New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-31
4 THING 70 Re DONE

The Democratic estimates which seem most
entitled 70 attention put the majority for Van
Wyck in the State at 100 II is well that the
authors are careful 70 add the odd 100 The
uiiing circumstance that they include 5000
majority for Van Wyck in Brooklyn and $1,000
in New York. without precision rs to hundreds.
may possibly De overlooked. hut shows what
the estimates arc really worth Still il is
good thing TO have them. There are about
500 ono Republican voters in this state If
every hundred of them would exert themselves
so far as 10 influence just one Democratic voter
20 cast his ballot for public prosperity and Ma
tional honor, or even 10 stay AZ home and not
vote at all, the majority expected by these
Democrats would be overcome.
There are in the state not far from COO 0oO
males employed in manufactures. and most Of
them are voters. There is also great army
of farmers and farm laborers who are voters
and who know that their profits and wages
greatly depend on the activity of manufacture
ing establishments about them If every Re
publican voter will make II his business al once
TO show these men how great a change in their
prosperity has been caused by the Democratic
defeat in 1926. and how great a change was
caused nv Democratic success in 1892 he would
alone there are AT work and earning good
wages about one hundred and fifty thousand
persons who were not so at work in Dpmocra tic
years Of disaster. Nobody can he sure that an
other Democratic era would not take from them
the employment and wages which support them
and the families they NAV have. The vote
which. Judging from experience. i likely to
throw multitudes ont Of employment cannot
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is Just as likely 10 Kill the employment and
wages Of Democrat as Of Republican The
part OF good sense Is 10 vote against a party
whose success threatens the public prosperity.
but if a man has such partisan feeling that he
cannot vote for Republicans he can AT least de-
cline 10 cast a Democratic vote which Is liable
10 injure him and his noghbor
II IL OF no use to answer. as some men do
that commercial disaster might have come in
1893 without any Democratic success the prcvl-
Gus November. and that remarkable improve
ment nigh, have come in 1897 and 1895 with
out Republican success in 1896. The people
who viii never learn from experience are 10
be pitled. and yet II is possible 10 convince
many Of them il the case is simply stated
There arr several millions OF workers in this
country whose industries have been helped and
in large part developed by the Republican pol
lev OF Protection. Common-sense tells a MAI
that such Industries are likely to be depressed
By the prospect Of a change OF policy. II ht
thinks they ought TO he depressed and pros
tratcd. nevertheless there are inevitable lOsse'
10 result for everybody, Of which he will have
IN hear his share II we vote 10 shut mp par
Of the mills and factories there will be fewer
men 10 eat vegetables or buy milk from farm
ers fewer men TO pay for work of the tdlldrS
carpenters or shOemakerS. fewer TO rent houses
which make work for plumbers and mas0nS
We are all linked together in interest and Tho
.hangs which throws many ont Of employment
necessarily affects the condition Of al
Neither can any sensible man believe that
the monetary conditions UPON which all bust