Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — ANXIETY IS ASSUMED. [ARTICLE]

ANXIETY IS ASSUMED.

DEMOCRATS NOT SINCERE , IN CLAMOI* FOR REFORM. 1 r their Present Hysterics Are Counterfeit and Are Indulged iu for the .Purpose of Putting Republicans in a Hole—Republican Press Comment. Democrats and the Revenues. Democratic organs are becoming seriously disturbed abouxthe deficiency in the Government’s revenues,, and insist that It should be met at once. These organs are supporters of the administration. It is passing strange that they have so recently made the discovery of the evils growing out of insufficient revenue. These evils have existed for several years—in fact, ever since the passage of the Wilson tariff hill. They are not new, and they are not-as harmful as they have been. -The crowning evU was the passage of a revenue bill which did not provide the requisite revenue. This led to the borrowing of money at usurious rates of interest, the weakening of public confidence and the periodic runs on the treasury’s gold reserve, but the people have decided to place the Republican party in charge of affairs, and the country is rapidly recovering from the effects of bad statesmanship. Gold is accumulating in the treasury, confidence, has been to a large extent restored, and the remnants of the enormous loans effected J by Mr. Cleveland will meet the deficiency until a Republican administration has had time to pass a proper revenue law. If the Democrats are so much alarmed about the deficiency, they have It in their power to meet it and Wipe it but. They Qgn do this within a month. They have a pig-eon-loled bill, prepared and passed by the Republicans of the House at the last session, in response to the almost panicky demand of the President. It was a temporary expedient, passed as such, and was only intended to cover a certain period, and may, therefore, need revision in some particulars, but It will stave off an Imaginary crisis just as well as any bill that the Democrats can prepare. They have only to rescue this measure from the parliamentary entanglement In which they Involved it and pass it, and there will cease to be a deficiency during the interval between the regular sessions of Congress. But they have not; the slightest idea of taking such a step. The anxiety of the Democratic organs is assumed, Their hysterics are counterfeit They would like to put the Republicans in a hole, and if they cannot d° that they hope to produce an unfavorable impression on the public mind. They will do neither the one nor the other. The Republicans have done all in their power to relieve the present administration from the embarrassments into which it dellterately plunged, and nothing more willbe done Until the party gets control of the government and becomes actually responsible for the management of public affairs.—Springfield Union.

Bryan Should Study This. While Bryan is receiving the congratulations of his free-silver friends In the mining States for not being elected, wheat lias quietly slipped up to a dollar. This ought to be an awful blow to the Boy Orator’s self-sufficiency. His plea during the campaign was that, as silver advanced in price so wheat would advance, and viefe versa, and by adopting free silver coinage the farmers would get a dollar for their wheat, or more. The sudden and rapid advance of wheat about midway the campaign while silver continued to drop gave Bryan a body blow and temporarily khocked the pith out of his eloquence, but ho soon recovered hfs volubility and* evolved from his prodigious imagination* some explanation of the phenomenon. - _ ' _ But free silVer has now been overwhelmingly defeated. There is no more hope of its adoption than of any of the hare-brained theories that have run their course and been filed away in the pigeon liol'es of memory, and yet wheat persists in going up until it has reached a dollar a bushel. Many thousands of intelligent persons predicted that wheat could never again reach that price, and they laid plausible grounds, for believing so. But Bryan was going to bring It up with free silver. Possibly he would have brought it up in this country, but the price would have been paid In depreciated currency. "Wheat, at a Bryan dollar per bushel, would have been worth fifty cents, but wheat now is worth a hundred cents. Free silver didn’t have anything to do with the rise. The law of supply and demand arranged It.

Was Too Ardent. An lowa postmaster, who is a free silver man, warmly advocated the election of Mr. Bryan. "In the course of his business he discovered that someone was sending through* hiS office large quantities of literature on the nefarious subject of sound money. This was directed to farmers, and the postmaster discovered to his horror that the latter were reading the documents, and! that the'attendance at the free silver meetings grew less and less. The postmaster made up his mind that he would save the farmers and the country was going to the demnition bowwows, and he promptly confiscated all the matter of this sort which afterwasd came to the office and burned it. In spite of his heroic efforts lowa went overwhelmingly against lilm, and now. a heartless administration is actually doing to prosecute him.—Chicago Chronicle. . i • Not Surprised at Fraud. The Louisville Courier-Journal expresses no surprise at the revelations of fraud In the Tennessee election and declare# that no one familiar with the politics of Tennessee was surprised. “On the contrary,” says the CourierJournal, “it would have been surprising if the election in Tennessee had been free from fraud.” The paper makes it emphatic by adding: •. " The Courier-Jourtial spealw frora a thorough knowledge of Tennessee, and, speaking thus,) we have not tjbe least doubt that Bryan, as well ajt Taykir, was beaten In the State. ‘Roften’ Is the ope word that best describes the political condition* there. The element of the Democratic party which supported -Bryan have loo* prevented fair eles-

tiops In Tennessee. They look upon opposition as Impious. MaCfiy of believe that they are ftflly justified tn resorting to any method to defeat such opposition. They have more than once stolen the State, and they ore proud of It." ,v • ».* Revenue Will Be Provided. Some of the papers'are making hysterical appeals to the President-elect not to call an extra session of <songress for the purpose of passing a revenue bill. They say that a large number es Democrats voted for him, and, therefore,, the tariff ought not to be reformed on protection lines. These journals should study the treasury statements. "They would then be In better condition to give advice. The deficit for this month is already more than seven millions of dollars, and if all that belongs to this month Is Included In the month’s expenses, it may be double that amount before the first of December. This will give some notion of the general deficit, and the paramount need of revenue legislation. The Government must have funds to pay Its daily expenses, or there will be* a recurrence of the distrust which upset finance and business. -Put of the large amounts borrowed by Mr. Cleveland’s administration, In round numbers, about $300,000,000, there Is left, perhaps, enough, with the aid of the receipts from the Wilson bill, to run the Government until the first of July, 1897, and then, unless Congress passes a revenue bill meanwhile, more bonds must be sold, and the foolish policy of the present administration revived. The present revenue act Is a •piebald affair, an Incongruous mixture of protection and free trade, which em-' bodies all the defects of both systems, but its worst feature is that it does not provide the Government with enough money to meet its curtent expenses. But, say these papers, the Democrats voted the Republican ticket, and, therefore, the Cleveland policy should prevail—father a queer conclusion under the circumstances. The Democrats deserve credit for severing party fles and voting as their consciences dictated, but if they expected a Republican administration to do as they wished, they certainly do not deserve any credit whatever, for they did nothing but what was agreeable to them, and there was no merit in their act. As a fact, they voted the Republican ticket, knowing full well what the Republican policy was. They voted to save themselves and their belongings jfrom destruction, and they felt that the Republican party was their only hope. Their confidence was based on the past action of the Republican party, a part of which was its thoroughly practical and American management of the revenue question. We don’t think the President-elect or his advisers will be moved by these hysterical appeals. They may be moved to laughter, but not to tears or fears. The country is sorely in need of revenue, and it will be provided as soon after the fourth of March as expeditious legislation can furnish it.—Baltimore American. t A Demand for Hanna, Major McKinley will make one of the greatest Presidents in the history of the country, but he must have great men to help him, and among these must be Mr. Hanna. No excuse will avail when the call comes, and the call has already come from the millions of citizens who voted for McKinley. Secretary Hanna was elected along with President McKinley.—Baltimore American.

It Is Terrible. Here Is V leading English paper urging the British Government to put a tariff on beet sugar, for the benefit of the West India planters, and adding that if it doesn't do so the planters may seek annexation of their Islands to the United States. Shade of Cobden! Isn’t it terrible?—New York Tribune. Nothing Rational. Mr. McKinley’s alleged determination jto call an extra session evidences that, like the rest of us, he expects nothing rational from the present aggregation of Senatorial incompetency. —Duluth News Tribune. A Hint, to Watson. , Tom Watsoa might begin at once on the preparation <sf his ldtter of acceptance for 1900, so as to be able to devote all his time to getting it before the public during the campaign.— Washington Star. Such DeAte Silence. We would be much more pleased If the Bryan Democrats in the various departments would make a little more noise. They can’t keep up the fight for 1900 by such dense silence.—Washington Post. Protection a Good Thing. And now Sweden, too, after a brief trial of partial free trade, decides to go back to potection. There seems to be' something like an epidemic of “McKinleyism” all round.—Boston Journal. Condensed Comment. It will be mighty hard to convince Democrats, next, year that the appointments of the White House are perfect. The free sliver Democrats of Chicago are going to celebrate Jackson Day—probably because Jackson Is dead and cannot help himself. . Bryan does not seem to be enough of a lawyer to understand that it is a waste of breath to go on arguing a case that gas been decided. David Bennett Hill feels very confident that he could place his hand on a first-class nucleus for a now Democratic party without Jumping out of bed. ’ , Tom Watson announces that he “now is entirely out of politics.” In the interest of the public it is to be hoped that he will not order another suply. Senator Peffer once wrote about “The Way Out,’’"and now Kansas Populists are threatening to show it to him by electing another man to the place he occupies. Illinois is now the banner Republican State of the West, and her sensible and loyal people have reason to be very proud of the action bjf whleg this distinction was secured! It Is becoming tpore evident everyday that the farmers were raising dollar wheat last summer while the free sllverltes were trying to persuade them that the gold standard would send them th the poor house. &