The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-20
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 20. 1898.

WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 20. 1898.
This paper is Democratic in principles
and is Independent in its rielcs on all local
questions.
THE JERSEY City NEWS again
showed its appreciation of true news
yesterday by laying before it's readers
the full text of the Wilson Commit
tees report upon the tariff question.
After the Hawaiian Message wal out
of the way, this remained the most
eagerly awaited communication from
any official of the Federal govern
ment to the people. 1t touches every
mans principles and every mans
pocket, and every man wants to read
every word of it. All may do this
in the columns of THE NEWS. This
time, there are only two papers in
the State which rise to the occasion.
The Journal as usual adheres to the
cheap, lazy and dishonest plan of
printing random and garbled x
tracts.
We have only to repeat what We
said yesterday: When the people
want big news they must go to a real
newspaper to get it, and the only
newspaper published in Hudson
County is The JERSEY CITY NEWS.
The Presidents Message and the Will
sol Report.
The tariff report of the Ways and
Means Committee of the House of
Representatives is a remarkable conI-
pendulum of the history and principles
of the tariff question. We do not re-
able Information, coupled with so
much sound reasoning On the subject,
ever before condensed into so limited
space The document is the work
of a master of literary skill, as we'll as
politics, and coming in immediate
succession upon the able and inspired
Message of President Cleveland, it is
calculated to make every democrat
proud in the highest degree of his
party-a party which is guided and
led by SO much intellectual force, SO
much judicial calm and such intensity
of moral purpose.
After the reception accorded the
Presidents message by the fouler por-
ton of the press and the more de-
PRAYED Republican leaders. unscru-
pulous ruffians of the Bouteile stripe
we despair of ever a sane discussion
of the Wilson report. The rabid
anti-Cleveland organs are sure to lash
their tails and foam at the mouth
with fury. But our reliance is on the
text of these two documents them
selves, and the honesty that breathes
through them like an inspiration. So
long as the papers print the un-
garbied text, as even the Sun and the
Tribune are bound to do, no one need
car much what infamous headlines
are spread over them, or what
vagaries of Misrepresentation the
editors may indulge in. We only ask
the people to read Cleveland's or Will
sons own words, and then we do not
object in the least to them reading
Charles A. Dana's rawlings. The peo-
pie of the United States are not all
fools.
The criticisms of the Presidents
Message in the hostile papers were re-
markable for the unanimity with
which they refused to join issue with
the President upon the questions of
fact, for the unanimity with
which they refrained from prov
ing his conclusions untrue by any
process of reason. Sarcasm, they were
lavish with; 1ippancy was a trench
ant weapon in some hands. Abuse
of the most loathsome kind was lavish
ly bestowed by all; but out of fifty
walton yesterday, not one attempted
toset up an array of facts in opposi-
ton to the Presidents and not one
attempted to controvert his reasoning
by any logical process. Take the
Tribune as an example. It was on
tent TO say that the President stated
the facts as he assumed them when he
went into Office" 1t intimates that
the only purpose of Blount's mission
was to bolster up the Presidents pre-
conceived view. OF course this is a
very smart and biting way of giving
the thing a twist. 1t is worth a smile
from anyone; but it is not argument.
II the Presidents version of the facts
is wrong, why not give us the right
one. If he gives dates,
correct them; if he misquotes Stevens,
gives us the true citations.
1t simply cannot DE done. The
President cannot be corrected in a
single assertion, nor refuted in a single
argument, and so the organs rave and
fume, call him and Mr.. Gresham vile
names, and finally pronounce his doc
ument a very weak" paper and