Show XO USE DENYiNG IT No matter how much Republicans who predicted a series of disasters toe to-e the consequence of Democratic leg Islation may attempt to reconcile their prognostications with existing facts it must be clear to every fair mind that to use the mildest language they made a most egregious mistake Acontemporary which is daily endeavoring en-deavoring to wiggle its way out of the hole in which it finds itself on this question has admitted more than once that the same perdiotions of woe which were made by the Republicans before the passage of the tariff law were repeated after it was enacted To justify those forecasts it says now the same feature of disasters was predicted pre-dicted and It has come to our wool interests terests to our lead interests and in many other interests Now what are the facts patent before be-fore the eyes of the whole American people They are that instead of disaster dis-aster coming to any of these interests sinCe the enactment of the Democratic cratic tariff law improvements in all the departments of industry have been marked The particular interests men tioned have not met with disaster but they have very materially improved proved Whatever theories may be put forth as to the cause of the troubles that fell upon the country about the time the Democratic administration admin-Istration succeeded to power it cannot be truthfully denied that all the disasters asters which our Republican friends are continually attributing to Demo ratic success fell upon the country under the operation of laws enacted by the Republicans The McKinley law was in full force up to the time when the reform tariff bill was an accomplished fact During the few months which have elapsed I j since the bill became a law the exact I reverse of all that was predicted by the Republicans has taken place All the sophistry and wordtwisting and tbeorising that Republican papers which are not frank enough to admit dibi the truth ae capable of will not sweep away these irrefutable and self apparent facts |