The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-06-08
JASPER, INDIANA. FRIDAY. JUNE 8, 1894.
REPUDIATING THE TARIFF TINKERERS


''~"sy osv' ~ e"S OSmU~s suS ssssW %
a large meeting was held at
Cooper Union, New York City, on
May 22, ''to express Indignation at
the treachery of the Democratic
Senators who are thwarting the de-
mand for a radical reduction i'm the
tariff. a number Of speeches were
made, and Henry George, whose
arguments did more to elect Cleve-
land in 1892 than those Of any 9TH
er man, spoke eloquently and feel
ingly. He said:
.'lf the Democratic party cannot
give us better bill than the Me-
Kinley bill let the Mckinley bill
stand" "Let the party 90 back
again to the people"
"No tinkering," shouted man,
far back in the hall.
CAST OUT THE TRAITORS.
81 make no personal complaint
in this matter. ! believe that these
traitors in the Democratic party,
these men who are selling it out,
are doing more for the cause Of free
trade than the best bill that could
be offered. | speak of the Demo
cratic party. There are in that
party honest men, who believe in
the platform upon which they went
before the people, who want to car
~ out its precepts. But SO long as
traitors are not cast forth; SO long
as honest Democrats must trade and
dicker, not with Republican protec-
tionists, but with men in their own
party who make demands upon
them, then the Democratic party
must take the responsibility of the
acts of these men. Let it drive the
traitors out. Let it declare that no
man who does not stand upon its
platform has any business in that
party, and will not be recognized
there"
When the acclaim that had greet
ed this had died away Mr.. George
said that the very success Of the
Democratic party at the last election
came from the condition of the
country, for even then the clear,
plain symptoms of the hard times
were to be seen, and the necessity
for haste appreciated. Then he
went on:
sLOTH AND WEAKNESS.
"No situation is so bad for the
and mercantile interests
as when a high tariff is threatened
with a quick reduction, and the
wise and safe thing is to act quick
ly. But months passed away and
nothing was done. Before the ex-
ira session months elapsed, while
Mr.. Cleveland was parcelling out
offices. Then came the extra ses-
sion, and nothing was done. Fin
ally, the House began work, not to
do away with the evil, but upon a
bill with the Mckinley bill as a
At every turn monopolies
and trusts asserted their power.
Finally that weak thing, the Wilson
bill, did pass the House. 1t was
chock full of concessions to trusts
and monopolies, chock full Of pro-
lection. Then it passed into what
has become the American House Of
Lords. Yon know the rest. Never
has bargaining been so clear. New
er has corruption been so open.
The Democratic party has been in
power in the Senate, and it has been
paralyzed by efforts to placate protec-
or agents Of protected rings
in its own members. Even such a
man a man as Senator Mills
Mr.. George pronounced the name
50 indistinctly that many Of his
hearers thought he said Senator
Hill, and Kisses mingled with the
cheers. When it was understood
whom Mr.. George meant there were
,nly cheers. He went on:
EVEN MILLS HAS TO TRADE.
Even such man as Senator
Mills, an honest and able free-trader
N every sense except that in which
we single-taxers use the word, who
showed one Of those spectacles
which are said to be dear to the
gods, and which should be dear
20 men, one stalwart man,
faithful among the faithless,
standing up to say no, yet
we find him voting for a tariff on
ron. Why? There is only one
He had to pay to get
some other Democrats vote for a
reform which he considered more
ave are here tonight 10 say, as
far as our voices shall reach, that it
is time to call halt. II il more
important that the Democratic par
ly should stand clear upon the
record than that il should succeed.
Bring the fight into the open. Let
the people know who it is who
stands TO the pledges and who il is
wbo denv and rcurdiafe them IL