People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-03
THE PEOPLE'SCOURT
THEe SENATE TARIFF BILL IS
BROUGHT INTO COURT AND
SUBJECTED TO TRIAL.
Democratic Witnesses on the Stand.


The New York Sun (democratic)
will take the stand.
Q. Mr.. Sun, are you acquainted
with the defendant in this case, Sem
ate Tariff Bill, alias Wilson Bill?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Will you please state to the jury
how you regard its general character.
A. Looking back from this elevation
Of enlightenment to the proceedings
since December of last year, they will
now see that since the Presidents mi
tial betrayal of the democratic prin-
ciple of revenue only, in his last an
nual message to congress, down to
his submission of those last amend
ments TO the senate bill, through the
medium of the financial officer in his
cabinet, Secretary Carlisle, all tariff
business, whether steered by Wilson
or Voorhees,, has been mere protec-
zionist rough and tumble in which no
processing democrat ever showed his
head. Talk about tariff bill that
should conform with the Chicago
platform" or redeem the pledges of
the democratic party" has been hum
bug from the start There has been
nothing but a squabble in the protee-
0 nest between its owner and the
cuckoo about the disposition of the
stufing, and nothing more or differ
ent has been visible at any stage Of
the game of fraud and buster set a
going by the last annual message from
the white house.
That will do, step down.
The Baltimore Sun will now take
the witness stand.
Q. Mr.. Sun, what is your politics?
A. Democratic.
Q. State to the jury if you are act
quainted with the defendant
A. am.
Q. Tell the jury what you think
about it.
A. The 400 amendments proposed
to the Wilson tariff bill which had
already been subjected to important
notifications in the interest of con-
Citation and harmony will, if they
are enacted into law, be, with string
of exceptions inserted as a blind, a
virtual abandonment of the Chicago
platform of 1892. They can not be
defended on any other principle than
the same which underlies the McKin-
ley tariff itself-protection pure and
simple; not such moderate protection
as may be properly given to American
industries as an incident in the "a is
ing of needed revenue, but protection
for projections sake, regardless
revenue. The passage Of such a
tariff bill as a fulfllment of
the pledges of tariff reform which
the democratic party has given to the
people in every national campaign
for twenty years past, and which il
renewed with more expiicitness and
emphasis two years ago than it had
ever previously given them, will be
at once Legislative fasco, party
humiliation and a national misfor-
tune.
The Louisville Courier Journal will
please take the stand:
Q. Mr.. Journal tell the jury what
you think of the Senate Tariff bill.
A. Entrusted with a mission whose
faithful performance meant the poll.
teal policy and material welfare Of
100000 of people; directed by a
chart as clear as sunlight and as au.
thentic as their own commissions; EN-.
powered by popular verdict as regu-
lar as court of law and as sovereign
as a revolution, these senile or in
vertebral agents of the people will
shrink at every shadow, dodge at
every shape, and cannot surrender too
quickly whatever or whenever demo.
cratic renegade or protection free
booter demands The result is weary
months wasted to the business world
and to the party, and, after it all, in
stead OF a bill redeeming the pledges
they were commissioned to redeem. a
mongrel pie-bald of patches and
pusillanimity, grotesque hodge
podge of pretence and pettifogglng, a
nondescript abortion of incompetency,
selfshness, cowardice and treachery.
Q. What =. is your politics, Mr..
Journal?
A. Democratic.
That will do, take your seat.
kHThe Chicago Times will take the
witness stand.
30. Mr.. Times, what is your poli.
tics?
A. Democratic.
Q. What do you know of this Sen.
ate Tariff bill, once known as the Will
son bill.
"a. The Wilson bill has emerged
from the senate committee on finance
in a battered and unrecognizable con.
diticn. All that was democratic in it