The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-05
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lie Says Wilson's III Is IA Product OF 1g'
norhuce, Cownrdico and Corruption.
Louisriit Coudr,Jowndl (D7a)
When tho CouierJoundt specified
tho deficiencies md Inconsistencies o.
tho Wilson bill rs II came out Of tho
committee, prediciin. moro and worse
to come, first in tho house and then In
tho senate tho drum majors OF tariff
reform exclaimed: 1--WE cannot get all
VIC want ut once, This will do for a
beginning, Better things hereafter.
1t Is safe to say TINT whatever act Is
finally passGd will be- Infinitely more
objectionable than was contemplated
by tho darkest forebOdiugs OF tue
friends oil real reform: aud yet. already
We hoar II on every hand that, with
this measure OF Democratic stultilca.
ton, this finished product OF ignorance,
cowardice aud corruption, this iniqui.
tOns offspring OF the matchmaking man.
u!acturer and the political harlot, the
whole question must go to the rear,
making way for other and more urgent
and important issues!
There is reason TO concede only too
much force in this plea. No one will
deny, no revenue reiormer has over do.
MED, that uncertainty as to the tariff Ia
source Of business disquiet. Tho
need Of fixed tariff policy Is obvious.
Better high protective policy, better
n Tree trade policy than shifting, ever
changing policy. Hence the irrepressi.
bic conflict between the protective pol
Icy and tho revenue only policy OF tho
last ten years.
Can any Democrat SEQ this battle
end, with protection in complete pos.
session Of tho field, without amazomcnt
and disGust2 Can any Democrat fail 10
visit upon the authors OF this infamous
surrender OF n great cause his cveriast-
ing contempt? When tho incapables
aud the rascalJ who we sent to Wash
ington. charged with duty Us specific
Us words could make it, have yielded all
that the people, won; when, partly
through lack OF sense and courage and
partly through yenality, they have
given up to monopoly what was meant
Tor the masses; when they have fled In.
gloriously from Il victorious field. leav-
ing guns that were shotted with the ball
cartridges OF truth to be spiked BY an
enemy wo had driven before US; and
when, bringing with them only tho
white feathers OF tho coward, or the
black plume, OF the mercenary, they
come home for their reward, what shall
they encounter, what have they right
to look for, except political damnatton
and death?
The people should accept no evasions
or excuses from any one OF them. Tho
man who puts up Il poor mouth and
says he did the best he could is Il fraud.
lie could at least protest. Tho man
or delinquent, and likelier both, with
protectionist money in his pocket, pro-
tectionist promises ir his car. In q
word, il tho people do not mean to
abandon their right TO govern, and
they power to make themselves felt by
the men they put in office. they will
sweep away the whole ships crew, visit
ing upon the GLEN: equal condenna-
ton with the guilty.
II We have 4 government OF the peo-
pie, 1t is time the fac. was made mani
fest. If we have merely 4 government
for shams, honeycombed with special
privileges which VIC are unable to dis
lodge, let us know it. If the people are
slaves and vassals; ii the Democratic
pnrtyis the sport OF few little lordlings
who have managed to sneak into Office
OH false preteuses, let US, know that.
But, for Gods sake, let US have done
with cowardicc and lying!