Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-30
GOLDsBORO. N. c.. MARCH 80, 1898
REVISION n REVISIoNS.

journal remarks, the Olscusslon VI
the methods of tariff reform has
drawn from the Republican press
expressions of lofty PITY of the in-
capacity of Democrats to deal with
such a task. Our always esteemed
but somewhat disfigured contem-
poraries affect to be sorry that the
Democrats do not possess that
comprehensive knowledge OF the
best methods of constructing a
tariff bill which is the property,
and, as they appear to believe, the
exclusive property, of that aome-
time Chairman Of the Ways and
Means Committee, the Hon. Will
liam Mckinley, Of Ohio.
We Democrats like the rest OF
mankind, are all 'spoor Critters
and really do not deserve that this
costly sympathy should be wasted
upon us by men who might, by the
exercise of reasonable diligence,
find more legitimate subjects for
commiseration nearer to their own
doors. That wonderful knowledge
of markets and of the needs OF
monopolies which enabled Mr.,
Mckinley to put together a bill
which his admirers described as
the "bravest tariff bill ever framed
is lust the sort of information that
would be least valuable to a Deme
ocratic Committee on Ways and
Means. 1t is not that sort of re-
vision to which the Democratic
party is pledged.
When Mr.. Mckinley passed his
bill for the revision OF the tariff,
his party was in u~ndisputed con-
troll of all departments of the Feds
eral Government. 1t had strength
ened itself by the admission of g
number Of new States, believed to
be safely Republican, and thought
that it was on the point of passing
a bill that would enable it to dc
its own counting and its own Ger,
LITIGATION in electing members o:
Congress. All the arrangements
have been made to perpetuate Re.
publican rule indefinitely. It was
boosted that, at the worst, the Nc
Kinley bill could not possibly b.
repealed for ten years.
Such were the terms Of the pro.
nunciamento with which this cam
paign of monopoly was iDaugu'
rated. A month after il was issued
the Republican majority in ths
House was taken away, and The
Republican representation Their,
almost annihilated. Leee than two
years and a half have passed, anC
now the Democrats have a majority
in both houses and the Presidency
besides. Such have been the pc
litical results of the complete
mastery of the tariff question pos
sessed by Maj. Mckinley and BIZ
cosadjutors in the work of tariff re
vision.
In view of this bit Of history
known and read of all men. is j
not amazing that the Ways ane
Means Committee of the fifty frs
Congress should still be held up a
models Of wisdom and masters 0
economic science9 They had it il
their power, indeed, if they hat
had the requisite sagacity, to franz
a tariff bill that might have stoo'
for a long time. If they had heede'
the demand of the peop'e for
redress of grievances, had mad
reasonable reductions of tariff bur
dens, by removing the crosse
abuses of the protective system
they might possibly have kept tn
tariff refo1mers out Of power 70
SONS time to come. Instead o
doing this they close to initiate th
example of Rehoboam, who, whe
his Peep e asked for relief, adopte
the ADVICE of injudiclous adviser
and told them: MY father mad
your yoke heavy, and | will add
your yoke; my father chastised 20
with whips, but I will chastise 20
with scorpions" It was in pre-
cisely this spirit that the No
Kinley bill was framed and th
effects of fuch legislation r suff
cientlp plain to all not stricke
with judicial blindness.
instead of holding mn Nj. Mr.