The Dun Machine

Dan, tbe republican oroaker, calam ity howler, and prosperity boomer, i trying hard in the last issue tö prove that things are "looking up. " There's snch a feeling of confidenoe that tbe bank clearings are fbe larges sinoe 1892, (the great year) and it is dne "to large investments for wbeat the orop being large, and the cotton erop being large" - the result of confi denoe. "The corn erop does not promise well, bnt this gives better prioes for the huge erop of last year now held by deal ers. ' ' Certainly, the whole thing is doe to oonfidence. The tariff did it. The gold standard briugs the crops right. "The boot and shoe industry is gain ing, yet tbe shipruents hava been -the sruallest in the oorresponding week for fonr years " Oh yes, of course, the bnsiness is inoreasing, but shipruents don't prove it. "Leather is not active. " No, but the Dan lying machine is. "Sales of wool, bear little relation to coBsumption, btit dealers, sinoe the tariff bill was euacted, are no longer oonfident of a speedy advanoe. Yel prioes have eisen duriug the past few weeks nearly one cent a pouud." Alarvelous! With the prices tending upward on everything bnt labor, and with a tariff of 12 cents a pound, mstead of free wool, garublers have managed to raise theprice of wool one little cent per pound in two weeks. Wonderful, indeed, is tariff! "Iron and steel produots average slightly in price, bnt the outlook is altogether inore hopeful. The demand for finished produots is increasing, the feature this week béng large contracts from Russia, Sumatra and Gerinany. " Now would not tbat drive a pessimist off his peg? The iron industry is booming, or will be booming, for the tariff has brought orders from foreign conntries for finished produots. It is no wonder, that with Dan 's Review, startedin 1892, to systematically raisrepresent business, oréate distrust, and oroak continually abont the danger of demooratio rule, it helped bring on the panio over which it seemed to gloat with special pleasure. The paper has never been fair, trutbfnl, honest, or correct. It has simply been a sort of mud-valve for the republioan lists. ■