Show fly the chicago chronicle seeks to deceive the men ot of the th united states by misstatements like the following A republican newspaper citing the fact act that the he health or can united states Is at uw sa a two thirds t of this ent simous wealth was piled up oil during the file yer years of protect protective ivic tariff this ihla to be true tile first one thild on tho the other two k chords in IM based wits way idled up under free trade and it wan a times more difficult to cro create late the first one third then it 11 was waa to create either cither of tho the other to thirds of course it lacks lacka every element clement ot of truth washington jackson jefferson every democrat ot of the old days whom modern democrats pretend to reverence protective men the heresies her esies which attach attach to the present democracy began with john C cat cal lioun boun and tho the fruit tho the therne theme farst bore was waa particularly noticeable late in the littles fifties whon when though the money ot of the country and ot of the world had been doubled during the previous seven or eight years this country was absolutely stranded drained of 0 money filled with tilt foreign goods with the workingmen ot of our cities eating tree free soup so much for the comment of the chronicle now i ow the republican paper Is 13 only half right while it Is tr true u 0 that the enormous wealth was plied piled up during the years of a protective tariff that was hot the only factor actor and tho the protect protective he tariff would have done but one part ot of the by itself the secret ot of the mighty advance rests on the stream ot of treasure trea sura which began flowing from the west coast in ISO 1849 and which increased in volume alt with every bearup year up to 1393 1893 when the democratic president and congress struck down silver the men of 0 the east have I 1 done magnificent work but the vitalizing agent ot of commerce and the regulator of values are not in wheat it elds or cornfields or cotton fields but in the precious metals that are dug out of the rock ribbed hills and the two million of 0 men af at work on the west cas coast t by they boik w 01 k have done more to advance values in the united states than hll thalita eight millions ot of the east |