The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-24

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A swelling tide Of popular approval. which
rises higher every day. meets the Prssidsnrs
scathing rsbuke OF the bill Of sale. That ap-
prevail goes farther than the Prssidents letter
and thoroughly s~ustains the speech and motion
Of senator Villas and the Observation-Disclosures
Of Chairman Wilson In the House. IL u nm
questionably the popular feeling ~ tho Sugar
Trust must be swiftly and sternly punished for
debauching and corrupting the Senate. The
New York Times tells Its Democratic frisnds
the plain truth In saying that ''the surrender
Of the House TO the Senate would outrage the
moral sense OF the nation" that the people
will not tolerGte . "diciation so sordid, vui-
gar, cynical, corrupt and disgraceful." and
that there Is no settlement possible through
surrender. When Mr.. Wilson declared that,
rather than submit TO such base terms, the
House would remain In permanent session
until refine sugar vent upon the free list > >
the majority Of the House arose on masse to
applaud aim. And the fiery and nrm spirit
OF that majority Is tho American spirit. II Ii
the spirit that, from Lexington to Appomat-
tox, has resisted ct any cost any and every
despotism that has asserted Its evil supremacy
in America" The House would be abundantly
sustained by thfs American spirit In absolutely
refusing to pass or even TO consider the bill OF
sale for which the Sugar TT ust has Said.
What other end is possible2 Tricky but
shallow persons suggest that the Senate bill
might yet be passed, and its faults be remedied
by other acts. Advice is not of much account
from men who do not know that a quarter OF
the Senators whom the Trust now owns
could mako IL impossible to get a
| quorum In that body for any
subsequent bill. The suggestion is childish
| that th. Ianao .b.-la A., ..,;fv the hill NJ
sale and then trust TO the Democratic major
ity in the senate for repeal Of part of 1t. The
Infamous bargain was itself the product of the
demonstrated impossibility Of getting enough
votes in the Senate for what the House had
demanded. The Presidents rebuke has now
made 1t impossible to get some votes which
would then have been cast for the House bill
or one even stronger.
If neither House can be brought to PASS q
bill from the other. the alternative is post
ponement or compromise. But what CON-
promise is to DO expected from men who are
publicly branded with perfdy and dishonor
because of the one TO which they have as
sented To take anything less or anything
different would be to confess That they have
been corrupt, perndious and traitors TO party.
Even whipped school boys would make
with difficulty a confession 50 humili-
ating. Nor is the difficulty one Of honor
or pride exclusively, Behind Senators there
are constituents who demand notifications
of the dill passed by the House. louisiana
has made its Senators understand that they
must not fail to defend the sugar industry.
The men of West Virginia, Maryland, New
Jersey, New York and Ohio have been warned
that 1t will be death to them, and to their
party in those States, II they yield to the de-
mands of the President and the House re-
garding coal, iron ore and manufactures, pot
teries, glass and other manufactures. Not
counting Mr.. Mcpherson, who no longer
counts himself. there are at least ten Demo-
cratic senators who would simply sign their
own political death warrant IL they should
yield.
The only compromise that seems possible Is
postponement and appeal to the people. The
honest free traders know by this tune that 1t
is simply impossible to pass such q bill as
their convictions demand. IL they accept
some barter, and put themselves on the de-
fensive by surrendering their convictions for
the sake Of getting ANY bill" passed, they
know the humiliation and scorn which await
them. Infinitely better they can afford TO
appeal to their supporters, with the d~oclara-
ton that they have been thwarted by men Of
their own party who would not uphold its
principles or keep its pledges.