The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-05-18
TrIumph OF the Trust,.

Tariff bill the third ha, been pre-
pared by the Democratic managers.
OF the Wilson bill it now hardly is
necessary ID peak; II Is dead, mutilat-
ed, and IN ing o i tcamplel upon and
deniet Christian burial by those who
should have been its champions, the
Chicago Inter Ocean ays. 1t was the
first, and it will be the last, of country
school teachers Ia ii bill 8. Where Is
Davii A. Wells? Where i that incor-
porared lie, the alien importers club,
that called itself the New York Re-
form League? Where is the Star
Eyed Goddess? Wtere are the sappy
gentlemen that followed in her train
and that composed her masquerading
court WIZ do we not hear their
voice of lamentati n? Why do they
sit in dumb despair?
Bill the third IN outs defiance to the
Democratic tariff res )lution Of 1892.
That said: I'VE declare it to lie fun
damental principle of the Democratic
party that the Federal government has
no consti ,utional power to enforce and
collect tariff duties, except for pur-
poses OF revenue only" Bill the third
proceeds urol the assumption that
revenue Is secondary con sideration in
tariff legislation
Bill the first mlde coal, iron and
sugar free OF duty. Bill the second
imposed duties on all of them, avowed-
ly for the purpose of pro ectiCn. Bill
the third increases the measure of pro-
lection afforded by bill the second.
Bill the first made serious reductions
in the duties on cotton gocds. Bill
the second modified those reducti ions.
Bill the third makes still more protec-
tive modi cations. 1t is thus all along
tho line of the 20 products of mines,
mills and factories. Any and every
thing made or produced b. capitalists
capable of combina ion is projected;
anything and everything of Southern
origin is protected. Northern labor
and Northern agricultu. are about
the only things deprived wholly OF
protection. The Northern wage-earn-
or is deprived By bill the third of the
blessing Cf cheap sugar that the Nc
Kinley law bestowed upon him; the
NOrthe, farmer Is deprived OF pro-
lection to his wool.
The Northern manu- sacturer of wool
en- goods, after icing bated with free
raw material" smarts under the
springs OF the Democratic tariff trap,
which are so adjusted as to give more
protection to the lower grs IS OF cot
ton goods than was contemplate I'd by
bill the second, while diminishing the
duties on imported woolens. But the
Northern manufacturers of wool were
not united; part Of them went astray
after free raw material. The South
ern manufacturers of low-grade cot
tons hung together, ana by so doing
obtained not only free raw material
but increased duties.
Bill the first was sectional, bill the
second was more so, bill the third is
the most sectional that can be devised.
1t Is protectile TO Southern Industries,
protective to trusts, oppre Ssive to agri-
culture, menacing to several of the
more important Northern manufac-
lures, and blighting to the prospects
of white labor. II Is u bill of dod ge5-
We cannot dignity them by the title Of
expediencies it is a compromise be-
tween the idioc;es of Wil.onism and
Wellsism and the trickeries OF back
stairs legislation. 1t will not bear de-
bate; if passed 1t will te passed under
gag rule, and if thus passed will in
crease the lack of confidence in COM
mercial conditions. 1t is measure
wholly devoid of stability.