New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-21
Trade to be failure and Reciprocity on Amen-
can lines sound business policy.
NEWSPAPER AND SENATOR.

There appears to be difference of opinion
between 1.-The Newly ork World' and Senator
| German on the question of appropriations. The
! Senator. who has had some experience in such
matters and may well be supposed 10 have as
! full information on the subject as even news
paper editor. has been voting for approprla-
| tions which in THE World Office are consid-
cred extrayacant and unnecessary. What j, of
much higher importance. 1t Is believed that they
will prevent the triumph OF the Democratic
! party in November, which The w orld has
taken n contract 10 bring about because if
the appropriations are not cut down there VIII
he nothing in the Billion-Dolla Congress
cry from which so much has been expected.
The Senator maintains that the appropriations
he has favored are necessary to carrying on
tho Government. and that THE World" and
other newspapers which are making fuss over
the matter are trying to deceive the people.
Wbereto THE World" replies that the Senator
is wrong" that he errs," and that ne HES
in the face of facts"
II contends that there is no real necessity Tor
River and Harbor bills, or appropriations for
tbo NAVY. or for public buildings, or at least
that all should be cut down so as to bring the
the claim that this Congress has reduced cX-
nenditures The point of its argument and the
force of its reasoning are well summed up
in the conclusion that " if they (thc Democrats
do not reduce the appropriations now they VIII
find their maioritics reduced in November.
II does not matter about anything else. The
nolicv of retrenchment is believed to be pop
MAR: it will catch votes so the thing to be
done is to enforce it regardless OF every con-
sidelation of the Government ; actual needs
Now. Senator Germans action on some OF the
appropriation bills may be open to far crit
icism. but he deserves communication for voting
for such appropriations as in his judgment are
necessary in spite of the Blllion-Dolar
clamor of his party In this he has at least
shown Independence and good sense. And
when he says the Billion Dollar Shouters are
irving TO deceive the people he unquestlonably
tells the truth For that is their only purpose.
The difference of opinion, after ALL between
Senator German and The WOrld' is simply
rs to how far the game can be played by the
party TO which both belong and for whose sue
cess both are striving. The Senator has had
considerable experience in politics, and has
made up his mind that it is a mistake 10 think
you can keep the people fooled a great while
at a time His profession is politics. That
is his only business. He has studied 1t. lie
knows all the tricks in the game. And he
knows, if We may be permitted to say So a
great deal quicker than 1.-The World' does
when political sensation is played out. No
one, for instance, knew quicker than he when
David b. Hill had struck twelve, and no one
sooner than he stopped watching that clock.
THE World" on the contrary, does not seem
to distinguish with accuracy the precise time
when the egg it sits on has passed the posi-
bilty of being ever again fresh egg or young
chicken Senator German knows 1t to nicely.
He understands that the BilIion-Dollar egg
has outliyed its usefulness And if our iiut-
tering and clucking contemporary Will take
disintcrested advice we should say g Come of =