New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-03
~ TRUST PCDDlNG."
AGGRAVATED BY HIGHWAY ROBBERY"
From The Brooklyn Eagle (Dem) May l.

The payers fuii OF surnises about the taTln
measure for which the Democratic Senators ana
Congressman, well as the President ana the
Secretary Of the Treasury, are it IS said to be
responsible. The men who are maIng
speeches in the Senate The tariff also dealing in
these surmises The country does not know what the
proposed tariff bill is, or where fl IS or what men are
making 1t. The members o. Congress also Know none
of these things. \ project OF National cessation
which directly Affects every interest and every per
in this Republic, and which indirectly Affects
every interest that this country has with me resi-
of the world, IS kept as profound secret from ue
body Of Federal legislators from all private citi-
zens. and from all but very few officials. as me
confidential statements or penltent 70 a pres OF
patient his physician, or between husband and
his wife . The application Of tramp and hobo
pressure to Congress is really not more serious
and lamentable spectacle than the substitution Of
seereey for publicly in lega lion S and the CON
business they were meant separately and inde-
pendentiy 70 consider 49,. ..-..,.u -. .,,.
process justify Il The excuses for II comprise the
plea that this Congress must pass. bill or be dis
is put above the welfare OF the country by that
plea It is an illogical and an immoral pea A BIZ
form and of the Presidents letter Of acceptance.
forbade any other kind, The kind has been ~
terly ignored. A party that Is pledged 10 tariff
reform and that drops reform out Of the pledge
and merely puts stress tariff change. adds TO 1t
own inhdelty to It's word the injury Of the country
and hence wckedly. o.. An aggravaton OF the tariff
1mDeGliE ION aii teS Ensiness was
stranded during 1893 by this mbecility. 1t mas been
pr 6r fSr 1s SE the the If b
will be better merely because it must change. and
legislate at all lost by the Legislators. The
strength of the Government and the greatness OF
endure Congress and to discount It's imbecty.
The results have been what might be expected
measure that came from the House named the
Wilson bin has been changed in nearly everything
ing clause has been stricken out. always excepting
the income tax which has been preserved as
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shop and a cuff and collar bounty into the bill
Maryland has dictated a coal duty into it. because
one OF her Senators has coal holdings in Western
Virginia He has been able to act as highwayman
bama and Pennsylvania have struck hands with
Arkansas and Missouri against free iron. Ohio and
Massachusetts nave set up shop against free wool.
Free lumber and free salt are likewise to be pre-.
vented. while California and Louisiana have kept
the bounty on home sugar and the duty on i'm
Kellys and Coxey's armies without law are col
lecting from railroads by train seizures and forced
tax on the property itself The speeches by which
defended or attacked empty the Senate OF all except
each Speaker and the officers Of the body. except
precpita ted as the case on Monday.
This state of things is not Democracy. 1t is
surrender protection and walowinS in Popu-
ism and Democracy is reversed by both. 1t is not
the Chicago platform 1t IS not the letter of ac-
Democratic duty and doctrine that Is OF contem,
Popuiist hodgepodge is a parody on Democratic
duty 1t is the negation of Democratic doctrine.
II Is the release from Democratic obligation. Those
who substitute for Democratic principles obedience
10 such as have flung them TO the winds fatigue
seryility and paralyze the worst possibilities OF
sycophancy. Hero worship may have something
ennobling in Lesser dolatry is the sublima ton
OF mental and moral invirility.
The Democracy OF New-York will have none OF
t. That which will have aught Of 1t is not the
Democracy of New-York. Better party without
body to be kicked soul 10 be damned than
one with a body TO be degraded and a soul 10 be
schooled in shame. To-days talk Is that hug
ger-mugger that Is 10 be called tariff reform bill
.oo M in ~ Orna NJ int
and negotiation. and that the party Senators are
all 10 vote for II, because every of them has
schonpsd into II something for himself. II
forced TO choose between evils. the New-York De
mocracy would far rather let McKnleyism remain.
with Republicanism responsible for IT, than toler-
ate a trust-pudding aggravated by highway rob
berry. the Senate bill. plus the income tax at
>tachment. now Is