New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-13
THE WAY TO PREVENT DISASTER.

The good people who insist that everything
should give place to the money question are IN
aware that they are serving the silver men as
their most effective allies But the course Of
events should surely enlighten men regarding
the one important reason for settling the tariff
question first Scarcely day passes without
some distinct improvement in the condition Of
great Industries. in the number of hands nj
work or in the course Of markets for important
products. due to the expectation Of q more
wholesome tariff. On Wednesday dispatches
recorded the starting of carpet mills at Phila-
delpha. some of which have long been idle but
nearly all are now running about full time.
Just before a strong demand suddenly lifted
pig iron at Pitsburg and heavy shipments Of
Lake iron ore. with the starting Of work at
some additional mines were reported. Thurs
day brought word Of heavy purchases of wool
by large mills which are about TO increase out
put. These and similar signs coming almost
every day make a striking increase in The vol
ume Of work and Of business in anticipation OF
better times.
YET there are men who cannot see why the
monetary Issue should be deferred They are
continually alarming people by their account
Of the dangerous power Of free silver and cheap
money fanatclsm al the West AMI wherever
there are many unemployed They consider the
country in the utmost danger Of disaster
through some decision or action in that dircc-
ton Yet they are blind enough not to see that
every additional man SET TO work at fair wages.
every increase in hours of work and so In COM
pensatiOn. lessons the army Of the discontinued
to whom demagOgues appeal. Every shop at
work is foriifcation against monetary dis
turbanco TIC employers are branless if they
want o prostration Of business when their IN
dustry is gaining. and their employees are dcs-
iltutc Of ordinary sense If they cannot see that
it would not. help them to have the works
stopped by monetary panic.
This gradual improvement. this steady re-
cruitiug from the ranks Of the unemployed and
desperate is but the prelude 10 that general in
crease in business and industry which settle
mcnt Of the tariff question would undoubtedly
bring It Is not ncedful here to urge that Pro
lection Will start multitude Of works and push
others 10 their fullest capacity. though its oppo-
nents know it right we'll 1t is enough TO say
that. as every business man knows any settle
mcnt of the tariff question after the country
has been months preparing for 1t will bring re-
lief and some increase Of business. When the
Wilson tariff ended uncertainty for years, there
was distinct gain in business, which lasted
through most Of the following year. although
the evil influence Of that measure was all the
time at work and brought great reaction after
the fall Of 1896 But strong protective policy
will insure larger and fer more enduring i'm
provement, every week Of which will lessen the
rumbcr Of men who can be fooled and mlsled by
cheap-money fallacies.
The tariff revolution which caused the nOml-
nation and election OF the prOtectionist Nc
Kinlcy must inevitably have caused uncertain
~ and hindronce OF business until the question
was settled That settlement was certain to
make the friends OF sound money stronger and
TO weaken both the number and the arguments
of their opponents. 1t would have been the
height Of folly 10 start with action on the money
question Willie tariff uncertainties and the per-