The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-08


Df Grover Cleveland. Statistics show
ing the ces alton OF production, the
depreciation OF values, and the reduc-
tion OF wages are not needed to impress
the situation upon the people. Expert
ence has driven the les on home in ev-
cry community and every hou ehold.
From the new commemorative that
look out upon the Pacific to the long
established Eastern States whose soil
was tro1den by the feet OF the Pii-
grim; two centuries and half ago,
from the border line of Canada to the
sion of every form of business, the
s,agnation OF e%ery kind OF industry,
and the gradual confiscation of the
property of American citizens have
been the famil: ar features OF national
life.
With incalculable resources which
are only beginning to be unlocked;
with seventy millions of the most en-
lightened, industrious and progressive
people on earth; with the most com
pr, hensive and perfect equipment for
manufacturing in existence, the Unit
ed States has steadily grown poorer
for the past fourteen months. The
achievement of the American people
in providing for the enormus expendi-
ture required for the suppression Ct
the rebellion has excited the wonder
of fore On statesmen and aroused the
admiration OF foreign economists. Yet
the pecuniary less of the last few
months j. greater than the three thou
sand millions of the nat onal debt
which was piled upon the shoulders of
the nation by the most gigantic civil
war on record. The mighty contest
which convu sed the country for 70 III
years was less expensive in dollars and
cents than the misru of Grover
Cleveland and the Democratic party
for a year and quarter.
There is no danger that the people
will forget these things. They have
been branded on mind and heart too
deeply to be effaced. But it is essen
tial that their full import should be
constantly borne in mind by Northern
Senators at Washington. The people
of the North have gone to the polls
and demanded by overwhelming ma
jorities that protection should be up
he'd and prosperity restored. They
have demanded that the Mckinley law
shall be maintained. They have de-
clared with ominous emphasis that no
Northern Senator who fails to oppose
the Democratic scheme of treason and
spolation can look for honor or prefer
ment at their hands. Never in the an
nails of this republic has the will of
the nation been more unmist kablv ex-
pressed at the ba l1t-box. Never have
the commands of the voters been m }. @
explicit or more imperative. Never
has the path of honor, of duty and of
patriotism been made more plain for
the elected repre- sen.atives of the
American people.
The tariff bill now tefore the Senate
would be ridiculous if it were not de-
testab,e and contemplate il it were
not dangerous. The very men who
support it under the party la III despise
it. The leading Democratic news a
pers of the country brand 1t as the
product of corruption and ire cherry.
An open free trade bill would at lea
be Ineligible. "A bill putting all raw
materials on the free list would at least
be consistent. Both would be perni-
cious and destructive Both would de-
serve and receive solid Republican OPP
position. But the nondescript Gem
pound OF barter and sectional revenge
the fourth or fifth in the succe ssion
OF tariff bills brought forward by the
Democratic managers in the last six
months-has not even the merit OF
consistency. 1t bears the same rela-
tion to an avow, free trade measure
which the sneaking guerrillas who
fought from ambush and whose sole
object was plumber, bore to the Con-
federate ermies who faced the soldiers
Of the North in the open field. The
guerrillas received no quarter. The
guerrilla bill for the destruction OF
Northern industries deserves mono.
The Bourbon measure iealouslv de-