The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-02-11
FAT-FKYERs PERsEvERE.
fhe Systematic Robbery by the Mono
OIistic Force and Fraud Party.


Fhe Systematic Robbery by the aIonop-
olistic Force and Fraud Party.
The High Tariff Association of pro-
tected monopolists held one Of its peri
odical love-feasts in an Eastern city the
other day, and resolved to push the
crusade to make monopoly tariff taxes
perpetual in this country. Conspicuous
among the brethren was Hon. Robert
Protection Porter, who has devoted all
the resources of a misspent life and of
perverted arithmetic to the task of
proving that a people can remain great,
rich and prosperous only by submitting
cheerfully to systematic and gigantic
robbery. 3
In view of the stunning blow which
the producers, toilers and taxpayers of
the United States dealt this High Tariff
Association of highly protected monop-
olists in November last, it would be in
structive to have an exact diagram of
the protectionists' plan of campaign
from now until the Presidential election
in 1892. Their notions of what they
want were fully set forth in the Nc
Kinley tariff law, which, after being
thoroughly discussed all summer and
most of the autumn, was rejected by
the voters with vehemence and en-
phasis that leaves no doubt of their pur-
pose not to submit voluntarily to such
ccnscienceless robbery. Do the tariff
barons expect to convince these millions
of voters in the short space of less than
twenty-five months that they made
arrant fools of themselves on the 18th
of November?
Popular enthusiasm is tickle, but the
will of the American people is not so
lightly formed nor SO lightly set aside.
There is not a precedent in the whole
of American history to encourage the
monopoly protection propagandists in
the hope that this American people,
when it assemblies at the polls in
1892 will reverse the decision
it rendered at the polls in 1890.
The almost unbroken precedent is that
the principles and the policies which
carry, by decisive sweep, in the mid
term Congressional elections prevail
| also in the Presidential elections two
| years later. Nobody knows this better
than the wealthy ard uccessful manu-
facturers who have resolved to put
forth their best efforts for the per-
petuity of the Mckinley ideas of taxa
| ton.
AS there is no hope of obtaining a re-
versal of the popular verdict by the or
binary engines of political discussion,
their principal trust must be in the
favorite Republican arguments of
bribery, force and fraud. They will
submit to fat-frying as cheerfully in
1892 as they did in 1888. Ifthe condi-
tions seem at all favorable to success
they will ladle out their dollars to cor
rupt the election of 1892 even more
literally than they did to elect Harri-
son in 1883. All the power that the
Control of the purse-string' gives them
over their employees and others with
whom they have business dealings will
be exerted to the fullest.
But all this viii net suffice, and the
factory lords are not depending on it.
A part of their work has been done tc
their hand by Hon, Robert Protection
Porter, whom they thrust into contro
of the eleventh census for the purpose
of robbing of representation constitu
encies who object to being plunderet
for the enrichment of a favored class
in favored section. A good many
electoral votes and a good many
congressman opposed to monopo
ly protection have thus been gotte1
rid of. Still, with the growing politica
revolution in the West, the protection
lists are far from seeing their way clear
The force bill is therefore pressed will
all the money and all the power o
the High Tariff League. The hostile
votes that Porter has spared, and tina
can not be bought or bulldozed in tn,
usual way, are to be suppressed in 1s9
by this revolutionary device which
conspicuous organ of the protectionist
has declared ''has dozen tariff Bills il
it. If the West objects to paying trib
ute to New England the West must b,
muzzled in Congress by negro and scala
wag Representatives lectedin the Sout
by BENJAMIN Harrison. and force bill
returning boards. In order to appeas
the hunger of some few, hundreds 0
blood-sucking monopolists the aim.
to revolutionize the whole fabric 9
free representative government il
America.
The census, which the constitutio
makes the basis Of our representative sys
TEN, hasalready beendebauched throug
the ready connivance OF an alien mel
, cenary who has earned his living eve
since he came to this country by max
ingfgures lie for the Republican party
Hoar, Edmunds, Frye and the rest G
the New England desperadoes are no'
striking at the root of free elections.
} is the greediest and most disgracefr
conspiracy that ever came to the SUI
: face in Washington.
The conspirators may be sure OF or
thing. This is big country and it
! very etrong. The American people al
J a hard-headed lot; they can take car
of themselves and they will do it. Whe
they are thoroughly tired of this foo
ishness they will stop it, and they al
very weary already.-St. Louis Repul
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oDloUS IMPERIALISM.
Tho Tendency of Republican Methods