The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-01
THE SENATE AND THE TARIFF.

Why should the house of representatives
yield to the senate? The members Of the
house We're elected by the people and
know what the peoples wishes are
Nashville American (deIn).
The whisky trust is a conspiracy in
restraint Of trade. one Of whose princi-
pal officers was detected in an attempt
to blow up an antitrust distillery with
dynamite. Does Attorney-Gene Olney
think that was cOnstitui0nal?-N. Y.
World Cdem).
The postponement Of tariff reform is
a grieVOus thing. especially at this time,
but the people viii forgive the postpone
ment a good deal more readily than they
viii a cOwardly surrender Of principls
for the sake Of securing a present peace
and the mere shadow Of Reconnaissance
Free Press Cdem).
Senator German exaggerates the task
accomplished by the trainers of the SEN
ate compromise bin. What they did was
really very simple matter. II was only
necessary 10 ask Senators German, Brice,
Smith Murphy. White and Caffery what
they wanted and put it in the bill.-Louis-
vile COurier-Journal (dem.).
Il hope. I say, thay whatever the fate
Of the present tariff bill may be, this
house will not consent 10 adjourn until
it has passed a single bill putting re-
fined sugar on the free list These wers
the words Of Chairman Wilson in his
speech announcing the failure Of the con-
ference committee to agree. If the sugar
trust wants TO force the fighting, why not
give it all it wants, and more?-N. Y.
Times (dem).
1t is not to be believed for an instant
that the house will yield its grounds The
senate bill has nothing in its favor except
that it is acceptable to the interests rep
resented by senators German, Brice and
Smith, and will command the votes Of
those senators. That however, is its
strongest condemnation in the minds Of
honest democrats and Of the people gem
orally. and il is condemned accordingly.
Charleston News and Courier (dem).
The defect is vital II reaches 10 the
origin of the senate. The people are ripe
for the reform. They have waited long
TO be sure of themselves. but the barriers
Of fOrbearance have broken down before
resentment Of the intOlerable attitude as.
stunned by the senate in the present
emergency. AS soon as the people get a
chance to vote the necessary amendment
to the constitution, the senate viii be
elected by the popular yOte.-LOuiSville
Courier-Journal (dem).
The country has voted time and again
for an enlargement of the free list, and
will not be satisfied with the limited nun-
Der Of articles placed upon il by the sens
ate bill. Sucn free list is wanted as VIII
cheaper the cost 10 consumers and ceass
TO unduly increase the profits Of the
monopOlists. This we must have from the
present congress. or the people viii re-
place it with one that viii give them
what they SO much neutrality-suspicious.
Del) Democrat (dem).
From ocean to ocean and from the
Canadian border to the gulf there is no
democratic state in which the honest and
influential democratic newspapers are not
following the chosen leader Of the tariff
reform host. and insisting that there shall
be no surrender TO the forbidden forces
that have dictated the schedules Of the
German bill. Those schedules are recog-
nized by the people as the product Of
secret and suspicious negotiations. They
are felt to be saturated with McKinleyism
and the men who have undertaken %
make merchandise Of their party and its
principles are Tepudiated with unquali-
fed indignation So Tar as the voice OF
the democratic masses and the democratic
presses can do il, these treacherOus Lead
ers are already ordered TO the Tarpeian
rock reserved for traitors to a great cause.
Baltimore Sun (dem).
The present and prospective untold suf-
ferings of the unemployed masses, the dis
tress Of the whole nation, the pitiable
condition Of all our industries. cry to
heaven for real and ample relief from
the intolerable burdens Of protection
But, passing strange as it is, hedged In
by the mOney-powers, which have for
lulfty years oStl III aiming me udtiOi u
its life blood and are still drawing thou
sands of millions Of dollars from IL every
year by means of the monstrous McKin-
ley act. the apologists in the senate for
its kindred bill. which passed that body
on July 8. are openly defying, not the
president only, but the whole country. But
they will find very soon that this is a
perilous piece Of bravado. Protection"
is doomed by the people, and all the
''compromisers'' and their secret allies in
and out of the senate cannot save it
y. Y. Herald Qnd).