Weekly journal-miner., 1913-12-31
DEMOCRATS RESERVE
 PROSPERITY LEVER
(Rv Winfield Iones.)


 tend a meeting of the Republican national committee, in a statement today "roasted' the Wilson admin istration to turn.
 The venerable Republican wheel horse declared the Wilson admins tration is responsible for the wide spread slackening of business throughout the country and that the Democrats have "the prosperity lev CT reversed"
 Conflicting ambitions of men, said he, do not bother me half as much as the present conditions of the country that have been pro duced by these conflicting ambi- tions. They gave us a minority president and an administration that is committed to the reversal of all the policies under which the coun- try has enjoyed great prosperity.
 "The present administration came into power pledged to reverse the lever. Railroad engineers tell me that when they reverse the lever on an engine which is moving ahead it comes to a stop or goes back ward. The same law applies to gov ernment policies and their effects or
 the business of the country.
 "All business, big and little, was
 going ahead when the adminlstra
 ton began"
 |. President Wilson reversed th' llever. the Democratic congress fol flowed his directions and reversed the revenue policy of the govern
 ment. That reversal has slackene' business so that in many places 1 has almost stopped. Our Demo . cratic friends recognize that thei 2 tariff law has not improved busi [ tness conditions, and they are nov Ipushing through a currency bill b
 caucus pressure on the theory th1 if will relieve the embarrassment ; caused by the Underwood tarit They are preparing to revise tn
 Sherman antitrust law as a mean " of clearing away the embarrassmer . that may follow the enactment = the currency bill. I suppose the r will have some other remedy fc $ the failure of their new antl-tru q laws. and they will finally folio # the policy of the old doctor wh d not knowing what ailed his patlen = concluded to throw him into int
 because he was strong on Int ie They have almost thrown the p
 tient into fits now"
 -e "Is there depression in the cou n try"
 is "Go out into the country al v- see for yourself. Business me ,n manufacturers and farmers in | To West are whistling to keep up the ;e courage while they read about pro
 perity in other parts of the countr
 which they do not enjoy. They a CT beginning to suspect that this pro cf perity they read about is like t J. milk sickness, always just beyor ed over in the next county. Some d lis the news will become so gener ,s. that you newspaper men won't in able to handle it.
 l,a Business has fallen off from to 40 per cent in the last twel '7 months. There is not a gilt-edg 'iS stock listed on the market, eitr Is railroad or industrial. that has I 'n. shrunk in value Twelve of Int safest industrial stocks listed av, rn aged 75.77 the first day of Dece lis Der, 1913. Twelve of the best ra .ot road stocks averaged l20.44 Move Ir,, Der l, 1912, and the same sto
 averaged l02S+ December l, tI i' year. This represents a great shrir ne age in values. but it is no grea 'ly than the average shrinkage in
 business. You newspaper men ; Int most afraid to publish the mari DOO reports lest you be accused of tryi o. to produce panic.
 e11 "The trouble seems to be Il ,, the president and the Democra
 leaders in congress are trying ,, destroy confidence in everybody a 'N' everything except themselves a ;h' their policies. They are still liv'
 in the antc-bcllum age when cot 'O, and tobacco were the principal rus ticlcs of exchange. They are re; lcn to boom cotton and protect toba ery while they sacrifice every ot
 agricultural and manufactured pr -oI uct in the country.
 q believe tobacco is the -e" schedule in the Underwood ia IT bill that they did not change. ur- Kinlcy, Dingley and Payne "a cen were none too high on tobacco '. the Democrats. Perhaps they'll $ ght stitutc tobacco for gold, as a 1 in dium of exchange, just as the biv tiers of Jamestown did. It's a g a;. old Virginia custom and 1t scC
 to be Democratic
 o' But what has this to do V -iui the reorganization of the Repub m an party or the get-togcthcr mo -iti- ment:
 red "That's some more news that ger. gentlemen here in Washington h