Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — DEPEW ON BAD TIMES IN EUROPE. [ARTICLE]

DEPEW ON BAD TIMES IN EUROPE.

Chicago Herald: Upon his return fr-m foreign shore* Ur. Depew has to say: “Tin cry of all Europe is bad business; nothing like it ha« been known before.— They all feel anil look poor. While this is especially true of continental Europe. England; has not escaped the prevailing hard times.” And. Dr. Depew doesn't attribute the bad business to taribL reform of the kind promised in the Chicago platform of lbi>a He could not do ihat in the case of continental Europe, whme business is worst, for there tuey have had no tariff reform, or promise of any,exceot of the Molunley kind. In the case of England, where business iB best, he does not mention free trade as the cause of tho depression. He mention* nothing but the great coal strike, whioh he says “was productive of an incalculable amount oi damage.” Napoleon McKinley and Czar Heed will have to apply tho rod of discipline to the back of the learned dootor. , They arc telling the American people that it ie the W iliou bill and the fear of a moderate installment of tariff reduction that is making business bad and throwing men out of employmaut in this country.— Therefore it waß Dr. Dopow’s dutyto say nothing about bad business and restriction of employment in Europe unloss ho could make it appoar that there were promisod installments of tariff reduction to account for tho trouble there.

But instead of keeping still or talking tariff, like an Obodiout partisan, he states the facts and omits to ohargo them all up against tariff reform, lie tolls how even continental hotel proprietors havo been forood to discharge men until iu one instance tho same man appeared in a blouse to k'ndle a fire, in blue coat and goidlace as Lead clerk, and in a dross suit as head and only waiter. And he doesn’t intimate that the tariff hud unylhing to do with those lightning transformations and the distressing restriction of employment which they implied.

So for from that, the distinguished postprandial orator leaves us to our own reflections. Ho tells us that the situation is best t>f nil in free-trade England, in spite of the groat coal strike, and he leavos ns to recall the faot that it is best there In in spite of the immense loisea inlliotod upen British investors by the financial oatastrophes in Argentina and Australia and many raiuor oatastrophes elsewhere, while the situation is worst in continental countries where they enjoy the blessing of protective tariffs, ai.d where they hove not been deeply involved in outside financial disasters, except in the case of tho Panama Canal. The inference is obvious. If tariff redno ion has nothing to do with depression in Europe probably it bus nothing to do with depression here, though MoKinloyism may have not a little to do with depression on both sides of iho wator.

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