St. Paul daily globe., 1894-08-17
ON WITH The FIGHT.
The Interests OF the People
Slaughtered by the "Pro-
tected" Barons
AND THE MONEYED KINGS.
Temporary Triumph OF the
Gorman-Smlth- h-Rrice-Mur-
ply Ring,
BACKED BY GREEDY TRUSTS.
How Long Will Protection
Vipers Suck the Peoples
Life Blood?
BACKED BY GREEDY TRUSTS

Under compulsion of theIdarkest and
foulest conspiracy in the annals of any
nation the house of representatives has
passed the senate tariff bill. The Cati-
line of the senate, unabashed by his be-
trayal of fair famed state and party,
unmoved by the sufferings and dis
tresses he has brought upon his coun-
try, promptly received from Republican
senators all due congratulations and
plaudits for his victory over the Amer
lean people.
But this victory, like Lees brilli ant
success in the second days fight at Get
tysburg-which fatally emboIdeneu him
to continue his battle on the third day
will surely and swiftly bring Oh the
irretrevable overthrow of ''protection. /"
Temporarily the sun of Democracy is
eclipsed. Its administration is put in the
pillory of
Universal Contempt,
and, what is far worse, the honor and
all the material interests of the whole
nation are sacrificed and slaughtered at
the dictation OF its long recognized mas
ters, the protected manufacturing
barons and moneyed kings. The ques-
ton, however. will now assert itself
with volcanic force. Are the people
willing 10 remain slaves of the tariff
robbers? The great war for freedom
has Just begun in earnest and must
go OIL.
That the Augean stables of McKin-
leyisn were not emptied and cleansed
in single year by the party elected
for this very and sole purpose cannot
be matter of just complaint. In its
first spasm of indignation at being be-
trayed the country may be disposed to
sweep out of power the party which
has proved impotent to fulfill its pledges
of "a tariff for revenue only" But on
sober second thought the people will
see that if the dominant party has
failed thus far to accomplish its
Herculean Talk
there is no hope of relief from the
Republican party, which has ever DEM
onstrated its abject seryiIity to pluto.
cratic trusts. And hence the storm Of
popular wrath will be concentrated not
upon the party, but upon individual
Democrats who have proven themselves
false TO the flag under which they pro-
fessed to fight.
In passing the senate tariff the house
of representatives has only yielded to
the sternest necessity, the alternative OF
which was the continuance of the in
famous and far more oppressive and
far more ruinous Mckinley law. But
this alternative was forced upon the
house by the German Smith Briee-
Murphy RUG. backed by all the power
of the protected" trusts aud combines
which the people have been pamperng
and nursing i'll their bosom
AS Vipers to Sting
them for the last thirty years. Still,
this ring might have been broken had
any leading Democrat of the senate
exposed aud attacked its members as
public enemies instead of apologiZing
for them. Neither the leaders of
the senate finance committee nor
the treasury officials have sound
ed out TO the people the
iniquities and enormities of the German
bill. On the contrary, they have quietly
countenanced or condoned them. What
ever good feature remains in the bill
is i'll no sense or degree due to German
or to the senate, but it only survives as
relic of some good thing in Mr.. Will
sons bill which escaped the ruinous
touch of the ring and its apologists in
the finance committee. The eight OF
ten Democratic obstructiouists in the
senate will yet be made to rue their
course in delaying tariff action six
months and then forcing on the country
a tariff which, as the Herald has re-
peatedly shown, will take out Of the
Pock cts ofthe People
at least 81. $50, 900, COO per annum, not as
revenue for the government. but solely
to enrich the protected" manufacturers
and trusts.
The only way in which the senate can
at all redeem itself from universal cons
tempt will be TO take up and speedily
pass the bills for free sugar, free coal,
free iron and barbed wire, passed yes
terday by the house. These bills will
remove s175, COO, 600 of the vast burden
of the Senate's "prOtective' taxation,
the bulk of which, under the German
scheme, will simply go as plunder to tine
iron and coal kings and the sugar trust.
Senators Hill, VOORHEES,, Vest, Jones,
Mills and Others have all along protest
ed that they were not in sympathy with
the GormauSmith ring
They now have it in their power to
give the country some proof of their
sincerity by an earnest and instant
advocacy of the new tariff bills. The
country will hold the house responsible
to stand out for its supplementary bills
if it has to remain in session till Decem-
ber. Every day of delay will give op-
portunity to show the coantry the true
inwardness and malign workings OF
protection" and the discussion which
will ensue will hasten the dawn of our
national deliverance from the slavery of
GOrmaniSm.
Meantime, the friends of tariff reform
have cause for good cheer. Mckinley
ism at least is dead and its vile offspring
is already doomed. Only let the pco-
pie. whose cause has been so ably and
nobly led by the men who stood true to
the Wilson bill, now take up the battle,
and "protectioniSm" will meet its
Gettysburg in November.