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

ing here and there can make 1t toler-
able. 1t is intensely partisan, in
tensely sectional. 1t embodies the free
trade, old.time belief, the sectional
jealousy and animosity of the South
against the North. 1t aims at Northern
prosperity and is in the interest of no
one in this country. 1t is for the down
fall of American agriculture, of Ameri-
can manufactures, and OF American
labor, and for the upbuilding of all
these interests in other lands. Is it for
the helping of such aconsummation that
the Republican minority will lend its
hand or suffer il to be done by others If
in its power to hinderg If the iniquity
is to be accomplished let the Democrats
take the responsibility of the disaster.
Let the Republicans fight it, first and
last, in whole and in part. We want
none of it, There is nothing but risk
and danger to party and to the country
in compromise upon such radical
change of policy as the Democrats here
propose. We cannot submit to black
mail for the sake of peace. The Demo
Gratis inaugurated the trouble; they
persist in pushing the measure; they
have the power to carry out all they
propose. Let them do it at their own
peril. Don't give them chance of
involving the Republican party in any
share in their infamy. Don't help
them pull their burnt chestnuts out of
the fire. They see the handwriting
on the wall, and the Northern leaders
are alarmed. Let them squirm. Let
them stultify themselves by denouncing
n measure before the Senate in the
strongest language and then after
wards vote for it at the dictates of party.
Let Democratic senators vote for law
which they themselves have declared
will prove ruinous to their party and
to the country and then see with what
consistency they can face their con-
stituents.
In this connection it is wen to re-
member that President Cleveland con-
vened congress in extra session TO re-
peal the Sherman silver-purchase law,
which he argued had spread the mantle
of depression over the land and which,
unless repealed, would occasion still
greater calamity. Such a view of the
cause of the business depression that
had already begun, coming from the
president, had the effect at least to
awaken doubt, to incline the country
to favor the repeal with the hope that
the good effect predicted would follow.
Appeal was made to Republican patri-
otism, and through the aid of Republi-
can votes in the Senate and the House
the silver purchasing clause of the
Sherman law was repealed. What have
the Republicans gained by thus aiding
the Democracy? 1t is generally con-
coded among Republicans that the
party made mistake by its action in
the matter. If the Sherman bill was
wrong, its repeal has not mended the
business of the country, but we have
not helped ourselves or the country by
helping them to repeal it.
Mr.. Cleveland and his party are in
power. They declared their policy in
advance. The country elected them.
Let them inaugurate their policy, if
they can and dare. Let us do all we
can to the last to prevent them. But
in no sense let the Republican party
become responsible for Democratic
tariff or monetary legislation by aiding
in its passage or by failing to oppose
obnoxious laws to the last, even though
peace be result of the issue