The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-07
viii Cleveland Veto It,

The World in two separate articles,
yesterday, showed that the fight for a
fair Democratic tariff is by no e
at an end. The House of Repre-
s~entatives will insist upon undoing
much of the work done by the Senate
in the interest of the trusts and
monopolies. In this the Democratic
majority viii have the fill counte-
nance and support of the President.
It seems as if Mr.. Cleveland, though
unwilling to make any effort to affect
directly the action of thes Sanate-a
body which has treated him shame
fully as a man and as President
is yet willing to help the House to
coerce it into obedience to the popular
will.
Once again wesretHrn to a possible
ity suggested in these columns some
weeks g 1t will not be wonderful
if President Cleveland vetoes this
tariff bill if sent TO hfm'i in its present
shape. There is something ominous
about the siienee and reserve of the
White House during all this Senate
struggle. More. than once, Grover
Cleveland has led up 10 a tremendous
political coup by jast such a period
of r~eticence.
The President has all the courage
necessary to strike this blow. He is
more than likely to consider it, be-
sides, one of those strokes of states
manship which win in the long run.
Personally, the President is not only
in character above consideration for
his W prospects; but in point of
situation absolutely free from all in
diyidual interest in the future of poll
tics. He has only one more thing to
gain-fame. He is therefore in a
position to sit up on the top OF an ice
berg and look at tine whole question
in the broadest way There are only
two things for him to .regard:m7What
will quickest restore the business of
the country antls2sy hatagwHl most
surely lead to lati1estriamph of tariff
sstlffW IFay
reform?
To the former question it may be
answered that any present settlement
of the issue which will allow of cal
culation of the i4sanfts of business
ventures, will restore the current of
business. for the present, to its ordin-
ary channels and volume. 1t does
not matter whether thisdbill succeeds
or fails. there Is bound TO be a revival
of trade as o as a status is created.
So here, again, we find the President
free and unembarrassed in his judg-
ment by any solicitude for the imme-
date welfare of the people.
Then the problem resolves itself in
to this:-Is the prospect of ultimate
true reform of the tariff improved by
perpetuating McKinleyism until the
people coerce Congress to make
radical reforms, or is it better to ac-
cept ever such a miserable COM
promise as the Senate bill and hope
that, from its very limited improve
ments, the people may acquire the
taste for more reform. We should
think President Cleveland was tae
sort of man to bank on'tle former
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alternative. Believing iHs be does in
the utter badness OF McKinleyism,
seeing. as he must, how very little
better the new bill is, he would be-
apt to lear that the popular ideas
would be seriously 9afEpnfussd by the
resemblance between the utterly bad
and the ~pretended reform. No con-
stderation Of loyalty tosths Demo
cratic party woald@ the Presidents
hands, for he will Have much reason
to fear the Senate bill will do the
party infinitely more harm than good.
Indeed bytsidihgHAwitho the House ON
he platform ofathe original Wilson
q. against the Senate protectionist
I'D TS3sure. he reasserts the principles
Democracy Tor which the people