Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
4 Republican Confession.

From the St. Louis Star Sayings (Rep.)
Editor Medill. of the Chicago Trib-
U7G, in an interview published in
Washington the day before yesterday,
is quoted as being of the opinion that
the sole strength of Grover Cleveland
as Democratic Presidential possibili-
ty is his position in regard to tariff re-
form.
He believes him easily capable of de-
feating Hill in the convention though
The latter should enter it with solid
New York delegation.
The advice Of Col. Medill is that the
present Congress, with its bare Repub-
lican majority, should waste no furth-
er time in solving the problem of tariff
revision by the repeal of the tobacco
and whisky tax. He says the promis-
es made to the farmers and other
workingmen must be kept by taxing
the taxes off the necessaries of life.
Then he utters the plain truth, which
he who runs may read, that inasmuch
as the largest block Of Democratic po-
litical capital is tariff revision, and re-
cent events have shown a revulsion of
popular opinion in its favor, it is the
the first duty of the Republican ma
i0rity in Congress to eliminate the tar
if from politics.
So say we all. This is the time for
honesty and 22idjnncss of speech. The
same political processes, if they may
be dignitied by such title, which are
employed in the business Of vote get
ting, legitimate though they may be,
have no place in the deliberations of
Congress.
That body is called upon to redeem
the general trend Of the pledges made
by the party III its platform'and its rec
ogHZed leaders on the stump, and if
these pledges amount to anything they
clearly mean that producer and con-
sumeT alike are no longer to be burd-
ened with a scale of taxation, the occa-
sion for which has long since passed.
This ia one of the cardinal principles
of the Democratic doctrine-so plain
aud unmistakable that since the last
Presidential election it has been gain
ing in adherents in every section Of
the country that has not directly, aud
at the same time uuequally, pfCspered
by the war tariffs,
And being the Democratic doctrine,
il is the business of the Republican
party, whose greatest strength lies in
supremacy, to deprive its opponent of
the power Of that doctrine.
The tariff must be revised, unneces-
sary burdens of taxation must be re.
moved. the condition of the general
average of our population must be
ameliorated by the equalizing influ-
ence OF iessened taxation, and the
Democratic party at the same time de-
prived Of its strongest weapon.
To oaccomplsh this thepedges of18S8
must be made good and protcctionism ,
as such, must be eliminated. from Ma
ton politics.
The Republican party with its ira
ditious, its tendency and its purposes is
essential to the welfare of the United
States. It's supremacy must be main
tanned for many years to come. It's
leaders and the body Of their intelli-
gent followers agree that much glori-
GUS work remains to be done in the
cause of humanity and liberty. In or
der to accomplish this it is necessary to
remove from National politics the prin-
cipal menace to the party's continuance
in power.
4 delay in revisionary legislation on
the tariff invites danger. and the soon
er the Republican majority in Congress
realize it the easier viii it be to safely
keep the Democratic party where it is
now.