Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-04-13
LET THE HoWLERS HOWL,

The Third Party, office hungry
leaders are still bowling through
their partisan papers, and the refrain
is caught up and made to resound
by the organs of their allies-the
Republican annex; but a good crop
year will completely kill out the
Third party influenza, just as a
heavy frost allays yellow fever; so
don't fret about the howlings of
those who, forsaking principle, have
adopted this mode of teasing the
people fer bread-just don't worry:
Grover Cleveland is President and
the country is safe, and the reforms
advocated by the Democratic party,
and sanctioned by the peoples over
whelming vote for that party, are
going to be duly inaugurated-and
don't you forget it J!
Why just think about it! The
idea of wasting breath, time, ink
and paper in arguing with a Third
partyite at this particular stage of
Democratic triumph!
What for? What is to be gained
by it? Who is to be converted by
speculative argument when we have
just got the power of putting the
Democratic policy into practice?
The Democratic party is irrevo-
cably pledged to the obliteration of
protectionism in all its forms from
our revenue system, and We may be
sure that it will not have ceased its
consideration of the Tariff, nor closed
this interesting chapter IN our do
nestle economy, until the last OBJ
struction to free commerce with the
nations of the world has been re-
moved.
A Tariff system half protection
and half revenue is as incompatible
with American institutions as a la
Dor system half free and half slave,
and, therefore, the conflict between
Free Trade and Protection is an ir,
repressible conflict. It will down
at no mans bidding. 1t will end at
the dictum of no compromise. 1t is
here to stay until it is settled, and
settled Alright, and the men who
have fought the fight for freedom
through twenty years of good and
i'll report, who, time after time, have
gone down before the engineries OF
corruption set up by the few tc
overcome the many, and submitted
to tie yet harder lot of yielding to the
knife-thrusts Of cowardice and trea-
son, are not going to abandon their
faith, and throw up the sponge, upon
the threshold of the consummation
of all their hopes reached through
the overwhelming popular victories
of 1890 and 1892.
In MI. Cleveland they behold
their leader. The revolt against the
Mckinley abomination pointed the
way to the tariff plank in the Ma.
tional Democratic Convention. That
plank was not adopted either hast.
lily, or under excitement. 1t was the
elaboration of courage, the climax
of truth, It vas the logical fruit of 9
campaign of education extending
over twenty years, and was pro.
claimed with the fullest advisement
Its terms are equally specific and
unequivocal. They can be misunder-
stood by nobody. With them at our
masthead we fought the battle,
meeting such an onset of misrep-
resentation as was never surpassed in
the annals of party warfare. AL
that could be charged against a party
was charged against us. All that
could be said in support of the
counter policy was said. Yet, in the
face of all, we swept the country:
and never before has an Admins.
tration come to power under in
structions so absolute with respect
to any given question, as that OF
which MI. Cleveland is now at the
head and with the reins Of Govern
ment in hand.
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