Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-09-02
Senate by large majority, think more thar

| tne COnfercc5 reported Dack ZIG PROVISIONS
! substantially as amended in the Senate, an
these amendments were agreed 70 by more
than q tvo-thirds majority In the House, and
was agreed to with practical uDanimity in the
| Senate, as the ayes and nays were not called
IN the latter body. This moderate consarva-
| tive and Just measure was then sent to the
| Pres dent for his approval, he quietly put 1t in
| his pocket, refused TO sign IL, or return 1t 10
Congress unsigned, wch, II he had cone
would have secured its passage by m ire than
| 4 two thrds majority over bis objection.
| yhia must have been plain to him,
as II was to every member Of the Senate and
| the House. Thus by interposipg this pocket
veto be set up his own VIII and Judgment
| against the unanimous will ard Judgement
| of the two Houses OF Congress. He knew, as
well as every person who btars me how Knows
| that IL he had refused to sign that bill, and
| had Returned It TO the House OF Representa-
tiSGs that it would have been passed in five
minutes over his veto, By more than two
| thirds majority. He knew, as we all know
that IL it had come TO the Senate 1t would have
| been passed with pract cal unanliaity. don't
| believe that in the Senate there would have
been five votes against IL. So that the Presi-
dent OF the United states, In violation Of the
! Ppifit OF the constitution OF his country with
held from Congress, knowing its published
will and judgment, bill OF the most import
ant character relating TO and affecting the IN
| dustrlal, laboring aud material interests OF
this country. and in absolute contempt Of Con-
| =
grcss might have no opportunity of reversing
| his Judgment with reference to H. This Is
Democracy, aud tue PARTY In this State 80 de-
clare; because the frs. section Of their Demo-
crate platform contains a full and complete
Endorsement Of the administration of President
Cleveland. Democrats and Ureenbackers and
all, arc expected in this campaign to uphold
the hands of this administration in thus
| thwarting the will of Congress by
the intervention Of tho one man power
IA
my Democratic friends with reference
to the management CT the finances of your adj
mnistration as compared with their manage
ment under Republican Administrations, and
- compared with the pledges and promises
50 EMMY made TO the reoplc by our leaders
THE TARIFF.
Has the Democratic rarty redeemed its
promises respecting the alleged burdens of
| taxation imposed uron the people by our tar
i'll laws; Over ard over again have they said
that our tariff system was one Of organized
jO1bCry made for the benefit Of TIE few at the
expense OF the many, which they promised to
correct Ii they could secure a Democratic
President and House. 1t would be natural to
suppose that so great an evil would be rene
died by this party of reform, that they would
not allow slumber TO their cyelids until they
had started well IN the direction of correcting
| this abuse. What is the rcsulti Changes in
our tax or tariff laws, or laws imposing taxa
ton, or reducing taxes, or changing taxes, can
under our constitution only originate in the
House Of Rcpresgn Mat yes. 1t was deemed
wise bF our fathers to place this great power
| In the first ms tanCc wholly in the hands OF that
body which most frequently comes before the
people for Endorsement aud reelection. Con
gross convened on the first MoRday In Deem
Der and adjourned on the 9TH Of August,
eight months of toll and trouble with Al clear
Democratic majority, adding to now and then
by unseatng n Republican elected and seat NJ
a Democrat or quasi Democrat, who was not
elected. They thus had in their own hands
not only the power bat the duty to inaugurate
remedy for this abuse, If such an abuse eX
listed, and to send a tariff bin 10 the Senate
| for its action.
A scheme was reported from the Committee
of Ways and Means, looking 10 q revision of
| the tariff, but it was so unjust In its features
and So obnoxious, particularly to the farming
! Interests of our country, that even ta prOmOt-
! cr5 could not find time to take it up for con
! s!dcratiOn to the House. And thus the weary
| IN nths passed away and this great lafy Of
| reform did not even in public debate upon Ii
| details OF its own measure, reach II point when
| single vote could be taken In the House OF
| REPRESENTATIVES. 1t is well known that the
| short session Of Congress Will lie devoted
| chiefly and mainly to the passage OF HpIropri
! alton bills, that no me can be given even TO
! the discussion of so complicated a question in
! its details as the tariff So that the hopeful
/ Democracy will see the 49;h Congress pass into
| history without a single effort being made Of
| an earnest character to revise our existing
| tariH which in many respects al! aGTe, needs
revision in the interests Of the lat ocers Of our
| country ana not n the interests Of the labor
es of other countries. The real trouble is
! that the Democratic party has not the capacity
! u dAll with this question because 1t Is essen
| tally wrong in the principles which sGoIld
| govern such revision. 1t does not seem t.
! realize that In our country every class OF our
| leoplC live on sca.e OF expenditure and com
| tort unknown in the older countries of the
| world; that here the laboring man Is n much
! better condition in every respect than the
| labOring man in other countries, and that
! the scale of wages, not in dollars and .nts,
| but in the productive power of wagD as re-
| presents the purchase of the Necessary com
! forts of life, goes much further than days
| wages in the older countries of Europe, which
VII. compete " ia us, If our tariff bill is so ad-
| justed as to provide for reYcnu, only and no.
| al the same time to provide for the protection
! OF our laborerS against the poorly paid labor
| trs Of Euro G. II is because the people o. this
country understand this question that they do
not trust the Democratic party, asserting as it
! does the principle of revising the tariff on a
| scale Of revenue only, and because of this they
will not trust this party with power Of leg.Sla-
| ton on this subject So that think il may
! bc taken rs true that until the Democratic
! party shall change its views upon this subject
, it never can revise the tariff IN the true in
terests of American industry and Amt rican
labor. give this by way of excuse and PAL
| liatiOn for the total shortcomings of tats
! party respecting its promises and pledges re-
lating to the tariff There is a pubic sentt-
| ment in our country well nigh un Yersal that
| it is Unwise by our laws and our pol CIV to al
| low Taurer contract labOrers TO be brought
| into our country for the purpose of connect
lug with our own labOrers, thus reducing
wages to the standard of the densey popu-
! lated regions of Europe and Asia. But what
| argument can be made against this importa-
! ton Of the PRODUCTS of this labor. brought
! into competition tn our own. This latter Is
! the Democratic policy as interpreted in Iowa.
| The true interest of American laborers require
| them to support that man and that party that
| will stand in the pathway of this unrestrained
| competition from other countries.
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
| The Republican party, in 1872, established
! the policy Of holding the public domain for
! actual settlement only, and then abandoned
| the policy it had borrowed from the Demo
cratic party OF granting lands in aid Of rail-
! roads and other public improvements, and
since 1872 no lands have been granted 70 rail
| roads or other corporations by act OF Congress
| or otherwise. Later on, the Republican party
established the policy Of reclaiming lands
granted to, but not earned BIZ these corpor-
atoms, and both political parties accepted this
action as wise, and 1t has been acted upOn by
| both Houses, that some fifty millions or
! more acres have thus been restored 10 the
! public domain. Whist this is true with the
| IeuOCIdt.C party AS RUE, tAefe are nOLcu
| exceptions and our State gives two strong IL
! lustrations. The Senate passed bill early in
! the session f0rfeiting an unearnel land grant
| in Northwestern Iowa and sent il to the House
| where Il slept for months and st II sleeps, al
though the faithful and efficient Representa-.
| tive of that District stood in his place day by
| day asking recognition for its considerable n
| but failed.
The Dcs Moines River land bill is another
| illustration of the temper OF the Democratic
| Administration and Democratic House toward
the State Of Iowa. Tic Senate, early in the
| session, passed a bill for the relief OF the set
| tiers and sent IL 10 the House; after some de-
lay 1t passed the House by good majority and
| went TO the President who with vigor and
| haste unknown to him except in the case of pen
| sion bills returned II with his veto message.
| 1t passed the Senate b. more than two-thlrds
| majority and was voted on in the House, 1CG
! Republicans voting for the bill and six Re
| Iubllcsns against it, though every Republican
| from the State of Iowa voted for IL, and fifty
| Democrats voting for IL and eighty-seven Dem
| ocrats against II, so that ii was killed By Dem
| ccratic yotes,as If every Republican had voted
| for it, IL would still have failed. This is the
| way the great interests of the tillers of the
soil In Iowa have been treated by the Demo