The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-01-12

soIicitufe for the welfare OF III. amer can IL
borer, and had pointed out the y,silaa; care
which his interests should receive in the treat
ment Of the tariff
Senator Voorhees, quoted from the Ecpnh.
iican platform of 1891. wherein IL pledged itself
TO correct the irregularities q. tie tarr and to
reduce the surplus" and he said that that was
q plain. clear adm ssion. made three and q
half years ago, that the work OF the Tarifl
Commission had been poorly done and
called for correction, and that the pledge had
never yet by one word, one vote one STEP or
the lifting Of one finger been attempted to be
carried out to this day. On the contrary, tho
Republican leaders had not only done
nothing themselves to remedy their own
confessed wrong-doin2. but had hlndered
the efforts Of every body else. II now,
after this long delay, the leaders Of the Repub-
lican organization In Congress and elsewhere
assumed the attitude OF tariff reformers il
opinion, invoked and aroused by the powerful
statement and appeal of Mr. Cleveland in hia
late message. They were chiefly incensed
against the President because he had disturbed
their policy Of inactIon.
Their anger was kindled because their d.la
tory tactics could avail them no longer A.
had been said OF the charge OF the Light Brig
ade at Balaklaya: 1T is magnificent, but 1t |.
not war SO many thoughtful observers OF thf
the American people might cxclaim. III
Is glorious. but ii is not statesman
ship It was glorious to the manhood ard re
sources OF the Republic; but in giving thf
orders in shaping the policy, by which tht
American people had been SO strained, taxed
and bitterly tested. all the world knew that
blunde- equivalent to q crime had been com
mtted and had been stubbornly persisted in
But the question still recurrcd in its homey
practical way as to the disposal OF the results
Of this blundering policy.
He turned from the propositions for large
army and navy and costly coast defenses as
remedy for the Treasury surplus to more nat
ural, necessary and practicable methods for ii
use. generous pension roll, with all arrearase
paid, liberal appropriations for the improve
ment OF rivers and harbors. the construc
tion OF public buildings wherever needle,
for the pubic service, we're all laudable OBJ
iects and should be attained, but they wou.t
fall far short Of restoring the immense sur
plus to circulation and OF affordng the relic
needed.
As further remedy. and indeed as tn,
greatest and most potent, the American peopl,
would be best pleased to see the public deb
dmin she'd and II the authority to purchase
bonds not yet due was not to be found in ex st
ing law. Congress should promptly supply tn,
defect. There was no bondage SO cruel as that
OF debt, AMI when the last Government bort
was paid and the last yes.igc Of the Nationa
debt wiped out there would be q jubilee yea,
beside whose giories all other iubiiees and cen
tennial years would grow pale and insignificant
He had faith in its coming because the Ad
| mnistrat.on had at last been placed upoi
sound principles and was being carried on b.
honest and able hands. The American peopl
would see 10 II that no backward step shoul,
be taken for the future.