The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-11-23
How About Those caIamltles /?

Fromrhe New York Tribune.
Il is already apparent that the leaders OF
the Democratic party are troubled to know
what to do with their victory. So far. OF
course, as Tammany Hall and the Hill
Murphy organization are concerned there is
no CONSERVATION, nor even q doubt To
these excellent citizens the event Of last
week meant Offices, and the terse injunction
Of our neigbbor, The New-York Sun, -
Adlsi, get your axe" contains for them
the whole Of the Law and the prophets But
there are influential Democrats 10 whom q
sense Of responsibility in the present situa-
ton is not wanting, and their bross are
already overcast with snxieties They real
ize that their party has received a commits
sion from the people 10 make good the pro-
fession and claims on which Cleveland was
elected. They recall the language OF their
Chicago platform that Protection is a fraud
that il IS fundamental principle of the
Democratic party that the Federal Govern
ment has no lpower to impose and collect
tariff duties except for the purpose Of reve-
Due only" that the Mckinley bill is " the
eliminating atrocity Of class legislation, -
and that they promise its repeal as one of
the benefcent results that will follow the
action Of the people in intrustiug power to
the Democratic party"
There is nothing vague about these asser-
tiOns and assurances. They are straightfor-
ward, unequiTocal and apparently earnest.
The campaign was conducted on them, and
the people were told that Free Trade Tariff
would make everything cheaper. while there
would be no decrease Of earnings, No lessen
ing ofpToduotion and no f4lling-of in the
demand for labor. Il was. denied that Pro
lection upheld wages. It was asserted that
its benefits accrued only to plutocrats and
other undeseFving persons. The people be
lieved these things, and have authorized the
Democratic party to execute its platform.
The voice Of their instruction has scarcely
died away before Democratic clamor arises
for time to reflect and consider. Weare told
that there is no hurry. Why, isn't the
country going hop, skip and jump to the
dogs? Haven't there been ten reductions
Of the wages Of lsboriDg men to one Increase
since the new tariff went into effect, and ism I
this deadly retrogression going on all the
while? Don't our friends recall the dull
ness and distress, the wage reductions and
strikes they lamented in their platform +?
Don't they remember the acute anguish with
which they called attention TO the "houses
and farms bUrdened with a mortgage debt of
3, 500. 600 COO Don't they remember that
in one Of the chief agricultural States Of the
West there appears real estate mortgage
debt averaging sl65 per capita of the popu-
lation," and don't they know that the ex.
is;ing Republican policy fosters no indus.
try so much as that Of the Sheriff? These
are the claims on which they elected their
candidates. Surely, if they believe what
they said, they cannot wait an unnecessary
hour before breaking down tbesystem which
has created and is adding constantly TO this
long catalogue Of woes.
Tie Democracy must come forward i'm
---s--e1-Nis WIN Atte-A AEd0e AarlH OF II
must acknowledge iiselfto be cowardly and
insincere- It cannot back and FIJI, tempor-
ize and play, at legislation. j.. It either means
what it said at Chicago or it doesn't. Ifit
does, the calamities it described are too
shocking and general to admit of delay in
removing them. Lift doesn't and if there
are no such calamitiss. the victorious party
Is humbug, and has achieved its triumph
by misrepresentation and fraud. It viii do
vel to spend portion Of the time it is de
msnding in reflection upon this homely
sentence Of Abraham Lincoln's: 4" You can
fool some ofthe people all the time, and all
The people some ofthe time, but you can't
fool all the people all the time"