Show 12f DILEMMA We expected the Tribune would try to dodge the deadly parallel when itwas r used to expose its own contradictions I because that is its ordinary way of not meeting an argument Tho question of responsibility for the troubles of the past few months is only incidental to the question of the impossibility of simultaneous S simul-taneous unexampled prosperity and the most terrible distress and adversity It is no use to rave over what CLEVELAND CLEVE-LAND has done or bas not done It is not whether the silver question is alone or L not alone to blame for what has come upon the country That > will not explain away the unexplainable un-explainable Tribune paradox cf a continued con-tinued decline in values and a rapid and steady increase in poverty distress privation pri-vation crime and all the woes of social misery and at the same tile a gradual rise to the most exalted hight of wonderful wonder-ful prosperity such as has never before been known in history That paper quoted from ExPres dent HABRISONS message last December to establish the latter proposition and in a parallel column touching on another question showed that for twenty years the miseries of the first proposition have been accumulating ac-cumulating through the wrong done to i sUr This is what the doublefaced wiseacre i of the west tries to establsh First that Tinder Bepublicaa management everything every-thing went lovely and the eaglo soared high There never was such wonderful prosperity But that the change of administration ad-ministration caused everything else to change and the blame for all present sor roJe is upon President CLEVELAND and the Democratic party Second that be cpcse of the detaocetizatfoa of silver in 1873 the country has ever since been going go-Ing to the dogs Trouble has followed trouble disaster has succeeded disaster U dis-aster until s general crash has comer come-r which the Tribune claims i has 1 been truing the country agaiant for years holding out the danger signal and playing prophet with a vengeance Low if that pfcES wiH suit squirming aad jumping bout iroia pillar to post1 n ifJo o Li ne1 Q 4 J a > S L J J and from silver to tariff and will explain how these two opposite conditions were possible at the same time in the same country it will clear up a most terrible mucldlo in which it flounders from day to day and which it cannot evade by trying to throw mud If the country has enjoyed right along that wonderful prosperity of which it brags in one breath it certainly has not been going to the wall for the last twenty years and doubled Its poverty crime idiocy and immorality which it bemoans in the next breath Republicans could not enrich all classes through high taxation and impoverish the agricultural agricul-tural and laboring classes by demonetizing demonetiz-ing silver both at the same time That Is the dilemma and charging present distress to Democratic causes which have not yet been set in operation will not lift I our shifty neighbor off either horn |