The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-24

itude of your powers and to reward
those out of whom the fat was frie d
in the campaign of 1888, in utter
disregard of both justice and public
opinion, you fastened the Mckinley
steal upon the country and then
patted yourselves in congratulation |
on the back. If anybody dared to
suggest that the great body of the
people had some natural and con
stitutional rights which the tar fl |
barons should ct, you de6antly
replied in the language of VIM. Nj
Tweed, "What re you going to
do about itp" Tweed thought that
a piece of upequaled wit, but he
found to his regret what the people
were going to do about it, and so
did the authors of the Mckinley
bill.
MAKING FREE TRADERS.
The tariff baron proposes but
G d disposes. All this time you
were building more wisely than you
knew. You were propagating free
traders more rapidly than rabbits
multiply in Australia. daughter. J
Eighteen hundred aid ninety came !;
1892 followed. L Ike Ephraim, you
are joined to your idols. Like the
Bourbons, you learn nothing. You
are set in your ways. You .are
fighting the wholesome provisions
of the Wilson bill. You may de
feat it here or in the other end Of
the capitol. Treason did not go
out of fashion with Iscariot and
Arnold. You may find enough
! renegade Democrats to enable you
: to do this thing. If so, woe be unto
!, you, woe be unto them, for if you
succeed in cheating the people OF
this small measure of relief, just as
certainly as there is future just &c
surely will free trade party arise
in this country, which will wipe
: the whole protective system off the
e earth suddenly as a cyclone, ruth
c lessly as conf ,gration, completed
as if swallowed up By the raging
sea. (Applause) There will b.
no temporizing, no compromising
no dalliance IN the lap of the DE
8 lilah of protection then. Men will
e brains in their heads, the love 0
y humanity in their souls and tn
e courage of their convictions in thei
l. hearts Will with eager hands REM
" the temple of protection till not ont
% stone shall be left upon another il
n that robbers castle. God spec
10 the day.
T. Some gentlemen seem to be muc
y perturbed in spirit and wearied i
9 flesh in futile attempt to find on
g. what tariff reformer is. The
II have toiled as assiduously as al
Is crank ever did in the vain endeavc
l. to discover the secret of perpetui
P motion, or as any alchemist ever di
ls TO transmute the base metals int
e gold. The task of Slsyphus was
o holiday and hilarious performanc
=, compared with that which thes
=, gentlemen have imposed upon then
a selves. But they may now rel
"a from their labors and possess the
ID souls in peace, for l will tell then
M and my language will be plaiI
y / am always glad to impart inform
" ton to searohers after truth.
re may not increase the sum total
n their happiness, but it will augmel
'g their stock of knowledge amazlngl.
10 Laughter.
40 THE TARIFF REFoRMER DEFINEl
:" To adopt, then, the terminolog
,u of the scientists, tariff reformer
CHI a rudimentary free trader, the ger
lg from which the free trader grow
81 the egg from which the free trad
at ia batched. What the acorn is
an the oak, what the mountain sprir
is to the rushin5 rivar, what u
ed sucking colt is to the proud "
GU horse, what the child is TO the ma
IN. so ia the nascent tariff reformer
N. the virile and thorougbgoiog FIR
ed trader. They are headed for t
of same point. The tariff reformer
re. not certain Of his footing and kee
GU his eyes on the ground in search
80. the path leading to commercial
and f;napcial freadOl