St. Paul daily globe., 1894-04-03
LET THE PEOPLE ROAR.

The feature of the Wilson bill which
was in redemption of the promise of the
party and of the demand of the voters
was the e-lSting of raw material. 1t
was the entering wedge splitting the
opposition, which is temporarily too
powerful to prevent the full redemp-
ton. With the wool and coal and iron
and lumber interests discovered from
the rapacieus gang. they would become
ardent free traders, and aid in taking
the next step.
A boOdleSome lot of traitors in the
senate are attempting to rob the bill Of
this one feature. They have restored,
under the plea of revenue. these items
to the taxed list. 1t they succeed, it
will mean not only the waste of all the
efforts of these years of struggle, but it
will mean the decentralization of our
party, rendering its defeat in the con-
gressional elections almost a certainty,
transferring control to hostile house,
and blocking the path of reform for an
indefinite period.
This house of lords of ours. with all its
haughtineSs, Is not insensible to public
opinion. Its rhinoceros hide has
been pierced before this by the shafts
of popular anger. and it can be now
again. Like its English prototype. it
will surrender the entrenched privileges
of the few only when the roar of the
people affrights it. Senators see now
with uneasiness the growing demand
for their election by popular vote.
Even should the loud voice of the peo-
pie fail to penetrate the padded walls
of the senate, it will strengthen the
house and stiffen the backbone of its
members to resist to the last the at
tempted rape of the measure by the
lobby and the doughface Democrats of
the senate. Better far that the bill fail
of passage than that the only redemp-
| tionarv feature of it be eliminated and
| our party be put before the country as
protectionists differing from the Repub-
| Iican variety only by few points. The
| house would then be the rallying point
for another struggle for greater freedom
| for the masses.
| The duty, then, of Democrats and OF
| Democratic papers is to demand that the
| UtuSe Stdilu III iol lHC iiNS WI
the articles put there in the house bill
The senate Democrats should be lashed
| from one end of the country to the Other
wherever there is a Democratic voter OF
| a Democratic paper. The riot act should
be read to them in tones whose earnest
ness they cannot mistake. Represent
atives must be plainly told that there
must be no compromise on that point
Let them understand that the man wht
Yields free ore, coal, wool or lumber
will be replaced by one of sterner stuff
who will not yield.
A member of the house weys ant
means committee writes: II can only
say that | hope that public sentiment
speaking through the press, will aid u!
to get as near what the people demanC
and expect as we can, and to preven
amendments to the house bill that MAJ
its distinctively Democratic feature
free raw material" As in 1892, wheI
these same men who are now marrins
the house bill and making it protection
ist were schemIng to capture the presi-
dency William L.Wilson advised that i
would be consummated unless the ''peo
pie should begin to roar" so now we
may rest assured that the end they
planned for then will he gained nov
unless the people again roar.