The Indianapolis journal., 1894-02-01
POLITICAL SUICIDE.
Democrats Are Digging Their Graves
in Passing the Tariff Bill.


Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-According to
the unqualified statements OF Democrats
in the House during the long and serious
tariff debate, a number of Democratic
States will, next November. elect prac-
tically solid Republican delegations to Con-
gress. Texas.>. the banner stronghold of
Democracy. has announced. through al
most every member of her delegation in
the House. that if wool is placed on the
free list and thrown into free competition
with Australia and South and Central
America, and blankets and the ordinary
wooden manufactures are afforded pro-
tectiye duty the State will become Repub-
lican, so far as congressional representa-
ton is concerned. Wool is certain to go
upon the free list There will be no re-
strictions about the freest competition in
the wool trade, and the herders of fiocks
in all parts of the world may send all
grades of wool into the United States with
out let or hindrance. This according to
statements made by Texas Democrats in
the House, will force the herders of the
Lone Star State to drive their flocks to
the slaughter pen and go out of the busi-
ness of sheep raising.
Nearly every Democratic member of the
delegations from Alabama, West Virginia
and Pennsylvania have warned their col
leagues against placing coal and iron on
the free list. More solemn and serious
warnings against the political effect of this
action could not have been made; ii is
to return, in place of Democratic Congress
men. men who believe in the Republican
principle OF meeting the expenses OF the
government by customs duties, which are
to be levied so to afford protection TO
American interests. Coal and iron will be
fTla hea fDn-ff To-
ception the Democratic members from New
Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut
have proclaimed that the inroads made by
the Wilson bill on the leading industries
OF their States Will prove disastrous TO the
Democratic party They have added that
If on the top of these destructive blows TO
manufacturers is placed the income tax
scheme there Will be no hope for their
party when it come to electing Congress-
men. The malicious and vicious stabs at
manufacturers and laboringmen will not
be altered in the Wilson bill, and the in
come taxes are to remain in that measure
when II goes upon the statute books.
Democratic Representatives from north
ern New York. Michigan and Wisconsin
have inveighed against the features of the
Wilson bill which will throw their farmers
and manufacturers into direct competition
with the producers in Canada; and they are
to be unheeded. The Democrats from the
prairie states, and even the Populists have
warned the majority against cutting the
lie out OF the farmers interests without
giving him an adequate equivalent in any
other direction. The farmers are to be
given no relief before this vicious meas
ure becomes law
Special champions of labor in the DEM
ocratc ranks of the House have been in
state OF cold perspiratiOn for many days
They anne unce that any man with half
sense knows that when factories and mills
start up under the " 4ISon law, labor will
be employed at from % to 90 per cent re-
duction from the wages paid under the
operation OF the Mckinley law. There is
not Democrat in either branch of Con-
gress who will contend for a m6rnent that
wages will be rewarded in anything like
the proportion paid during the past few
years and up TO the time when it became
known that the Democrats were going to
adopt free trade. According to open an
nouncementS in the debate and private ey-
pressions of opinions from Democrats the
majority which the Republicans will have
IN the next Congress can almost be die
tated by the leaders of the Republican
party