Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-30
PROTECTION BEATEN.
Important Reductions in the McKinIe
High-Tarin Duties.

Important Reductions In the Mckinley
High-Tarin Duties
Whatever has been gained has been
wrested from protective body. The
| country concurs in Mr.. Wilson's re-
port The senate has majority for
protection. There are thirty-seven re-
publicans. three populists and seven
democrats who are champions of pro-
hibitive tariffs on articles produced by
! their friends and therefore for all
prohibitive tariffs-protection consist
ing in being for the other fellows
tariff If he will be for yours
From this protective body the tariff
reform democrats have wrested re-
ductiOn OF sugar duties, free wool,
lumber and salt and great curtail-
ment of tariffs on the textiles which
the masses must buy for clothing. An
| income tax is secured, which relieves
taxation on the household and places
a share of federal expenses upon the
j wealth whose concentration has been
favored by federal laws.
Not all that the house contended for
| and the country desired has been OBJ
tanned. The sugar trust has not been
severed from government partnership.
Iron and coal are still taxed, and the
| WnOS0 COSO GnOY
enter are still to bring higher prices
than the people should pay. But, as
the chairman of the ways committee,
| himself as brave a champion as cause
ever had, says to his friends, when men
have done their best, according to their
! capacity and judgement, they must
fall back GA the Consciousness of duty
| done. For the democrats of the house
] tho Of orfz
but approval. What obligations came
to them under the laws and the in
structions of their constituents they
have discharged with p-omptitude.
There has been no departure from
principle. In their proposition to re-
form the revenue they were moderate
and business interests were never left
| in doubt. The contest for better bill
than the measure offered by the sem
ate they have fought as long as there
| was the slightest chance to succeed
| and have abandoned it at the demand
Of business when success against a
protective senate majority was 3
demonstrated impossibility.
That atrocity, the Mckinley bill, is
about to be wiped from the statute
books by democratic votes. The
pledge of 1892 to the people is re-
deemed as far as the people have con-
ferred the power. The tariff reform
ers could not control a senate to
which majority of real reformers had
not besu elected. The house has
shown What honest reformers can do
by passing bills for free sugar, free
iron, free coal and free barbed wire.
Having placed the blame for the in
completeness of the reform where it be-
longs, the, house democrats can ad-
journ in the consciousness of duty
done"
Now thai tariff legislation is at an
end for this congress, business men
owe to the country an increased acti-
witty and confidence. The elements of
prosperity are all with us. Set every
where the example of faith and en-
ergy. Doubts about the laws are at
rest. There is nothing else for bust
ness men to doubt except their own
strength of will Matters will not
come right of themselves. Men must
make them right. It is just about
year since the acute financial trouble
began. 1t is just about time for the
sharp revival to begin.--St. Louis Re-
public.