Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-10
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or, ana a 1eW purely DemOcratle pro-
ductions protected. In this bill lucky are
those industries which are represented in
the United States Senate by Senators be-
longing to the patty in power. In order
to get their votes the tariff managers
have truckled to them and placed duties
on the articles produced by their con-
stituents. Such is boasted tariff reform.
Indeed, the bill is now vastly better
measure than the Wilson bill, because it
incidentally contains much protection.
But the Republican hope now is that the
Wilson bill has been so disigured by the
Senatorial manipulation that even if it
should pass the Senate the House would
reject it-thus postponing the day of
tariff legislation until the country shall
have another chance to be heard through
the ballot-boX.
A bill introduced by Senator Hogg
placing Belmont county in a separate
Judicial subdivision, has passed the
Senate, and will come up in the
House on Thursday. By every sense of
the fitness of things the bill should be-
come law Belmont county has enough
business for one Judge to handle, and on
that ground a separate Judge is de-
manded. For many years Monroe coun
ty has had the power to saddle onto Bel
mont county as Judge any third-rate
lawyer she might choose. An Opportu
nifty to cut ourselves loose is now afford
ed, and it should by no means be allowed
to pass. We are of the opinion that it
would have added more dignity to the
Office to have placed Belmont with some
of the counties to the west or north of
US, with two or more Judges to the dis
trict, but it seems that it would be i'm
possible to effect such an arrangement,
and that the plan under consideration is
the best that can be had.
So this is what the booming mani
festoes of tariff reform are to amount to,
is it? Instead of that sweeping, drastic,
damning, running Wilson bill, we are to
have only a modified, very little modi-
fed, Mckinley bill. Hurrah for tariff
reforml This is what the country has
been waiting fourteen anxious months
for. The Democracy which has sworn
for years that protection was running
the country, and which has sworn loudly
that it would do away with all protection,
now after losing to the country billions
of dollars by depressed times, produces a
measure, of which the basic constituents
are McKinleyism and populism. Truly
magnificent result for the frightful
stagnation of business for the past year!
Colonel Breckenridge has gone down
to his district in Kentucky to plead for a
denomination for Congress. He does
not attempt to defend himself, but with
brazen effrontery admits his guilt and
makes no excuse for it. He claims cred
it for himself in that he did not lie about
about his guilt. All the worse for him.
If he would quietly drop out of sight he
might be in sense forgiven, through
his recognition of what constitutes pro-
priety, but after the exposure he has gone
through, no man with particle of de-
cency left could stand up before an au-
dience possessing any sense of morality,
and ask their support.
In view of the declaration of the Demo
cratic National Convention two years
ago, to the effect that protection is
unconstitutional, there is considerable
unconstitutionality about the compro
mise tariff bill. The only serious trouble
with the bill is that there is not enough
unconstitutionality about the bill in the
way of protection to suit the thinking
portion of the Democratic party. A
tariff for revenue only was good to get
in on, but very respectable element in
the Democratic party think protection is
good enough to live under.
A real estate agent at Washington of
ferred the Coxey army $500 to clear a
piece of ground near Washington, to-
gether with the privilege of camping on
the ground, but the offer was rejected by
Carl Browne, the king of the hobos. 1t
is not money for work, but money with
out work, that the commonweal is after |
Most of the members of the aggregation |
have parted company with labor, 10
these many years.
If there were wool trust wool inter |
acfo xronld bovo roooiuod Soma oancidar
alton at the hands of the Democratic |
statesmen now moulding tariff bill |
Democratic Senators could not speculate |
on wool the same as on sugar, hence |
wool gets no protection, while the sugar
trust gets all it asks for. Will the wool
growers endure this without protesting |
by means of their ballots next fall?
The announcement of Captain Dan |
ford's candidacy for the Congressional
nomination was received with great ia |
vor by the newspapers of the county, and
by the people OF this vicinity. Without
doubt the papers represent the public
opinion in their various localities, so that |
there seems to be practically unanimous
idea that Mr.. Danford shall be this
countys candidate.
The Antwerp Industrial Exposition
was opened on Saturday. 1t is not as
big show as the one at Chicago last
year, for little Belgium can hardly be ex-
pected to do things on as great scale as
the United States of America, but it is
no small affair, since it well represents
the industries of busy Belgium and all