Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-30

country to our political enemies. Jap
plause.
A DAY OF REDEMPTION.
There is one consolation, however,
amidst all these gloomy thoughts, and
that is that this day is a day of redemp-
ton to the American people. II is, In a
certain sense. a day of political emanci-
patton from ring rule and trust rule that
| have controlled this country for 80
years last past. TApplause.
The great, crowning atrocity of class
| legislation, that we promised in June,
| 1899, at Chicago, to destroy, died last
night at IL o'clock, and to-day we live
under the operation OF the flrst Demo-
cratic iarlti Dill tnat mas stood upon our
statute BOOKS In 81 years. lApplause
anu cneers'l
we nave hot rea~meo the promises
we ntaue 10 IhG people; we nave not
passed a tarl1I MI thnt meets pubic
expectation or pat emDoales lJelnO-
cratic principles; nut we nave struck
protectioh Il ol1w from wllcn u VIII
never recover lApplausel we nave
Degun inc great wolk OF tarlit reform,
ana II we are true 10 ourselves 10 our
principles ana our party; II we are
capap!e OF sinking sell lor the general
gooui II we can oury quarrelsi IL we can
SINK personal asperslons ana keep the
Deihocratlc party IN power curing one
more .I administrator, priSliegea classes
wiz De KNOWN no more lorever III this
government OF tie people. lhpPiausel'
Is stfahse tnlhsi IL ID an anomaly
IN politIcs lhat since Ine discussion Oh
the Iaiil question III tne SVnsress Vi
llO OHlLGu plutGS CJtulllCHCGu lhSL Uduu-
ary' llere mas peeii ueiilohsVratloi Oh
the parI Oh tne people Ia iavor OIL tnor,
ouBh beihoCratlc taIln reform tnat
never eAisIeu peioie III 'he hls'oiS Vi
our country
WHAT COULD BE EXPECTED.
Notwithstanding the election of
Grover Cleveland Tapplause1 and of an
overwhelming majority of the House of
Representatives, ii was not known, nor
expected, that the Democrats would
have even the nominal control of the
Senate until within u month of MIR.
Cleveland's inauguration. Without such
control all tariff legislation was impos.
sible With a bare majority of the
Senate, such tariff legislation as might
commend itself to 43 Democratic Sena.
tors was the utmost that could be hoped
for. The country knew in March, 1893,
as well us il now knows, that Democrats
differed widely as to the measure of
tariff reform the conditions of the
country would safely admit. No one
had the right to assume, or did assume,
that these differences did not exist with
Democratic Senators. AS the strength
of ;he chain is equal to the strength of
its weakest link. so the extent of the
tariff reform to be reasonably expected
from the Senate, was the extent to
which the most conservative of the in
/ dispensahle 43 Democratic Senators
| could be induced to 90.
All this was understood and appreci-
, ated by the President. When he sent
in his message in December last, he dis
; cussed tariff reform in its possible and
: practical phases and said, while we
should stanchly adhere to the principle
| that only the necessity of revenue fusti.
fies the imposition of tariff duties and
other Federal taxation and that they
should be limited by strict economy, we
a cannot close our ewes to the fact that
conditions have grown up among us
j. winch IN business and fairness call foi
= Of such dutins and ta~ation ss tha nrnsr
nancias Of o,,r ,,,,,arnr,ant actnailv do.
: Snndn - o '''''N'''
= If tho prosido,t hod ev,octed thi,
Canorass q, oorrv - i,S ,oSitirnata cnn
clusinn tho Seclaration ~ the Ch;cag[
rlaIforr, ,s,I'at ,ha Ead,.ol I,Syo.r N, p,
nos NO onrst;,,,tionai non,ns ~ ;nonos,
) ond oolIac, ,arifr d,,,;as av,a1t for III,
nurnosas of ravonna nnIv ho wonir
not have considerod cnnSi,inns or sng
e l,as,ad tt,t !, ,,,a, ,Io J,,t,,, ~ CHnrrass,
,S ,'Saro;Sa u,isori ,,ioo,ing ~ ,aran ;5 III,
j. ;n, ,rNs;,;l', ot ~ a,,tin. aoassar,, go ~ 't -
/, raiss tho ravannas for tho ,,nrn,,Sa So} ~ IN,
tonorn,,,,. ,,r o,,iJ AZ ~, Nv
|. 69f tbe bill then he;ng nrannred bv H.
+, o,,J ,,,,,'s r. r. ,Ia Iious
of Representatives as u measure en-
=, bodying tariff reform on the lines OF hi
y message ana dealing with It's suDJec
consistently and as thoroughly as ex
g listing conditions permit"
That measure had no doubt been sub
q mitted to him for his consideration an
~ was regarded by him as up to th
- standard OF such tarlh reform as III
II conditions OF the country would allow
SENATOR'S TooE AnvANTAaE
-,
, II inc pm sent over py the house ha
Il prolessed 10 carry out the Denocratl
" mirht have demanded obedience IN ii,
g part. of every Democratic Senator to th
lc behests of his party, but it being cor
n ceded on all sides that the House hi
e. was not responsive to the commands {
O. the people, and not free from Republ
50 can protection, each Democratic Senate
u felt Mt liberty to consider the fac