The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-05-01
Come TO a Vote.

The opening of the fifth week Of the
tariff debate in the senate finds what is
left of the Wilson bill in as helpless a
state of innocuous desuetude as the
most uncompromising friend of pro-
tion could wish to see, Did we say in'
noouous desuetude2 That, surely. was
a slip of the pen; for no desuetude can
be inuocuous which surcbarges all bus
mess operations with paralyging un-
certainty and prolongs, far beyond it's
normal limit, the duration OF COM
mercial crisis which mad its immediate
origin in a dread of this administra-
tratiop's yet unsxecuted purposes. Ii
specific assurance could be given to the
business OF the country that the ma
jority in the senate against tariff de
molition ia sufficiently strong and sut-
fciently firm to resist to the end this
pending effort to enact n hvbrid and
mongrel tariff reform" bill. who
doubts thar here would lg inslantau-
eous revival in trHd'2
But such an assurance cannot be
given. MOI would it. if given, be believed,
What is needed is decisive action; the
taking Of yea aud nay vote: the put
ting Of the whole abominable conspir-
scy 10 q direct and bravely- faced issue.
Ii there are senators who are resisting
the bill not on account of manly hos
tility to its yieious principles. but sim
piy out OF piqus at their failure TO share
sufficiently in its distribution Of seq
tional favors, Republican reliance on
their opposition is likely to prove De.
ceptive and should not, therefore. exist
the prolongatiou OF the hgnt in the
hope oil introducing dividing side
Issues, wiki viyw 70 weakening ths
Democratic majority, is visionary
hope iUr whose eu,-rt inmuat the sut-
'er,ur b.siuss. interests @. the country
are paying sD iEori.ntt-,y costly lric-.
The bsliut that projection a. a priuri-
p.a gains strength by reason Of tue per.
sonsi uruopuiari.y OF the president
among certain msub'rs OF his own
prty is poor reliance sc really bef,-
ting so u uumrutous "a contest.
No; if the Wilson monstrosity cannot
b. rejected on its own dement's made
plain nv the fierce light OF Its autlcipa-
tory effects upon American industry, II
should not bo starved to dsata through
loag-drawn-out senatorial inertia The
Democratic party has deliberately pre-
sentsd this measure In answer 10 the
promises whereby it gained the suffrage
Of large majority Of the American
people This is its formula for the
treatment Of those putlic ills in the de-
scription Of Itch II recently employed
such profuse snils and lurid exagg srs.
tiCu. Il IL the only thing that the Dem.
ocratic intellect IS caUtbl' Of sugsest-
ing; and the longer that intellect
works upon it, the worse the bill be-
comes. Therefore, il tho Democrats
party, having seen what ths mere
threat OF such 2 measure can do In the
prostrati3n Of business. and having
IeaH Al Tue RECENT eltCloh hlAllAtlch
some hints as to the popular opinion
with reference to it, desires 10 the face
Of these warnings TO persist In tie
course marked ont for I. bv the party's
last national platform, tits not the part
Of wisdom for a Republican minority
TO interpo'e technical otstructious
The people, agains! Republican warn
ings. two years ago, deliberately re-
seated the old-style Coufs lerate De-
mocracy in the federal saddle. and II
they are thereby compelled to take
ride to ruin they will assurIdly have
none but Themselves 70 blame