New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-11-21
Now that the Republican party has

presidency, it has assumed an import
ance. a responsibility, which is eagerly
contemplated Dot only by the opposi-
ton but by all adherents to republican
principles. Upon it has been bestowed
confidence, which if not merited by
its future actions, will deprive the Re-
publican party of the superiority it now
enjoys, and which it may hold if it
prove true to its pledges. The question
IF tariff reform must necessarily preoc-
cupy the lower house and have the at
tention of the Senate as well, and on
its speedy and mastery disposal de-
ponds the fate vi the partr for the flu.
ture. Tie campaign il.s Been one
principally centeresi on this greatissue
it has been m uided accordingly, and
only the fact th,t tie present tariff avs
were the outcome of Republican efforts,
were naturally under Republican care.
helped to awaken confidence in the par
ty, which now being elected, is expe Ct
ed to treat this important matter in an
honest, conservative manner.
According to its professions the Re
publican party will revise the present
tariff laws, and in q manner at once Ell
fective and yet without the slightest de-
trimental influence to American indus
try, and Indirectly. labor, it will reduce
the surplus by reducing the tariff on
those imports which at certain periods
allow of a lesser taxation.
The Democratic party had the same
object in view but made the mistake to
consider this important topic for the
benefit of one section and the detriment
of another; the Mills bill was the sole
criterion offered as to the intentions of
the Dem ocratic party in regard to this
matter, and when the party had
pledged itself to its support, it
was predestined to fall. AS a reform
party in this respect the Democratic
party has been failure. It now re-
mains for its opponents, who profit by
their down-fall,to make good the errors
outlined by Cleveland and his adhe-
rents, and the Republican party has but
to be true to its maxims to merit the
place it now occupies.
Denounclng the Democratic as rum
and spoils party, branding its leaders as
INSCRIPTIONS theorists and inconsistent
politicians, the Prohibitionists. party
processing the advocacy of moral laws
and such measures as will stamp pro-
ceedings which, as it claims, are inau-
gurated by the Democrats, as shameful,
60 hand in hand with that party to de-
feat the Republicans. In doing this
the Prohibition party acknowledges
either one of two things: that il is hypo-
critical in its assertions or that it re
CARDS the end savoring the means. In
either case it has got to be a political
corporation, ready to throw what influ-
ence it has with that side, whose enc
mics are it's own, and whose victory
means it's defeat
In contemplating therefore the posi-.
ton of the third party in the campaign
just ended, especially it's situation in
the east, we come to the conclusion
that the election of Cleveland would
have favorably furthered the wishes Of
the Prohibitionists, but if the cause Of
their support given the Demo.
cratic party was the realization of the
fact that the Republican party woulc
not make the Prohibition cause it's own,
could they expect that the Democratic
party wouldp In this respect it is safe
to say that neither Harrison's mol
Cleveland's party would adopt the doc.
trines of the Prohibitionists, for the
subject matter Of this doctrine, prohibi-
ton, is fallacious, has been tried to the
detriment of communities, and will
therefore never. at least not for time
to come, be fit to be considered as a
question deserving of great political
attention.
Had the Prohibition party confined
tself to the inner realms of state and
exerted its influence not on the political
battlefield but on private grounds, =
the question of prohibition would to-day
be more worthy of consideration, and
not be exposed to the contempt of a
political opposition, but through its
hasty appearance in the arena, as an
associate to party, the interests Of
which were diagonally opposed, it has
been subjected 10 universal attention
and criticism, and falling below the
mark, has been condemned.
MINNEAPOLIS WARBLERS.
They furnish Col. Bo6zeter Nth a poeti.
cal freak IN one vease.