Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-01-27
EXTRACTS FROM REPUBLICAN HISTORY

In 1873, under the highest protective tariff that the country had
yer known, and when Republican control w a and had been for years
absolute and complete, there wa a period OF distress and wreck and
ruin that has hardly been equa,ed.
In 1883, under the Republican administration of Arthurs time
business and great came crashing down, the farmer especially having
the very life pressed ii of him. Throughout the west where small
cities had not yet become sufficiently strong to weather the storm,
a bankrnot or be o. the VERGE OF it. Onlv @Bie Business c,me nt
of it with a little more in the strong box. This depression continued
through 1884, but it would be a Republican Of short memory and
overpowering retcence who could OF IF would not say that relief did
not come shortly after Mr.. Cevelands induction into office i'll 1885.
At the close of the first Cleveland administration in 1888, the coun-
try as prosperous as existing fundamental economic errors in
government will admit of. And when Mr.. Cleveland, in 1889, turned
the government owe to his succ essor, President Harrson-who sub
sequenty himself came to denounce the tendencies OF Repub1canSE7
most bhterly-the United States treasury contained more money than
it had We had before or has had since. When the Republican admin
istraton under HARRISON IN 81 we yer IN nj carrier tnrocs
of another period of distress and the United States treasury a a
of consequence OF the second Democratic administration under C1evc-
land was to borrow needed money by the issuance OF bonds, a dis
agreeable duty put upon it by the relatively incompetent preceding ad-
afnrem@ntinnsd n nY he ADMINISTRATION a Of that elect Ren1brcan
stripe which knows how everything, including the country, should be
done. With that delicious consistency and fairness which character
ICES itse1f the Republicans throughout the length and breadth of the
land raised a fine TODD over Nj. Clevelands issuing bonds and boz
rowing money Gin time OF peace That it was a Republican admins
tation that had depleted the governments funds, and that President
ITarrsons own secretary of the treasury had ordered the bonds IL
graved and issued before the Democratic administration came into
friends.
In 1907, it may be recalled. W e had a slight period OF depression
and dsturbance-just what might be noticed if IN looked for it zeal
ous1y. Products Of various kinds, lumber and $50 II, came down in a
before. Small business went to smash. Banks committed unprecedent-
ed acts of bankruptcy by actually refusing to pay back, to let go
none Vel With HE'LL on ucpoSn- lhs. uHuC d eluDHN" flSSIuSHNt
after eleven years more OF Republican management, and under the
marvellous Ding1ey high protective tariff law OF Mckinley days. Even
the Republican president countenanced a fragrant violation OF law i'll
the interest OF the Steel trust, o paciy the controlling powers that
dominate in and through Republicanism. and thus put a temporary
check IN the squeezing. y few mi1onaires came through unscathed
altogether, of course, with NJ greater damage done than that OF adding
a few millions to their already burdensome accumulatons. Other
people suffered in respects somewhat at variance with this type OF
affection.
Anent the shipping industry and what the Democrats are charged
with having done O it. or Republican friends are weeping copiously,
having shed a sklletul of briny tears apiece up to the hour of going
to press. And pray what is it that the Democratic administration has
done in this regard? This: It has endeavored to protect the lives Of
the travelling public, and to guard the interests and elevate the condi
ton Of American labor engaged in shipping. The Republican party,
pulled itself all out of proportion over its pretended love 10 American
labor, counts it a as crime that the privileges of p1utocracy should
be thus impnged upon.
This friend OF the working mar is positively boisterous in its 1-
nunciaton of the Democratic administration for saying in n o uncer-
men. ues n' eo"0hane INC "'n'on S'esa 0 "e OF 'e on
verting of honest laborers into shanghied buns for the sake of pIins
'y or Republican friends we must have a merchant marine OF or
own. "our own" is good; emphasis o n our" Personally do not
own any ships and know whole states full of people who are, as W e
msn sy, IN the san % we wan a mer'ha Marine II a meT-
chant marine is naturally profitable, all things considered, and not
otherwise. If other nations want to carry freight for less than W will
or can. let them do it, 1t is that much saved for US.
IT, however, there ar other considerations, and W e should have a
merchant marine, the administration has offered a wholesome a1terna-
'e TO Inc SNIP us conditions: IN its proposal TO governmentowned
ships. Ships which will be safely conducted, and o which labor
always championed by Republicans, of, course-wil be we'll paid and
well treated. d III Republicans approve that proposal: Will they
endorse it? Not in ten thousand years. You see, there must be lore
snudge, a deal of it indeed, for further conceahment.
In this merchant marine matter the Republicans have a record of
their W which is a sad n to contemplate. Briefly, it III some
what like this: When the Republican party first can into the power
which it and its select benefciaies have 50 long enjoyed-whether
anybody else did o not-approximaely Is per cent OF the shipping
business o.: the United States "a done in American ships, flying Amer
lean flags. Under Republican tariffs and other Republican legislation,
and wise Republican guidance of things generally since that time, our
marine-emphass O n the "our'-has shrunk to a handful OF
ships belonging to a few nlionaires, favored by some special condi-
These little slhouettes clipped from the black pages of Repub.i-
can administrative history do not look real well in the full glare.
And these are but a few of them. There is a whole gallery fu1l-Rob-
S. Doubleday in San Francisco Star.
If you see it in the morning paper you may be sure it was in the