Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-08-24

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WHAT THE DEMOCRATS THINK OF
THE TARIFF BILL.
The democrats having passed a tariff
bill, after a year of almost lnaction, in
which the country has undergone Il of
the worst business depressions in the
history OF the nation, it is interesting to
know what the democratic party, as
represented by the press of the country,
thinks of the measure. The American
people have paid dearly for the bill
which the present democratic congress
has given them, in decreased wages, sus-
pended manufacturing operations, re-
duced prices, and business and financial
paralysis. And having paid so dearly, it
seems that they should receive at least
partial return. The democratic party
processes to believe that free trade, or
at least greatly reduced duties, would be
of benefit to the American laborer to a
greater extent than protection. Whether
or not this is a fact is not material here.
1t is a fact, however, that this is pro-
fessedly the democratic belief. Had the
democrats, then, lived up to this profess
sion, and had they passed a tariff bill
which represented their belief, it would
at least have indicated that they intend
ed for the good. But they have not
done this. They have patched up one
of the himsiest laws ever enacted, in
which there have been already discover
ed inaccuracies of preparation and con-
Of litigation, and have given this to the
wage-earners of the country, as a recon-
pense for a year of distress. 1t was
passed by the joint strength of demo-
Gratis and populists. And it is such a
complete fraud and sham that aver the
democratic press cannot find anything
creditable to say of it. The unite in set
ting forth the imbecility Of democratic
legislation, as follows:
New York Herald (Dem.): Under COM
dulsion OF the darkest and foulest con-
spiracy in the annals of any nation, the
house of representatives has passed the
senate tariff bill.
New York World (Oem.): Like the
"held up passengers in a helpless stage
coach, they yielded to the political high
waymen OF the senate without pretending
to make a virtue of the necessity.
New York Times (Dem.): The party of
tariff reform, after twenty years OF wait
ing, comes into a %plundered Inheritance.
1t is lord of the fee, but the estate has
been ravaged. And the robbers and raw
ayers are of its own number ana joint
heirs! The pride and joy of possession
are changed to shame and wrath, but if the
democratic party should take vengeance
on the spoilers it must strike down its own
kin.
st. Paul Globe (Dem.): No democrat
can, and no citizen who loves his country
should, read the check which the cause of
liberty met with in Washington yesterday
without a blush of shane mantling the
cheek Of the democrat and a graver look
finding expression in the face of the other.
Boston Herald (Dem.): AS we measure
the matter, the House was "bluffed" into
throwing down its cards when it really
held the better hand of the two. If it had
cody and courageously played it cards for
what they were worth it might have won
The game, or, at the lowest, have forced the
Senate to divide tine stake.
st. Louis Dispatch (Dem.): If
WOOL, lumber, wheat, corn, and all products
of the Western and Central states are un-
protected, while monopoly taxes are placed
on iron, coal, and sugar, how can the dem-
ocrats repel the charge that their party is
bound to a compact between the Eastern
plutocrat and the southern Brigadier?
LoulsvilletCourier Journal (Dem.): No
party was ever placed in a more humiliat.
ing position than that visited upon the
democratic party yesterday in the Lower
House of congress. One thing alone is
certain: Those who have betrayed it will
pay dearly for their treason. One short
year ago all the trumps were in our hands.
Now we do not, as Hop Price, of blessed
memory, used to say, 'hold a prominent
card"
New York Sun (Dem.): The House hay
ing thus surrendered and accepted the
olsiiohor that follows party perfidy, M
having asserted its doubtful claim to the
possession of the tariff bill and its right to
pass the same and send it direct to the
president, if Mr.. Cleveland, in his turn
should take a hand in the perfidy and ac-
cept his share of the dishonor by signing
the bill he has denounced, or by otherwise
permitting it to become a law, on what is
sue will the democracy 20 into the cam
palgn soon to open for the control of the
Fifty-Fourth congress? God preserve the
party that goes to the people with such a
record OF peridy, such a confession of
dishOnOr.
DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATION AS AT
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