The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-02-24
The Battle.
Philadelphia Record.

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There is great conflict going on
but there is no dust and little noise.
1t is a war of policy and principle.
Ostensibly, from'the slight indica.
tions that appear upon the surface,
the murmur Of couflict is heard.
The seat of battle is in Washing
ton and under the roof of the U. s.
senate. 1t is in the corridors; it is
in the committee rooms; it is every
where. just when the clash of
arms will be heard and the scowl
of battle will come on is not GER
tain, but it will come. The advo-
Gates of principle, of old-fashioned
Democratic principle, tariff for
revenue with incidental protection
demand that the Wilson bill, now
under consideration, shall be modi-
fed so as to eliminate the free
trade measures and make it what
the party demanded-a tariff for
revenue. They assert that from
the principles that have ever been
embodied in platforms and in tariff
bills enacted by the Democratic
party this central thought of reve-
nue. and incidental protection has
always predominated They say
that the platform of 1892 was but
reiteration of these we'll known
and and long established princi-
Piles and they demand that there
shall be no departure from histori-
cal Democracy.
The policy men assert that there
are many more people who want
to buy things cheap than there are
who manufacture them or produce
them from the fields or the mines,
and that, therefore, there should
be no tariff and no restrictions
placed upon trade; that all things
should be admitted to the country
free. This is the radical view.
Some of these men are perfectly
sincere. Others are just demago-
CUES, with wish to pander al
ways to the lowest that is in man.
Many there are who have stumped
their states and districts so long on
this idea that they say that they
would rather he relegated to the
rear than at this time to vote for
any measure that has an element
of protection in it. We ask them
how, then, in the name of all that
is good or bad, they can vote for
the Wilson bill when it has so much
of protection in it? This question
they have never answered except
by saying that they want to get all
the free trade they can and they
are only in favor of the Wilson bill
because of it's free trade features.
Now, the great conflict that is GO
ing on is between the policy and
the men of principle. Many be-
leive that the only way in which a
tariff for revenue can be adopted
will be by combination of all the
interests with an agreement to
stand together for the enactment
of such bill. This would bring
to the measure the Louisiana sem
at0rs who desire tariff on sugar,
the Alabama and West Virginia
senators who desire tariff on iron
ore and coal, and it ought to bring,
and probably will bring, the New
York senators and the New Jersey
senators, whose constituents are
largely interested In industries
that require tariff. 1t should also
bring the senators of Wisconsin
and of Missouri, and certainly the
great interests of wool, iron ore
and coal ought to bring for their
support, under fair tariff, the sem
ators from Ohio. If these senators
can be made to stand together they
hold 1t in their power to enact just
such a revenue law as they may
Insist upon, because without their
support it il impossible for the Will
son bill to pass the senate. There
are other senators besides the ones
named above whose states demand
q tariff on the articles that are
placed on the free list in the Will
son bill. II that bill can be amend
ed so as to carry the same princi-
pie through the great foundation
indu stries that It has applied to
the manufacturing industries we
have no dogbt of its afording the
relief to the country which is SO
much needed, and we have no
doubt that the bill can be passed
very readily through both houses.
III. r. + n