Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — THE GREAT “LOWERER.” [ARTICLE]

THE GREAT “LOWERER.”

As a “lowerer” the Cleveland administration is an incomparable success. It has in fact lowered every thing that should stay up or go higher. It began by lowering the American flag, and it has gone on lowering as if it was at work by the job and would forfeit part of its wage if it had not lowered everything within a given period to the lowest basement. It has lowered wages, the range of employment, the product of mills, the freights of railroads, the volume of industry, the little savings of the workingman, the profits of trade, the price of wheat, and everything else that is essential to to the comfort of the people. It lias lowered values of all kinds — railroads, farms, stocks of goods. Tffkas lowered the funds in the treasury, the customs receipts, the standing of the Bepublie in the eyes of the world. It has even lowered Democratic majorities and the repute of the Democratic party, never the best, until there is scarcely a man in the country who will say without qualification, “1 am a Democrat.” True, it has increased many things, but the increase had the quality of lowering. It has increased the public debt, the army of the the suffering and pauperism of the land, the affection of John Bull for American toadies. In short it has lowered every tiling that is essential to the highest prosperity of the the Nation, and increased everything that can add to its woes and disgrace. Fortunately it will end by lowering itself out of existence, but the lowering process is a general calamity.— Indianapolis Journal.