The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-08-26

ls.npersd ~ tho Resosss % Republican
Liquidation.

f. The RECORD or THE SESSION.
m.npersd b. tho Rssssss 81 sspsh,sean
/. Legislation.
The frst session OF the fifty-second
congress began amid republican rrcdic-
tons Of disaster to the democratic
party and ended WITH graceful recoSni-
ton Of the wish Of republican, presi-
4 dent
It's work viii b the subject Of much
controversy and necessarily an issue o.
| NO small Importance in . national cam
| paign which involves the election OF =
| now house OF representatives as well -
that Of president and vice president
For this reason Judgment Of its acts
| will lie Influenced morestrnngly than In
intermediate years by partisan inciina-
| tons Ii 1, obvinns. however. that no
| better or fairer method OF jsdging its
| performance from political stand
I point than b. comparison with is re-
| publican predecessor can be devised
| This Is a test which democrats will
| welcome and to which republicans
! must submit
The democrats Of the house did their
best 10 tighten the bEriens Of taxation
| on the people anu industries Of the
country. Under the lead Of the Ways
(, and means committee bill was passed
making wool free. in the hope OF re-
viving the dropping wooden manufSc-
turing interests and encouraging the
wool-grower.
The same bill abolished the compcn-
satory duty on wooden goods The re-
suit Of this would have been The cheap
ening OF clothes which had been made
much more costly by the MCKINLEY
law.
Another bill made free the binding
Irvine used by the wheat growers and
the cotton-ties used by the planters 81
the south
Another made ore containing both
silver aud lead free. the purpose being
to cheaper one ~ the most common
articles of domestic and industrial use
The bill TO reduce the enormous Nc
Kinley tax on TEMPLATES would have
put an end to contemplate fraud. and
would have saved the people of this
country from $40. 600. 900 To sis. 900, 900 a
year
When these tax-relicf bills reached
the senate the republican majority
promptly pigeon-holed them. In the
Interest II certain manufacturers Of
cheap pushes. shodiy and certain kinds
Of woolens. they denied the people
cheap clothes
In the interest Of the cordage trust
they refused cheap binding-twine 70
the whcat-growers
w In behalf Of the hoop-iron makers o
Pittsburgh they insisted upon dear
cotton-ties for the southern planters
To help the makers Of plate they re-
fused to put an end TO the robbery Of
the people who buy dinner-pails. pots.
pans and roofn0-t,n. and retained the
tax that increases the price Of canned
goods and has already closed up score
OF canning factories. depriving labor OF
its work rs well As making food dearer.
In brief. all Of the bills which the
democratic house passed for the bene'
hit OF the people were killed by the
senate
The house dealt with the free-coinage
measure honora bly, and manfully. The
democratic majority. realizing that is
FIRST duty was TO the people who elected
it for the purpose OF reducing taxes
defeated the effort to force il to tbs
front
Besides attending to its Legislative
work the majority in the house exposed
} Raum's iniquitous administration Of Tho
pension Office and showed the prcsiden
to be his protector.
The material results Of the session
will not be Of great advantage 70 ths
J .s.f.. that
publican legislation Of the billion dol.a
: congress. republican senate and re
> publican president have prevented tn
/ democratic house from carrying out tn
! reforms desired BY the people.
The political situation is unchange'
by the session. II remains what il wa
il the campaign Of 1870. The democrat
9 have II led to reduce expenditures, bu
l. thew could not They have tried I
( drive the administration TO reform IN
: abuses in the pension bureau. bnt the
have been met ani overcome by ~
;, presidents ohStnat adherence to
0 scandal0us administration. Above al
the democrats have tried 20 abolisl
some Of the evils and 10 Tighten som
Of the burdens Of the McKinle
e tariff law. They have attacked som
y Of its most fagrant abuses and some (
the worst trusts il has cugendered. bl
I The friends OF 'rnst~ and monopoly cor
y trollcd the senate and sat in the whit
= housr. and the efforts OF democrat
e tariff reformers were lost except q
: they show 70 the country that the part
p Is still bent upon accomplishing n
r task which the people ssigned 70 II
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