New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-03
.SUNDRI ADMISSIONS.

II has not taken two months of Dem crate
administration to elicit certain interesting ad-
nj 81 n Let them be recorded for future in
s;rIlction. ard compared with the charges made
by the Democratic party when 1t wa, out and
want d To get in.
l. BY the Administration, its various tari1
experts. and Democratic leaders generally
That the revenues Of the Government cannot
be greatly reduced without borrowing money or
else leaving Government without means for
some nocc .sary expenditures. As Mr. Morrison
puts II. Billion Congresses have come to stay.
.. BY Secretary Herbert and other officials
of the new Administration, each after his kind
| That the public service under the former Re
publican Administration was Crcditably elf
cicnt. faithful and honest One new officer
after another. when bowling ont his predecessor
or chief subordinate, has honored himself by
honolng the god work which has been done
for the country.
3. BY all the tariff experts who have been
irving to help the new Administration-Tha
extensive reduction of duties cannot be made
without imposing new duties on articles now
free or leaving the Government without ncceS-
sary funds some take one way of putting
this and some another. Messrs. Wells and AT
kinson admit the deficiency by proposing to
make forced loan from the pensioners. Colo
mel Morrison admits it by proposing to put back
duties on sugar.
4. By Colonel Morrison, who knows Congress
better than any of the rest-That a proposed
new duty on sugar will probably fail. In that
case the President may have to veto bill for
inadeauacy or else sign it knowing that 1t
means bankruptcy
:. BY substantially all the Democrats who
have any sense-'That the Mckinley tariff Is a
harder bill to repeal or alter than they ever
imagined. To frame any revision OF it which
the majority of the people can be expected 10
support is a puzzle for Democratic statesmen
which rivals squaring the circle.
G. BY President Clcvcland-That the Sher-
man Silver law of 1890 made it the law Of
the land, as it was otherwise plain duty, to
maintain gold payments of all legal tenders
alike. In time he will probably see that re-
| peal of that part of the measure would be most
| dangerous.
:. BY the President and his Secretary of the
| Treasury-Tbat the Democratic Congress can
not be expected, III its present temper to re-
peal the Sherman act without enactng some
thing worse Both admit that the people must
4
| first be brought TO feel the consequences Of I'M
wise silver legislation 1t may occur TO them
| in time that, as the sherman act Is better than
any they can get passed now, it was probably
better than any other which could have been
passed in 1890 1t stopped coinage, and made
gold redemption the law Of the land, and the
cost, large as it was the country could pay
without difficulty SO long as there was no Dem
IL, ina
s. BY the Secretary of the Treasury-That it
is not necessarily dishonest in motive, nor
treacherous TO the people nor trucking TO
Wall Street" when the Secretary OF the Treas
uy meets and conferS with bankers of this city
about finances The Administration would have
avoided some d>credit if it had conferred a
little sooner.
8. BY most Of the people who voted for a
ohange-That they do not know now what
change they voted for.