The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-30
THE LAW AND THE LETTER.

We get the Democratic tariff and lose
the twenty pounds of sugar for a dollar
at the same time.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat Rep)
The party is forced to go into the CAM
paign. upon a measure to which it's own
President refuses his signature.-Phila-
delphia Press Rep)
OF Cleveland's letter it can truly be said
that the ruling passion is strong in death.
. . 1t doesn't explain away the perfidy
and dishonor clause, nor the filth and slime
Observation-Disclosures North American
(Rep)
The country now knows just what to
expect. Reinstate Democracy in power in
Congress and we will have more uncer-
tainty and more business depression with
more cuttings and slashings all along the
line.-Philadelphia Inquirer Rep)
For a President to snort in a letter
against a bill which he has in his hands to
veto. and yet who permits the same to
become a law, is the most pitiable spectacle
any President of this Republic has yet
made OF himself.-New York Advertiser
(Rep)
Mr.. Cleveland has defined the trusts in
an epigram which bids fair to be as widely
quoted as his famous 'innocuous desue-
tude." He refers to them collectively as
'the communism of pelf' in his letter on
the tariff bill addressed to Mr.. Catchings.
Chicago Times (Dem)
In the reiteration OF his (Cleveland's)
plea for the admission of free raw ma
terials he has simply r~e-emphasized his
own personal attitude and the attitude to
which ye the Democratic party stands pledged
Philadelphia Record Dem)
The real pith of the letter is found in the
Presidents acceptance of the issue as to
whether the trusts and combinations shall
sumbit to the free legislative will of the
peoples representatives or shall dictate
rho laws which the DaOnle must OhpV ~
New York World Dem.)
Although whipped and Inundated as no
other President ever has been, he lacks
manhood even for real resistance. In try
ing to state why. in his letter to Mr.: Catch
ings, the President undertook a task much
fusing a veto is that he will not separate
from his party.-New York Tribune CRep)
Still better. cit furnishes a vantage
ground as the President observes, from
which must be waged further aggressive
operations against protected monopoly and
governmental favoritism." And from this
vantage ground these further operations
are going TO be waged. and waged sue
cessfully. There will be no step back
ward.-Chicago Herald Dem)
If what ne (Cleveland) says about the
| tariff law is true he ought to have signed
it; and if what he insinuates Of the
Democratic party. as represented in Con-
gress, be true, he ought to have shown
his courage and craftsmanship, and. shall
we add, decency, by vetoing the bill in
thunderous tones. and manfully pointing
out to the scorn of the Nation the rascals
who are responsible for it.-Baltimore
American (Rep)
The President says that he is in such
love with the Democratic party, and is so
proud Of it's organization that he does not
| despair of the efforts which will be made
TO supplant the new tariff bill by one en-
| bodying more fully the principle and con-
ditions of free trade; This assurance
make us feel at last fully happy. What
the country needs is more tariff agitation.
We nave had so little of it.-Louisville
Commercial (Rep)
In the meanwhile manufacturers. mer-
chants and business men generally will
have to do the best they can. They had
been hoping that the Democratic party
was through with the tariff question for
some years at least. and that they would
be allowed to pick themselves, out of the
mud and go ahead. They will read with
| anger and dismay the announcement OF
the President that he intends 10 force
them back into the slough or despOnd and
keep them there.-Chicago Tribune CRep)