The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-02-24


peal. The admission is Of oreat
Importance. 1t is fresh evidence
that | do not press too far the
charge OF disobedience to the peou).'s
overwhelming mandate. The de-
mand tor repeal is a proposal of the
largest measure of tariff re-
form' | admit, for it is proposal
TO recover the whole ground usurped
by the billion Congressman it is even
more, for it has apprised the coua-
Try that their unrepealed existence
tor another year shall not erect the
novel super-added wrongs of the
two Mckinley acts into finality.
Repeal is not a proposal to stop at
the tariff OF 1888 as a fnality. My
language expressly barred out that
absurd idea. Moreover, when the
tariff of 1883 was the law of the
land in the hour of our defeat three
years ago, | said, here in Albany:
'::Ihe Democratic party nails to the
mast the flag of ftarif reform"
Tariff reform will remain and
require progressive. solution with
the wise and polite method of abol-
lshlng, whenever practicable, one
after another, one indefensible tax
at time, where the two Mckinley
laws today replaced the tariff of
1888. But l do not finch back
Ward from the advance line of in
trenchments which the Democrats
ct New York have won, kept, and
will guard.
| do not shirk a deadly grapple
with the Republican revolutionists,
whose banners no longer fly the ta-
riff OF 1888, but how fly the mad
Mckinley laws and the wild Sher-
man law, and mock us from the cit
adels of power. The cause of tariff
reform has lately made great prac-
tlcal advance.
Secretary Manning, in his last
report of 1886, advised Congress to
begin practical tariff reform by a
single act; an act for free wool; an
act untaxing the clothing of about
60,00O.OOo people. One year later,
in 1887, the Secretary's report was
writ large" in a message of the
President. Now, five years later,
one of our most enlightened
economists, David A. Wells,
writes to the chairman of the ways
and means committee that the path
Of progress which Secretary Man
ming blazed first and alone is the
true path. 1t is a maxim of sound
policy, better fitted to win elections
than to lose them, better dividing
into easy chapters the lessons of a
long campaign Of education, to abol-
ish whenever you can, one after an
other, one indefensible tax at a time.
This is true progress.
Let us rejoice. The Senate and
the executive may now refuse the
least, as they refused the largest,
measure of tariff reform, but of the
future of our cause we may now feel
better assured.
THE PLATFORM.
The platform reiterates New
York State platforms of 1871 and
1890; stigmatizes the Sherman pro
gressive silver law as no settlement
of the silver question; and Gov
Hills and Gov. Flowers admins
tration are praised.
N. Us CANDIDATE AT CHICAGO.
The Democrats Of New York
with proud hope, yet with perfect
Difference to their brethren Of Other
States and cordial estimation O
their renowned leaders as worthy
standard-bearers of a peoples cause
point to the nomination of David B
Hill to the office of President as 9
fit expression of the whole Demo
cratic faith and tradition, and o
our settled purpose to rescue thi
perverted government from th'
clutch of autocrats and plutocrats
from spendthrift administration, ,odi
Gus taxes, and debased money.
; INSTRUCTED TO VOTE FOR GOV