Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-08-08

Trusts-Facts of History Relating to the
Democratic Party - The Situation
Viewed by the New York Tribune-The
Chicago Herald as Prophet = The
Singular Prevarication of the Demo-
cratic President = Republican Plat
forms and the Silver Question.
"A Powerful Argument Against Demo-
cratic Attempts to Break Down
Protection.
If Il fleet of foreign ironclads should at
tempt to lombard Il great American city
and destroy the lives and property of
American citizens the whole nation would
demand that the enemy should be re-
sisted by all the resources OF modern
warfare. If a great pestilence like the
black death that has been devastating
Chinese cities should sweep over the sea
and threaten this country with desoa-
ton, public sentiment would unanimously
insist that the gates of our harbors should
be barred against ships from infected
ports. and that all the appliances of medi-
cal science should be used to keep the
grim intruder at bay. Yet the destruc
ton of property caused by the Democrat
&c attempt to strike down protection has
exceeded not merely the loss that would
be inflicted by the bombardment of Il sim
gle city, but the loss brought about by
the greatest civil war in history. The
mOngrel tariff bill is the black death of
American industry. 1t has smitten and
Frustrated great interests from Boston to
San Francisco. Ii has impoverished mill
ions of American citizens, destroyed the
happiness of multitudeS of American
homes, driven hundreds of men to despair
and suicide, and imposed a burden of
restitution and disaster from which this
republic cannot recover in years. Such
an infamy must be fought as mercilessly
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enemy.
If obstruction in the Senate becomes
necessary in order to defeat the wreckers'
bill, Republican senators should use it
fearlessy and to the utmost. The rules
of the Senate were expressly framed in
order to give the minority power to pre-
vent arbitrary action on the part of the
majority. The Republicans are justified
by law and precedent in obStructing the
infamous tariff bill. They are required
by every dictate of patriotism, every con-
Slderation OF humanity and every princi-
pie of ReDubicaniSm to fight the OdiOus
and ruinous measure with all the weapons
at their disposal 1t is a fundamental
principle of Republicanism that Ameri-
can labor shall be protected. that the
United States shall be industrially indie
pendent, and that American wages shall
be maintained at q level which makes
intelligent and self-respecting citizenship
possible 1t is a fundamental Republican
principle that the majority shall rule
Ihe American people have pronounced
Overwhelmingly against the Democratic
scheme of ruin. They have condemned
1t by unprecedented pluralities at the
polls: they have commanded their repre-
Sentatives through the ballot boxes of
every Northern state to oppose it and kill
it; they have demanded in tones that can
not be mistaken, with an emphasis un>
paralfeled IN this general ton. that the Nc
l\lnley law, which gave the nation peace
and prosperity, shall be maintained upon
the statute books
All the considerations which govern the
course of patriotic legislators impose upon
the Republicans the duty of obStructing
the Bourbon bill. Senatorial courtesy
counts for nothing when the homes of
the people are at Ike. When the eX-
lStence OF vast national industries is en-
dangered, when the integrity of American
citizenship is threatened, when in every
commonwealth from the pines of Maine
to the redWOOds of Oregon. the people are
demanding the death Of the Bourbon bill
with mighty yOice-then for Republic
ans to finch would be c0warClice and to
retreat would be dishonor. For third
OF century cOWardice and retreat have
been unknown in the lexicon of Repub-
HcanlSm. Do not mar that glorious rec
ord now. The enactment of the BOur-
bon bill would be an unSpea ka BILE calam-
Ity, filling the land with poverty and
misery with ruin and despair. The duty
Of Republicans to resist it by obstruction
II obstruction is needed is as clear and
as imperative as was the duty of the sol
dlers Of Meade to face and roll back the
1egIOns of Lee and the Confederacy at
GettySburg.-New York Press.