Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-12-13
THE WISER COURSE.
>HoW the democracy May Most Speedily
Achieve Return Victory.

HOW the Democracy May Most Speedily
Achieve n Return Victory.
Last summer our republican contem-
poraries were giving this advice to
the contending democrats in congress:
1t IS utterly impossible for you to sue
coed In harmonizing your differences
on the tariff, and, therefore, the best
tpihg that you can do is to cease maxi
ing the attempt, adjourn congress and
= E2eofEe." The democratic party has
- srEs-sdls strous1y defeated in the re-
cent election, but if it had adopted a
ats own the policy so gratuitously rec
commended to it by its political oppo-
nents the defeat that has overtaken
1t would not be circumstance COM
pared with that which would have
overwhelmed it
The party has not done all that it
should; it is chargeable with sins of
commission and sins of omission so far
as tarlH legislation goes. and yet the
gam that has been made by the tariff
that has been adopted is one of the as
surances of its future success. Take
the matter of wool. In less than two
years time this change in the tariff
Will nave demonstrated as signally as
any object lesson can the fallacious
character of the statements that had
been made concerning the effect of d
radical change in our tariff laws. One
has only to turn back to the files of
any OF our Boston republican con-
temporaries or has only to read the
speeches of any of the republican
orators to find up to a very recent
period the statement made over and
over again that the placing of wool
upon the free list would destroy the
entire sheep industry of the United
States: that it would no longer be
possible to raise wool here; that our
manufacturers would be dependent
upon the pauper-grown wool of for
eign lands, and that just as soon as
these shrewd paupers succeeded in
driving the American sheep out of ex-
istence they would corner the wool
market and compel the American
wooden and worsted manufacturer to
pay them whatever price they wanted
for this raw material
1t is probably true that in conse-
quence of the fear which these com
ments enGeudered there has been an
entirely unnecessary slaughter of
woolbcaring animals in this country,
the next annual sheep census in this
country is estimated that the number
Of sheep has undergone some diminu-
ton But inside of two years there
will be Il marked improvements trade
and q marked increase in the mum Der
of sheep. This we have little hest
fancy in predicting. More than this,
there will be a great improvement in
the wooden and worsted industry. In
4 word, it will be demonstrated that
under this new system trade will
greatly prosper, while wooden and
worsted goods will be sold at lower
prices
We hold that this object lesson will
be sufficient to materially affect the
vote that is TO be cast in November of
1896. The fictitious gain which came
from a wool tax was the one sop that
was thrown out to the farmers. These
were led to believe that the protective
tariff was necessary for their continued
existence The object lesson of free
wool will show them that they are not.
and never have been, true beneficiaries
from the protective system, and that
instead of supporting this method of
trade obstruction it is for their inter
est to thoroughly oppose it. This was
what was gained by passing the much
decried present tariff law, and in our
opinion it is the one thing that will
bring relatively speedy victory to the
democratic party, while it will prevent
the republican organization from ever
going back to the monstrosities of the
Mckinley law.-Bos:on Herald.