Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — QUERIES. [ARTICLE]

QUERIES.

What greater loss than that of a true j friend? Is xot equanimity the best of supports under difficulties? How many hours of VGiation will pay jven a small debt? Abe not short cuts in business often lazardous to hoaesty? Do not situations of hwssrd best prove the sincerity of friends? Is thebe not such r thing as being too prudent ever to fall In laze? Is pbecipitajtcb in action any mere dangerous than excessive caution? W®u&d nat some people have a “great footing itr the world” if the size of their footgear determined their rank and success in life? How many people who boast of the high standing pf their ancestry are as careful as they might be always to sustain the character of their house and hand it down unimpaired to their \ descendants?—Boston Home Journal.

The people knew before the election whet the Democratic party proposed to do, and they placed it in power by a large majority, and the Republican who attributes the present financial demoralization to want of confidence in Democrats, as to what they are going to do, should take warning from the fate of Ananias. It is a fact that the Democratic party now has control of the Government, but we are still under Republican laws. Democrats have neither mane nor repealed any laws as yet. And the Reuublioan, Populist or Prohit itionist who charges the present hard times to the Democratic party may be safely set down as the biggest kind of a “damphool. ”

The stoppage of manufactories, and the alarm sounded by combines ana monopolies, with a view to bluff congress in its determination to engage in tariff reform will be of no avail. Tariff reform will be proceeded with just so soon as relief is afforded the people in their financial straits, thrusi. upon them by the vicious legislation of the repubtican party. The New York Sun maintains that it were better to have a financial panic than to have had a Force bill enacted. “As between the evils of a por plextng financial situation,” it says, “and th, evils of an overthrown system of free government, we need not waste ten lines in instituting a comparison. It is like weighing the inconveniences of a temporarily stra tened larder against the misfortune of a house burned down with no insurance. Hard times are tough: revolution and civil strife are a thousand times worse and costlier, and Republican persistence in the infamous programme of which the Force bill was the first number, led toward revolution and conflict, as surely as a spark remained of the old Amgrican spirit of Democracy.”

Henry Wafter son truthfully says in the Courier-Journal that “the Republican party can not escape its full responsibility. It is the author of the fiscal laws under which we live. It is the father of our industrial system, regulated by a tariff made bv protectionists in the interest of monopoly. The Democratic, pnrty assumed the reins of government less than five months ago, taking possession of an already depleted treasury. Congress co’d hardly have been called in extra session much earlier. All things existent in the federal fabric, excopt the men newly ohosen to administer them, are of Republican making. “The Democrats transferred power to the Republicans four years ago with everything in good shape. The Republicans pass it back to the Democrats with everything in bad shape. At this stage of the journey criticism from the oracles of Republicanism is the sheerest quibbling.— Thus far the administration has had the opportunity so do very liitle. But Mr. Carlisle held his own in the treasmy, keeping the national credit intact without increasing the national debt 1 y the issuance of bonds, and Mr. Cleveland has maintained the p .blfc confidence to an exceptional degree, whilst waiting the coming together of i 1 c ]k p e's repsentatives.”