The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-09-21
Method in Their Madness.


The session of Congress taken in con-
nection with the actions of the President
is one of the most singular in the congress
sional history of the republic. With an
Executive and House elected by an
overwhelming majority, and Senate in
the hands of the same party, with but one
declared object in view-"tariff reform"
whatever that means, they sit for whole
year and break up in an apparent row
between the President and the House on
one side, and the Senate ON the other.
The President writes indignant letters
against large part of his own party,
with tariff bill he refuses to sign passed
by his party and the people wondering
what it's all about The House bill, which
the President and large contingent of
his party claim was simon pure tariff
reform" measure, is shown pretty con-
clusively to be bill inadequate to raise
the necessary amount of revenue, and is
changed by the Senate in order to insure
sufficient revenue for the government,
and this is claimed to be adequate cause
for the President and large portion of
his party to denounce as betrayal Of
party pledges and tariff REFORM" and
justify them in renewing the battle for
tariff reform" in the next congressional
campaign.
This whole proceeding partakes too
much of the nature of we'll devised plot,
a put up job" to deceive any person
who does not incline to be deceived. The
President is full blooded plutocrat and
his whole heart is filled with love for the
money power The tariff reform" pre-
text was played out with the people ON
old lines. They gave the democrat party
the opportunity chance" which
they pleaded so hard for; and having by
the apparently indignant protest of their
President proved false to their promise,
the attempt is made to place the blame
on few Senators for the acknowledged
failure of the party, and with consumate
effrontery are already appealing to the
people to give them another "chance" at
tariff REFORM"
The great question for which the party
was placed i'll power to settle was the free
coinage of silver. Had the bulk of the
party West and South not pledged them
selves to this they never would have had
majority in congress, nor would Cleve-
land have been President Weaver would
have received enough electrol votes to
have thrown the election in the House.
The leaders of the party, with Mr..
Cleveland, are enlisted in the interest of
the money power, and in the hope of
staving that question off still longer this
strange family quarrel-which is sham
among them is concocted and the
effort is to be made to fool the people
with tariff reform" again, an imaginary
tariff which none have ever defined.
described or understood The Republi-
can denounce it as "free trade" but free
trade is all impossible thing until some
other system of raising revenue for the
government is instituted. No other plan
has been even limited at by either party,
except to sell bonds and increase the
government debt.
The tariff cannot be reformed on either
democratic or republican lines, without
raising some three hundred millions of
revenue by tariff taxation, and neither the
House or Senate bill will do so much as
that without the income tax. In the
presence of these facts what does Mr..
Cleveland and his wing of the party mean
by tariff reform?" They declare their
purpose to go pell-mell into another
campaign with the senseless cry of tariff
reform =" The scheme is a plot concocted
by the national bank party and Wall
street gamblers to stave off the question
of money reform. The conspiracy is so
thinly yelled when all the circumstances
of the late session are grouped together
that no person with common sense ought
to be deceived byit.