The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-10-04

ay base Detrayal OF parry prlus
eiples and pledges; law which the
president condemned before its passage,
and from which, when passed, he with.
held his approval, although urged to veto
Il by such prominent Democratic journals
as the Cincinnati Enquirer, which, In its
leading editorial of Aug. 20, 1894, declared
that the president would veto it 'because
II would be cleaning up Of much rubbish
and uncleanliness in the Democratic house
hold and clear the way for a tariff reform
measure to which the party would gladly
respond; a law which was characterized,
before its passage, by the greatest leader in
the Democratic party, the senior senator
from New York, as "a violation Of Demo
cratic pledges and principles" and which
was denounced by the official head of the
government as such an act of party perfidy
and party dishonor," that If the house
should at last concur in it "they would
not dare look the people of the country in
the face" and which the executive still
condemns, since their surrender, as the
very communism of pelf." And this the
voters of the country are asked to COM
mend by returning to congress the men
who made it
Those who believed that the present ad-
ministration was to settle the tariff ques-
ton and take it out of the domain of poll
tics and public discussion have already
discovered their fatal mistake, for they
find that even those who made the law
spurn it as a settlement. 1t Is an agree
ment where the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. who
projected and carried it on-boldly declare
either that it is no settlement or, II any
thing, spurious one.
No Relief From the Agitation.
After 10 months useless agitation, not
yet content with the vast ruin they have
wrought, they are still unwilling to give
The business interests of the country any
rest or relief whatever, but continne and
constantly renew on every hand the threat
of still other and more hurtful changes
in our tariff schedules.
Even the president himself, in his letter
TO Congressman Catehings of Mississippi,
asserts that the agitation is only just be-
gun. He says:
The millions of our countrymen who have
fought bravely and well for tariff reform mot
accepting this bilD should be exhorted to con-
dnue the struggle, boldly challenging to open
warfare, and constantly guarding against
treachery and half-heartedness in their camp.
| And who, while he permitted the bill to
become law, lacking the moral courage
TO veto it, yet boastingly announces,
| take my place with the rank and file Of the
| Democratic party who believe in tariff reform.
and who know what it is; who refuse to ac-
cept the results embodied in this bill as the
| close of the war; who are not blinded to the
fact that the livery of Democratic tariff re-
form has been stolen and worn in the service Of
| Republican protection; and who have marked
the places where the deadly blight Of treason
| has blasted the councils of the brave In their
| hour of might.
Strong and sanguinary words these, and
new to Mr.. Cleveland's vocabulary-"trea-
son" and the ''close of the warp' Not the
language of peace, but Of battles fierce
strife and contention!
War for and against WHAT Traitors
against whom and whati War against
the best and highest interests Of the peo-
| pie of the United States, whose chief ex-
| ecutive, nevertheless, he is. War against
| our industrial independence and business
prosperity.
The Challenge OF the Presidents.
How blithely he sounds the note of bat
tie; how confidently he again calls to arms
every enemy to our industrial system and
challenges to open warfare the friends of
American prosperity and American labor
How scornfully he characterizes as trail
tors in his party every friend, however
weak and hesitating, both in congress and
out, to the cause of American protection
| Nor does he stand alone In this unpa-
triotic position. The Democracy of Ohio
fully sustain him, and at their recent state
convention adopted as one of the planks
of their platform the following declara-
ton:
We adhere to the declaration of the Demo-
cratic party in its national platform that pro-
| lection Is a fraud, and, while we recognize the
benefit of the reduction of duties on imports
just made by congress, we favor such further
reduction as can be made having in view the
| revenues necessary to be raised for the sup
| port Of the government, to the end that the
injustice of purely protective duties be abol-
ished.
The president of this convention, too,
the Hon. Frank H. Hurd, boldly pro.
claimed that the war on our industrial
system and working people had only just
begun. He said:
Whoever expected that the great system OF
protection, strengthened as II has been by the
aid of the government for 80 years, could be
overthrown in single day OF by q single
| measure, was doomed to disappointment
The Chicago platform declares that pyotec.
tion Is unconstitutional and robbery. Il
that declaration be true, our mission can NOT
|
Let no one cry peace, peace, when there Is nc
peace. No question ia finally settled until II
ts rightly settled. Let the agitation continue.
The Challenge Accepted.
Even the active agents to the compro.
mise avow it is a settlement which does
not settle anything. They openly disclaim
1t as such, and invite the protectionists OF
the country to again join issue with them
on the doctrine of free trade against pro
lection, which they declared in their last
national platform was "a fraud and rob
berry" Then, as now, we accept their chal.
lenge, and appeal to the voters of the
country for their suffrages, their reconsid-
cred ard revised judgment.
But even if the Democratic leaders were
satisfied with what they have done, before
the settlement could be accepted as final
and the country be set at rest, the new
law must pass the review of the people
and be approved by them. If the country
was disposed to accept it as final, and
could permanently adjust business to it,
the party in power would not have it So
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