Evening journal., 1894-05-04
LET US GET OUT.


LET US GET OUT.
Il is neither creditable nor useful for
one party to accuse the other Of respon-
siblity for the present situation. The
present state Of affairs is a growth for
which we all are responsible, more or
less IL is true, perhaps, that one party
is more to blame than the other party,
but Il is equally true that both parties
are TO bsme.
OF course the Republican party is TO
blame for the Mckinley tariff, though
we believe a great majority of the
members Of the Republican party dis
approved of the Mckinley bill at the
time IL was brought into the House. and
that a great many more Of them disap
prove Of the Mckinley law as It stands
now. However that may be, they con-
sented tacltly TO the bill, and must be
held responsible for It now.
But, while that is true, It is true also
that the Democratic party has not been
unit. In fact, the party has not been
earnest or brave, as a party, in prevent
ing or repeating tariff legislation It is
with much shame that the Democrats,
who believe that they represent the true
spirit Of the party as well as the true
spirit of patriotism, confess that Randall
and his crew had the power TO prevent
Democratic legislation for the removal
of the protective tariff duties. There IS
no doubt that the party intended to
pass the Morrison bill and then
again the Mills bill. as there is no doubt
that the party now would approve a
more radical bill than the Wilson bill
We do not believe that any intelligent
man will doubt that the Democratic
party is u low tariff party-that in fact
II has been called and called truly, for
many years, a free trade party. And yet,
the tariff bills which were brought IN
and approved by a majority of the party,
certainly by a majority Of the people in
the country, were not passed Not only
not passed, they were killed and the
sentiment for free trade was for time
suppressed
one party then takes the positive side
Of the question Of protection, and the
other party takes the negative side
What neither party wanted to do. and
what the people almost universally dis
approved Of doing, and what the mem
bers OF both parties said should not be
done, was actually done, in spite Of all
the objections, blythe, Fifty first Congress.
In the Mckinley bill
The protective tariff was Increased.
Nov in this way. one party being posi-.
lively In favor Of the protective tariff,
but not being willing TO increase it,
and the other party being opposed TO IL
and being anxious to have IL repealed,
the result, phenomenal as it may seem,
was that the most exaggerated and ag-
gravated, the most unjust and fraudulent
bill than was ever conceived by any
robber in either party was inflicted upon
the Countryside Mckinley bill
We are all responsible for this.
This thing which Mr.. Blaine called "an
Infamous measure" is the thing from
which we are suffering now. The condi-
ton in which we are houndoring now is
the direct result of the protective policy
and the immediate consequence Of the
Mckinley law.
The moral Of all this is that we should
have prevented the passage Of the Nc
Kinley bill. And now since the bill has
become law and afflicted the country
TO such q degree we ought to repeal the
law.
We ought not to spend valuable tim,
In accusing each other Of responsibility
for It. What we need IS a cure, a repeal
We are in predicament, and we should
get out Of it. 1t does not matter 8,
much who put us in the predicament, al
how and when we shall get out.