The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-08-17
The New Tariff Bill.

speech Monday when he declared that tn
this is Il government of the people, by tn
people for the people, or one of the suga
II trust, by the sugar trust and for tn
II sugar trust With all that can be said il
/ favor of the Senate tariff bill, which tn
House has accepted this week, this suga
u, steal brands its passage in Cleveland's word
: though on other points-as "party perfid.
and party dishonor." 1t is not to the poin
that the sugar trust steal in this bill is
fraction, about one-fourth, less than that O
, the Mckinley bill. The Democratic party is moi
+ in its natural business in posing even as par
tial imitator of McKinleysim. The Mckinley
+ bill, though it bears the name of Il personally
honest and most admirable man, was bill
throughout by trusts and for trusts, in which
they were practically given carte blanche,
to write in the figures ut which they would
like to tax the country. And when the DEM
ocratic party, having the power in every
branch of the government. comes so near us
it has come to giving one of these trusts the
same carte bldRche, 10 less words than
"perfdy and dshonor" can describe it.
The party must take the responsibility,
though it is really the work of few men, be-
cause those are men that never ought to have
been trusted with the positions they holland
Democrats knew it or ought to have known
it when they elected German and Brice and
Smith and Murphy senator's. These few men
with the aid of Hill and the selfish interests
of the Lousianans have defeated the four
fifths majority Of their own body, the practi-
cally unanimous sentiment of the party in the
house, the president, and the overwhelming
Democratic opinion of the country. Not Il
single resolution, excepting one adopted by
the potters of Senator Smiths home in New
Jersey, has been passed anywhere indorsing
the senate measure, while, party conventions
and gatherings and representative speakers by
the hundreds and thousands have denounced
it. These men have carried their point by
trading upon the anxiety Of the party to pass
a tariff bill and threatening to prevent any
thing being done unless they could have what
they wanted. And as the pressure against |
them gained volume that seemed irresistible,
they forced the issue in their favor by at
least seemingly bringing the whole cause to
thepoint of wreck.
For the time being it is wonderful triumph
for German who has managed the business.
He has wona victory, against odds, both
moral and material, that no other senator
ever won. But he has only laid up wrath for
the future for himself and his fellow con-
spirators. Their obteration from public life {
Is us sure as fate, as soon as an outrage people q
IAN get at them. /
And their works will perish even sooner. f
The free sugar bill is absolutely certain to be '
ome law, with perhaps "A temporary duty Il
N raw sugar. but with the trust protection 81
wiped out. If it is not done at this session, q
will be at the next and before this Con- - =,
ress ends. Republican filibustering now Il
threatened, with the cooperation of these D
trust servants may delay the end b.
ut they cannot avert it. There are not a doz- D,
n men in the senate and not Il fifth of the tt
louise, that are really opposed to free sugar, r. r.
Id with such odds it cannot fail to prevail. fl
will be rough on Louisiana to strip her is
JUS of both protection and bounty, while the III
system lasts for other interests fo
1t it is retribution she has invited for her. hi
If by joining the highway tactics of the pc
,nsprators and refu sing to consider any i,
hedue on its merits seeking to kill the whole oil
easure unless she could have what she want pl
!. The other free raw material bills, will fol- NJ
W to enactment, because the majority for n l,r
oh is as great, and no log rolling combna- hi
III can be made against them. Perhaps the pc
eals which Murphy has injected into the hill Ia Ia
i'll be eliminated later. The tariff question
settled far enough so that the country a..
II have industrial peace in the main; but
ese changes are sure to be made. s
When they are made the senate bill, which MI
cept for these particular steals, is well W.
measure. will satisfy the country tof
4 usher in one of the greatest eras of pros in
,ity we have ever had. The bill as a whole ,
IN now makes larger reduction of duties VIII
IN the Mills bill proposed. 1t gives us the wa
Dns of free wool, free lumber, free salt, III H.
e flax, hemp and jute. Its merits he
y be seen at glance by comparison of goo
ne of its leading duties: 700 s