The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-06

democratic convention will do the same
thing we do not know. but IL would be
wise to do so. Until the constitution Of
the United States is amended this course
is as near as we may come to the cleo
ton Of United States senators by the
people, and it really gives the people
voice in the matter. The nomination by
state conventions of party candidates for
United States senator will do away with
a vast amount of corruption and intrigue.
It will tend 10 secure ADLER men in the
senate. 1t will tend to the honesty and
peace Of the legislature. 1t will give
talent its proper advantage over money.
N. Y. World (dem.).
OF course a low tariff is desirable
How are we TO get it? By keeping down
expenditures, by finding other sources of
revenue than customs, and by imposing
duties on articles suitable to yield reve-
nue. that have been put on the free list
with a view TO keeping duties high on
competing articles. Pretty much all ef-
forts Of this kind are opposed by the
men who are trying to mislead the pub
lie with reference to the German bill. In
this respect they are cooperating with
the republicans. 1t has been the policy
of the latter to make expenditures high,
in order TO prevent the passage Of a low
tariff bill. With like intent they have
got rid OF other sources of revenue, and
have given us a law which raises large
sums for private and less for public pur-
poses than the government requires. 1t
is because the German bill perpetuates
SO many Of these Objectionable features
that it awakens the indignation Of all
advocates Of taxation for public purposes
only.-Louisville Courier-Journal (dem.).
Who on either side Of the Canadian
border were the gamers by this coal tax?
The assumption dare not be taken that
the miners were, as the facts about
prices paid for labor and stoppages OF
work are too notorious for even the or
gans to deny. A combination offers 10
pay 40 cents a ton wages and so settle
their share of the strike. And vet this
very combination insisted before the
ways and means committee of the house
last winter that the Is cents duty was
necessary to pay American wages, a spe-
cies Of false pretense now coming TO the
light The Nova Scotia miners are paid
higher than the miners of Pennsylvania,
Maryland and West Virginia. the report
Of the American consul al Cape Breton
amply proving this. and the 20 cents q
ton is not required to cover the difference
of labor cost between the two countries.
BY and by the organs may see what
the people have seen long ago. the tariff
on soft coal is simply an additional profit
in which the miner has no share and
which the consumer pays.-Philadelphi
Times (dem).
In the senate, according TO Senator
one in their opposition TO free raw ma
terials and the principles and pledges
of the Chicago platform. under the
leadership OF the distinguished sena,or
from Maryland. According to Senator
Aldrich, Senator German speaks for the
unanimous sentiment of the republican
party in the senate. on the subject Of
protective duties. Meanwhile. what has
become Of the Chicago platform-and its
fervent denunciation Of 1.-The repub-
llcan doctrine of protection as a fraud"
and of the Mckinley rates of taxation
as "the eliminating atrocity of class
legislation ?" In the same platform
praise and thanks are awarded to the
democrats Of the Fifty-second congress
for their efforts to modify some Of the
most oppressive features Of the Mckinley
tariff lin the direction of free raw
materials" A bill placing lead ores on
the free list was one of those very efforts
for which the Chicago convention thanked
the democratic house Of 1892. That bill
was killed in the republican senate. To-
day a similar effort in democratic SEN
ate is voted down by the votes Of demo-
crates and republicans combined-Balti
more Sun (dem).