The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-06

his head 70 the block. Kelly knew when
the New York City Democracy rallied
from the shock of Txeed's downfall that
be as an opponent Of Tweed would
naturally come to the front IS Demo-
cratic leader, for there was no smell OF
Tseed's Tammany ring upon his gar
nenta The refusal Of Kelly and Tllden
70 have aug part or lot with the Tweed
Tammany ring made TiIden governor and
Kelly the leader of Tammany. Hill sees
clearly that the senate tariff bill with the
income tar ANNEXED will temporarily at
least defeat the Democracy in New YORK.
and he does not propose to have the
routed Democracy of the state "shake their
CORY locks at him" and say he did it; he
knows too that when the Democracy
OF New York recover from the shock OF
their surrender TO Popuiism that he. Hill,
will be the leader OF the reorganized
Democracy of New York state. He stands
upon purely Democratic platform mex
orably opposed to the income tax. and he
knows when the fog of Populism rises he,
Hill, will be sure TO be the leader OF his
party in the great state of New York
The tariff bill, as passed By the senate.
increases the retail price Of sugar not less
than cents pound. The annual con-
sumption in this country is sixty pounds
per capita. That means that sugar Will
cost every man, woman and child $l.20
more per year. 1t means an increased
tax of s. year on the average family
poor as well as rich. II means that the
country will pay about $50, 000, 600 more for
sugar than it does now. Second. while
thus robbing the people. the schedule
secures TO the sugar tristan annual profit
of 81, 1000 to s15,000O00. That is, 1t
assures it every year nearly 100 per cent.
on the real value of its plant.
Coal, now protected by duty of IS cents
a ton, gets under this senate bill but 40
cents ton.
Wool goes on the free list. rs also does
lumber. Should this senate tariff become
law Canada would be delighted. since
with free wool. free lumber and many
agricultural products free and the duty on
the other products reduced, the British
dominions In America are likely 10 bless
the day when Mr.. Cleveland and the DEM
ocratic party came into power.
Hill, in refusing to vote for the tariff
bill with the Populist income tax attached,
said: 81 protest against the reputation
of the promises of the Democratic party in
order to adopt and carry out the promises
of the Popuiist party" Then he shows
that the income tax was war tax to
which Democracy has always been OPP
posed that it is not called for by the party
platform nor by any emergency of the
government; that Populists and Socialists
alone have asked for it; that it is the
restoration of an odious, inquisitorial
system which Republicans have rejected,
and that 1t has been by such stupendous
folly as this that the Democratic party has
been led astray and doomed to defeat for p
generation. eff this is true Democracy"
the senator concludes, Il want none of it.
If this is the best leadership which we can
present in this great crisis, /. for one,
must decline 10 follow it,"
Hill declares that he stands with Jeffer-
son, Jackson and Tilden, in favor of a rev.
EiuC iOG CdNiat BhtfOScs aA0 otSSk ~ A1-
ton for state purposes. That explains at
once his Democracy and his independence.
His associates are recreant to party trusts,
and he alone is Democrat. They have
united in Populist and socialist raid
against New York city, which, as he warns
them, will make New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut permanently Republican.
The New York Sun. DEM, sustains Hill,
and furthermore holds President Cleve-
land and Secretary Carlisle as responsible
for the income tax. The Sun, IN its indig-
nation. says;
els il not likely, therefore, that the next
time Secretary Carlisle comes, hat in hand.
from Mr.. Cleveland to the bankers and
business men of New York, there will be
some questions asked Suppose some out
spoken banker should say TO Mr.. Carlisle:
You and your Populist friends in the
South and West are determined TO put this
infamous tax on us. Why not go to your
Popuiist friends in the South and West to
secure the gold you say you want2 Why
not apply TO them TO float your bonds7'"