The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-09-07

seliIsh gain" Mr.. Cleveland wrote this.
and yet he allowed the tariff bill to be-
come law when, according to his own
words. he knew IL to be the grossest
violation Of the truth uttered In the
extract above. Again he says, In the
same connection rs above: Tariff
legislation involves question of
markets, it also involves a question of
morals"
No wonder that conscientious voters
for Mr.. Cleveland confidently looked to
him to stay the encroachments of COR
ruption; but how has he done its He
has simply pointed out the corruption,
the "perfidy and dishonor," in all its
enormity, and then allowed it to have
its way and succeed.
Greed and selfishness march unblush-
ingly along the way, and the President,
who has been lauded by his faithful
followers for his high purposes and
fearless will, instead of fulfilling ex-
pectation and verifying his promises by
striking down the hydra-headed mon
ster that threatened to absorb the SUBJ
stance and corrupt the morals of the
people, cowardly shirks back takes
to flight.
In the light of the presidents recent
action, read this from his letter of ac-
ceptance: 1--WE cannot with impunity
permit injustice to faint the spirit OF
right and equity, which is the life OF
onr Republic, and we shall fail to reach
our national destiny If greed and self
ishness are suffered to lead the way"
Mr.. Cleveland himself says that the
senate tariff bill is measure OF the
trusts and combinations, and that they
have in this raised an issue involving
the integrity of American institutions.
But instead of meeting them squarely;
instead of striking down this abomina-
ton, this epitome of "perfidy and dis
honor" he runs away with the exclama-
ton that we twill never forget nor for
give them" for it,
Two years ago the president said,
1--WE see the farmer listening to delu-
sive story that fills his mind with Wis
ions of advantage while his pocket is
robbed" but now he has allowed a
measure to become a law which de-
prives the farmer of protection on his
wool, on his barley, oats, eggs, hay,
and every other article which he raises
"a measure which will cause him to
eliminate sheep from his stock, while
it gives him no compensation for its
loss. Other articles, that the farmer
uses, as iron and coal, are still pro-
tected, while sugar, which is a prime
necessity to him, is rendered dearer,
and in so doing increases the fortunes
of monopolists, to the injury of the
farmers.
The President stamps the bill as in
decent and corrupt, and yet it was only
by his action that this indecent and
corrupt measure could become law.
He alone of all the men in the United
States had the power of preventing this
indecent and corrupt bill from becom-
ing the law of the land, and he had not
the courage to exercise it. Nothing
that it is possible for him or for his
apologists to say can alter the fact that
he has rendered himself responsible,
with the worst element of his party, for
the existence of this odious, corrupt
law. He was whipped, insulted, NAL
treated as few other Presidents have
ever been, and yet Pc, the exemplitica-
ton of political purity, courage and
stamina, according to Mugwump esti-
mate, had not the courage to resist, ex-
cept by reciting to some one else the
story of how bad his enemies were and
how they ought not to succeed, but how
he did not have the courage to prevent
them from succeeding; but nevertheless
he would never forget nor forgive them,
and how such evil doings must be
stopped in the future.
But what reason does the President
give for his pusillanimous action?-for
placing himself, President of the United
States, chief officer of nation of TO-
000,0 900 of people, on the wrong side of
an issue which he himself has SO clearly
drawn as corrupt thing that congress
should never have passed. Why, that
he is partisan, that he is a Democrat;
that this indecent, corrupt, odious
measure, stepped in perfdy and dis
honor, is, after all, Democrat bill,
made and adopted after many months
of debate by Democratic House and a
Democratic Senate; and therefore, in
order to be in harmony with his party,
he must allow the thing to become a
law. He does not even make the ex-
cuse that it is important that the tariff
agitation should cease i'm order that
business should have certainty on
which to build prosperity. But he says
that the agitation "shall go on; that
this bill cannot settle anything; that