The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-07-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Byc. Il. Tayebns..


peOlic have come TO see o." sham
Of high tariff, and 40 under
stand that n continuation OF Re-
publican rule means q still fur
Their surrender Of the govern
ment to the trust plundarbund.
the G.. o. p. orators and news
papers are trying TO raise the
spectre of hard times, and to
make it appear that business
will falter in the event of Demo
cratic success.
Such imbeciiities never weary
the Republican mind. Without
regard to the truth, and unim-
PRAISED by evidence to the con
trary, these men go on shouting
the same old heresies. The
hard times" heresy is a twin
BROTHER TO the long exploded
doctrine that n high protective
tariff protects American work
ingmen, when every schoolboy in
the land knows that it does no
sucn thing.
A brief review of recent Amer
icsn business depression pro
vides full aud sufficient answer
to these foolish arguments.
The last panic in this country oc-
Cured less than five years ago,
when all the machinery of gov
eminent was in full control of
the Republicans, and when
Theodore Roosevelt, who has a
cure for all known political evils,
was in the White House. This
panic was the least eXcusabla the
naAons ever endured.
The Republican party was in
full control Of the government
when the panic of 1879 came
about. Likewise, TINS party Vas
in power when there came Il pan
&c in the early part OF 1884, and
the country recovered from that
panic during the campaign that
resulted the election of Mr..
Cleveland. The Republican par
ty was in full control of the gov
eminent for the four years pre-
vious to the panic of 1893, which
was currency panic clearly due
to the passage, by the Repub-
Leans, of the Silver Purchase act
of 1890. This law so depleted
the gold reserve in the national
treasury that a few millions in
gold were borrowed by the gov
eminent in New York, in order
to keep the treasury reserve up
to 100000, 000 until the Harrison
administration could get out Of
Office, and thus make it appear
that the panic was due to the in
come Democratic administration.
The silver panic Of 1893. which
was entirely due to the Republi-
can Legislation, is the only one
for more than half a ccntWy that
did not occur while the Rcpubh-
cans were in full possession OF
the government. Yet Republi-
car orators and newspapers, true
to their habit Of hiding the facts
and raising false issues, go right
ahead trying to make it appear
that the Democratic party is the
party Of hard times.
Blis is the heresy Of the pro-
nounced kind, and it is safe to
assume that the country will ap-
praise it at It's true work. The
time is passed when the voters
can be fooled. They are de-
handing the truth. and what is
more important, the5 are show
ing the ability to separate the
truth from the false.
THE BIC ISSUE.
United States Senator LaFol-
lette. in the closing chapter of
his autobiography, which has
been running in the American
magazine and which soon is To- be
published in book form. gives
what he considers to be the one
big Issue now Confronting The
American people. He says
I'm twenty five years of polit-
zeal struggle ] have found one
great issue overwhelming a'l
others the encroachmcns of the
powerful few on the right of the
many. All the issues oc today
are phases of This one great
question How shall the indi-
vidual. the farmer. the worker