The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1893-12-06

hoped for bill embodying less OF the
Protective and more of the Revenue
theories of Tariff legislation. The man.
date OF the last National Democratic Con-
vention was sufficiently explicit. Its
ratification by the people was sufficient
ly emphatic. The claim set up by those
timorous and treacherous Democrats,
who have not yet recovered from the
faint of Vandalism, that the Neal plank
in the platform was a scheme to embar-
rass the nomination, perhaps to defeat
the election. of Grover Cleveland, is a
falsehood as mean as is cowardly. Equal
ly so is the plea that the plank was
adopted through misrepresentation, or
precipitately under'a midnight whip and
spur. 1t represented precisely the aspi-
rations of the party, which been thor
oughly advised, the will and temper OF
the convention, which knew perfectly
what it was about.
The voters of the United States, alike
Republican and Democratic, want hon
est politics. They want plain, square,
issues, logically pursued to logical con-
sequences. The reason the second-rate
party leaders of the time can not rely
upon their following, nor keep their
voters together during any long or fixed
period, is that thay have no convictions
that they dare stand by and fight for,
but are forever looking over their should
ers to see whether some shadow, or 9TH
er, is not following them. In word,
they do not act honestly either by them
selves or by their constituents, and as a
rule, too lazy to equip themselves for
serious debate, they do not know enough
to distinguish between intrepidity,
which is safety aud prudence, which is
ruin.
The Courier-Journal fully understands
the difficulties and obstacles which Chair
man Wilson has had to encounter and
which yet liz across his path. 1t would
in no wise increase them. Since states
manship seems to be the art of compro-
missing conflicting interests, and seeing
that this bill faces in the right direction, |
and indeed moves in the right direction,
we mean to support it. 1t is a better
bill than either of the two Morrison Bills |
or the Mills Bills, which on similar
grounds we advocated, although they
fell far short of the mark aimed at by |
well-instructed Revenue Reformers.
We merely wish to disown responsibility
to those features which seem to us an
imposition upon the country, and TO ex-
press disapproval of such omissions as
ought to have been embodied in the |
bill, reserving the right in the forth
coming debate to challenge whichever
of its details that may illustrate the case
OF Free Trade against Profession.
The Courier-Journal does not expect
all at once. II can wait. 1t will wait.
The experience already had in the Ways
aud Means Committee telling over
again the dreary story of shameless
greed, using every artifce and influence
to retain its bounties, shows conclusively
that, as long as subsidy is consulted at
all in the making of Tariff Bill, the
interests of the many are bound to suf-
fer.
The Courier-Journal has never been
1t may dream, but it dreams
with its eyes open, seeing the light of
day. Believing in something, it can not
dismiss from its mind any theoretical or
ioctrinal consideration that may apply
to current affairs. Yet. at the same
time, recognizing the laws of practical
and the spirit of an intensely
age, it knows how to accept the
as it may be, and it does accept
the present situation as ii is.
We shall not predict great things.
We shall go on no bonds to guarantee
certain and overwhelming Democratic
But; along with some ill-ad-
vised omissions and some Objectionable
features, it is not only not wholly bad
bill, but in some respects il is a very
good bill, and, We rapeat, we shall, meta
phorically speaking, vote for its final
passage, reserving the right, which will
be also a duty, to propose to amend, or
10 strike out, wherever the occasion in
vites, or requires, during its transition
through Congr. ST.
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