, 1890-05-22
RATES or ADVKHTIsINs.
PERFECTLY

PERFECTLY WILLING.
THE LEADER seems to be anxious to
fight out the first state campaign uDon
the tariff issue. Our esteemed contem
porary will undoubtedly be gratihed. The
Democratic party is for free trade, the
policy of which mans cheap wages for
the American w~orkingmen. The Repub
lican party is for protection to American
Industries which means good wage for
American workiDgmen.-The Sun.
II the Sun is forced to rely upon such
antique, long exploded statements as the
foregoing the Democrats of Wyoming need
not fear to take tariff as a platform upon
which to go before the people. 1t Is not
vet two years ago since Judge Carey and
other Republican politicians, and the
Sun and several other Republican pa
pers, made and reiterated the statement
that unless the national Republican party
again came into power upon its high pro-
tective platform the Laramie glass works
would be obliged to shut down. Follow
ing on the heels of the announcement OF
Republican success came the u
ment that the Laramie.worksl would be
forced TO close down and as a matter Of
fact they did close down and are idle even
at this day. This is the usual picture Of
pretense and principle presented By the
Republican party.
The Republican party as an organiza-
ton is now too closely identified with ex-
IRENE high protection ideas to break away
from them. although, like the man with
whom the Texas steer ran away, they
would very much like to. The hand
writing on the wall is now becoming legi
BILE. The starvation wages paid toiwork-
ingmen in eastern manufacturing %centers,
and the piliug up of mortgages upon the
farms of the country, are tributes to the
powers Of a high protective tariff which
he who runs may read. Assistant Post
master General Clarkson, less fatuous in
his decisions than most ot his party
friends, calls attention to the TACT that the
tariff for revenue press are almost mon
opolizing he readers OF the country-a sure
sign that the people find preached in
them doctrines that suit their tastes.
Strong Republican newspapers, particu.
larry in the west, the Chicago Tribune, st.
Paul Pioneer Press, Omaha Bee and
others, are kicking over the traces and wig
o~rously protesting against further spolia,
ton OF the people through lniquitous tar
il legislation. The bugle blast Of Ben
Butterworth, doughty Republican though
he is, is still ringing in the cars Of the
pubic. and finding an echo in the heart
Of the overburdened, overtaxed and op
pressed American people.
Even the Sun. though it may not hay'
fully apprehended the scope OF the re
marks. has a few words of editorial com.
mendation for Butterworth's speech
which went far to shatter the citadel OF
the very ideas which the Sun itself now
advocates. Just a week G the Sun
said:
CONGRESSMAN Butterworth made a
forcible speech yesterday upon n tariff
bill. The house Of representatives CON
tains few statesmen Of ability equal to
Mr.. Butterworth Of Ohio, and he does
his own thinking.
As only a week aGothc Sun commended
B~utterworth's hercsIes and but yesterday
advocated the views Of the extreme wing
of the party one begins to doubt whether
the editor Of the Sun always does his own
thinking, no matter what may be said OF
Mr.. Butterworth in the same connection.
The Democratic party is the party of
the people and it wants no better platform
Of principles than lower taxes, more
equally difused burthcns and such a re-
arrangement as will make the poor more
prosperous han they are.