The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-23

The New York HeroId Is enthusiast
tic in its hopes for complete tariff re-
form as the result Of the beginning
made by the present Congress While
the measures enacted are not what the
country hoped for and expected, still 1t
il j. a move in the direction Of true re-
form and the battle will be continued.
The Herald says:
That the Augean stables Of Nckln-
levism we're not emphed and cleansed
in a single year by the party elected for
this very and sole purpose cannot be a
matter Of Just complaint. in Its flrst
spasm Of Indignation at being betrayed
the country may be disposed to sweep out
Of power the party which has proved i'm
potent to fulfil its pledges Of "a tariff
for revenue only But on sober sec
ond thought the people Will see that If
the dominant party has failed thus far
to accomplish its herculean task there
is no hope of relief from the republican
party. which has ever demonstrated Its
abiect servilty to plutOcratlc trusts.
And hence the storm OF popular wrath
will be concentrated not upon the par
tx. bnt upon the individual democrats
who have proven themselves false to
the flag under which they protested to
fight.
In passing the Senate tariff the
House Of Representatives has only
Welded to the sternest necessity, the al
teri alive of which was the continuance
OF the infamous and far more Cypress
i've and far more rulnous Mckinley
law. But this alternative was forced
upon the House by the Gorman-Smith-
Brice-M Murphy ring, backed by all the
"nrOtected" trusts and combines which
the people have been pamperlng and
nursing in their bosom as ylpers to
sting them Tor the last thirty years
Still this ring might have been brok-
Ell had any leading democrats OF the
Senate exposed and attacked It's mem
bers as public enemies instead OF apol-
| ogizing for them. Neither the leaders
of the Senate Finance Committee nO1
the Treasury officials have sounded out
to the people the iniquities and enor-
mites of the German bill. On the
contrary, they have quietly counte-
nanced or cOndoned them. Whatever
good feature remains in the bill is In
no sense or degree due to German OF
the Senate, but it only survives as q
relic of some good thing in Mr.. VIII
sons bill which escaped the rulnous
touch of the ring and its apologists III
the Finance Committee. The eight OF
ten democratic obstructionists in the
Senate will yet be made to rue theil
course in delaying tariff action siA
months and then forcing on the coun
try a tariff which, as the Herald has
repeatedly shown, will take out OF the
pockets of the people at least $3.50,
100000 per annum, not as revenue to-
the government, but solely to enrich
the ''protected' manufacturers anc
! trusts.
The only way in which the Senate
can at ali redeem itself from universal
contempt will be to take up and speed
liz pass The bills for free sugar, free
coal, free iron and barbed wire, passet
Yesterday by the House. These bill:
VIII remove S175.GOO,OOO of the vas
burden OF the Senate's ''protective'
taxation. The bulk OF which, under thf
German scheme. Will simply so a.
plumber to the iron and coal kings an(
the Sugar Trust. Senators Hill, Eoor
hoes. Vest, Jones, Mills and others have
ali along protested that they were no
in sympathy with the Gorman-SmltI
ring. They now have it in their pow
er to give the country some proof o
their sincerity by an earnest and in
slant advocacy Of the new tariff bills
The country will hold the House res
ponsibIe to stand out for its supplement
airy bills if 1t has to remain in session
till December Every day Of delay viii
give opportunity to show the countr,
the true inwa:dness and malign work
ings of protection" and the discussion
which will ensue will hasten the dawl
of our national GeIiyerance from tn.
slavery Of Gormanisln.
Meantime the friends Of tariff reform
have cause for good cheer Mckinley
ism at least is dead and its vile off
spring is already doomed. Only lie
the people, whose cause has been sc
ably and nobly led by the men who
stood true to the Wilson bill, now take
up the battle, and "protectionism" viii
met Its Gettysburg in November.
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