The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1893-07-07
COMING REFORMS.

form ~ Duty Faithfully and Wen.
Ever sInce the crushing defeat in.
fiictcd Or Kinleyism last fall u few /
jourralS " been insisting that the
lcmocrst purty is bound by its plat
form and hedges and its commission
from the pcople 90 an immediate re-
f,rm Of 1hktnrif according to the ex. |
treme pri piles OF free trade. IL is |
what No Inuel Weller would call a |
..cohincedcIe that these same quick |
interpreted IF party duty and popular
will. whefIIE republican or democratic,
have heret43ore been stiff protectionists
and perz1rfens preachers of the doctrine
that the D'if Is our sole defense
against ~ pstrial servility and the pau
perixing * american labor.
Why, thi4sudden facing about? Is II
the reuu11 genuine conversion. or Is
democrat t9 rule SO hateful To them that
they are W3lling 10 purchase its over
| throw - xis'ation which, they hon.
estly bc1f9, means detriment and dis
aster a ths country As the demo-
cratic rort- did not heed them when
lthey krS. ;6N arrest IL pplrs<S
townrdy 3 r5alsof sc3llrncr<so 40!
dom, so itsy<j not be led by them when
the obstaeles\p that progress have been
forcibly swepfAaside. II will make ITS
triumphal msrce under its own wise
and conservative leascrs and by such
stages as shall make rs victory a per-
manent reform and not a violent revo-
luton.
| As Mr. Cleveland said in accepting
the nomination, 1t is neither destruc-
tive party nor does IL propose TO toler-
ate any tariff legislation that has for
its object forced contribution from
the earnings of the masses to swell di-
rectly the accumula tons of a few.
1t understands that after four years
of republican extravaganza and pen
sion prohigacy we shall have TO collect
from the American people for sornC
wears TO como larger annual amounts
than were ever collected from any
other people by methods having any
claim to be called taxation. II will
strive TO place the burdens where ther'
is most strength to bear them anS
where they will weigh most lightly
on the production and trade of thu
country.
1t understands that the best and thu
only way under free government 4
protect labor IL to free from taxation
the materials with which it works, thu
insuring for its products the wider mar
kets which mean both steady employ
ment and good wages. 1t understand
\ ,k.t Is NOT war in xvhlpl
there Is a victor and vanquished, MOI
yet gambling In which there is win
ner and loser, but a mutually bene
fetal transaction in which both partie
get the largest returns for their labo
and all share in the advantages OF each
| II knows that whatever increase o.
imports may come through lower du
ties must necessarily carry with it al
increase of exports, the products o
American labor, and that with the en-
terprise and keen trading of our peopl'
every dollars worth of home produce
sent out viii bring us In return dol
lars worth Of foreign products, with ;
good profit to boot.
Tariff reform, therefore, as the duty
! now .A<t before the democratic part
Il
looks to results-to permanent anC
beneficent results, reached through. ad
hereuce to correct principles. IL does
not propose a sentimental chase after
free trade regardless of present condi
tons and interests, nor, on the other
hand, will it fear free trade wherever,
in the ordinary pursuit of sound policy,
il NAV overtake it, IL looks to the
liberation of what are known as raw
materials from the taxes which throt-
tie production at its source and thus
rob labor of employment; to such
moderate rates on finished products,
levied for revenue purposes, as will
insure and make possible honest com.
petition, but not monopoly in our own
markets; to such higher duties on lux
uries as will draw bountfully to the
treasury from the abundance of the
rich. And it especially looks to such
vigorous and thorough simplification of
our tariff laws as will relieve foreign
trade from the snarls and pitfalls
which beSet the approaches to the GUS
tom houses and bring penalties and
litigation to the honest as often as to
the dishonest importer
/. These are great reforms They will
reverse and undo the vicious practices
of thirty years They may not all be
attajnable in a few months or by a
single bill, but they are the reforms
which the people wished and com
manded when they returned the demo
cratic party to power, and it is now the
duty of that party, as we believe it is
its honest desire. TO set about their ac'
complishment, not precipitately and
blindly, but without haste and without
resin. Y. World.