The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-05
Ia This The End?

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cies of the Wilson bill a. it came
out of committee, predicting more
and worse TO come, first ia the honse
and then in the seuale, the drum
majors of tariff form exclaimed
eve eau not get all We want al
once. This will do for beginning,
Better things hereafter" 1t is safe
to say that whatever act is fiaally
passed will be infinitely more OBJ
| jectionable than was contemplate
by the darkest forebodings of the
friends of real reform; and yet, al
ready, we hear it on every hand that
with this measure of Democratic
stulti6 finished product
of ignorance, cowarlice aud cor
ruption-this ioiquitous offspring of
the black mailing manufacturer and
the political harlot-the whole ques.
ton must go tn the rear, masing
way for other and more urgent and
important issues.
There is reason to c1ncede only
too mach force in this plea No
one Will deny no revenue rsformer
has ever denied-that uncertainty
as TO the tariff is a source of busl
ness dispute. Tie need of a fixed
tariff policy is obvions. Better a
high protective policy-better free
trade policy-than shifting, ever
changing policy. Hence tie ire.
pressibie conflict between the pro.
tective policy and the revenue only
policy of the last ten years. Can
any Democrat see this battle end,
with proiectonism in complete pos
session Of the field without amaze
meat and disgustY Can any Demo.
GRAFT fail to visit upon the auth.
ors of this infamous surren.
der of great Cause his everlasting
contempt? When the inoapab!es
and the rascals whom we sent
to Washington, charged with a duty
as specific as words could make it,
have yielded all that the people
won-when, partly through a lack
of sense and courage, and partly
through venality, they have given
up to the monopoly what was meant
for the masses when they have
d ID ingloriously from a victorious
field, leaving guns that were shotted
with the ball cartridges of truth, to
% spiked by an enemy we had driv
en- before us-and when, bringing
with them only the white feathers
If the coward, or the black plumes
Of the mercenary, they come home
foT their reward, what shall they
encounter, what have they a right
20 look for, except political dam.
nation and death {?
The people should accept no eva.
sions or excuses from any one of
Them. The man who puts up
poor mouth and says he did the
best he could is a fraud. He could
at least protest. Toe man who
squivocates is either mercsnary, or
delinquent, and likelier both, with
protectionist money in his pocket,
protectionist promises in his ear. In
word, if the people do not mean
20 abandon their right to govern,
and their pc YER to make Themselves
felt by thu men they put in eff ce,
hey will sweep away the whole
ships crew of them, visiting upon
-he silent equal condemnation with
the guilty.
If we have government of the
people 1t is time thu fact was made
manifest. If we have merely a
government of shams, honeycombed
with special privileges which we
are unable to dislodge, let US know
It, If the people are slaves and
'aica's-if the Democratic party is
merely the sport of few little
ordlings who have managed to
ineak into Office On false pretenses
let us know that. But for Gods
'ake, let US have done with
,owardice and lying! - Courier.
Journal.