The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-12-30
TRUTH IN A NUTSHELL.


One of the prominent Democrats of
the Granite State has brother, lawyer
of Dayton, n. Y, who is rs ardent a
Republican as the New Hampshire man
is Democratic. Soon after election he of
the Granite State wrote the New York
er "red-hOt' letter veritable sony
of triumph and in reply received some
emphatic opinions that have crept into
print and are being copied widely. The
reply said. Your lurld letter is at hand.
l appreciate the landslide" and while
L am disappointed | am not much sur
prised, either at the result or its magni-
tude. The fools musthav their innings
about once in SO often, and it seems to
be their turn now. The Democrats have
carried the country on specific prom
Use to reverse the financial policy of the
Government during period of uneX-
ampled prosperity; and that as soon as
III power they would wipe out the pres
ent tariff, which was simply gigantic
robbery of the people from beginning to
end. Now what will happen? The
southern end of the party, which is the
big end, will insist that The promises of
the campaign be fulfilled, and already
the brains OF the party have begun to
dodge and hedge. 1t would seem as
though barefaced aud open robbery
ought to be stopped at once, and as soon
as the lawmakers can get together.
And yet those leaders of your party who
were bowling robbery the loudest are
now shouting to 20 slow, and are against
the calling of an extra session of Con
gress. OF course | can look on with a
good deal of placency while the party
exhibits the sham and hypocrisy with
which it has carried the country. l sim
ply want to predict little, and this is
what l want to guess: That the uncer-
taiRty of what is to happen will produce
great falling off in imports, for the
reason that importers will not know
whether the tariff is to be reduced or re-
pealed, aud no one will import more
than is necessary while the uncertainty
exists. This will produce necessarily
great falling off in revenue, and the new
administration will find itself without
the necessary means to carry on and pay
the absolutely necessary expenses, with
out resort to an income tax, or some
other means outside Of tariff duties. All
this is on the superstition that there will
be nothing done at present, and that the
party was insincere in its attack on the
present tariff and that merely a little
tinkering will be made to answer and
fulfill the promises made to destroy the
protective features of the law, which
were declared by the platform to be I'M
constitutional. This | apprehend will
be the course taken, and in this the
party will be in no particular hurry. l
believe that no party is equal to the sit
uatiOn in which the Democratic party is
placed, and look surely to see it go to
the wall in the next encounter. Even
when it had not the Senate, and could
only show its disposition for mischief,
it kicked itself out in four years. And
now with undivided responsibility, and
nothing in the way, it will in my humble
judg nent de nOnStrIte in less time the
fallacy of the principles which Demo
Gratis pretend to advocate, and their uu-
fitness to manage the great country.
You have good men. But the forces
that have borne the party into power,
and which must be sustained, are the
forces of ignorance, prejudice and law
lessness. Promises made to these ele-
mGpts were of course not made to be full
filed, and when the truth becomes APP
parent these forces will turn and rend
the party that has betrayed them.
Homestead was heavily Democratic for
the first time in years. The strikers
were made to believe that instantly with
the election of Cleveland their cause of
lawlessness was to be supported. Now
they go upon tic road, 1000 of them, as
tramps, and the number of this frater-
nifty will not grow less during the next
administration.