Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-08-17
THE TARIFF BILL.
COMMENTS or THE PRESS.

QUIET lhiueo'
"The Eagle thinks that President
Cleveland should veto this meas.
ure when it is sent 70 him, first,
because it is not such measure as
should received approval, aud, Sec
only, because hu has SAID and prov
@ that 1t il not. While this pa
per Will charltably regard thr hard.
ships under which The House and
the President have labored, we
think the house has made one OF
those mistakes which PresI Tents
are elected to correct and prevent.
The President, it Is reported,
may Indicate his dlSapprobation OF
the measure by neither signing it
nor vetOlng 1t, but by letting it be-
come a law without his signature.
That passive process will deceive
nobody. 1t will prevent no result.
1t will not be like the President.
He would better sign 1t than let
it become a law by his omission
to act on it in any way in ten days
after 1t reaches him. The demo.
cratic party did not make the Nc
Kinley law. No democratic Presi.
dent is responsible for it. For the
Senate bill, ii it becomes q law,
the democratic Congress and the
democratic President will be re-
sponslble, anu The democratic Con-
gress has already become response
ble.
"The f agile has no feeling OF
ceDsure for the House. Tue House,
having done all, did not stand.
Paul, who said that haYlng done
all men should stand, did not have
to go outside of the college OF the
apostles to find those who illustrat-
ed theirlnability t. bear so extreme
"a test. We are thankful the
House stood up to the next to the
last moment. We wish that Gre
yer Cleveland may not disclose any
breaking point at all.
Philadelphia Times lind > The
tar'ff, as finally passed, while in
many respects it falls short of the
expectations OF the country, is an
enormous step forward IN the di.
rectiOn of reduced taxation a step
that will never be retraced. From
this time the fixed policy of the
country will be toward the gradual
reduction of import duties, and our
manufacturers, who will prosper
under this new Itariff as they have
never prospered before, will not
again seek the restoration of the
exOrbltant taxes which have de.
mOrallzed so many of our indus.
tries. The new bill gives ample
protection to all our manufacturers
and to some of them, as notably
tile WOODEN manufae.m ers of Phila
delphia, it will open up the markets
of the world tor the free purchase
Of the materials they need and for
the sale Of their surplus products.
In five years time they ought, IN
der this taiiff, to manufacture all
tie woolcns used in this country
or in this hemisphere. AID what
is true e WOO lens is true of almost
every branch of \ HerIcal mana.
features"
Philadelphia Il 'cold, (dem y
Toe coun ry will approve the ac-
ton taken by the House of RIP
resentatives in passing the tariff
bill as amended by the Senate
rather than to run the risk of EN-.
tire failure to modify the exasperat-
ing aud inefficient Mckinley act
twice condemned by the votes OF
the people. The Senate bill is Oh
jectionable in many particulars, but
| in no particular is it so objection
alb g as the law it supersedes. 1t
was better to take what could be
had at the hands OF the democratic
protectlonists in the Senate, who
have j)ined hands with The enemies
of tariff reform to balk the will Of
the people, than to go back to the
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