The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-31

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tory that are accessible TO everybody, tells
mis- hearers that the trouble is because
boy in the field knows that when a new
party comes into power. every industry
forthwith puts its business on a basis that
anticipates the changes that are TO be
brought about by the new policies. and that
the principles of the party are practically
in operation months before a single change
average intelligence of the Democratic
party understands this, and holds its party
responsible accordingly. Every citizen
whose Intelligence is on speaking terms
with his mouth. assents TO the fact.
TARIFF REFORM SCANDALS.
THE tariff reform bill has been a sensa-
ton TO American politics. The scandals
and the corrupt trades in forming the bin
were open and known by all the country.
They were denounced by every prominent
paper in the land. Mr.. Cleveland felt him.
self called on to address a letter TO Chair
man Wilson, and Denounced the bill as a
measure of 'perfdy and dishonor,' and in
righteous Indignation exclaimed, how can
we face the people after indulging in such
outrageous determinations and violations
or principle? When the House entered into
combination with the Senate and passed the
bill il was believed that il would be vetoed.
The bill in the Presidents hands, the coun-
try breathed easier, but there was an ap-
prenension that might be felt; ten days of
silence passed, and he did not veto ii. The
trail or the serpent was over all. When
the Wilson letter was written. men said
presidential chair. Mr.. Cleveland will never
sign that bill after having assailed ii as he
has Had "Old Hickory" been in the White
House he would have met the messenger
from the Senate bearing the bill on the
front portico, written across its back
veto said goodbye to the messenger with
the tip of has boot and ordered him TO re-
port to his recreant masters.
In letting the bill become a law without
his signature Mr.. Cleveland felt the pres
sure or public condemnation, and. wrote a
letter of confession and avoidance to Gen.
Catchings. He again Stigmatized the bill as
the communism of pelf.' But when he had
written that letter on Monday night he
went to bed, when only one word from him
could have saved the country. He was
tired. and went to bed. and when the clock
struck II and he was slumbering in the
arms of official Indifference. the COM
munism of pelf took it's seat in the presi-
Dental chair, and the first recorded act in
the drama OF Democratic reform was per-
hdy and dishonor.
The bill is a revival of sectionalism in
NATIONAL legislation. 1t distinctly favors
Southern products and unblushingly dis
eliminates against Northern products.
Sugar is taxed at 40 per cent; molasSeS, 45;
mica, 20; sumac, 10; peanuts, sc; rice, 81,
while cocoanuts. dates. currants, pineap-
pies and olives have a 50-per-cent. increase
over the old tariff. Each of these articles
is Southern. and for climatic reasons can
not be produced in the North. On the other
hand, every article of the Northern agri-
c%ulturist is greatly reduced, and the most
important articles have every vestige of
protection torn from them.
EVEN DEMOCRATS BLUSH
mo Democrat points with pride to the
record his party has made these eighteen
months. The administration has been a
disappointment. Its legislation is a confess
sion of broken faith with the people and a
written statement of party incompetency.
If there be burdens on the people they are
without the capacity TO relieve them. They
have stopped at our old camps and are try
ing to light their ways by the embers of
our dying fires. Money had TO be raised for
the wrecked treasury. Platform denuncla-
ton of the Republican party would not
pay current expenses, and in the
blindness of desperation they give to the
made calculations, and how much do you
suppose their robber tariff will fitch from
the people this year, One hundred and sey-
lected Si96,0N,0W by the Mckinley law.
After Ps thirty years of yenSm3us attack on
short of the Mckinley law $l7,000,G00. If
Mckinley is a .robber, Democracy must say
When the bill passed the House Mr.. VIII
son said: This is not an occasion for
Democratic enthusiasm, The 'star,eyed
lower house was sitting up with the corpse,
but the papers at Bradford. Leeds and Man
chester and the other great British manu-
broken forth over here The fires have
been started in their factories. and the
wheels or England that have been clogged
since the passage of the Mckinley bin
are now beginning to go round. Goods will
shortly come in from abroad, and for every
tour d0liars worth OF goods tnat m
from abroad some American laborer must
lie idle one day. In compensation for this
idleness the Democratic party proposes to
give him cheap goods. The three million
idle men do not ask for cheap goods; they
are pleading for work. The one hundred
workingmen from Philadelphia who knocked
vdinly at the door Of the ways and means
committee room, were not asking for tar
III reduction; they were not asking for
their homes and their families. They were
not even asking for cheap clothes and
cheap food. They were asking for mans
natural privilege-employment. The country
can gain no advantage through cheap goods
that can at all compare in its ministration
of good 10 the community which comes
from the universal employment of the peo-
pie. There is, no burden levied at the Gus
tom house. whether Ii is 100 per cent. or 500
per cent. that can compare at all with the
without anything for their hands to DO.
ENGLAND SIXTY MILES OFF.
How far is England from the United
States? BY geography, three thousand
miles; but how far is it economically in the
, business sense? 1 will tell you. Load a
ship with freight at Liverpool. bring the
vessel to New York. and when you have
paid for the freightage unload that vessel,
transfer that cargo of produts to a train
of cars and have the railroad carry it into
the interior of the country as far as the
amount you paid for the ocean freight will
carry it. How far do you suppose it will
take it? About sixty miles. Not as far as
from Peru to indianapolis. England is six
~ miles from the United States. Wages in
England, on the average, are 81 per cent.
cheaper than in this country. If the pur-
poses of Wilson and Cleveland shall be
carried out and the protective tariff bar
riers are torn down. how long will we be
that pays 60 per cent. less wages than we
do?
The sentiment of the people Is against
this administration, and it will not be ap-
| peased. They have been misled, and they
cannot now be cajoled. Before a jury Of
twelve good and true men the Democratic
party could be convicted of having obtained
and false pretense. Now that Congress has
adjourned, production must so forward on
the new conditions that have been
established. The average worker goes
back to his bench at a 20 per
cent. reduction. and with a debt of
the last twelve months hanging over
aim. he Will not feel like voting the Demo
dollars worth of sugar home next Satur-
day night and his wife sees how much the
pile has shrunk since tariff reform has
| gone into operation she will be his helpmate
at the ballot-boX. No party by whose sys-
tenn or government sugar goes up 1i2 cents
a pound and wheat declines TO 20 cents
per bushel can hope to be returned TO