The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-13
THE SENATE AND THE TARIFF.

! Mr.. Mcpherson is certainly right. It
! is very unfortunate for a senator when
| his speculation on his vote goes off be-
| fore he pulls the trigger.-N. Y. World
| (dem).
In 1890 the republicans made the SUI
gar trust rich and in 1894 they are back
ing its schemes. If the trust had not
have forced concessions from an unwill-
ing democratic majority.-St. Louis Re-
public (dem.).
Senator Aldrich is oppressed by the
thought that the sugar tariff would be
a tax of $50,O00000 10 $75.000,000 upon
the people of the United States-forget-
ting that the foreigner would pay 1t!
OF course, a bounty would tax nobody.
| 1t would just come out of the treasury
like the eggs that are drawn from the
magician's inexhaustible hat-Philadel-
phia Record (dem).
The democratic newspapers of West
Virginia denounce, almost without eXcep-
ton, the emasculation of the Wilson bill
in behalf of trusts and special interests,
and they evidently represent their read
ers. for at recent democratic meeting
at Phillippi, Barbour county, resolutions
were unanimously adopted deploring the
delay in the passage of the tariff bill,
and expressing emphatic disapproval OF
the changes made by the senate.-N. Y.
Post Gndl.
Some of the republican organs are call
ing attention to the fact that while the
republican press never had any fault to
find with the Harrison administration
the democratic press is free in its criti-
cism of the Cleveland administration.
True. indeed. The republican press has
blindlv approved everything republican;
the democratic press seems to believe
that the mere party machine is not the
be-aH nor end-all Of party.-Louisville
Courier-Journal (dem.).
Senators Sherman and Aldrich display
either great ignorance or great mendacity
in repeatedly denying that the sugar
trust was in evidence when the McKin-
lev tariff was passed. Almost anybody
could tell them that the trust existed and
its certificates We're being traded in on
the New York stock exchange more than
a year before the republicans of the Fifty
first congress put into the Mckinley act
the high protective duty on refined su-
gar which enabled the trust to rob the
people of millions of dollars. But how
is this to excuse the democrats from do
ing the same thing with much greater
deliberation and knowledge of its effects
on the trust?-Springfield Republican
Gnd).
There can be no terms Of denunciation
too severe for the action that the senate
has seen fit to take in the face of an
exposure of the defiant and dictatOrial
attitude assumed by the trust. Evidence
is once more given, and more clearly than
ever before, of how totally the senate
can mistake or how recklessly it can ig-
more the will of the people and the spirit
of the times The house Of representa-
tives must be relied upon to save the
nation from the disgrace of such an
enactment and the dangers it would in
yite. No observer of current events can
doubt that the whole framework Of our
economic financial and industrial legis-
lation is being examined as never before
by the mass of men in whose power it
is to remodel it as they please.-Journal
of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin
Qnd.I
In the United States senate professors
of a straight democracy are seen prac-
Using the most crooked democracy that
was ever known and which does not de-
serve the name Of democracy. Party or
ganization has proved so weak and inn
potent that half a dozen of political
renegades and traitors. self-styled con
servatives'' have been able to take the
whole party by the throat and to dictate
TO their democratic colleagues as the
price of their support, terms which are
as dishonoring to the party as they are