The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-05-04
MAY 4. 1894
PROVO CITY.
MAKING HASTE SLOWLY.

The sadly needed, long looked and
prayed for tariff reform bill still drags
its weary length through our national
legislative halls, apparently no nearer
final passage than when it was first
offered, A strong move, at whose
head stands President CleYeland and
Secretary Carlisle, is being pushed to
defeat the income feature of the bill.
The income provision clause is ap-
proved by ninety per cent. Of the
democrats favoring the passage
of the enactment, while among the peo-
pie of all sections, save in New York
amoIg the millionaires the per cent
age of those in favor of the law is even
higher. But New York is recklessly
pushing the interests of her heavy cap
italists at grave hazard and seems de-
termined to rule or ruin on. this question
as she did in regard to silver. A fatal
ity Of the times appears to be that all
needful reform legislation is retarded,
held out upon one pretext or another
until the germ of the reform has be-
come distasteful to those who were its
warmest champions on the day Of the
introduction of the measure. The
mountebank statesmen of the epoch
have learned the mere trickery of the
art of retarding reform, of which they
know little and care less, until poor
human nature ia worn out and nature
simply bows her head and permits the
storm to sweep oyer.
When poor Wilson's bill was per-
fected and he, a broken down and we'll
nigh dead man, went away to Mexico,
everyone supposed the bill would be-
come law within month. But here
we find ourselves today with bill as
little resembling the original as things
terrestrial resemble things celestial,
and no whit nearer completion than
it was on the day it was presented in
congress the first time. This is
enough TO sap the confidence of even
the strongest partisans of the measure
both in and outside of congress. The
president of the United States surely
should be the last man on the earth to
permit his personal friendship with
and for the bankers of New York, to
retard for one moment this one leading
and imperatively demanded measure
by the necessities of the times, to be
jeopardized single hour. 1t this mat
ter goes on much longer in this way
the last vestige of hope for the bill will
be lost forever.
With silver in the condition it is,
and tariff reform held back on the plea
that it would disoblige the rich to have
their incomes taxed, the president and
secretary both opposed, we in the
west might as well give up all hope of
party success and abandon all effort
as useless, or worse. 1t handicaps the
western and southern democracy COM
pletely. Can the eastern and northern
democracy win ANYTHING without the
southern and western democracy? The
very suggestion is preposterous. We
have been the yielding section long
enough. Let some other sections give
way for once. We have thus given up
our fullness for their husks long
enough. Let us stand for tue democ-
racy and give up not jot or little
more, but let the others give way, or
taste of the bitterness of defeat, pow
erty and despair until they learn what
human sympathy is, and how to ex-
hibit it.
We, here and now, venture to say,
and say it solemnly, that If silver is not
restored, and the Wilson bill with the
income tax clause intact is not passed
before the end of the session, that we
will enter the race predoomed to crush
ing and entire defeat.