Show A POOR MEMORY our republican contemporary like a certain class of people spoken broken of in an old proverb ought to have hava a good memory it says under near nearly ay thirty years of republican administration this country witnessed abundant and almost unprecedented ce prosperity the last year of 0 this bartys ad administration in inist ration being the moat pros prosperous porous in the alio count rys history thousands of manufactories manu factories were being firmly established employing hundreds of I 1 thousands of wen men and we all were comparatively prosperous and happy the last year of the republican bartys administration was one of the most disastrous to workingmen ever known the list of strikes against reductions in wages and the numbers of workingmen adlo in strikes and lockouts were the greatest in our whole history the seed was sown in the mckinley law and ali lie e sherman silver law now we are arc reaping their harvest in 1891 2 the militia of many states were in arms to suppress the labor r iota and subdue the strikers have you forgotten 0 that in 1891 2 the treasury of the united states stater had been depleted depicted of its surplus and secretary foster was vainly trying 0 to avert the approaching pro aching money panic have you for forgotten 0 otten that in 1891 2 occurred the great drain of gold to europe which finally caused the runal runs on so many american banks and the failures of so ciany business concerns that could not get bet the ready reada I 1 money tile the gold is now returning have you forgotten that A few months ogo the gold in the treasury was less than under carlisles management it ia now this will tend to restore confidence do you understand that the chambers of commerce and boards of trade in all parts of the country have declared that the financial trouble is due chiefly to the operations of the sherman act of 1890 and they ask for its repeal the bankers take the same view Y ae w representatives of the leading business iness interests indicate the same source of trouble and call for the same remedy these are alla all business men y presumably y not one of them has bas connected the trouble with any political cause or with the demand of the people twice repeated to be relieved of oppressive taxes do you know better than these business men the preparation of a tariff bill is an all immense labor its preparation discussion and passage hitherto leave taken from one to two years it cannot be put into operation for over a year from the time its preparation is begun b do men inen ail because of something that th atwill will happen lappen in a year or two on nov 30 1892 immediately following lowing bl thier great victory the democratic leaders announced the people have now ordered a hange change in the tariff laws and the elimination of the Alc mckinley McKin Kinley lcy principle yet without the calling of an extra session this work cannot even be begun until more than a year hence there is amiss 1111 liSS in ill this when the people elect a congress that body to come into active being without unnecessary delay there should be a change in the tha time at which an old congress goeb out and a new one comes coines in speaker crisp is tile the latest statesman to urge the necessity nece sity for such a change and lie he urges it strongly meantime Uc antime an extra session in the only remedy thus the denion democratic abic party could not be begin in its work without the extra estr a session for over a year from the time of its victory during all this time the republican la laws we must remain in ft full ill force and every business man mail knew it have you forgotten that the people themselves in two successive elections after thorough discussion and investigation have demanded a reform of the tariff by immense majorities are arc the people frightened at the prospect of securing what they have themselves demanded do not try to deceive yourselves and your readers republican friends people are arc not frightened at the prospect of lower taxes and reduced government expenses the high t dixe extrac extravagance acance and bad financial legislation 0 of the past and present not the reforms of tho the future are the causes of the present hard bard times time during the first nine months mantl 13 of 1892 ending june the excess of gold exports over gold cold imports amounted to ol in the previous year 1891 the total loss of gold was still greater the outflow of gold has been going on now for actually four years and has amounted to and only now does the drain show any signs of ceasing 0 this thi loss of gold has caused a money panic and no Nv wonder onder for it is nearly one third of the total stock of gold in the united states and this loss of gold occurring under four years of T and three years years of the sherman silver law the republican sheet has the mendacity and impudence to say is due to what the democratic congress may do next december cember and thereafter was ever illy anything thin more brazen |