St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-21

| or the Republican contingent in the
Fifth ward. If George has other prom.
inent qualifications. will the p. p. please
mention them
WHAT WILL YOU Do ABOUEIT?
The senate finance committee has re-
ported to that body the tariff bill on
which it has, with much wet-nursing by
the protectonists in and out of the SEN
ate, been incubating for weeks. The
free trade egg, laid at Chicago. has been
pushed out of the nest, aud Democratic
congress has Matched a full-fedged
| pr0tectionist cuckoo. The sugar trust,
the coal and ore and steel trusts, the
linen and collar and-cuffS trust, the sole
leather trust and all the nefarious brood
of trusts are each and all of them safely
sheltered under the wings of this auda.
cious cuckoo bill.
| Now. Messleurs Democrats you fel.
lows down in the ranks. you men who
threw your hats and shouted for JOY when
the Chicago convention courageously
drove the cuckoos off the platform
and thanked God that at last the plat
| form expressed your sincere convictions,
what are you going to do about it? That
is the question the Republicans are ask
ing with sneers on their lips, land that is
he-question which German, Hill, Muir
ply, Brice and that crowd of fellows
are asking you with as cock-sure bru-
tality as Tweed felt and showed when
he asked the same question of the citi-
zens of New York city.
1t is time for you to be thinking of the
answer you will make. 1t Is time that
your answer should begin to be made
audible. In the spring of 1872. when it
looked as If these men, who have forced
this Republican mOnStrosity on us and
declare Democracy its putative father,
were scheming to capture the presiden-
| tial nomination for one of their kind,
BILLY" Wilson, now chairman of the
i house ways and means committee, wrote
| to Chairman Campbell, of the Demo
cratic state committee, and said: sit is
time for the people to begin to roar"
| We little dreamed then that a Demo
cratic congress would make it necessary
for the people to roar in denunciation
of their surrender to paternalsm, but il
has-more's the pity.
Are you going to sit supinely by and
see your brave promises torn III tatters
and trampled in the dust by few
traItorous Democrats? Are you going
to bear in silence the jibes of our oppo-
nents? How do you like to have them
read with Sneering lips your Chicago
plank, and then ask you if this bill is
the redemption of it? After all these
years of hearty and vigorous denuncia-
ton of protection. are you going to
wallow in the very hogwash of Penn.
sylvania plotectionism merely because
a lot of corrupted senators label the
Wallow Democratic?
| And you, gentlemen in the house,
| what are you going to do about it, Will
| you eat your humble pie? Will you let
this useless house of lords uSurp your
prerogative Of framing revenue bills,
and force protective bill on you? Will
| you. with weak cowardice, after the
| bill comes from conference, say that it
is the best you can get, and swallow it?
And if you do, will you dare to face
your constituents and tell them that:
| viii you dare to take the stump and
| defend this miserable abortion? What
will you say to those thousands of Re-
| publicans whom we led to believe that
we were sincere and trustworthy, and
who gave you their votes in that conf
dence. when they ask you if this bill
redeems the pledges which induced
their votes? How can you convince
them that you will do any more or better
another time?
1t makes one sick at heart, this cow
ardice, this betrayal of great cause,
the cause of greater freedom for men
this cruel waste of all the efforts of the
years; this shameful retreat from a
| great opportunity. Think, Democrats,
OF the struggles since 81; recall the
campaigns into which you have gone
with sturdy courage and a conviction Of
right. See again that magnificent con-
ventlon of your party in that great wig q
wan i'll Chicago, daring to take its
leader from a state whose delegation
declared he could not nave its electoral
vote; daring again when the collar-and-
cuff element had framed its maundering
| platitude about the tariff, which meant
nothing, and was designed to mean
| nothing, to tear it out and write your
purposes in plain, strong words; recall
the scene of the following months wher
| you, your papers and speakers were
| fighting for that plank; declaring every
where that protection was fraud and
robbery, and demanding tariff laiG
solely for revenue; meeting the eDemy
in tie open field, face to face, and fight
ing to finish battle whose meaning
| no one misunderstood, and OF whose
outcome no one had doubt-and then
contemplate with equanimity this fruit
age of those efforts and that fight if you
| can.
If you are men we know what YOU
will do. You will cinch your waistbelts
little tighter; you will set your mus
Giles to a tenser strain; you will visit on
the traitors, where you can, the fate of
| traitors, and brand the towards with the
| initial of their infamy; and you will say
to these protection barons as Grant said
to Buckner at Donelson: 1--WE demand
an unconditional and immediate sur.
render, and we propose to move imme-
diate.y upon your works."
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