Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1893 — THEIR ONLY HOPE IS SOUP. [ARTICLE]

THEIR ONLY HOPE IS SOUP.

If there are thousands of unemployed workmen in our, land, if the agricultural interests languish, if the trade and commerce are restricted, if there is lack of confidence in financial circles, so far as human laws are concerned you can charge it to the Republican party. 'There are laws on our statute books to-day which are in restriction of trade. They are Republican laws. They are laws which have destroyed the people’s continence and upset the finances. They are Republican laws.— Speaker Crisp at Tammany Hall July 4.

The above shows that Speaker Crisp is a regulation Democratic demagogue. Crisp knows as well as anybody that up to last November the wheels and. spindles in countless inildstries were humming all over the Union. Factories and mills were running night and day, wages were high and general prosperity reigned. This was under the Very same laws now in fore©. ' ’But the Democratic party proposes to murder these laws and the business men and manufacturers are getting ready for the tragedy. They are hedging against it. They see ruin and bankruptcy ahead if the Democratic congress carries out its promises and they are getting in shape to meet the wave. No nation has ever flourished as this nation has flourished nailer the laws' this incoming congress

proposes to repeal. Oar foreign commerce has been extended and new markets have, been made. When the polls opened the morning of the election last November there was not an idle wan in the nation who could not have found employment had he desired it. The Very moment the Democratic party, with its heresies, was declared successful, distrust and dismay spread throughout all channels of business. The country realized what the repeal of these laws would mean.

And now the only hope rests in the repudiation of its promises on the part of the Democratic party. If it carries out its promises there will be millions of idle workmen whose only hope of a square meal will rest in the soup which they may be able to make from the Democratic roosters they carried in their hats in the last campaign. Boys, hold on to your roosters Your only hope is soup.—Delph Journal.