The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-10-05
o. ~,, fully demonstrated that the

Do '~ fuly demonstrated that the
N-..,n ilw was stupcndous failure as a
producer Of revenue. the Democratic pr
tl iu Congress refused TO anne il 50
that it could produce enough r. en-
The saying. Millions for defense. br
not one cent for tribute" in this case
might have been expressed. millions OF
cost TO the country in increasing deficit
and loss OF credit rather than one cent
OF protection TO any industry in which
/ Democratic leaders themselves did not
| happen to have some personal financial
interest. like coal and sugar"
WHEN NERO PLAYED A FID-
DIE WHILE ROME BURNED HE
| SHOWED NO MORE UTTER IN
DIFFERENCE TO THE INTERESTS
OF HIS COUNTRY THAN THE
! LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY IN CONGRESS DID IN
THAT DISTRESSFUL YEAR 1894
WHEN THEY PLAYED PETTY
POLITICS, AND ALSO THE MAR
KET FOR SUGAR STOCK, AND
WITH BLIND INDIFFERENCE TO
A FINANCIAL SITUATION THAT
WAS ALREADY DANGEROUS,
PUSHED TO ITS PASSAGE A
BILL THAT IN TURN WAS TO
PUSH THE NATION TO THE VERY
VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY.
The stone Instead of the Loaf.
The one single proffer of relief from
the Wilson hill deficit during the entire
session of the Fifty-third Congress, Dem
ocratic iH both branches, was bill d.
recting the treasury to coin and use the
500, 100000 "seigniorage" theoretically
acquired by the government in buying
silver at the market price and paying 1t
out in over-valued silver dollars.
This bill was a case OF offering TO the
financially distressed nation n stone
when loaf was asked for, for with the
gold reserve crumbling to pieces owing
to the increasing desire OF persons APP
pretending q slump to the silver basis
to exchange paper and silver money for
gold aud owing to the encroa chments OF
the government itself upon the gold re-
serve because OF the increasing deficit,
II was obviously a case OF trying to sup
ply the straw to break the camers back
to furnish this additional load OF silver
for the gold reserve to carry at a parity
with gold.
But what did the Democratic Con-
; gress care il the seigniorage bill was to
: further damage the credit OF the coun-
try? Never for a moment did the Dem
: Ocrats care to go back on free trade,
: even to prevent deficit in the treas
ury, and never for a moment did they
} care TO go back on free silver, even Ia
, prevent the fatal consequences TO the
. national credit that the increasing deficit
t involved.
: The scigniorage bill. however. was for
g tunatey vetoed by President Cleveland
! who on the silver question at least was
: right while his party was wrong. and Il
e whom credit Is due for refusing to con
0 cede anything 10 the free silver senti
e ment during the same period when AL
] ton b. Parker and Henry G.. Davis wer'
}, both actively aiding and abetting FIRE,
b silver with their money and with thei
= votes.
1 vindictive Treatment of the Pros
perity Goose.
The Democratic party during thos
y four years acted as II IL deliberatel.
sought to kill the goose that lays tn
u golden egg of prosperity. 1t was cas-
OF give the goose hit in the head wit
! big stick, then In order TO ward Of
= any returning signs OF animation, n NOR
: severe hit, this time In the heart; an
y, then. lest there should be a few spark
u of vitality left, a violent kick with tn
. foot, and then another, and then another
Z And there Is nothing in the Democrat
platform this year, or in the persona
records of the Democratic candidates
'' Messrs. Parker and Davis, to sugges
y that the Democratic party would no
N again attempt the killing OF the prosper
y ity goose IL il got the chance.
n The Democrats want reduction in tn
D. tariff, but unless they should pursue
| q
a present expenditures in furtherance O
r the honor and prosperity OF the natior
L. they would need every bit OF the presen
D. revenues from the tariff TO make bot
sc ends meet. However even by pursu
in ing policy OF ultra niggardliness in e,
Is penditures for the public good, extra,
y agance in other ways, coupled with the
e, tariff revision policy, would probabl
lie more than neutralize such saving an
10 necessitnte large bond issues. Why shoul
4 the intelligent voters OF the Unite
o. States give the Democratic party I'll
III slightest chance to allow history 20 n
se peat itself In another doleful chapter q
e. incompetence, scandal, business dsastt
~ and hard times for all classes OF people
lie Parker and Davis belong to the sam
r school as Cleveland as regards free trad
ne except that Davis has been a protection
IN list when protection to himself through
Df high tariff on coal was involved. 81
ID as regards free silver, neither OF thei
IS showed the moral strength that Clev
ic land showed in trying to prevent II
We prosperity OF the country from being u
Is terly crushed--fOr while Clevelau
ne fought free silver, and fought II har
III Parker and Davis both voted Cor It.
at
sc Parker and the Trusts.