The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-27

mo Democratic Tariff Tinkcripc Has
Doen Worse Than War.
Ner York iEea.
That was dramatic and memorable
aceno in tho United Statoa souats on
Saturday, when, in tho debate on the
Bourbon taria measure, Senator George
FriSbic Ionr declared, with all tho
otatorical power of which no ia 80 con.
summato master, that 'in the coat In
money, tho distraction OF property, tho
RUIN Of trade, the misery, tho starva.
ton OF men accustomed TO work for tho
comforts oil lie, this bill is twoiold
worse than four years OF war"
II Ia no wonder that the Bourbon
senator's quailed before the overpover.
ing indignation Of tho venerable soma.
tor IRON Massachusetts. Senator Hoar's
burnlng words had the rosistless might
OF truth. It is literally true that tho
Bourbon threat 10 overthrow protec-
ton has cost the American people
moro than that titanic struggle which
taxed the energies OF tho loyal north
from Maine to tue Pacific and dronchcd
tho soil Of tho republic with the blood
OF her brnyost sons. Tho cherries
homes; tho Pi!ont factories; tho streets
that once re3oundcd with tho hum Of
prosperous induatry and now oCno only
tho heavy tread Of dishcartoned seekers
for employment; tho farms, whose
sturdy tiller5 look forward to tho future
with grim despair; the deserted mines;
the countless iaduatrlal communities,
busy and thriving under Republican
rule, now gloomy, stagnant, paralyzed:
the children that hunger; tho wivea and
mothers that suffer restitution in heroic
sllenco-these arc tho tokens OF tho
triumph OF Democracy, tho first fruits
OF the victory oil the men who gained
power with lie on their lipa and hatred
OF tho north in their hearts. What the
bourbon south could not do With cannon
and bayonet its implacable leaders arc
striving to accomplish BY tho iron hand
OF legislation.
Shall this conspiracy, as wicked, as
wanton, az reasonable as the plot 10
disrupt the public in the interest Of hui.
man slavery, DO permitted to succeed
Shall the destruction otnorthern indus.
tries, tho beGgaring OF northern work
ingmen. the devastation OF northern
homes, be completed? Shall tho farmer
be robbed of his 0ocl:s and deprived OF
tho homo msrke. Tor HIS products, the
wage Garner in American WOODEN and
carpet mills be turned adriit in idleness
or compelled to labor ior q miserable
pittance, the whole body OF American
citizenship be forced down 70 the Lowell
Of degradation and poverty? Shall the
nations honor DO taruished, the statute
books OF tho republic be polluted by
the enactment OF an Infamous bargain
with constituencies monopoly which
has purchased tho license 10 plumber
tho people from legislators faithlcss to
their trust?
Senators OF the north, this is for YOU
to answer. The fate OF tho tainted and
infamous measure which has Caused
such incalculable misery must shortly
DO decided by your action. Tho sulcs
OF the senate give to you. who represent
tho prosperity. the independence and
the honor Of the nation, tho power to
defeat absolutely the passage Of this de-
testable bill Tho people havo com.
manded you to use that power in their
defense. Tho safety OF tho republic,
which ia tho supreme law. demands
that You shall uso to the utmost limit
tho weapon OF obstruction and resist
ance with which the nation has armed
you. Once more tho Press calls upon
every flopublicap senator to stand firm,
% tho men OF the north stood firm
thirty years ago. against tho tide OF
Bourbon hostility and destruction.
Once more in the name OF every class,
Of every industry, OF every northern
commonwealth. the Pres urges you, Re-
publicanu, to maintain unbroken the
glorious record of Rcpublicansm by de-
feating, at whatever cost Of energy and
effort. tho wicked and ruiuous Bourbon
tariff billi