St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-28
A WARNING TO THE HOUSE.

A WARNING TO THE HOUSE.
There come from Washington dis
quieting rumors of tile yielding of the
house to the lmperious demands Of the
ArDolds of the senate, supported by tho
cowardice Of the remaining Democratic
senators, with two exceptions, Hill and
lrby. Members are being pressed with
the fatality of the failure to pass some
bill at this session. Even Villas deems
II essential to holding our majority in
the house. Representatives are anxious
to get home to attend to their own in
terests III conventions aud campaigns.
Republicans. secretly favoring the SEN
ate bill while pretentiousiy opposing it.
are fearful that the house will stand
firmly by its bill, and are c,vertly aid
ing agreement with the senate, well
Knowing and dreading the result of
contest before tue voters on the naked
issue of the commons against THE house
of lords.
. We warn the representatives of the
. danger OF yielding jot of their attitude.
they went too far at first; they invited
all that has come when they departed
plank. They unlocked and partly
opened the door TO the protectionists
when they adj United the policy of pro-
lection TO appear at all in their bill.
They should retrieve the mistake now
by passing a revenue bill, of which the
bill of Mr.. Harter is an excellent model
II they cannot do this. then safety lies in
stern, uncomprom Using insiStence Oh
what Mr.. Wilson terms the character
istic Democratic features of their bill.
Consider what Endorsement of the
senaie's bill will inca II TO the voters
of the party: those of the voters
who have fought so long and earnestly
and faithfully for the elimination of
protection from our fiscal policy. Pom
der we'll the consequences of surrender
to the enemy OF their hopes and aspira-
tons before you vote to concur.
What will your action signify?
To the thousands who have come
to us from the Republicans be-
cause we convinced them that we
were right, and to whose votes we owe
our power, it will mean that we are
party of false prctenses; that our talk
of free or freer trade is but the lime to
catch the foolish and too trusting bird;
that, after all, there is no difference,
save ill percentages, between Republi-
can and Democratic projections; and
should they conclude that the difference
does not warrant them in permanently
leaving the party of their long associa-
ton. can you blame them? We can't
m isl
you risk the effect on your own party?
Are you blind to the feeling pervading
that? Did not the nationwide response
of the press and of clubs aud commit.
tees to the address of the Democratic
association of this state ad wise you of
the feeling? Anger at the senate grew
into despair as its surrender became
more manifest. Disbursement took
the place of that high courage with
which they have sustained the long
struggle. Men began to ask if it were
not true after all that our party could
no more be trusted than could the Re-
publicans. Can you afford to face the
enemy this fall in your congressional
campaigns with dispirited following?
What weight will oar appeals to them
to stand by and support the orga MIA
ton have If you defeat the very pur-
pose for which that organization has
been kept up? How will you answer
the question, Why maintain an organi-
cation which fails when given power to
gain its end? When they say to you
and TO us: I'VE have maintained the or
ganiZation through long years of de-
feat that, when victory came, it might
put in force those principles for which
we have struggled; we organized vic
tory aud you have surrendered its fruits:
why maintain so inert an organization?'
what answer can you or we make
them?
You will invite another danger, should
you concur. There is no good end
served by blinking at facts. Conditions
are never changed by simply ignoring
them. Along with the utter dishearten-
ment caused by the senate's desertion
of Democracy and surrender to Repub-
licanism came increasing talk. not of
fusion with the Populists. but of voting
fol their candidates. 1t became alarm.
ingly prevalent. Men said: 'What diff
ference is there between voting with
Populism aud voting with Republican,
ism? If Democratic congress indorses
protection, how can we be rebuked for
indorsing at home the Populists? OF the
two, which is the worse?" What answer
can you make them? 1t was not that
men were the less Democrats that they
talked thus, but 1t was because there
was no other way of making their pro-
test, and they were indifferent with
what ass's jaw they smote the traitors.
The courageous letter of the presi-
dent, the brave speech Of Mr.. Wilson
and the BETTING stand taken by the
house have had marked effect. Talk
OF Endorsement has subsidized; hope is
reviving; courage is rising; confidence
is being restored; the spirit of the cam
paigns since '84 is reinyigorating the
ranks. Everywhere there is cheer full
ness and hearty approval OF the prssi-
dent and the house. Better far no bill
this session than the senate's, Is the
general opinion. viii you tara this
] current back? VIII you turn cour age