The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-05-22
TO BENEFIT TRUSTS.
Republican Idea OF Restoring
Prosperity.
THE NEW YORK sun HAS DOUBTS.

NCpuUliNdu lQCd Vi NSolOliliS
Prosperity.
THE NEW YORK Sun HAS DOUBTS.
Admits that Democratic Victory and
the Overthrow Of the Gold Standard
are Possible in 1900 Republican
Methods Must Fail.
The financial editor OF the New York
Sun is not at all pleased with the out
look He doubts the efficiency of the
Dingley measure as a producer and
promoter of prosperity. He perceiyes
that the taxes which are laid in the
measure must come out of the peck
cts of the people, and he is quite ready
to admit that people do not grow pros
porous as the result Of paying higher
| taxes.
Consequently the future Is filed
with gloom and doubt for The Suns
| financial editor, who is In favor Of the
gold standard. He and Others who
agree with him have been declaring
that 1t was simply impossible that the
people could be induced to overthrow
the gold standard. The very idea was
preposterous. What. Tarnish the
nations HONOR violate the public
"faith,n disturb a s'soundn currency
for the mere sake of permanent pros
perity? Why, the people would never
think Of such thing!
But now all this is changed. The
Sun perceives very clearly that the Re
\ al fal thnfr m f.I "a
future on the Dingley monstrosity-
ON the proposition that higher taxa
tion for the benefit of a few manufac-
turers will restore prosperity. s'Un-
fortunately the efficiency of the new
tariff in restoring prosperity" says our
contemporary, "ls conjectural. This
is mild way of putting fact, but 1t
will do. The Sun says that If the
measure succeeds in its advertised pur-
poses, 'sthe domination of the party
now in power and the maintenance of
the gold standard are assured for
another presidential term; il it fails"
and here comes our contemporary
confession-''a Democratic victory in
1900 is possible, and with it the over
throw of the gold standard and the
substitution in its place Of that of sill
yer at the ratio of 16 to l."
That certainly seems to be the out
look, and it is the one ray Of hope held
out to the people and to the business
interests of the country. The real
issue now before the country-the
issue that will be voted on next year
and in 1900-is, what shall be done to
restore prosperity? That was the issue
last year. One party offered as rem
edy an increase in the volume of specie,
primary money. The other party
offered as a remedy an increase of tax
alton. 1t went before the people, say
ing that the more money the manu-
| facturer could exact from the con-
sumner the more prosperous would the
consumer be. The people, strange to
say, took the Republicans at their
word and commissioned them to re-
store prosperity by means Of higher
tariff taxation In other words, a
majority of the people said at the polls
that they were willing TO pay higher
prices for homemade goods ii in return
they could have prosperity. These
were the terms of the contract
| Now, when the fraud of high pro-
lection is exposed to the people in all
its nakedness, what do the Republi-
cans propose to do about it? As
suredly the upshot of the whole bust
ness will be the desperate and disas-
trous failure of the Republican scheme
of spoliation and deception. Mr.. Nc
Kinley cannot redeem his front porch
pledges. The Dlngley bill will not
bring a dollar into this country. 1t
will not put one extra dollar into the
pockets of those whose ability to buy
is the true and only source Of perma-
nent prosperity.
i What, then, is to become of the Re
publican party? What is to become
of the single gold standard, the cause
and occasion of all our troubles? Does
any one suppose that the people will
i continue to suffer the ills of poverty
and adversely simply because few
, men who are profiting by the hard
times insist that higher prices for cot
ton, wheat and farm products and
higher wages for workingmen are the
evidences of s'unsound" currency, OF
''dishonest" dollars?
| We are glad to see The Sun admit
ting the possibility of the humiliation
of the Republican party and the over
throw of the gold standard. We would
: not have these events, which we re-
/ gard as inevitable, come as shock tt
the worthy men who find it to theii
profit to exact tariff taxation from the
, people and to cheaper the products OF
J labor by means of the gold standard.
!, We are of the opinion that the more
: thoughtful among them see, as the
, financial editor of The Sun sees, that
the exposure Of the high protection
fraud will not only annihilate the Re
publican party, but will dispose finally
: of the gold standard.
If the wisest men in the Democratic
party could have put their heads to-
gether for the purpose of bringing the
Republican party to destruction, the,
could not have conceived of line o.
conduct more effective for that pur
, pose than that which the Republicans
} themselves have elected to pursue
| They have concentrated public atten
tion to the Dingley monstrosity, ant
} Mr.. Reed has emphasized it by oblit
[ Grating the house of representative
! for the time being. They have staket
! their whole political future on the sup
! position or expectation that the Ding
r ley bill will restore prosperity, anC
when it fails, as fail it must il it Il
. to be the only remedy to be applied
| by the Republican congress, the peo
! pie will overwhelm the Republican
] at the polls.
E Meanwhile the Democratic part,
t stands where it stood last year. l
offers the true remedy for the ills tina
9 afflict the people, and it waits patientl.
t and confidently for yindication of it
immortal principles.
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