Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-07-26
Riakinr All on Prosneritr.

The Republicans will continue to
shout prosperity" and will try hard
to distract the attention of the mil
lions of unfortunates who are working
at lower wages or who have lost their
Jobs, from their misfortune and mis-
cry Regardless of facts. great pros
perity racket will be kept up until
Nov. s. The Republican spell-binders
will make one more desperate effort to
hypnotic the hapless victims of the
greed of Republican trusts.
If the charm works. thousands of
idle, hungry and poorly clothed victims
of high prices and trust eXtortion will
march up to the polls in a half-dazed
condition and deposit their ballots for
the party of protection and prosper
ity." On the eve of the election If
the spell is still on and they are still
possessed by the prosperity delusion,
they will button their cheap, ragged
coats closely and stand shivering in
the street until midnight to cheer for
the candidate of prosperity-for the
trusts-should the election returns go
their way. eA
The Republican platform declares
that "a Democratic tariff has always
been followed by business adversely;
a Republican tariff by business pros
perity.n The fact is that every bust
ness depression that has occurred since
the Republican party came into power
has occurred under Republican tar
ifs The great panic OF 1878 occurred
Is years after Democratic tarif had
ceased and 81 years before another be-
gan. The panic of 1898 occurred more
than year before a Democratic tar
III became law The depression OF
1904, which is still on, cannot as
vet. be blamed on Democratic tariff
for 1t is reasonably certain that there,
can not be Democratic tariff until
1907. even if the Democrats set the
President and the House lalS year.
The semi-official organ of the present
administration. the Washington Star.
has already led off in the direction
that the Republican press is expected
to go. On July l. il put prosperity"
forward as the issue on which the Re
publicans cohI1 surely win. 1t said:
The country is prospecting as never
before" and that the people. as a
rule. are in clover. knee deep. The
Wall street gamblers are the only
croakers. Legitimate bush
ness of every kind is booming. and
crops are on the way promising TO-
make this record-breakiRg year for
the farmers"
or course the Republicans expect TO
get credit AT the November election
Tor record-breaking crops But are
there no croakers outside of. tue Wall
street gamblersg Are the 90.O,a cotton
mill workers who are either entirely
out of work or are working er.y four
days week al reduced wages happy
and contentedg Ii not. are they Wall
street gamblers: Are the i,0nN men
that the railroads laid off this year
Wall street gamblers: What about
the l6S.o0o steel trust employees who
are idle or who have had their wages
reduced - per cent recently. are they
Wall street gamhlerSg About $4,000
OF them were buncoed by a profit
sharing scheme into buying steel
stock at S2is. which is now selling AZ
90 If they are gamblers. they are
sorry for it. They are trying hard 10
quit the game.
The Republicans viii soon learn that
there are "eroakers'' IN al industries
as well as in Wall street. Their pros
perity shell game is being played once
TOO often. They cannot fool all the