Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-09-15

suTu rJ---uI.I OF c.C1-4Tlr 4 congress ana rC.rs-
ini, 10 let II sit except n Special session. for
directly after the president went into ofice
ana the extra session 70 allay the pa1ic.
crowded ont anal consideration of an extra
session Tor t2r.E reform. But - soon con =
EresS Regularly assembled, ia December. the
tara WIS taken up; and il steadily absorbed
congress until II passed. The time would not
have been complained of-for it was consider
a 'iy less Than that OF the Mckinley ri-l-but
Tor the eagerneSs Of the business community.
Jvst crncrEll- from the panic. 20 have eli
Sc;no.,llc lcE4a4atloa especially buried The
delay was not the fault of the tariE reforrnarS
who took up Is little OF tie time Is possible.
ana EneS their mind perfectly. II was
due. first - the tactics o. The repub-
Iicans, which were always On the verse ol I'LL
bustorlng II was due. secondly. 70 the
cratic mediterranean. That achievements was
the passage Of a tariff reform bill through d
Let Us understand the truth. The senate nd
lot want tariff reform bill The senate IS
49, ~ az M..ntS n, isfl ana ne
trusts OF Mchl-ic'lSCl- The la! wcs passed
through the senate and over the senate by a
minority. aided by the power and GU.horitv OF
the rank cAd Lie OF the democratic party. b.
the overwhelming reform sentiment il the
house Ct Representatives. 2ad by TIE stead
land
The president has earned his ri-ht to With
hold nS Signature 20 that bin. II lie thinks tha :
the best way 70 further reform. ald n srl- his
indignntion tow-rd The men who used the DIS
EutsC OF democrats to moderate the .rlu-z-sA
OF deraoSrory. But that does Tot change tie
great achievement.
history viii call this bill the iecisivo victcrr
OF rctorIn-;hc Waterloo of protection. Why
talk Of tao details we failed t. get, when what
we got IVES the over brow OF protection and
the downfall of privilege:
The bin IS not, in completeness VIVA. the
tarin reform minority of the senate would
have had ii. or what the people or me house Of
representatives. or the president would hive
had II; but IL i 5 as different Us day is from
night from what the pFotectloaiSt Iaci ority Of
the senate '-uald have had it. With Us 1t IS .
question OF degree; with them !: j. q question
OF KIND FoT 1t begins n new era II revcrscs
the poAcy OF great Ect4Cn. II turns "A great
people face about. j is as though an cr--v
marching eastward were suddenly turned 10
march westward. 1t make an economic rcYo-
LUTON in the United States: and IA he near
future whom We shall have taken our inter-
national place With the other great manufac-
turing nations Viii work vast changes in the
trade OF the whole world.
as Z measure OF immediate reform y com
pores uniavorabiy, only with the intentions OF
tarln reiorTncrS. Compared with the Ne
kinney bill, which It replaces il IS like the
relief from nightmare. Compared even WIN
the Mills bill, IL IS distinct zdvanee along the
ilhe' OF reform 1t l. SO great q triumph thnt,
IN 1880, or even IN 1889 we should have .c-
cepted il with enthusiasm. But the reform
sentiment has grown; and the reform must
grow with IT.
We failed to maize all raw materials free.
But VIC made many of them free: ana reduced
the rest Who doubts that the absurdis- OF
taxed raw materials is on its last LOGS:
We dld not reduce tae protection Of the
| get FOR tho people nll we tried to got: for il
was here that protection vas most strongly
enirenchcd and fought most desperately. sut
/ We reduced. materially. the projection secured
to the trust by the republicans il the nc.Si,s-
ley bill The republicans gave the trust one
half cent protection We have taken away AZ
least one-third Of it The sugar schedule OF
the new law, therefore. like cvcfy other sched-
ule In It from beginning to end is distinct
victory for tariff reform.
The reform has been obstructed. Why? Be-
cause there Is hostile democratic projections
list remnant entFenchad in the senate. In the
house there was no delay and no co.nprornise
| for in the house the democrats have ma jor-
ity. In the senate they ere charged with Il
| very small majority, and have no majority
| at all
There is nothing new in the facts. We eli
knew that u few protectionists fingered in the
| party; that in Randall's time they were con-
siderable. and that q remnant was left; that q
Few men In the senate insisted upon being dem
oorats without believing in democratic prin-
ciples, and liked the anomaly Of calling them
selves by the name Of one party ana support
ing the creed Of sanother. We thought how
| ever that they would not have the courage of
their convictions; and they had only coura 70
| for intrigue. But the fact that the tariff re-
formers were minority In the senate gave too
&reat 60 opLortantty to be resisted hy man