The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-08-02
CLEyELASD's INCONSISTENCY.


{ -4'fE46HN were n patflvuc II us
actions Il : he * in his public utter
anees he would indeed be a grand
success. as a President, and the
whole country would be singing
praises OF JOY instead Of being in
the very depths Of distress aud s1f-
t-ring.
/ He recently wrote letter 20 chair
man Wilson, of the House Ways and
Means Committee, relative to the
/ pending tariff bill. which was so mu-
I tIlatcd by the senate a. to be almost
unrecoguizablc.
Many Of the Democratic Journals
/ denounced the Wilson bill that pa
sed the House a. being loaded to
the muzzle with protection" and
/ now conference between the House
and senate Is to be held presumably
to reach "happy medium" on the
! two bills.
Mr.. Cleveland urges a "Sturdy ad-
h~rence to Democratic principles, B."
aud be might have added to the
| Democratic platform, but then con
sI>tency IS d rare jewel, which the
President does not POSSESS.
Wonder why he didn't urge
''sturdy adherence to Democratic
principles" and also the platform
when the silver bill was under dis
cusslon7 Why didn't he show some
degree of Democratic consistency
then and urge complete redemp-
ton OF the pledges made in the plat
form, for the continued coinage of
| both silver and gold without discrim-
nation against either metal or
charge for mintage,. He says that
the rank and file Of Democracy "are
| downcast under the assertion that
their party fails in ability to man
age the government
This is entirely true, for they
have shown their Incompetence to
manage the government" by de
stroying one of the metals of the
constitution; by the issuence of fifty
million dollars IN bonds in the time
of profound peace; and by a gener-
al disregard of the peoples will and
wishes.
The President contends very siren
uOusl Y for free raw materials as a
cherished Democratic principle, yet
he does not urge a reduction in the
manufactured articles to strictly
revenue basis.
The free raw material doctrine IS
| specious, but when thoroughly ana
lyzed there is lots of deception in it.
The manufact urers must have free
raw material, made chiefly by the
farmers, but the farmers must not
| have free manufactured goods
Free wool don't mean at all free
| blankets for the farmers, but the mu
suffer their products to go unpro
tected, and compete, in our own
market, with all the world. The
manufacturer is protected against
foreign competition. Reader, do
you see the point?
Mr.. Cleveland seems to be very
much wrought up over the trusts,
and says that mo tenderness should
be entertained for trusts" yet he
| keeps in his Cabinet, Richard Olney.
| Attorney General, who never exerts
himself at all to prosecute and
| stamp out all the trusts that are IN
| IN existence to-day, notwithstanding
| the fact that there is an ''anti-trustn
law.
But let me come to that part of
the letter where Mr.. Cleveland sur
renders his cherished principle of
! tariff for revenue only as contained
in the platform.
| He says: while we all know
| that tariff covering all the varied
interests and conditions of country
as vast as ours must of necessity be
| largely the result of honorable ad-
JuStment and honorable comprom-
Use. | expect few of US can say
when our measure is perfected that
all its features are entirely as we
would prefer"
Read the Democratic platform
upon which the party won in 1892,
and you will see that protection is
denounced as Unconstitutional"
and a ''robbery,' yet Mr.. Cleveland
says now that there should be ''hon-
ora bic compromise"
Can anything that is robbery"
be compromised with any degree of
honesty!
Mr.. Cleveland, by his letter urges
compromise and some of the Demo-
cratic papers applaud him. But
there Is nothing like Grover Cleve-
| land Democracy.
James B. Lloyd.
| What Did 1t.
Durham Weekly Times.)
The ''ruie or ruin" tactics of the
two dominant parties has ended IN