The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-10-16

for that purpose-worthier hands have
gathered all those laurels All we can
say is that all the three sides are prob
ably right. The president and senate
have told the truth about each other
and the house about itself.
Slight Review.
With this simple expression of faith
In their veraoity, let us turn to a slight
review of what they have done. There
is no doubt that this review will be as
distasteful and unsatisfactory to the
majority of honest Democrats as to Re
publicans themselves. Whatever good
there has been done has been spoiled in
the doing. If the house has yielded to
the dictates Of long denounced com
mon sense and adopted proper rules, it
was only after all sound precedent had
been violated in the attempt to avoid
the necessity. If the congress has re-
pealed the purchasing clause of the Sher-
man act, it was only done after such
long delay as has deprived the country
of any advantage the repeal might have
given it. Nor has the mystery of the
collapse of the compromise and the con-
nection Of the president Herewith ever
been cleared up. Whether he consented
to that compromise or not is not for me
to say. That is a family secret, but it
is no family secret that that compromise
was not repudiated until after the Re
publican members were sounded and it
was clear that they would have no part
or lot in it,
Two such misunderstanding as these
between the president and the senate, if
Republican, would have caused a sensa-
ton as of burned wooden among the peo-
pie. But the Democracy has limitations
as to morality very much enlarged.
That party seems to realize what Gen
eraI Butler said In jest-'that nobody
was truly unassailable until his oharac-
ter was gone. "
The tariff bill of ''perfdy and dis
honor" has become law, and an inter
esting law it is. How Democratic sem
ate, believing in the platform of its party,
could have passed it, how Democratic
house could have passed it, having 100
majority, is simply incomprehensible.
How the president could have permitted
1t to become law is simply an impossl-
BILE study in human nature. How can
the country reconcile this action with its
former estimate of himp He was deemed
by very large part Of the people as
man of sound common sense and Of
great will power. His reputation for
good sense certainly had shock in the
case of the Sandwich Islands. And this
is more likely to suffer from the con-
trast between the letter to Wilson and
the surrender to German. L was not one
of those who expected such result.
was in the capitulation. He
ought to have handed in his side arms
and signed the bill
Mere Cipher.
If he did not consent, then by both
house and senate he has been pro-
to be not even factor in the
Hereafter the president,
instead of standing on a Mugwump and
unreal pedestal, must be reckoned with
the rest Of them, and the regrets will
not all be ON the Democratic side.
The truth about the Wilson bill Is
that it was foolish bill when it went
out of the ways and means committee
and was made still more foolish in the
house 1t had neither policy nor prac-
tioe, and yet 1t has been erected into q
golden calf, to be worshiped by party
and that, too, with the con
sent and approval of their own Moses.
The senate bill does have some regard
to the business of the country in spots,
but it will prove failure, like the other,
though not to the same degree. The
strikes in FAN River, New Bedford md
elsewhere over the cotton schedule, said
to be the best ever made, show, as a
prominent Democratic capitalist put it,
that labor has got to liquidate. Stocks
have liquidated-that is, gone down
one-half-exoept Sugar, Labor is to do
the same. But there will be this differ
ence: Stocks are submissive, laborers
are not.
Lying Statements.
Already the free traders are spreading
all over the country lying statements of
how much cheaper carriage cloth, cash
mere, worsted coatings, ohallies but not
sugar), will be hereafter because the tar
if tax is taken off Well, those opera
tives in Fall River and New Bedford
will buy none Of them this week at least,
and the operatives all over the country
will buy fewer of them after labor
has liquidated. I" ''Liquidated labor
will buy very few carriages to get the
benefit of cheap carriage cloth and will
indulge very seldom in union melton
coats, and the men who make the equiv
alent of carriage cloths and union mel
bons--the product of our wooden mills
will be lucky if they are not 'liqui-
lated into the tramp gang. The process
Of hquidating has begun, and when it
Is ended what them More "hquida-
ton. " Does not Wilson, chairman of
the ways and means committee, declare
that the fight has begun to end only in
absolute free trader Does not Mills re-
echo the same thing in bewildering
deultatAuft WuACA pcotAs W AhuAChtS
that a citadel is outside the city gates,
but the tenor of which is unmistakable9
Does not the president himself in his
latest contribution to the complete let
Ter writer tell us that this act FUR
nishes q vantage ground from which
must be waged further aggressive opera
Enns aEninst protected MONOPOLY and