The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-03-18
DEMOCRATIC eLUsTER.
Loud Sounding Threats That Have Never
Been Fulfilled.

Loud Sounding Threats That Have Never
Been Fulfilled.
The democratic members of congress
are not near so full of indignation
toward cur protective system as they
were Immediately after the elections
of last year, and even during the open
ing of the present session. They were
given to significant mutterings and PAN
tomimic threats against this splendid
policy of the republican party, which
has inaugurated golden era of ma
tional prosperity.
The southern democrats, in particu-
lar, made ugly faces at us and threw
out certain suggestive hints as to what
they intended to do with various New
England interests. Hence they sought
and secured a preponderance of infiu-
ence on important committees in the
house. But it has been sort of Chinese
preparation for war throughout-the
beating of drums, the firing of blank
cartridges, and the parading of fero-
cious looking stuffed animals-noise
bluster and eXtravagant threats.
1t is true that they have brought for
ward measures attacking our wooden
and worsted industries. How far they
may have been sincere in this matteris
indicated by the long and confused dis
cussion, in committee, over Mr..
Sprin gers bill, resulting in such mod
lficatious as left nothing to remind one
of the original character of the meas
ure. Then they have assailed our
financial system by propositions for
free and unlimited silver coinage. But
they say that while the passage of this
measure will crafty the silver states,
it will fail to become law through the
presidents veto, and they cannot be
held responsible for that which does
not exist.
Next they timidly suggested the re-
peal of the duties on coal and iron ore
The south and west Numbered such an
emphatic mo" to this proposition as tc
make the free traders quake and imme-
diately repent of their premature ac-
ton. Where now is the deadly
blow" which the democrats gave full
notice of, to our shipbuilding industry
by introducing free trade in iron and
steel? They have substantially ac-
knowledged that all these threats were
but childish impudence and intolerable
arrogance.
We hear no more toploftical asser-
tions that the southern democrats have
got the Yankees in ''chaucery," and
mean to punish them for their long
years of allegiance to the republican
party and the protective system. These
same southern democrats have been
put upon the defensive by this PROPOSE
ton to repeal the duties on coal and
iron ore, and they have just notified
Mr. Springer, chairman of the ways
and means committee, that they do
not consider pig iron as raw mate
rial" and they most seriously object
to the placing of bituminOus coal upon
the free list. Senator German, that
consumm ate democratic trickster, also
entered a most formidable protest
against this proposition, inasmuch as
he is large owner of coal and iron in
terests in West Virginia
And now can our eastern manufac-
turers remain ignorant of the true stu
alton? Some of them were hood
winked by the cry of free raw ma
terial' in the elections of last year, and
they voted with the democrats. But
they will now leave that dishonest and
insincere old party on the run. and re-
ceiving no free raw material they
will renew their allegiance to that con-
sistent and honest party that affords
as extensive a free raw material" list
as is compatible with its splendid sys-
tenn of protection for the finished
product"
Our southern and eastern manufae-
turers will get no free raw material
from the democrats such as they re-
quire in their special industries, but
they may get large reduction OF
the protective duties on manufactured
products, and this will properly and
Justly reward them for their temporary
support of the democratic party, for
the sake of selfish and sordid eonsid-
er atoms which were suggested to them
by cunning, insincere and thimble-
rigging democratic politicians These
political humbugs have been fully ex-
posed, and remaDded, with all the rest
of the innumerable democratic false
hoods and fallacies, to the limbo of in
nocuous desuetude.-N. Y Mail and
Express