Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-08-14

troduce a new bill in the House provid-
ing for free coal. iron ore and sugar.
This action on the part OF the Demo
Gratis of the House, under the circum-
stances, is eminently proper. There was
no possibility Of passing the Wilson bill
at the present session and any further
delay would have endangered the pass
age OF even the Senate bill, thus still
leaving the business interests of the
country under the blighting influence Of
the Mckinley law. True, the Senate
bill is not such measure as is desired
by the friends of genuine tariff reform,
but IL is a step in the right direction,
and will correct some of the evils Of the
present law.
10 the acceptance OF the Senate bill
or the House bill with the Senate
amendments, as the case may be,
there has been no surrender OF princi-
pie. II was the act Of necessity, and is
only an evidence that the Democratic
members of the House were willing to
secure even a small measure Of reform
rather than none.
1t must be remembered that the Dem
ocrats have barely majority in the
Senate, and the disafectiOn OF
single Senator is sufficient to
prevent the passage OF
party measure. In this unfortunate
condition the Wilson bill went to the
upper house Of Congress, and it found
there, ready TO throttle il, the influences
OF the gigantic trusts that have grown
up 10 curse the country under the
favoritism Of the Mckinley law. That
monument OF legislative fraud was an
nually placing miIli6ns Of dollars into
the Golfers Of the sugar trust, and 1t is
not surprising that that powerful corpo-
ration bent all its energies toward the
defeat Of the Wilson bill. The two
Louisiana Senators could serve no in
terest but sugar. They were
alike deaf to all appeals OF
policy or OF patriotism, and they
were prepared TO stand like stone
wall against any and all tariff measures
that did not favor the sugar interest.
Without the votes of these two Sena-
tors the passage OF a tariff bill was an
impossibiIity. This was the situation
that confronted the Democratic men,
5ers, and they have acted wisely and
done the best they could under the cir
cumstances.
The battle for tariff reform is not
ended. II has only begun. The peo-
pie who endorsed it by an oYerwhelm-
ing majority in 1892 will reiterSte
their verdict again and again until
the Democratic party shall have
redeemed all it's pledges and the coun-
try be rid Of the incubus Of Mckinley
ism. There will be no wanton disre-
gard OF pledges such as disgrace the
history Of the Republican party. That
party after pledging itself in its national
platform to correct the inequalities Of
the tariff, offered to the country the
precious boon of cheaper whisky and
tobacco, repudlated its public utter
ances aud proceeded to increase the
duties at tAe bidding of capitalists.
The position of the Republican party
to-day on the tariff question is most
humiliating one. At It's national con-
ventions it has pledged itself TO tariff
reform and denounced the Democratic
party for not relieving the people Of
the burden of unnecessary taxation, but
now when q bill is introduced which
proposes to take of this burden, the
Republicans In Congress oppose it and
Join hands with the lobbyists Of the
trusts in defeating it, simply
because it is Democratic
measure. The Democrats are
making and earnest ard intelligent Of
fort to relieve the taxpayers of unneces-
sary burdens, and that in manner cal
culated 20 protect American industries.
Their opponents merely record their
opposition and make no effort toward
bringing about that which they have
declared in National platform to be re-
Quired. Such dOg-in-the-manger pol
icy is too widely opposed to American
ideas to give the party maintaining it
any standing before the American peo-
pie.
The battle for genuine tariff re-
form iuauguratsd by the Democracy
will be fought to a finish, and it will
win.
REEBERl SPENCER has written, in
twenty folio volumes, an Introduction
to Philosophy" and Prof. w. II. HUD-
son has written bulky volume by way
OF introduction to this introduction"
These "prelimiuarieS" are somewhat
discouraging to one really DESTROYS OF
mastering Mr.. SPENCER'S theories
The direct and indirect losses from
the late railroad strike are now figured
at SO, 600, 600. II was q costly expert
ence, all around, and TO no purpose.
shot Him by Accident
Special 20 ne Rs1is,sr
MANNINGTON, August 13.--Miks
Buckley, a tool dresser, accidentally
shot aud dangerously and perhaps fatal
ly wounded J. A. HiSCock, drlller. to-