The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-05-09

enndry 1Amis.isns.
New York Tribune.
Tt has not talken two months OF
DQNodrAAc administration to elicit
int1eeating admissiQpa. Lat them b
,recorded Tor future instruction and
fot1pAted with tic charges made by
the Democratic PARTY Whcn It Was out
and wanted to get ia.
l. By the administration, its various
tariff experts and Democratic leaders
generally-That the revenues Of the
government cannot be greatly reduced
without borrowing money or else
leaving government without means
Tor some necessary expenditures. As
Mr.. Morrison puts it billion Congress
% have come to stay.
2. BY Secretary Herbert and other
officials OF the new administration,
each after his kind-That the public
service under the former Republican
administration was creditabiy ell
cient, faithful and honest. One
new officer after another. when
bowling out his predecessor or
chief subordinate, has honored
himself by honorlng the good work
which has been done for this country.
8. By all the tariff experts who have
been trying to help the new admins.
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duties cannot be made without impos-
ing new duties on articles now FREQ
or leaving the government without
necessary funds. Some take ono way
Of putting this and some another.
Meesre. Wells and Atkinson admit the
deficiency by proposing to make o
| forced loan from the pensioners. Col.
Morrison admits 1t by proposing to
put back duties on sugar.
4. By Colonel Morrison, who knows
Congress better than any Of the rest
That q proposed new duty on sugar
will probably tail. In that case the
President may have to veto q bill for
inadequacy or else sign II, knowing
that II means bankruptcy.
5. By substantially all the Democrats
ley tariff lie q harder bill to repeal or
alter than they ever Imagined. To
frame any revision of 1t which the
majority OF the people can be expected
to support lie puzzle for Democratic
statesmen which rivals squaring the
circle.
9. BY President Cleveland-That tho
Sherman Silver law OF 1890 made 1t
the law OF the land. as 1t was other.
wise plain duty. to maintain gold
payments Of nll legal tenders alike
In time he will probably see that re-
peal OF that part Of the measure would
be most dangerous.
Z BY the President and his Secre-
tary OF Treasury-Thatt the Democratic
Congress- cannot DO expected, Ia its
present temper. to repeal the Sherman
TACT without enacting something
worse. Both admit that the people
must first be brought to feel the con.
sequences of unwise silver Legislation.
1t may occur to them in time that. as
the Sherman act is better than they can
gel. passed now, 1t was,probably better
than any other which could have been
passed In 1880. 1t stopped coinage and
made gold redemption the law or the
land, and the cost. large as 1t was, the
country could pay without difficulty
so long as there was M Democratic
Congress to thre ateM something
worse.
8. BY the Secretary OF The Treasury
THAT 1t is not necessarily dishonest
In motive, nor treacherous to the peo-
pie, nor trucking to Wall street, u
when the Secretary OF the Treasury
meets and confers with bankers oil
this city about finances. The admin
istration would have avoided some
diseredlt II 1t had conferred little
sooner.
0. by most OF the people who voted
for change-That they do not know
now what change they voted for.