The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-03-10
HILL AND DEMOCRACY.

1t was David B. Hill,of New York
who, during the campaign in 1892
immortalized the saying, 81 am Dem
ocrat," which be used in one of hi
speeches, and since that time 1t ha'
been frequently quoted as significant
of the man and his political prefer
ences. Every word that has emanated
from him since has been clothed with
an air of sanctity to. Democrats, and
the genuineuess of his political faith
cannot be questioned. 1t was Democ-
racy for him to oppose the appoint
ment Of Hornblower and Peckham to
the supreme bench, and if any ques-
tion is raised regarding his actions In
the future the skeptical will be re-
ferred to his immortal saying during
the last presidential canvass. He was
and is Democrat, and as the party
has known no change in methods dur
ing the past half-century,it is to be
presumed that Mr.. Hill will always
remain unchanged.
Less than two years ago the Chicago
confession of faith was held sacred by
all Democrats, and this declared in
simple and unequivocal terms that
protection was the great evil under
which the nation was suffering, and
that this economic policy was plainly
unconstitutional, Mr.. Hill and other
oracles of the party proclaimed from
every forum in the land, during the
educational campaign of 1892, that
the "robber tariff must be blotted
from the statute books, and McKin-
leyism must sink into q dishonored
grave, never to be called into existence
again The song of the political sirens
was listened to with marked attention,
and at the ballot box on November 9th
OF that year, the American people
voted in accordance with the desire of
Democratic orators. One year only
had elapsed since the Democratic mil
lenium was inaugurated, and in that
august body, the senate Of the United
States, the dispatches state Senator
Hill-who was, is and always will be
a Democrat-presented resolution
setting forth that, 'as there was an an
nounced deficit of $7s.000.000 for the
current fiscal year, and as the Wilson
bill proposes to discard that much rev.
enue from the tariff and to meet the
double deficiency by internal direct
taxation, the finance committee be di-
rected to frame amendments to the
bill omitting the proposed new inter-
nal taxes, and to make instead pro-
vision for sufficient revenue by tar
iffing other foreign imports and other
wise revising the tariff. without Great
ing deficiency" In an old and very
venerable book is recordhd the saying
that Ga leopard cannot change his spots
or an Ethiopian his color. but moth
ing is mentioned in the sacred page
the unchanageableness OF
American Democracy. 1t did net ex-
ist at that time, and if i. had it would
not have been classed in the same list
with the quadruped and blped men
toned. There is an animal known to
as the chameleon, which
possesses opposite qualities to the
leopard and Ethiopian, and constantly
changes its color. 1t is chameleon
and will always remain
,ne, distinguished from other genera
md species by this popularity. The
same is true of Democracy, and of
Hon. David B. Hill, its apostle. 1t is
,usceptible to the least influence to re-
ain and emit the slightest variation in
he rays of light; but it always was, is
md forever will be Democracy, and
he David B. Hilfs-clamoring for
rec trade in 1892 and in 1894 de-
handing "tarifing imports" sufficient
o make up an animal deficit of $7S,-
)00,00-will always be its prophets.