The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-09-23
THE tlFrY.sEcoNp CONGRESS.
Hampsrsd by tn. Re.ul,s Of Republican
Liquidation.

The hfst session OF the Fifty second
congress began amid republican predic-
tions Of disaster to the democratic
party and ended with graceful recogni-
ton of the wish Of = republican presi-
dent.
Its work will be the subject Of much
controversy and necessarily an issue of
no small Importance In n national cam
palRn which involves the election of q
now house of representatives rs well nm
that Of president and vice president
For this reason Judgment of its acts
will he influenced morestrongly than in
intermediate years by partisan inclina-
tiouS IL il obvious, however. that no
better or fairer method of Judging its
performances from n political stand
point than by comparison with its re-
publican predecessor can be devised.
This IN test which democrats will
welcome and to which republicans
must submit.
The democrats OF the house did their
best TO tighten the bardcns of taxation
on the people and industries of the
country. Under the lead of the ways
and means committee bill was passed
making wool free. In the hope of re-
wing tho dropping wooden manufac-
turing interests and encouraging the
wooi-grower.
The same bill abolished the compen-
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
tho cotton-ties used by the planters of
the south.
Another made ore containing both
silver and lead free. the purpose being
10 cheaper one of the most common
articles Of domestic and industrial use,
The bill TO reduce the enormous Me-
Kinlcy tax on tin-platcs would have
put an end to n contemplate fraud, and
would have saved the people Of this
country from $40, 900, 900 TO SIS, 900, 900
year.
When these tnx-relief bills reached
the senate the republican majority
promptly pigeon-holed them. In the
interest of certain manufacturers of
cheap pushes, shoddy and certain kinds
of woolens. they denied the people
cheap clothes.
In the interest OF the cordage trust
they refused cheap binding-twine 10
the whcat-growers,
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 tn the robbery OF
the people who buy dinner-psils, pots,
pans and roofing-tin, and retained tho
tax that increases the price of canned
goods and has already closed up n score
OF canning factories, depriving labor of
it's work IA we'll a. making food deRrer.
In brief. all Of the bills which the
democratic house passed for the bene-
tit of tho people wero killed by the
senate.
The house dealt with tho frce-coinage
measure honorably and manfully. Tho
democratic majority, realizing that its
frat duty was To the people who elected
il for the purpose OF reducing taxes,
defeated the effort To force 1t 10 the
front.
Iiesides attending TO its legislative
work the majority in the house exposed
Raum's iniquitous administration OF the
pension office and showed tho president
To be his protector,
The material results OF tho session
will not be of great advantage 10 the
country for the simple reason that re-
publican legislation OF the billion dollar
congress-, republican senate and re-
publican president have prevented the
democratic house FROM carrying ont the
reforms desired by the people.
The political situation IL unchanged
by the session. II remains what it was
In the campaign of 1890. The democrats
have Iied 10 reduce expenditures, but
they could not They have tried to
drive the administration "a reform the
abuses in the pension bureau, but they
have been met and overcome by the
presidents obstinate adherence TO a
scandalous administration. Above all.
the democrats have tried To abolish
soms of the evils anal To tighten some
of the burdens OF the Mckinley
tariff law. They have attacked some
of its most fragrant abuses and some of
the worst trusts II has engendered, but
the friends of trusts and monopoly con-
trolled the senate and snt In the white
house. and the efforts of democratic
tariff reformers were lost except as
they show to the country that the party
Is still bent upon accomplishing ths
task which the people assigned To 1t In
ls00.-N. Y. World.
THE CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST.