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Show INDUSTRIAL POLITICS. It ia beginning to be well under-etood under-etood that it is the settled policy of the republican party and leaders to obstruct ob-struct the impending reforms in every way, to the end that the preaant administration ad-ministration may become obnoxious and be eo brought into disfavor as that there will be no possible show for it at the polls next fall, when we are to elect another congress. Indeed later developments develop-ments establish this charge almost beyond the possibility of a doubt. Every measure to relieve the stringency of the times is strenuously opposed because be-cause with every added day of hard times comes strikes, disorders and the organization of new industrial mobs. In almost every instance of strikes, riots, and the disorders attending them, it is found upon investigating the circumstances surrounding thein, that republican local leaders are the instigators. This was the case in Montana, in California, and it is a broadly known fact that the entire band in Salt Lake is republican almost to a man. These are the means relied upon to bring the democratic administration into contempt among the masses. These innocent patriots will, after-while after-while when the Cleveland adnii niatra-tion niatra-tion is on trial at the ballot box, stand by rolling their hypocritical eyes to heaven, exclaiming, "behold how the wicked democrats have Binned ;" Be sure that these unfrank tactics will catch many gudgeons. It would make little'or no difference but for the fact that these same gudgeons have votes. The democrats should, in every case, make strenuous efforts to strip the veil from their hypocritical faces and hold them up to that execration they have won, are winning, by these wicked ways. Of course if silver bad not been demonetized de-monetized in '73, there had been little or nothing ot panic, there had been no strikes, no armies of workless men and consequently no disorders today. The republican party leaders are not dissolving with the fervency of their sympathy with the distress of the laborers, la-borers, oh, no, but with the vividness of their hopes of creating sufficient distress dis-tress to bring the democrats into die credit by the establishment of the false claim, that it is due to the faulty policy of democracy, that the time are out of joint and distress fills the land where there should only De peace, plenty and satisfaction. This is the campaign. It crops out in time and will be met beyond all doubt and so clearly established that ere November with its election rolls 'round they will be met with proof as clear as the noonday noon-day sun. John Sherman demonetized silver, when it was the full equal of gold at a ratio of 16 to 1. John has repented and now de?ires the remonetization and free coinage of the white metal, but cote it, only at the ratio of 31 to 1. Was there ever hypocrasv such as this before? Away with all that sort of repentance, re-pentance, with that Bort of silver devotion. |