A Stop Thief Cry

We are not hearing so much about the paralyzing effect on our industries of "the threat of free trade" as we were. The cause of this subsidence of the calamity wail in the editorial columns of our Republican contemporaries is the appearance in their news columns of dispatches from various manufacturing points throughout the country telling of the starting up of milis and factories. Here, for instance, is the veracious Grand Rapids Herald of Wednesday,'which prints several dispatches announcing the resumption of operations by a number of the principal milis in New England. One of these dispatches is from Fall River, Mass., and it imparts the cheering information that twentythree (count 'ein - 23) factories in that city will start up next Monday. Immediately following this dispatch appears one from Manchester, to this ettect: Manchester, N. H., Sept. 5, - The twelve milis of the Amoskeag company, employing 5,000 males and 4,000 females, will start up Monday next, after a month's shutdown. Agent Shaw has issued formal notice of the resumption, which was decided upon by the board of directors in Boston, Satutday. The milis will run full time. with no cut in wages. Then next follows the subjoined dispatch: Lowell, Mass., Sept. 5 - The ingrain department of the Lowell Manufacturing comdany started up today. The cotton department of theHamilton milis also started and the print works will start next Monday. Al most every day the news columns of our Republican contemporaries contain Associated Press dispatches announcing the, starting up of industrial establishments in various sections of the country. The financial scare is over, the hoarded tnoney is returning once more to circulation to perform its accustomed function of supplying the lifeblood of commerce, and manufacturers are hastening to avail themselves of the improved monetary condition to secure the necessary funds to resume operations. They shut down their milis in the first place because of the financial stringency, and not from a lack of orders or f rom any fear of "Democratie tariff tinkering." This is conclusively shown by the fact that as soon as they are able to effect arrangements to secure the currency to pay their workmen they are starting up their milis again, The "threat of free trade" cry was raised merejy to divert attention from the blightmg effects of Republican monopoly financial and tariff legislation. Now that the repeal of the vicious Sherman lawis a certainty, the country is already beginning to feel the pulsations of a new life and the people are beginning to clearly perceive the dishonesty of this characteristic Republican stopthief cry. When the Democratie pledge to wipe off the statute books the trade-shackling McKinley law is finally redeemed, the complete restoration of prosperity will be