The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-07-21

! hnI winch she II determined 10 make,
and will vet surely make. in tenderly
caring for every one of her defenders,
their widows and orphans and dependent
ones. Prolonged applause on the Re
publican side
The sun on Free ships.
The New York Sun is unwilling TO sur
( render all the Industries of this country to
/ foreign manufacturers. and therefore it
declares that the free ship bill, intro
duced into the House by Representative
| Fithan of Illinois. is merely another eX-
preston of the fool-born idea that the
way for this country to regain its former
cUmmapding position on the seas Is to
close UP every American shpyard. The
Sun then says: An industry important
III time of redce. Indispensable in case of
war glorious in its traditions both of
war and peuCe, ia To be Stitled ont of OK
istence in order that the United States
flag may decorate the constructions of
Greenock and Sunderland and Belfast
Lough and Stettin and st. Nazarie A
proud day. indeed. when having dc
strOred the nobest of this nations indus
tries we should 90 forth to reconquor the
wofld's commerce with fleet of foreign
| built trampS. HeSsians of the ocean.
! Then our principal rival in the old con
/ test for maritime supremacy viii have
gaIhed the last advantage that WIS III
sight when she let the Alabama loose
upon American commefce.'
The Question OF southern DICtatiUn.
Speaking about the framing Of the tar
if medStire being IntruStcd to Southern
Democratic leaders from the start. for
the express purTrse of crpralng the pros
perlty and retarding the growth Of the
Northern states, the New York Tribune
says:
"Pricticallt the same men have die
tated tile changes which have been made
i'll either house. Framed by Southern
meh. tile hill has been shaped at every
point to serve the interests of that sec
tiun. It's constant discrimination against
Northern and i'll favor Of Southern inter
ests has been 50 Outra gcOuSly sectional
that many Democrats have Indignantly
protested but to 10 purpose. The South
is in the saddle, and controls the Demo
cratic caucus; it elected Speaker Crisp of
Georsid; dictated committee appoint
nicnts i'll the House, and gave nearly all
important business to the control of
Southern men. In the Senate the caucus
was controlled by Southern senators, and
framed the committees with the same
scctionaism. The hill of sale and sur
render IS a Southern product. EXHCtIy
as in old plantation days, the crack of
the OvCTSccrS' lash drives Northern
doughfaces to vote as the South directs
out Of IL COG. 600 votes Gust at the last
Presidential election only !. 400 900 were
cast i'll all the sixteen Southern states-a
little more than a Quartet Northern
votes in the same election, and have moth
ing to do with framing the one measure
of all others which most seriously affects
their industry Other Northern states
west of Ohio cast I 100000 votes in the
same election. and their only part in
shaping the bill has been the ptiable in
capacity of Voorhees,. That he does not
represent his own state the votes cast
this year prove beyond question, and he
does not represent his own declared con
/ ,-i,,t In fbn IIa
who vociferatCd that he would never
no. npvCr-cOuScnt to grant 4 protective
duty for the sugar mOnupOlists, and but
for his vote in favor Of it the surrender
to the Sugar trust could not have been
reported, nor could it have passed the
Senate. With less stiffness of principle
and manhood than a wet dish rug, this
/ one senator iS the sole senator or repre-
sentative to stand for Northern Democ-
racy i'll the framing of the tariff bill.
Have the 100000 votes of the South
a natural and inherent right to rule the
SGOOUD0 votes of the North? Is that
Democratic doctrine now. as it was in
1.-THE days when Southern Chivalry sneored
at Northern mudsills and greasy mo
chanics?' Or do the Southern brigadicrs
consider that the triumphant Comfcd-
eracy has conquered the right to make
laws for two great sections, each casting
about a million votes more that the
South? 1t is true that Northern men
+ t'I ANY IliElN MAY wen liljllh llltlI SliTN
if they are not in any way responsible
for bill so disgracefuI, foul with
corruption. and SO sure to bring disaster
upon its authors. But when doughfacc
Democrats of the North vote for and
pass the bill which Southern ScCtOnaliSm
dictates. millions will remember how
clearly II was predicted i'm 1872 that
victory of Mr.. Clcveland'S party would
subject all Northern industries and in
tcreStS to the absolute diCtatIon of u vim
diCtive and sectional South. Then mon
thought the prediction prompted 10y fran
tie partlSanshlp Now they find that the
partisan fanatsm and the shameless sec
tionalsm are both on the Southern side.
This one trial of Southern dictatlon
ought to last for half a century. The
inSOlent domination of sectional chivary
in the tifties taught Northern mudsils
what Democratic doughfaccs We're, and
CXIled the Democracy from power Tor
/ thirty-two years. This time the trGhtful
rcverSeS i'll business, and the disasters to
| industry. and the sufferinCS and the
/ losses of labor, have driven the lesson
deeper, and the greasy mechanics Of 1924
have reason to remember even longer
than their fathers of 1850.
The British Confederate War Wool
and Wuolens.
Senator Sherman thinks the proposed
/ duties on WoOIenS and wOrstedS may hp
fairly protective under free wool, but that
free wool Is almost reasonable
But Secretary North of the wool manu-
facturerS says there is not Il branch of
the industry which will not suffer under
1 tn" bill if it becomes 4 law. The reduc-
/ tIonS average 60 to ~ per cent. and.
worse still, the duties ar" al yaloTcm.
This opens the doors to uudcrvaluatIonS
and practically reduces the duties ut least
- per cent. more.
! The worst discrimination is against
carpets, and perhaps some uf the carpet
manufacturers who refused 10 sustain the
/ Republican party because the Mckinney
/ tariff did not give them free wool now see
! the danger which they invoked.
| The best Informed manufacturers say
/ that only the mills which make the cheap
I er grades of goods can run successfully
under the bill and that reductions Of
wages will have 10 range from 10 TO 10
per cent.
An invasion Of the North by 2 Conred-
/ crate army of 100000 men would be pref
/ erahe 10 the practical destruction of our
great wool growing and wooIenmauu-
! featuring industries.
Democracy. in Promises and Action.
In President GInvelandS inaugural ad-
! dress in 1898. he declared the Democracy
/ was bound 10y its promises, stating the
| position OF the party in the following
/ language:
The people of the United States have
! deCreed that on this day the control of
1 their government in its legislative and
/ executive branches shall be given 10
/ political party pledged in the most posi-
| tive terms to the accomplishment Of tariff
I reform They have thus determined in
favor of a more just and equitable Sys-
TEN Of federal taxation. The agents they
have chosen to carry ont their purposes
are bound by their promises. not less
I than by the command of their masters,
to devote themselves unremittinEly to
this service.
Just how the party has fulfilled its
promises can he best Judged by the fol-
/ lowing comments from the leading Dem
OCrarIC papers of the country.
DeS NoinaS Leader. The Senate hill
is not satisfactory entirely IN fact. some
Of its provisions are widely apart from
the platform pledges If the party.
Milwaukee Journal: The 'compromls-
erS" in the Senate have done their work,