The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-09-07

Gals. From every standpoint the neann ants
of ali the neople demand that the Demo
cratic party step down and out
Demorrat Watterson Reads the Riot ACT
10 the Democratic Congress.
Tn the Democratic Louisville Courier
Journal, an editorial reads as follows:
",There is but one way out OF 1t, ana that
;s a tariff measure so simple child may
understand it. so obviously honest that
every Democrat may defend II, or, lali,
ing to so so. cease to be democrat, aiiu
get over to the Republicans. where ne
belongs. We mean A tariff tor revenue
only No complicated schedules, to al,
ford snug hiding places Tor sheaks anu an,
rascals in our own ranks. No mlslead-
ing classifications, full of sinkholes 10
catch unwary Democrats, hut making III
Vulnerable ritiepits from which protection.
ism may pour its volleys into our line OF
march. No free list everything not
taxed free One single bar OF import
duties, embracing those foreign proa
ucts that yield the most reyenue-SuSar'
tea and coffee to head the llst-ao"n
through those domestic products dnties
on which will yield the most revenue
discrimination to no interest, favor TO no
class, heed of nobody and nothing, except
the public purpose of raising the money
needful to support the government eco
nomically administered.
IF we cannot have a simple. honest
revenue tariff now, let us bde our time.
Ii we cannot advocate such tariH, iet
us, at least, have done with shutting ana
pretense. The people will not be de-
ceiyed or msed. The effort to deceive
and mislead them will recol upon the
trmmers who try it. We want men In
public life who will stand by their colors
and redeem their pledges, or go down
fighting for truth. We want honest pol
itics. The country will not sustain two
protectionist parties If it wants one. it
will take the straight Republicans, not
| the half and-half Democrats.
Posting the Books at the End OF Cleve-
lands First Year.
In speaking about the Democracy be-
ing an expensive luxury. the New York
Recorder makes the following exhibit
This administration is making marx
that viii give it peerless place IN our
history. 1t is breaking even the Buchan-
an administrations record for business
disaster. financial trouble and general ma
tional distress.
Cleveland'S second term there had been
an increase of the national debt of $780,
100000. For every one of the twenty
four years Of Republican control, from
1869 to 1893 inclusive, there had been an
average decrease of the national debt Of
SG9, 600, 600
Whence it appears that the net differ
ence between year of Republican rule
and a year of Democratic rule at Wash
ington, SO far as the national ledger is
concerned, is $169, 100000. 1t costs the
nation that much in extra taxation to in
dulgc in the luxurious lunacy Of Demo
cratic administration.
If Mr.. Cleveland and his party 20 on
to the end of the four-years rope as they
have gone thus far the American people
will have their load of national debt heay
ier by just about S61G.0OO,OO0 March 4
1897. than it would have been if they had
moi voted for "a change" in 1892. AnC
on top of that are the losses inflicted on
private business. These have been est
mated by Bradstreet's and Dun's agencit:
as amounting to the enormous total oil
$1,000. 900 for the first year of Mr.
Cleveland's term alone-that is to say
for the year ending March last.
And there are two years and hall
more of the kind of currency reform
and tariff reform that has worked thi!
way yet to be endured