 100000.
1S60-Loan of $21 100000 ordered, Democ-
racy gets only 81 ,022, 900, TOO much distrust,
and interest was paid at rate of IL per cent.
1 1S61-Previous to March bonds sold to
amount OF SIS, 415,000 at a discount of
2,019,7 ,776 10.
The public debt in two years from july /,
! 1857, increased from $29, ,060, 3S6 80 to $685.
! 754,699 33 on July L. 1859, and during the
present Democratic administration bonds have
| Deen issued TO the extent OF $262, 600 600 and
| the pubic debt increased $500, ,000, 900.
The Democracy prates about rs regard for
the workingmen, yet Democratic Senator
salG, IN 1901, they were the mudSills OF soci-
! ETY., as well as greasy mechanics, and in 1879
Democratic Representative from Kentucky
scorniulIy applied the same terms. In Con-
OIL In non No.,
| ring TO the majority OF Democrats, "They, to a
man almost vote against the free independent
| labor OF the North and West"
! The question of land for the landless free
| men, or slaves for the Shareholders all Demo-
| Gratis, was settled by the great Republican
party by giving land to the landless and TAX
ing the slaves from the Shareholders thus Civ
ing free labor chance to earn decent live
lihoo1.
In the first session of the Twenty-fourth
Congress the Democracy proclaimed By one oi
Its Represe tatives, Hammond, that the peo-
pie were ''the mob, the sans-culottes ignorant
| uneducated and semi-barbarous." They went
further and proclaimed, through Pickens, that
capital should Gown labor, either collectively
through the Government, or individually, in
state of domestic servitude, as in the South
ern States" Again they said that if ''laborers
ever obtain the political power of q country il
is in fact in state of revolution"
The Democracy, through its leaders, went
further in its denunciation of labor thirty
years ago than they dare do now. Keith ex-
pressed the Democratic sentiment of that day
WuSu Ne SdlQ. 'Mnen the white working
classes stepped out of bondage they branched
into four recurring subdivisions-Lhe hireling,
the thief, the beggar and the prostitute"
Democratic newspaper once said slavery was
'the great peace-maker between capital and
labor" Another said: Free society is bur-
dened with a servile class of mechanics and
laborers unfit for self-government"
t1tzhugh, Democrat, in his book "Canni-
! balls All, or Who Shall Be Masters" said
| Liberty for the few, slavery IN every form for
| the masses" To-day in the Democratic South,
N n fho oixlfo oil
OF peonage exists, which makes it impossible
Tor the white laborer or mechanic to compete
with IT, or even obtain employment at all.
The Richmond Enquirer, leading Democra tic
newspaper, once said: "The laws of all the
Southern States justified the holding of white
men in slavery" These sentiments of the
| Democracy in the past have not been materi-
ally altered yet it asks the laborer ana me-
chanic to forgive and forget, but give them
| (Democratsl the Offices. There is but one issue
before the people of the United States to-day,
and that is: ,Shall we employ ourselves and
our Tree mechanics and workmen, or let the
slave labor of the countries of the world do our
workT "Free silver is a trick, fraud and de-
vice intended to allure the people from the
only issue, that OF protecting themselves and
| repeating the present free-trade act, and enti-
| tied TO no serious consideration. Free trade
and hfty-cent dollars mean free souphouses
| ultimately. E. NJ. CALVIN.
BICYCLE SONG.