They Clear Their Consciences

Amone the many democrats who nave recently decided to join the republical party of protectlcm, is Hou. B. F. Havens of Terre Haute, Ind. Mr. Havens lias beem mayar of hW city, a member of the sfcate legislature, and was executive commissioner to the Cotumbian Exposition. Hls reasons for leaving the democratie party are givon in pamphlet form. As Mr. Havens had been & member oi that party ever since he was a voter, it eau be readiiy understood that "it was not a pleasant thiug to do"; but "in so doing," he says, "I havo the approval of my own conscience . " Referrlng to the tarlf f quest'ian, he had this to say : Wilsoa Law Stamped aa a Crime. "The jrreatest crime In the nineteenth century against the business Industries O'f our country was the passage oí the "Wllson bill. Tlie destructioi. of the value of property, tihe dEftructiom of the business interéi3t oí tíhe country, the great army of unemployed, the reduction in the wages of labor are all ttie resulb ol that law. The present hard times, commencing in 1893, and yet upon ue, were caused by tihis law, just as the history of the country shows that tihO dreadful pánica oí 1819, 1837 and 1857 were caused by similar democratie iree trade legislation oa the tariff question. "On tne öther hand, and in oppositlon to the ideas of the modern tariff refoTmer as embraced in the Wilson bill, we have the wörds, acts and deeds of Washington, Jefferson, HamilUm. Jackson, Madison. Clay, "Webster, Lincoln, Blaine, Grant, McKlnley and a nöst oí other illustrious men. Tdie leeislation of the country, wjhea following the advice and lines of policy marked out by this class of men, has always broiusíht jrosperity. Wnen it has foüowed out thè lines of the Wilsan bill, ruin i.-nd disaster have been the result. "The pathway of the "Wllson bill has beea strewn wibh suicides of excomgressmen, manufacturers, bankers, buslnesfi men and laboring people. The record made by it fehoiild iorever ruin politically lts author and the party that passed and supported it. "For thirty years this country lived under the tariff legisltion of the repuMican party, and these thirty years were filled with such prosperity as no other governmeut on eartli has ,ihad. It is true that in that time we had both sorrow and tróuble, but it was such sorrow and trouble as war brings, and the legislation of the republican party pulled us t-hrouRli the war and the inllation of the currency the war b-rought, and put u on a firm foundation in 1879. Grover Cleveland had one term of office in these thirty years, 1884188S, whea bhis first tree trade thcory advocated during his admiiiistration resulted in the election of the gallant soldier and statesman, Benjamin Harrison, as President of t!he United States. Increase in the Public Debt. "In the twelve years from 1880 to 1892, when Grover Cleveland was elected for the second time, the expenses of the government were all paid and $1.200,000,000 of the interest beai-iag debt was paid. "When the war closed the publia debt oí the country was about $2,800,000,000. When President Cleveland was elected la 1892, under republican legislation on the financal and tariff questions (which had been enforced up to the end o'f hiis first term, for nearly thirty years), this interest bearing debt, by reason of such legislatijon, had been reduced to less than $1,000,000,000 when he went out of office at the close of nis first term. Oae democratie president in four years of this period has increased the public debt $100,000,000 for each year that he haB been president. "To the people, democracy under Mr. Cleveland has been a very expensive institution. Under Mr. Cleveland's last term, and the democratie legislation on the tariff, the Wilson bilí, -what has happened in comparisoin with ttoe twelve years, or any tenn of fo-ur years of the twelve, that preceded 1892 ? During tne present administration of Mr. Cleveland the goverament interest bearIng debt has been increased $260,000,000. The ordinary defbt of the govemment has been increased about $140,000,000, making the legacy that he will turn over to the republican president wlio succeeds him au iniucrease in th,e debt o; t.he country during hii term of atoout $400,000,000, and mot a dollar of reduction made on the interest bearing debt of the uation What a record! AVhat incompetency ! "XOTtmber, 189G, will complete the solution oí our affairs, whlch started in November, 1894-95. Those who wisli to continue the business situation as it is now, and the conducting of our public affairs as they are now, sliould vote the democratie ticket. Those who want that which we forraeriy had - prosperlty - should vote ' the republican ticket."