Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20
Those DeceivIng Democrats

Those DeceiVing Democrats.
What has been the chief com
plant of the Democrats against the
Republican party? The protective
tariff, of course. For couple of
years, now, the cry has gone up from
Democratic thr0ats that the tariff
must be revised. The country gen
orally, ia the absence Of any other
matter of public concern, imagined
that the best thing to do was to
condemn a policy which brought
about n surplus revenue.
The people were being robb. d, the
Democratic journals shouted. The
Republicans IN Congress appointed
a commission to submit report on
the revision. While the commits
siUners were at work the Democrats,
having gained measure Of atten-
ton, increased their noise and by
the time the report was made Con
gress was frightened out Of its
boots. 1t was felt that if the revi-
sion should be postponed a year the
deuce would be to pay. Although
the country had gone through a
panic and had reached uuprecedent-
ed prosperity under the existing
tariff, although our industries were
more prosperous than ever before, a
frightened Congress felt that de
lay III the adoption of a new sehed-
ule of duties would be dangerous.
The report was not satisfactory, and
the bewildered houses appointed a
conference committee, which made
a report that was adopted. NAtur-
a ly the report was not the best pos
sible, drawn as it was in the hurry
Of q political panic aud in the rush
of the last hours Of a session. On
the whole, it reduced the tariff.
There was need of u revision-but
not such a house-atire hurry as to
prevent deiberatlon. The Demo
Gratis got up the cry in order that the
/ Republicans might be forced to
make the revision and take the CON
sequences, rather than leave 1t for q
/ Democratic Congress, AS soon as
/ il was made the Democrats com
plaiued of it--aud of the very
/ things, too, for which they were es-
peclally responsible
Any time since the revision the
/ Democrats have declared the coun-
try in a state Of sutfocahon on ac-
count of the tariff
The tariff has been form Of
/ tyranny-a base robbery of the poor
workingman and the farmer, &C
cnrding to Democratic journals and
speakers.
"Let us elect Carlisle, they said,
sand put an end to this infamous
system which paralyzes indus ry,
which wrests the dry crust FROM the
enfeebled hand Of the exhausted la
borer, which builds up monopolists
whose protuberant stomachs are an
insult to the hatabdomencd payers
of customs dues"
"Only give as one chance at this
iniqultous Republican tariff, and We
will stop this robbery SO quick it'll
make your head swim"
God can't smile on . country
where such iniquity is tolerated,
they said
They have the chance now. "It
is necessary says the leading Dem
ocratic paper Of the West, the St
Louis Repu6HcaB, "that the work OF
reducing the tariff be executed in Il
minutes There is to be no tariff
Legislation this session.
And these Democrats felt that tht
earth would crack open if the las
session should adjourn without re
ducing the tariff.
Then it was fat dog. Now the
dog Is "aot SO Jeho.ably sa5 yo-
know
"Yoa Republicans" declares the
!. Democratic journal, "shsll not
force Us to take up the tariff Sow
Force! Why 81 The strength Of 81
! the tariff men could not force 20,
tN-mocrsts 80 keep their hsnds OF