The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-12-06
Sham and Real Reform.

election under The hypocrtica cry of Reform.
bat did not find the word successful one to
juggle with. Their practices. and the past his
tory of the party. belied their professions
When the Democratic party earnestly and
honestly undertakes a bona de reform, it will
die in the attempt. The party is only held
together by principles the reverse OF those
which lead to reform. and but for ballot box
Stufiug. intimidation at the polls and cheating
in the count it would long since have fallen
horele>sly to the rear. The civil service ere
form" and the pension reform" of the Adj
mini>traton which received is walking papers
Nov. Oh. l>>S. have been sufficiently Nentilat
cd. OF IT. tariff treform'' something further
needs be said, because of the inai>tcncc of the
Democratic press that The popular verdict was
not AGAINST this sO-c1lled reform, and that re-
form was intended. and not Il step i'll tie direc-
lion OF free trade in the interest of foreign
manufacturers. The facts refute both claims
Thank, TO the frank utteranceS of some OF the
Democratic leaders the people of this country
clearly understood that the Cleveland Admin
i>traton was squarely committed to free trade,
and that the Mills bill was intended as step in
that direction. 1t was more. II was an at
tempt on the part OF the southern clement,
which led and controlled the Administration
AMI the National House. to punish the people
Of New England 1or The part they took i'll the
. war Of the Rebellion, a. well a. for their per-
>i>lence in voting the Republican ticket and
thus importing the political fortunes of the solid
south The leading industries and products
of New England were carefully singled out
for SLAUGHTER. The free trade shotgun Of Mills
of Texas was aimed At the farmer As we'll As
HE manufacturer: but. fortunately. his weapon
did more oAocution AT the brecch than at the
mullle. and the Democratic free trade policy
l. now au unIorell corpse. With no mourner>
-a}t those who -ayc it birth, and i'll sponsors
o., the other side Of the Atlantic.
Coupled with the claim By certain OF its
PARTY ORGANS that the defeated Democracy Is
the 4Uull Original Jacobs i'll the reform bust
ness j. IN attempt 10 make it appear That the
Republican party is opposed to all reforms,
p-pt eially of tIe tariff. and that it is only bent
OH expressing tle industries Of the country.
bi-Atih- it, Prosperity and rivctin@ >haekle,
upon it, enterprise The movements in the
business and industrial worlds since the cleo
lion are q sufficient answer TO such charges
Enterprises held bacl, 10 await The result OF
the coAte-, between the allies of British free
trH K and Tie champions Of the American peo-
Die have since hc,n successfully launched. Idle
wheels and loom, have been set in motion, and
the skies have Frightened all around the horl-
l,li. That the Republican party is opposed to
IIil reform i grossly untrue, The history of
t;uif legislation proves thi-. and the bill pro
posed ut the last session of the Senate is still
later proof. But the Republican party pro-
posses to reform the tariff in the interest OF the
American people. II does not n!canto legi>ate
working men and women into the condition
Of the lauper labor Of Europe. Thousands
upon thousands. vast army of unemployed.
are i'll a starving condition to-day in free trade
England. The Republican party does not Pro
pose to 50 th;ln.c the tariff a. to cripple every
American industry that foreign manufacturers
may thrive at or expense. That i the direc-
ton Of Democratic tariff reform: and it was
bec;tul>c of this unAmerican policy. shown in
the conduct of the State Department as well as
on the tariff question, that the American people
set aside Grover Cleveland, his advisors and
ae-, by the peaceful revolution of the ballot.
Mr.. {. J. Ferguson. of Sioux Fails Dakota
has sent u> copy of the daily Press Of that
city. which among other things contains al
editorial on the recent storm along the Atlantic
coast. The Press says:
Compare such Il country-w here trains are
hIorhaied, telegraph lines prostrated, shipping
destroyed. life endangered-Wi!h a country
Where The beautiful sunshine sif, down
through the dreamy autumna haze-Whcre
The balmy breeze makes mere living a contlnu-
nj dIght-and then say whether men who at
t,mpt TO aoduce You into exchanging this for
That -htn't to he prosecuted for check.
IIt when it is remembered that our Atlantic
gales are mere lephyr> compared with the biz
Yards Of the far west, where people perish in
their own dOoryard>. the cheek of our Sioux
Falls contemporary seems boundle>s.
The charge of the Wateryic Mail, that the
Journal il publishing the poems by Mrs. Dunn
left IL readers to infer that they were original
With thi> paper, Is due either to malice or stu
pidity, and has no other foundation. The
poems were full! credited to the papers from
which they were taken, and III complimenting
the author we lii not feel called upon to praise
the newspaper through which they were given
t. the pablo, the compo>itor> who set them up.
OF the foundry which cast the type. But the
Mail probably never contained anything before
worth copying and complimenting it is perhaps
eNcu>ible for -landering contemporary which
ha~ always been careful to give credit where
credit is due.