The Grenada sentinel., 1894-12-22
THE PART o., WISDOM.

rHE PART o. WISDOM.
nov tho pemocracy May Most Speedily
Achieve . Return Victory.
Last summer our republican contem'
porarics were giving this advice TO
the contending democrats in congress:
"It 10 utterly impossible for you to sue
ceed in harmonizing your differences
on the tariff, and, therefore, the best
thing that you can do 10 to cease max.
ing the attempt, adjourn congress ana
70 home" The democratic party has
been disastrously defeated in the re-
cent election, but II II had sdopted
its own the policy SO gratuitously rec
commended to II by its political oppo-
nents tho defeat that has overtaken
II would not bs circumstance com.
pared with that which would have
overwhelmed It
The party has not done all thst It
should; it IL chargeable with sins OF
commission and sins Of omission 30 far
as tariff legislation goes, and yet the
gain that has been made by the tarim
that has been adopted II one Of the a.
surances of its future success. Take
the matter OF wool. In less than two
years time this change In the tariff
will have demonstrated as signally as
any object lesson can the fallacious
character of the statements that had
been made concerning the effect OF .
radical change in our tariff laws One
has only to turn back to the Alcs OF
any Of ouP Boston republican con.
temporaries or has only to read tho
speeches Of any Of tho republican
orators to find up to very recent
period the statement made over and
over again that the placing Of wool
upon the free list would destroy the
entire sheep industry Of the United
States; that 1t would no longer be
possible. to raise wool here; that our
manufacturers would be dependent
upon the pauper-Rrown wool OF for
cign lands, and that just as soon as
these shrewd paupers succeeded in
driving the American sheep out Of OK.
istence they would corner the wool
market and compel the American
woolen and worsted manufacturer to
pay them whatever price they wanted
for this raw material.
1t is probably true that in conse.
quence of the fear which these COM
ments engcndered there has been an
entirely unnecessary slaughter Of
woolbearing animals In this country,
and it will probably be shown when
the next annual sheep census In this
country is estimated that the number
Of sheep has undergone some diminu.
tion. But inside OF two years there
will be a marked improvement in trade
and marked increase in the number
of sheep. This we have little hesi-
fancy in predicting. More than this,
there will be q great improvement in
the wooden and worsted industry. In
q word, 1t will be demonstrated that
under this new system trade will
greatly prosper, while woolen and
worsted goods will be sold at lower
prices.
We hold that this object lesson will
be sufficient to materially affect the
vote that Is to be cast in November Of
1895. The fictitious gain which came
from q wool tax was the one sop that
was thrown out to the farmers. These
were led to believe that the protective
tariff was necessary for their continued
existence. The object lesson Of free
wool will show them that they are not,
and never have been, true benefciaries
from the protective system, and that
instead Of supporting this method of
trade obstruction it is for their inter-
est to thoroughly oppose it. This was
what was gained by passing the much
decried present tariff law, and in our
opinion 1t is the one thing that will
bring relatively speedy victory to the
democratic party, while it will prevent
the republican organization from ever
going back to the monstrosities of the
Mckinley law.-Bos.on Herald.