The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-28
A WEAK WHINE.

friend, Mr.. Catchings Of Mississippi,
The ready letter writer had given out
and Grover was obliged to indite the
epistle himself, which, perhaps, explain,
its weakness.
AT any rate it is the most pitable
apology that has comein late years from
the pen of Chief Executive. Having
decided to straddle the issue he raised
himself in former letter when he de-
nounced the bill he now tries to approve.
as "violative of party principles and a
betrayal of Democratic pledges" Cleve-
land sought in vain for some way to
extricate himself and his party from the
hole he had dug.
| But he only made bad matter worse
and dug the pit deeper than it originally
was.
In 1t he recognizes what the Senate
whitewashing Sugar Trust committee
wilfully failed to discover, namely that
disgraceful influences marked the pass
age of the bill and moulded it as they
saw fit. On no other supposition can
these words be explained.
Besides, there We're, as YOU and |
wen know. incidents accompanying the
passage of the bill through Congress
which made every sincere tariff reformer
unhappy, while influences surrounded
1t IN It's latter stages and interfered with
its final construction which ought not
to be recognized or tolerated in Demo-
cratic tariff reform councile -
''The trusts and combinations-the
communism OF pelf-whose machina- |
tlons have prevented us from reaching |
the success we deserved, should not be |
forgotten nor forgiven. We shall re-
cover from our astonishment at their
exhibition of power, and if then the
question is forced upon us whether they
snail submit to the free legislative will
OF the peoples representatives or shall
dictate the laws which the people must
obey, we will accept and settle that
issue as one Involving the integrity and
safety of American institutions"
Rats
He makes the childish plea for allow
ing the bill which he characterized in
his letter to Chairman Wilson as con-
tanning Outrageous determinations"
and as violative Of Democratic prin-
ciples and which then seemed TO him as
party pertia,t- and party dis
honor, that he cannot permit himself to
DO separated from my party TO such
In extent as might be implied by nv
'eto of tariff legislation, which, though
Disappointing, is still chargeable to
Democratic effort"
Ihls admission that his party was
esponsible for the outrageous bill now
ne law OF the land is in contradiction
D the howls Of the majority of the
democrats that it was not passed bv
democrats, because the Senate "was {
ot Democratic" claim too foolish Z
1r Mr. Cleveland to repeat He
rknowledges that his party created
le bill and that to veto 1t would ,
separate him from his party. In
her words, he accepts the bill he so
'undly and bitterly denounced. and de-
ares himself willing TO follow his
'rty even when it is willing "to depart n
ON this the most Democratic of all CT
riff principles" and even though "the y
absurdity of such pro- n
'sed departure be emphasized by the W
question that the wool of the farmer is
put on the free list, and the protec- -
IN OF tariff taxation be placed around 90
g iron ore and coal Of corporations kr
d capitalists" a
He out-cuckoos the cuckoos them NJ
YES. Sc
Or course he regrets that he could III
t promptly and enthusiastically in on
rse it, laments that he was not able mi
aid the Nova Scotia coal syndicate by -, -,
'ing them free coal, and comes out th,
ong on free raw materials which ap
'uld "carry 20 every humble home in at
} land the blessings of increased com
t and cheaper living" If.
lie notifies the country that tariff mt
tation so far from being settled is de-
y just begun, and that he proposes COZ COZ
keep mp the feeling of uncertainty VIII
I'll he has still further disturbed bust ma
IS conditions and disorganized and EN-
barrassed still further the great OF
interests of the country. M res
The assaults upon American industry 70
to continues aud not even the three Gle
'rs which were naturally looked to as fri'
espte from tariff meddling are TO be , ual
owed. -
{ is the weakest whine yet uttered by heu
Democrat, and when printed in par. v
81 columns with his former letter will mG
Nv him up as a bold, swaggering ,o go
slerer, at heart acoward and ready to JUS
Id at the first determined opposition side
meets. wit
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