New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-25


went cunning for something that might
offer better chances Of success. This
it thought it had found for the moment,
in free coinage Of silver and the issue Of
cheap money.
We know of nothing which better IL
Illustrates the character and tendencies
of the party than its record on this
question. If we 60 back far enough,
we shall find the Democracy as COM
pletely identified with advocacy of hon
est money as with tariff for revenue
only. Yet never has an imitation craze
swept over the country without finding
in it willing auxiliary. Never has a
financial heresy won a hearing without
being able to count the Democratic par
~ Its foremost champion. So, although
Mr.. Cleveland had stubbornly declared
himself against silver coinage while
president, no sooner was he out of the
way, and his tariff ideas appar.
emily condemned by the people, than
his party again set up the cheap money
idol, and began to make all sorts of
sacrifices upon its altar. 10 nothing is
that party bound so irrevocably by its
repeated action in the last congress, by
it's declarations in convention, by the
ntterances Of it's leaders on the stump
and in the press, as to the doctrine that
the cheapest money is the best. It COM
mitted itself thus openly and finally be-
Cause it had lost on the tariff, and be-
cause it thought it saw, in the agitation
for free coinage and the rise of third
parties favorable to cheap and poor
money, new issue with more votes be-
hind it. The tariff was sent to tho rear
at double quick, and the Democracy
identified itself thoroughly with the fin
ancial follies that seemed to be carry
ing everything before their rising tide.
This was the situation until less than
a year ago. Practically, except for a
languid protection for FORMS sake now
and then, Democrats, as party, ceased
to interest themselves in the tariff, and
grew ardent in favor of initiation and
depreciation of the currency. Their
first awakening came with the congress-
tional elections that followed it. They
found themselves unexpectedly with an
almost unprecedented majority of the
new house. They argued rightly that
this was not because of anything in their
own position, but because the Republi-
caus we're responsible for something
that the people did not as yet entirely
approve. That something could be on.
ly the Mckinley bill, and like Il pack
of hounds that have lost the trail and
are scattered and demoralized until they
strike the scent, up went their heads,
and they were off again in full cry.
A year or less ago Mr.. Mills had al.
most forgotten his hatred of the tariff in
his zeal for free silver He could not
keep still about it, He was so sure that
the people wanted more money that he
talked of it to every body he met Now,
since the people have been heard FROM
since it is clear that the people prefer
good money to bad, since New York
and Massachusetts have forced the
fighting, Mr.. Mills has returned to his
old love. The tariff is the thing for min
to-day, and he is conducting his cam
paign on the platform of free trade ano
an income tsx, with free coinage, the
late consuming desire of his soul, sen
| away to the lumber room until he ha!
more time to devote to it. And the
| course of MIR. Mills is the course of tn.
democratic party, which was for low
tariff three years ago, cheap money ant
any sort of tariff one year ago; which
fought openly and noisily this year TO
honest money in Massachusetts, TO
dishonest money in Iowa and for strad
die in New York: which would toss u
it's hat tomorrow for any or all of thes
according to its impression of what
most likely to win. Itls a pretty stud
to watch Democratic agonizing owe
the selection Of an issue, where it want
TO know only which way the cat is &C
ing to jump. Some day it may occur
it that honest devotion to principle pay
better in the long run, than a ma
search for the elements of present pop
ularity.-Pioneer Press.
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