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DEMOCRATIC

CAMPAIGN BOOK

CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION 1894.

BY AUTHORITY OF DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.

WASHINGTON, D. C.: HARTMAN & CADICK, PRINTERS. 1894.

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What the Democratic Congress Did.

It repealed the Sherman Silver Law which required the Government to purchase annually 54,000,000 ounces of silver and pay for the same in gold obligations, thereby menacing the credit of the Government, and imperiling the stability of our commercial, manufacturing and financial

interests.

It removed from the statutes the Federal Election Law, the most odious and undemocratic measure ever enacted, and thereby restored to the people of the sovereign States full and complete control over their elections, free from the intervention of supervisors and deputy marsh: 1s, whose sole duties, under Republican supremacy, had een to intimi

date, arrest and imprison electors before they had cast their ballots.

It reduced the expenditures of the Government below those of the last Republican administration more than $28,ooo,coo, thereby relieving the people from the payment of that immense sum into the Federal Treasury to stimulate extravagant jobs.

It reformed the abuses in the various Departments, and by the aid of the heads of the same dispensed with useless positions, thereby reducing the salary list more t $1,000,000 annually.

It repealed that most obnoxious, ill-formed and cp sive measure called the McKinley Law, and substitute: its stead a measure of revenue reform that will revive trade and restore prosperity.

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It destroyed the policy of paying out the public funds in the Treasury, derived from taxes collected from the people, millions of dollars annually in the way of bounties to aid private individuals in the prosecution of their private industries.

It provided for the taxation, by States, counties, and municipalities of more than three hundred millions of taxable values which had heretofore not only been exempt from taxation, but had enabled unscrupulous persons, by fraudulent practices, to escape from their just share of the burdens of domestic government.

It placed upon the statute books the most drastic measure against combinations, trusts, and monopolies engaged in foreign commerce ever enacted.

It provided for an Income Tax upon the wealth of the country, thereby placing upon the shoulders of the rich a due share of the burdens of government.

It recognized the dignity of labor by providing by law a National Holiday in the District of Columbia upon which the working people may case from toil and unite in a peaceful celebration of their achievements and triumphs.

It enacted more than two hundred laws for the benefit of the people in different sections of the country.

Cause of Panic of 1893.

The Inevitable Result of Four Years of Republican Maladministration.

REVENUES FALL-EXPENDITURES RISE.

The False Cry of Fear of Tariff Legislation and Democratic Rule.

The strenuous effort made by protectionists to impress upon the minds of the people that the depression of last year was caused by the fear that the tariff would be reformed and that all that was necessary to insure a speedy return of good times was to cease the agitation of this question, in the light of the history of the last few years under high protection, was supremely ridiculous.

Could it be possible that the mere accession of the Democratic party to power in all the departments of the Government, upon the profession of principles under which the civilized people of every country of the world, which has practised them, including ourselves, had accumulated wealth and attained a higher degree of prosperity, had the effect, in so short a space of time, to convert a prosperous people into a helpless and dependent state? Is it not more credible that the great disaster which came upon us was the outgrowth of a false system of economy which, with all our matchless resources, we were unable to longer stand? Will not future gener when they look back to our times to draw lessons of wisdom to guide hem direction in which they should go, rather ascribe our reverses to our follies it of our fears? Are the advocates of a restrictive policy ready to confess tha withstanding our unparalleled resources, thirty years of protection had fai establish our industries upon a foundation sufficiently firm to withstand ea proposition looking to a conservative modification of its structure?

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