The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-10-15
What Happened?

The past is the only measure we
have of the future.
Parties, like individuals, are always
Judged by their records and not their
promises.
A certain hot place is said to be
paved with good intentions and, II Is
claimed by some, that it takes money
to buy whiskey: and though this may
or may not be true, every student OF
American history knows that the DEM
ocratic party is a party of shattered
pledges and abandoned platform.
For half a century democracy has
been tearing own, grumbling ana
growing and braying at the republic
can party for its really glorious work,
and that party has simply gone on
growing stronger, climbing higher,
achieving, expanding, civilizing until
today its record-the thing we must
Judge it by-s aids cleaning in the
sunlight as though written in gold by
the great hand of Providence, and 1t
is at once tie nations glory and its
pride.
In 1892 democracy found the coun-
try more prosperous than it had ever
been before, and promised to increase
that prosperity. What happened?
Cleveland was elected, capital went
on strike, hard times became fash
ionablc, banks by the score failed,
mill and factories all over the land
shut down, farmers lost the markets,
mechanics lost their jobs, women and
children lost their means of support
and millions Of people in this great
land all but lost hope.
Under President llarrSon's rule this
whole broad land was wrcathCd in the
smile that comes only with good times.
The song of the people from east TO
west and from north to south was the
song of plenty, the song of rejoicing
over country's greatness and glory
and the songs accompaniment was
the music made 10y the machinery OF
the mills running full blast. Peace
and contentment walked arm in arm
through the land attracting the adj
miring gaze of every nation under the
sun. The monster, hydra-headed want
was driven out and over on the other
side of our frontier it sat, green-eyed
and waited for democracy to let down
the bars. What happened?
Cleveland was elected and demo-
cracy let down the bars, the monster
entered and begun to devour left and
right. Capital always timid, sought
shelter at once from the destructive
storm sure to follow democracy's at
tempt to regulate the tariff. Our eX-
ports fell away and our imports in
creased, turning the balance OF trade
against us and starting that yellow
stream of gold out of the country to
pay for our imports. In less than six
months after Mr.. Cleveland's last
election the whole aspect of our ma
iIDIldl tAlSItllCt
In place of smiles were trowns: in
place of songs there were signs, in the
place of reiocings there were lamen-
tationS. Want devoured plenty and
famine stalked through the country
and cast its black shadow over a mil
lion homes. What happened?
Four years passed and then the pco-
pie, sick and disguised with the Dem
ocratic regime, turned Cleveland out
of the White House and elected Nc
Kinley. Confidence was restored at
once. Capital came forth from its
iron vaults and began its work of res
toration. The dead corpse Of oul
commerce was resurrected, and by
means Of the new blood of republican
methods and strenuosity that was
poured into its quickSand veins, il
grew to the giant we find it today
Mills and factories started up anC
hundreds of thousands of men went u
work, singing praises to the party o
protection, and the farmers and cattl
raisers got back their markets ant
have been accommodating and growing
more prosperous ever since.
All this happened. 1t is all mat
ter of record; it is something we all re
member and it is one of the reason
why it is perfectly safe to bet ten t
one on osevelt.-Truth.