The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-31
TENDENCIES OF THE TINES.
The Republican Policy Political Blum
der-TO Become a Political Crime.

The Democratic leaders can afford
to sit still while the country slowly
drifts in their direction.
The people made mistake last
autumn when they voted for n Re
publican policy and they are begin
ming to see it.
As to Mr.. Harrison, he is an able
and AN honest man. There isn't a
Republican on the continent who
could make better record than he.
Personally he has claim on the re-
spect and good will Of every one
He represents certain party policies,
however, which he is bound to carry
out. He will undoubtedly be true
TO his convictions, and there is the
danger, for the more he insists on
carrying out those convictions the
worse it will be for the country.
Hamilton, the father of the Re
publican party, was an aristocrat.
He had no sympathy with the gov
erning masses. always distrusted
them and preferred a monarchy to a
republic. He had very little faith
in the perpetuity of American insti-
tutions, because he despised what
are known as THE people
He felt that the moneyed class
should be the ruling class and that
the masses ought to be kept in the
background
Mr. Harrison party has inherited
that conviction and represents it at
this moment.
Under the rule of that party the
rich continually grow richer while
the poor continually grow poorer
Its policy is, therefore, a political
blunder, and in its last results will
become a political crime
1t consistently throws its influence
in favor of the monopolist and is the
natural parent of the combine.
While it continues syndicates will
flourish like green bay tree and the
workingmen will be ruthlessly sac
rificed.
What it calls protection is simply
protection of the few, while the many
are driven to strikes in order to OBJ
tain wages above the starvation
point.
The word protection has an al
Turing sound; the thing it really
stands for is damnable
The mill owners of Connecticut
and Massachusetts were hoodwinked
last autumn. They were told thatif
the protective tariff were taken off
their raw materials they would be
ruined. They therefore voted for
the republican policy, and went to
sleep with the feeling that they had
done public service.
They now see that unless they get
their raw materials free of duty they
will soon have to close their works
and lose what little they have made.
A very great change in this re-
spect has taken place within a few
months. Eastern manufacturers are
in the dumps; they voted for the
sword which cut their own throats,
unless they jam it back into its
sheath. They now demand very
material reduction of tariff duties.
1t is a matter of life and death with
them.
They couldn't understand this last
year, but now their decaying bust
ness has made it altogether too plain.
They are penitent, but the penitence
comes too late.
If they had established the
democratic policy of lower tariff
their business would now be boom
ing. They want larger market for
their products. If they could get
access to the markets of the world
they would undersell all competitors,
and their mills might be run on full
time with profit to owners and work
ingmen alike.
But the republican bosses won't
ADMIT tnlS, ana so the mlll-ownerS
must dodge bankruptcy if they can
and the laborer must keep from
starving if possible.
1t is not Mr.. Harrison's fault. He
is good man with a bad theory,
that is all.
The democrats have been sneered
at by party workers because the last
was an educational one,
in which the democratic party was
knocked out.
All right. Mr. Harrison's four
years will also be educational, and
when they end the people will refuse
to be the cats paw of monopolists
any longer. Then the republican
party, with its protective humbug-
gerry, will be sent flying.
The people are learning their les
son very rapidly.-N. Y. Herald.