Show I 1 V BROKEN PROMISE CASES have not the I 1 eople ground grounds for dabag a against democracy A denver man has sued a restaurant for dadig ng h s stomach he ile says the restaurant sol e ted patronage on the ground that it good food but that the prom se re wag was not fulfilled the th food he asserts caused st stomach trou brou ble from wh nh ch eh he suffered greatly and he fixes h s damages at s several everal thou band sand dollars th s case w 11 be watched with inter est for it opens a new field in the dam age s it 11 I 1 e it is usually easy to se cure compensatory damages for losses caused by broken prom ses when the plant pla nt ff S has a written contract to back up his demand or it if he has witnesses to a verbal contract but it is not al poss ble to secure redress when the aiom se is of such a nature as is alleged to have been made by the denver res laurai t suppose the denver man had won his case an avalanche ot of damage suits m follow bus ness men who forget engagements gals g ris nho n ho wait vainly for lovers that fa I 1 to come borrowers who neglect to repay small loans clans vi ho prom se and forget and political part es wh ch bid for votes and never meet the r obi gat ons all these might be I 1 able tor for damages it if the denver pla tiffs tiff 9 8 t is sustained and what a mounta n of case cases might be pled p led up against democracy it if the statute of I 1 in lations d d not prove t be a bar barl who will ever forget the woe and misery the d stress and larva tion that came with the democratic days of 1803 1893 to 1897 industries languished lanni shed and trade and commerce generally genen lly were paralyzed mill ons of wr ware wre e earner earners vi mere ere e ther rendered idle or put on short t me the streets of the cities swarmed w th unemployed and soup houses were estabi shed to feed the hungry once happy homes were turned into places of squalor where here hunger pinched mothers sat thyi s g to st 11 the cries of III no ir dished babes and where gaunt sunken eed men brooded over their inability to obtain work and what caused these distressing cond eions in the campaign of 1892 1802 democracy was lavish with promises the can policy of protection was a it great evil the democratic platform said the people were urged to try free trade or a tar ff for revenue only great blessings would follow abolition of a prote tive five tariff democracy said the people were misled by these promises did aid grover cleveland was elected then ime cime c the gormin gorman NA ilson tariff bill and with v ith it ge oral cral depress on and pan cin eki cond t ons these cond eions prevailed I 1 the dingley act went into effect and a huge wave of republican pros per ty began to engulf the country if the denver min man has grounds tor for redress ba hai e not the mill ons who sut suf feied by reason ot of democracy a vision al adiv v and broken prom ses res just grievance monetary losses were enormous and the r sufferings beyond financial it on and democracy is again making prom aises sea vi NN ill the vict ms ras of 1893 7 listen to the pol t cal sirens who are s ng ng the song ot of ruin rain in honeyed words and be begu u ling tones not if they stop and cons der the past democracy has nothing but its past decord to stand on and ahat that record I 1 is w m th heaps of broken prom ses blasted hopes d led factories throttled industry es of all L k ads bank fript stores and wrecks and ruins gener ally no candi late is greater than his party and find rt it is a certainty that it if parker sho shurld ild by any chance be elected his adm adin n strati oil would be democratic and democracy never has conferred a real benefit on the people |