The Van Buren press., 1898-02-26
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DingleF Deficiency Prosperity.

From the Washington ID. CT Times
II is extremely cold weather for
greater part of the country. II is also
arctic for the administration. Not all
the united genius Of Hanna. Reed and
Dingley; not all the cheese pairing OF
appropriation bills in which they are
wildly joining can conceal the fact that
the fiscal system their party has vicious
ly imposed upon the nation. while it is
pouring millions every month into the
Golfers Of few favored campaign
creditors, is creating a most alarming
deficiency in the public revenues.
The treasury statement for January
shows that the receipts for the first
month of 1898, exclusive of the payment
on account of the Union Pacific sale.
were SOS, 795. 227, while the expenditures
were s36. 696, Ill, leaving deficit of
s.. sol. 49,. Not counting previous
payments on the Union Pacific sale,
the receipts Of the government since
July l, 1897, have been s1s7, 537 ,37s,
and the expenditures s239, 439. pol, a
deficit of s51 sol 1923. January 81. at
the close Of business, the national debt
was stated at 81 Oil, 701 1873, indicating
and increase for the month of s12 $50,
III.
If there ia anything in these figures
which. under the peculiar system of
bookkeeping adopted by the admins
tration, are certain to present the
situation in light as favorable 70 the
party in power as would be possible
without detection and exposure that the
gold bond trust and monopoly rulers of
the Union can get any comfort out of i,
we are free TO remark that they are
welcome to it. A darker commentary
upon Nc Dingley prosperity could not
have been written by the pen of the
most contemptuons scoffer at its
hypocrisy and fraudulence. Here In
seven months we have Republican
deficiency of over s52, 900 900. Where
are the wheels that were to go buzzing
for the benefit of labor after passage of
the tariff bill dictated to the stock ticker
by the sugar and other trusts with share
margins to put up for votes? Where is
the prosperity which was to flow from
the vast profits guaranteed in it to those
who subscribed s16, 900 900 to purchase
the election of Mr.. Mckinley
If any man is able to discern the
visibility of these promised blessings,
let him get out his Tyre and play us a
tune to that effect Are they seen in
the cutting down of wages in the New
England cotton mills from the lordly
proportions of six dollars week to
three or fourf Are they apparent in
the lockout of the iron workers in
Delaware? Are they to be inferred
from the billions of idle money lying in
vaults in New York, because falling
prices and contraction make all invest
ments except money futures based upon
taxes certain lossf
The present fiscal system, which is
one of the principal factors in producing
such a situation, has been tried long
enough to demonstrate its complete
failure to the satisfaction of any
economist not hired to distort or ignore
facts. To say that it is doomed is
superfuous. The next congress will
make rags and tatters of it. and give to
America tariff law which will produce
make the 1895 campaign creditor trusts
and monopolies howl with pain. The
death knell of Nc Dingleyism will be
tolled in November.