The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-07-21
Risking All on Prosperity.


The Republicans will continue 10
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. a great pros
perity racket will be kept up until
Nov. 8. 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 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.
The Republican platform declares
that "a Democratic tariff has always
been followed by business adversely:
a Republican tariff by business pros
perity." 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 1873 occurred
13 years after Democratic tariff had
ceased and q years before another be-
gan The panic of 1898 occurred more
than q year before a Democratic tar
iff became law. The depression of
1904, which is still on, cannot. as
yet, be blamed on Democratic tariff.
for it is reasonably certain that there
can not be a Democratic tariff until
1907, even if the Democrats get the
President and the House tnis year.
The semi-ofiicial organ of the present
the Washington Star,
has already led off in the direction
that the Republican press is expected
to go. On July 1, 1t put prosperity"
forward as the issue on which the Re
publicans could surely win. 1t said:
The country is prospering as never
before" and that the people, as a
rule, are in clover, knee deep. The
Wall street gamblers are the only
croakers: Legitimate bust
ness of every kind is booming, and
crops are on the way promising to
make this a record-breaking year for
the farmers"
OF course the Republicans expect to
get credit at the November election
for record-breaking crops. But are
there no croakers outside of the Wall
street gamblers? Are the 5000 cotton
mill workers who are either entirely
out of work or are working only four
days a week at reduced wages happy
and contented? If not, are they Wall
street gamblers? Are the 100000 men
that the railroads laid off this year
Wall street gamblers? What about
the 16S,000 steel trust employees who
are idle or who have had their wages
reduced 20 per cent recently. are they
Wall street gamblers? About 10000
Of them We're buncoed by profit
sharing scheme into buying steel
stock at S212, which is now selling at
30. If they are gamblers, they are
sorry for it. They are trying hard to
quit the game.
The Republicans will soon learn that
there are "crOakers'' in all industries
rs well as in Wall street Their pros
Derity shell-game is being played once
too often. They cannot fool all the