Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-08-14
LEST WE FORGET"

The people of this country have not
forgotten the commercial crises with
which they have been afflicted during
the existence of the republican party.
Many do not recall the panic of 1889,
due entirely TO. policies of the republic
en- party, which had been in power for
Il number Of years; but the majority
will easily recall the period of profound
commercial depression which followed
in 1891 the Harrison administration,
which ncceSsitated the issuing of gov
eminent bonds i'll II time of peace. This
last crisis the republican party strove
by every possible means TO load upon n
succeeding democratic administration.
That the people We're deceived and
deluded was evidenced by their contin.
uing the republican party i'll power for
another twelve years. Even Us late rs
1908 the republican press impudcntly
spread broadcast the lying statement
that the panic was the result of the en-
actment of the Wilson bill, though the
period of commercial depression began
seventeen months bcf"rc there WAS any
change in the tariff.
Let no citizen whose business during
the panic succeeding the enactment of
the Mckinley tariff bill WAS injured or
destroyed forget that the material loss
To which he was subjected was Il result
of a republican policy. Let no working
man or whose occupation or
employment WAS taken from him or
her during that eventful period ignore
the truth. Suffering and starvation
were the portion of many, many thou
sands. Misrepresentation may for the
time have deluded them. They may
have continued to I've deceived during
the campaign of 1900 and 1904. But in
view of the present crisis, coupled with
the history Of other panics under rcpuh-
lican administrations, every sufferer
ought to he convinced of the truth of
the statement that republican policies
produce panicS. The past year, during
a period when nature provided bOunti-
full crops, when more cattle than ever
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forest and field and mine were yielding
most tremendous products, the worst
panic of them ali began and still con-
Times. Here and there Il mill resumes
or Il factory takes ON more hands M
reduced wages and for shorter hours,
but the period of depression is not yet
at an end.
Thrice during the past thirty-tivc
years the people of the most productive
country in the world have felt these
disastrous, ~farrcaChing financial dis
turbances. The people have suffered
from the results of republican policies
and from republican, maladministration.
They have been slow 70 understand
the causes underlying these periods of
commercial depression. y republican
press and republican administrations
have sought to place the burden upon
the democratic party. They partly
succeeded in reference TO the panic of
1854, but they cannot still the protest
against OF veil the reasons for the
present hard times. For twelve years
in power, under IA tariff system which
has destroyed domestic competition and
enhanced the value of every commodity
used i'll the American home, the rcpubli-
can party has gone on to the present
blighting and blasting year. 1t cannot
deny that the panic Of 1908 is a result
of republican policies.
Lest we forget the republican
party has been primarily responsible
for every panic from which the people
of this county have suffered since it
came into power.-Exchangc.