Show SAD CALAMITy iTES ORT aften DAZED I 1 tl till liable een a filly iad ad yvor for far i eveland and MS lP have lave to tile gall gals mitat 11 curtis na ila to say this is a very baj year for the dimo di 11 mo cratic party the tile hearts of here berg of the british cobden club aay nay well be wrung with anguish as they hey t contemplate the successive autera that have befallen their american free trade allies in the first place alie theeb ex cellena crops and the unparalleled industrial du prosperity of the country were 1 a I great blow to the th calamity party short crops and bal bat business al always waye work for democratic democrat to success euc ces then came the report of or tile united st state a senate committee signed by tile ablest al Denilo democrat crat in congreso con bonare co nare gresi john G carlisle allowing by incontrovertible proof thai that the wages of workingmen dmd iner increased eased while the tile prices of manufactured products had diminished under the me fc killoy law then there followed in ia quick sion tho the official reports of labor commissioner peck and bank superintend superintendent preston both democrats the free traders had in insisted aisted with nil all tho the noise and pertinacity of professional howling dervis dervishes hea that the INIc mckinley Kinley tariff was oppressing industry and ant lessening the reward of labor comich commissioner lioner pech 3 report proved that in one year this tariff there had been in tho the single state of now york an all increase of industrial production amounting to an increase in the total amount ct of wages paid to factory employees of more than and an average individual increase of wages amounting to 2311 11 for workers in sixty eight manufacturing industries superintendent preston demonstrated t that hat the tile savings banks deposits in new york state biad increased from do on oil jan 1 1889 to on oil july 1 1692 1602 while the depositors had increased in number from to those heavy blows sent the tile democracy into a panic they brought about a tweedy and unconditional surrender 0 on n the part of mr cleveland and tile mug bumps to busses bosses croker sheehan murphy and the 11 tion of tammany hall but there was still more misfortune in store for the luckless democracy mr george ticknor curtis the most eminent living democratic authority on constitutional law lias has publicly puhl icly announced that lie will not sanction even by silence the outrageous dogma that protection to american industry is unconstitutional more than this mr ur cunis curtis wa whose 1 se name came commands re respect hect and whose opinions carry weight among citizens of all parties in every state in the union has declared arod not only that protection is constitutional but that it is in the highest degree beneficial to tho tile nation at large this veteran democrat choso whoso constien n dional opinions have been quoted as authority by the democratic press for eo 64 many years states his position with all the tile clearness and force that tho the english language can give to it he ile says in common with many other democrats I 1 cannot follow the loaders leaders of tile 4 party in bouncing e noun cing republican flon alo n 64 asa as a fraud upon tho the labor of 0 the great majority of tho tile american people f for the lie t benefit of a few nor can I 1 subscribe to the doctrine that a protective tariff is unconstitutional I 1 have no pecuniary interest in manufactures but I 1 know what protection has done and is doing for this country if it operates for the benefit of tho the few I 1 am n not ot one of that few I 1 am ain one of the many one of tho the great majority benefited by it including those who denounce it for the fake of obtaining political power if it the leaders of a political party assembled in national convention for tho the purpose of nominating candidates for the presidency and vice presidency choose to stultify themselves by falsifying history they cannot expect to be followed ho bothers who have any habits babits of independent tilou thought ait and action 1 this last disaster is one of the that lias has yet befallen the democratic tic politicians tile facts of the labor market and of the tile country count rys lH industrial development arc are all against them and now they aro are openly denounced for their dishonesty and lack of patriotism byone by one of tile most prominent and aud most highly esteemed s t med n democrats 1 in 11 1 the united 0 sacs tye s mr cleveland and liis his followers may well wonder what is coming next new york press |