Middletown transcript., 1898-02-12
D1NeLEY VS.. WILSON.

v De w 4A4SO1Ns
The Democrats hope to conduct their
campaign this year on the silver ques-
tion and the alleged failure Of the Din
gley bill to restore prosperity. The
speeches they are delivering in Congress
are intended for campaign purposes.
They are all keyed up to the tune that
prosperity has not returned, and that 1t
can only be brought about by the free
coinage of forty-cent silver dollars.
Some Of the statements recently made
in the House will illustrate Democratic
campaign methods. A Democratic re-
preventative from Tennessee, asserted
that the Dingley bill was greater fall
ure than the Wilson bill in raising
revenue, and based his assertion solely
on the receipts of customs, which have
never been expected to meet all the ex-
penditures of the Government, either
under the Dingley, Wilson or any other
bill, This Senator also said: . Ii this
laws means anything it means that tne
receipts from customs ought to equal
the entire expenditures of the Govern
ment.n Nobody should know better
than he that that statement is not only
misleading, but false, and intended to
mislead the public who have no means
of their own of ascertaining the truth
in regard to the matter. The receipts
from customs for January we're $14,-
2e9, ,492, against ST., $3.50, ,7S8 for Decem-
bel, and the Dingley lawfor six months,
the time it has been in operation, its
income was $13,513, $3.50 greater than
the Wilson bill for its first six months.
Now HASN'T the free-trade and free
silver press something to boast of? 1t
only demonstrates the fact that they
are ashore for campaign material for
the future. They are condemning a
measure that has proven to be worth
several million dollars more than their
pet bill has been to the Government, to
say nothing about the boost it has given
the mills and factories throughout the
country. Let US go little father and
demonstrate more of this bills worth to
our people. 1t is an American law and
was put into effect for that very pur-
pose. 1t protects this country against
foreign invasion along manufacturing
lines. They say the pension roll is
too large. We don't question but that
there are some on the list that should
not be there. The same applies to some
Democrats that Mr.. Cleveland managed
to get on the civil service list. Fol
every old soldier he would cut off he
managed to get two SO called Demo
cratic civil servicers on, at the samt
time pointing to the old soldiers pen
sion savings to break the force OF the
crooked civil service appointments
With all SO called extravagence of the
pension list, and the civil service at
tachees drawing their little ~ pay, we
have heard nothing of bond issue
neither do we expect to. This is what
talks. Free silver cranks may so state
it through their journals and call the
Dingley bill a failure, still we don't
see $3.50, 600, 900 deficit in sight to g
with the Wilson bill. There is no
only not deficit, but there are several
million dollars more in the U. S. Treas.
ury than when Mr.. Cleveland's term
expired. To show how the Democratic
prophecies turn out, these men said tht
Mckinley administration would have
to issue bonds. They have not only
. promptly met all government expenses
but they have kept up Cleveland
interest on bonds and paid other con
tracts that they were unable to meet. e
great deal more could be said aloni
this line, but as it has become practi
cally so one-sided it is only necessary t.
add the working of the two bills TO
their first six months.