Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03

THINGS LOOK BRIGHT.
me People Arc Growing Tired OF Rep1b-
ncan Cant and Extr.v.G.nes.
The outlook Of the Democracy was
never brighter than this year. and the
unvarying success shown in local cleo
lions in this and other States are indica-
tons of grander and moro enduring
triumph in the legislative and execu-
tive branches Of the Federal Govern
ment It was confidently stated after
'sMat' Quay's successful purchase Of the
Presidency for Harrison, that the Re
publicans had come to stay, and that It
would be another quarter of a century
before their opponents would have even
. chance OF regaining control OF the
Government Tariff reform was de-
clared dead beyond the possibility Of
resurrection, and funeral orations were
pronounced over it everywhere in the
columns of the Republican press, at Re-
publican banquets, love feasts and on
other congratulatory occasions. and in
all the official utterances of the party
which had returned to power. There
appeared to be no obstacle in the path
Of the war tariff advocates and loudly
vaunted champions of protection"
The first year Of unobstructed 'spro-
lection" has shown most conclusively
the correctness of the views of the
friends of tariff reform, who held that
the seed planted during the memorable
campaign of education, of 1888, would
bring forth Q most fruitful harvest But
the most sanguine of those advocates of
true protection did not, probably. ex-
pect that the harvest would begin to
show results SO soon. They did not
look for such signal triumph of tariff
reform in Ohio and Iowa ON the ami
versary of the day when that reform was
supposed to have been finally disposed
of, nor did they hope for such a grand
series Of Democratic victories in other
Republican strongholds on the first an
niversary of Harrison's Inauguration.
The issue between the parties is pre-
cisely the same now as it was in 1888,
the Democracy insisting upon a reason
able extension of the free list and a ma
terial reduction of the tariff schedules,
in accordance with the interests and de-
msnds of American industry, and the
monopolists and lobbyists, who control
Republican legislation at Washington,
still maintaining the doctrine of higher
duties on every commodity of manufac-
ture in ordinary use, and declaring that
liquor and tobacco should be made free
before clothing, lumber, salt, hardware
and glass. The popular majority that
endorsed President Cleveland's views
on tariff reform showed that he had the
people with him, even if he failed to
secure q sufficient number of votes in
the electoral college, and the popularity
Of his honest, fearless, statesmanlike
policy has been increasing ever since.
The frightened Republican leaders
are resorting to all manner of desperate
expedients to stay the progress of the
rising tide, but their very efforts are
but revealing their weakness and pre-
cipitating the very catastrophe they
would avoid. The usurpation of Reed,
the threat to make Federal bayonets the
controlling element at the polls, the
frightful extravaganza in Congress and
in the Government departments, that
bids fair to empty the Treasury and
bring about q deficit to be met neces-
sarily by increased taxation, the nulli-
fication of the will of the people
by unseating Democratic representa-
tives who have been legally cleo
ted, the repeated and costly blum.
ders in the Treasury Department. the
Tanner and Noble scandal, the outra-
geous nepotism illustrated in every
branch of the Government in emulation
of the example set by the President him
self, and the complete restoration of the
infamous spoils system, have disguised
and alienated the people in regard to
this ill-starred Administration.
But, beyond all these considerations,
weighty though they may be, is the ever
pressing question of tariff reform; a
question which the enlarged list of bust
ness failures during the past year and
the ruin of so many industries has
forced upon the intelligent considera-
ton OF the people everywhere. Even
now Republicans in many parts of the
country are practically demanding from
Congress larger concessions in the line
of tariff reform than the Mills bill con-
templated, and are showing by conclu-
sive arguments that the policy inaugu-
rated by President Cleveland and in
dorsed by the Democratic administra-
ten is the true policy for the protection
of American industry, and that the pres
emit Republican tariff is wrong, injurious
and indefensib1e. Tho striking contrast
presented by the economical, prudent,
honest administration of President
Cleveland and the corruption, extrava-
gance and plumber Of the present gov
eminent is also having its effect upon
the masses of the people throughout the
country. The tide is rising. and it will
In time overwhelm the forces of organ
lied plumber at Washington as eRectual-
ly as the waters of the Red Sea did the
host of Pharaoh.-Albany( IN. W Ar
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