Evening journal., 1908-02-15
What | Know About
Delaware Politics and
Other Things
FiFTY-FoURTH ARTICLE.
By Washington Hastings

FiFTY-FoURTH ARTICLE.
With the inauguration Cleveland for his second
term in the Spring Of 1898. and the accession Of the
Democrats 20 power. began the systematic and
attack on the principle and policy Of protection TO Amer
lean industry which had been foreshadowed by Demo-
cratic newspapers and speakers the stump in the
campaign preceding the election in the prevous No
'ember and which constituted ALL nearly all OF their
stock r. trade for campaign oratory and argument
During the progress of that campaign the debate
that important question became heated and the at
tacs what pleased the opposition call the
protected industresv CAS- though an Industry was not
equally protected by the tariff aws) pointed
hostile as to create the impression that they vim
dctive and aimed personally at men engaged in GER
tain branches Of manufacturing in this community. AS
example OF this line OF and exhibition
of state OF feeling prevalent in almost all Demo
cratic circles in respect those manufacturers
ueman Of the highest respectablity honored by
party at various periods of his distinguished career
with places Of the highest dignity and responsibility
the National government while discoursing reporter
the tariff said for publication. among other pleasant
things, the following:
and the pifering Of the pockets of the farmer
and the working man should cease"
To this replied my signature in the columns
Of the newspaper in which 1t appeared, in part fol-
lows:
well whatever may be said of the farmer.
the pfering"-as the honorable and distinguish
ed gentleman IS pleased TO term it-of the pock-
cts Of the worSingman has ceased already to
very great extent and is ceasng and
every day. and very soon, fear, but few Of them
will remain to be pifered in the various work.
shops here in Wilmington
Employers labor whom the honorable gem
teman, and many Of his fellow Democrats. dur
ing the last campaign, At to denounce the
stump "robber barons" and to ridcule "the
dishonest owners of infant industries which, in
old age still needed the wet-nurse protec-
ton, Just at this time largely engaged-such
of them do so--n closing their
tracts. paying their debts and preparing best
they can TO weather the storm Of financial dis
tress and disaster which unfaithful
American. mscaled Democratic party has
ri. brought upon the country"
recall these incidents only to emphasize the fact
that capital is proverbaly timid; (and by the term
1 do not mean modern aggregations wealth
which appear to be organized the purpose driving
all small operators out Of business) but
firms or corporations, large small. If you please.
moderate capital practically all of which is invested
undertakings by which they provide for themselves
living and something if they can. other
men the opportunity of earning living in assisting them
and especially is it alarmed indications on
the part Of government Of hostility to IT, and DISPOSE
ton attack parts and destroy It. Whether
the Of this apprehension real imaginary makes
no difference If people believe IT, the effect is the
It may be foolish and weak and half
human nature, and IL will remain long
remains what 1, is, and always has been. Every
full and prudent when he sights danger
personal interests ahead will begin try protect
conserve those interests and to rerench and cura and
economze in every possible direction and all hands,
and this makes bad business" and brings dull
times
And this is exactly place all over this coun-
try after the second Inauguration Cleve-
land and the OF the renewal with fresh vgor
and more .'a-sstent determination, the Democratic
policy Of free tde or "a tariff for only" which
tectionists.
Early in 1893 all of the protected industries" Of Will
mingtor and vicinity working on haf-time-or no
time at al-and most of the formerly employed IN
them were walking stlessy about the streets-and
Soup rouses" became uncomfortaby fashionable
AS revision of the tariff appears have again
come living ISSUE and is regarded a necessity by
many Republicans well by the Democrats because
some abuses of it which have unquestonably grown
up In our midst it may not be amiss again remind the
Republican party-as done before in these
papers thnk-to be very careful who performs
the operaon is always well 10 have the physician
friend of the family.
But the money stringency and depressed business
dtons told the usual old old story state cleo
lions OF 1884 proved veritable landslide the
publican party staunch Republican States which
had wandered off into "the barren mountains
OF UeIQocratic) sin and folly" returned TO the
Republican sheep-fold bringing their sheaves with
them IN the shape of popular majortes running into
the hundreds of thousands in the aggregated and Della
not behind in the good worlSA good big slice
Of the Gay judgment had for the Democrats Of
this state lastl
Cro be continued)