The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-08-07
THE TARIFF BILL VOTE.



Republican Tarin-Reformers Afraid 70
Vote Their Honest scntiments.
During the debate on the Mckinley
bill Mr.. Benjamin Butterworth rep. J
of Cincinnati said:
regret that the members Of the ways and
means committee have taken up all the limited
time Of the House with amendments to the en-
cl1sion Of that free conference which Was neces-
sary. We have not had time to secure con-
sensus of opinion even on this side Of the House
to enable us to legislate intclligently for ths
good Of the country regret that no important
q measure should be seemingly in the control
Of minority Of majority. for do not believe
that the ark Of the Republican covenant was
BY any high demand OF the Republican party
placed in the keeping Of few.
This Is true. 1t is case whelse .
minority, active, energetic and UNI
scrupulous, under the control Of the
Eastern manufacturers, has coerced and
dragooned disunited, inert majority,
each Of whose members wanted the bill
to fail and each Of whom was afraid to
vote against it. A disciplined minority,
claiming to be the sole authorized ex-
FOUNDER of the party creed on the tariff
question, minority which has behind
it, pushing it on and keeping It up TO
its work, the sharkish plutocrats OF the
East, who are greedy for larger profits,
md who do not care what becomes OF
the consumer or the Republican party
SO that they get the plunder--such .
minority, SO inspired by the free use Of
the words treason and TRAITORS, by
the vague terrors OF the caucus and the
lash of the party whip, has forced a
faint-hearted majority, which had NOT
the courage of its convictions, to betray
the interests of its own constituents and
do the will of the bull-dozers.
A majority of the Republican mem.
bers of the House know that the McKin-
ley bill is wrong as whole and in most
of its parts. They know that its pas
sage will be unwe1come TO their con.
stituents and will work them grievous
harm, and yet they voted for it They
did so in the hope that the Senate will
either shelve it or so amend it as to take
the wickedness out Of it. They hoped fur.
ther that If those tactics which succeed.
ed in the House succeed in the Senate
| and the bill passes there the President
will brain the abortion with his veto.
How much better 1t would be for the
country and for themselves If these
Western members had less hope and
more courage Had they the manhood
to vote what they believed the Nation
would not have seen for the first
time in its history the spectacle in .
time of profound peace, with no fmpend
ing hostilities, with no heavy war deb
pressing down ON the revenues, with q
great surplus in the treasury, with an
overlooking revenue and no need for ad
ddffttfonal money, Of Congress passing !
bill so increasing the tariff duties as t.
make them almost prohibitorys and t.
add hundreds of millions year to thu
burdens Of American consumers wher
they had for years been clamoring fol
relief and declaring that the duties al
ready imposed on them were too griev
Gus to be borne.
This is what comes Of . protection
majority allowing itself to be bulldozei
and overawed by tariff prohibition
minority which is seeking to impose OF
the party creed which it has nevel
adopted. Chicago Tribune (Rep.).