The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-05-20
PROSPERITY COMING.
CANNOT GET HERE UNTIL THE
TARIFF BILL IS PASSED.
some Replles to Ex-Presldsnt Cleveland's
Recent Attack Upon the Republican
Pollcy-Some Good Logic from Oar
Republican Exchange.

clear by this weeks discussion of the
great questions before the country.
One of these is that while the Re-
publicans are pressing hard for an
early passage of the tariff bill the Dem
ocrats are holding it back in order to
create discomfort with the delay of
business activity. It is apparent to
anybody who stops to think Of it that
business cannot revive in the manufac-
turing world or that business world
dependent upon manufacturing. In
spite Of this fact. however, some men,
bers of Congress are receiving intima-
lions from their districts and states
that this seed which the Democrats are
sowing among a certain class of peo-
pie is producing some dissatisfaction
and. criticism.
"Of course it is absurd that such
complaint should be made and that
people should think it worth listening
to-" said Chairman Dingley, talking of
these criticisms. "It is certainly un-
reasonable to assume that business
activity in manufacturing lines could
revive pending action upon tariff
rates."
rs it not a fact, Mr.. Dingley, that
the knowledge that tariff change is
in immediate prospect proves more de-
pressing to the manufacturer than any
other condition.?
"Momentarily, yes I do not know
that the word depressing is just the
one, but certainly it does have the ef-
feet of making it impossible for him
to make contracts even where he can
get them and of making it difficult to
get contracts at all. Dealers are un-
willing to make contracts for future
delivery of goods during the tendency
of the tariff bill because they do not
know what the rates of duty on i'm
ported goods of the same class will be.
Manufacturers are unwilling to make
contracts during the tendency of the
tariff bill because they do not know
what they will have to compete with
in foreign goods nor do they know
what they will have to pay for the raw
material which they bring in from
abroad for use in manufacturing"
$50 the present period is probably
the most difficult one for the manufac-
turer to do business, to say nothing of
the impossibility Of increasing business
or adding to the number of employees"
eyes. Then it ought to be remem-
bered, too, that importers are rushing
goods into the country at the greatest
possible speed and that nearly years
supply of foreign goods will be in the
warehouses of the country by the time
the new law goes into effect in spite
Of everything We can do to prevent 1t.
This means that the manufacturers
will not be able to resume activity to
any great extent for several months
yet. The people ought to understand
this. have no doubt that the new
law, when it gets at work. will bring
increased activity in manufacturing
and thus produce prosperity in every
branch of industry"
Cleveland's Attack On e ,publicans.
The other thing made clear by this
weeks discussion Is that the Repub-
licans are not at all disturbed over
ex-President Cleveland's recent criti-
cism Of the fact that they are promptly
carrying out their promises as to a
protective tariff and international BIZ
metallism. One feature of the gossip
resulting from this attack has been a
revival of the recollection of Mr.. Cleve-
lands own record in this particular.
1T was more than seven months"
said one of the old observers of ma
tional politics here, from the date of
Mr.. Cleveland's own Inauguration in
1898 before his Congress met to con-
slider any of the propositions to which
his party was pledged and within .
few days Of eighteen months before
the leading promise Of its platform was
fulfilled in the enactment of a new
tariff law. The business uncertainties.
the long months Of suspense, in which
manufacturers and dealers Of all
classes were unable to proceed intelli-
gently with business undertakings, and
the stoppage of business and loss of
employment consequent thereto, make
the eighteen months of mastery mac
tivity in which President Cleveland
and his party neglected to fulfill with
"hot haste" their promises of legisla-
ton, the most disastrous in the busi-
ness history of the country. A brief
review of these eighteen months of
delay in legislation by his party may
indicate whether the Republicans of
to-day ought to be deferred by his
complaint of their "hot haste in carry
ing out their promises. The number of
failures of commercial and business
concerns in the United States the first
year Of President Cleveland's admins
tration (1S93) were Is, 242, with total la
bilities amounting to $34S, 749, 1893. This
covers only about one-half Of the De-
Rod between the Inauguration of Pres
ident Cleveland and the enactment of
the legislation which his party prom
ised. The record Of 1893, however, is