The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-09
DEMOCRATIC TARIFF POLICY.
Beneficial Reforms Obstructed by Protec-
tion-Fed Monopolists.


tion-Fed Monopolists.
The consequences of nearly thirty
years of robbery by protected monopo-
lists are not easily overcome. The
democratic party has a great and serir
GUS task. 1t has undertaken to reform
the tariff and to turn back the princi
pie of tariff legislation to the right
method, the method that prevailed in
framing the Walker tariff and the
tariff of 1857. But it is met on the
threshold Of it's reform work by gil
gantic combination of interests that
have been built up by the republicans
who have taxed the people to enrich
monopolists in consideration of gen
erous contributions to campaign funds.
Back of the men who have Invested
their wealth in industries for the sake
of securing tariff bounties, who have
bought laws and corrupted congresses
and who are entitled to no sympathy,
are thousands of innocent persons who
must not be injured by sudden changes
of laws.
1t is hard task, but the democratic
party is making an effort to reform
| abuses. If the party could have its
way, if it could be rid of some of its
own burdens, it would make de-
cidedly stronger effort. AS it is, the
Wilson bill attempted to give the
country cheaper clothes, cheaper fuel,
cheaper homes, cheaper tools and IL
larger market for the products of the
soil. In standing in the way of this
effort the republicans and their allies
are inviting much more radical lcgis-
lation than has yet been attempted.
| The people have determined to be rid
of the odious system which wrings
millions of dollars from them through
tariff taxes for the benefit of million
aires, and the democratic party is
pledged to help them.
If there is too much resistance there
may be more destruction than was con-
templated. Carnegie. with his pocls-
cts bulging with the loot that had
been stolen for him by the republican
party, was the wisest protectionist of
them all when he advised his accom-
plices to accept the Wilson bill.
There are men calling themselves
democrats who hold and practice re-
publican principles, but the heart and
mind of the party are right the real
leaders of the party are right and the
struggle against the system of protec'
ton, which is a struggle for larger hui
man liberty and for less governmental
paternalism, will be carried on by the
democracy of the country. The repub
lican party is the servant and slave OF
monopolists. 1t is built on ill-gained
wealth. The democratic party is the
party of the people and it will redeem
its pledges to break down Mckinley
ism. What the democratic majority in
the house accomplished in the face OF
republican power in the senate is a
guarantee of the party's good faith. II
may be obliged to go slow, but it will
go in the right direction.-N. Y. World
In defiance of an overwhelming
public opinion and of the latent senti
ment in the republican party in favor
of tariff revision the republican sena
tors resist every effort to make the
slightest reduction in the scale OF
duties. While they imagine that they
are promoting the interests of party in
severing the tariR-fed monopolies they
are preparing for repetition of the
popular demonstrations of 1890 anG
1902. Whether this reaction from the
tariff panic of 1893 shall come this fal
or two years hence may depend upor
the degree of republican resistance Il
the present effort to enforce the popu
lar will.-Philadelphia Record.
AFTER Mckinley the deluge ha
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