Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-04-05
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Tie Manufacturer, which is at least
consistent in holding that the owners of /
silver mines are entitled to ''protection"
as well as others, says Of the Presidents
veto OF the Vacuum bill:
Mr. Cleveland has probably done the
hest that could be done by a man who
must consider both the requirements OF
consistency and the peFiis attending op-
position 70 the violent demands Of his
party. He could not have signed the bill
without disgracing himself; and he has
chosen to veto il while speaking SOFT
things to the silver men and Offering some
announcement to them to hope for the
final success Of their cause. If Mr.. Cleye-
land cannot blind his eyes TO the fact OF
the growing strength of silver sentiment
in the South and the West, neither can Re-
pubhaans. The most persistent friends of
RECOMMENDATION in the Senate chamber are
men who voted for the Mckinley tariff. 1t
is Just possible that the opportunity may
present itself for the Republicans in the
Senate who are conservative binIeialtsts TO
make decided effort to remove in some
safe manner the division line that sepa-
rates them from the uut-and,out silver Re
publicans and to prepare the way, first,
for defeat of the Wilson bill and, second,
for the establishment Of 4 tasis upon
which the whole party can rest vigorous
policy in behalf Of bimetalism.
The Mdnyactursr is unnecessarily
modest in limiting its reference to the
silver men of the South and West. Its
own champion State of Pennsylvania,
where, it takes occasion to remind US,
the Republicans "rolled up majority
5 of $4,000 last month" is represented
in the United States Senate BY Matt
Quay, who has free silver coinage
"amendment on the stocks which he
wants to have attached as a rider to the
Tariff bill, and by Don Cameron, who
d. voted against the repeal of the Sherman
Silver Purchase act last summer.
Of course The Manufacturer, which
is, be 1t remembered, the authorized
organ of thePhiladelphia protectionists,
appiauds these men for their champion.
ship of the claim Of the silver miners 10
be reinstated in the partnership with
the government that was dissolved last
summer, and, equally, Of course, it is in
harmony with the spirit Of Mckinley
taxation in maintaining this, position
AS Mr.. Bayara SO well said, in 1899:
This claim of rightful power to make thu
private property Of individuals more yalu
able TO them By an exercise OF the power
of public taxation is precisely the same il
its nature and is not distinguishable from
the same claim as is presented in nearly
every feature Of the Mckinley Tariff bill
The owners Of silver bullion are therefor
using the same arguments aud exertini
their great influence to accomplish thl
same ends as the other benefciaries unde
the system Of protective taxation. Th
silver owners are all members of the asso
ciated tariff owners scheme; and FIRE
silver. as claiming its share in the schem
of governmental protection, and the Fore
bill, as the means of continuing in powe
the party Of protection by establishin
Congressional returning boards of til
Louisiana pattern. are cognate measure
having common origin and necessarii
common result, which is the communist
Of combined wealth and capital, the on
growth of overweening eupidity and sci
ishness. which insiduously undermine
the justice and integrity Of free instiIl
lions"