Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-10-23
TARIFF REFORM" JUGGLERY.

eous. wrath of betrayed constituency,
the Democrats of the House, it will be
passed at once what were
known as pop gun bills" placing SUI
gar. iron. coal and barbed wire on the
free list, knowing full we'll these bills
would be tied up and ultimately killed
in the Senate.
Since the Louisiana sugar planters
have taken seriously this demonstra-
ton of the House in the direction of
free sugar and have gone over to the
Republican party in droves, the New
Orleans imes-Democrat and other
Democratic authorities are endeavor-
ing to persuade the sugar planters
back into the Democratic fold by as
surfing the planters that this pop gun"
free sugar bill passed by the House
never will be enacted into law by the
Democratic party, and that there will
be no further reduction of duty on SUI
gar at all. either as relates to the
Trusts interests or the planters, in a
recent leading editorial, the Times
Democrat, voicing, as it asserts, the
of Democratic party lead
ers, boldly proclaims that at is the
unanimous opinion of all who have
studied the situation that there is no
chance of any change in the tariff for
some years to come, unless the plan
ters, by their appeal, succeed in most
inopportunely reopening the sugar
question"
From this, one of two conclusions is
irresistible; the I'D. and those for
whom it speaks are either trying to
bamfoozle and delude the sugar plant
ers back into the Democratic fold for
the sake of their votes, or else those
Democratic Congressman and other
party leaders who are promising the
country free sugar and substantial
tariff reform along other lines, are
seeking to deceive the voters at large
fer the same purpose.
Il must be conceded, however, that
the weight of authority and drift of
party sentiment in several important
quarters. is decidedly with the I'D.
The Vicksburg Commercial Herald, a
short time ago one of the most ultra
Democratic tariff reformers" in this
4,4D vi OF hn No, ~
alone" and adds:
We have stoutly contended from the
passage of the tariff law, that it would
be the best policy for our party to
convince the country that it means no
further tariff agitation and tinkering.
We may safely correct some errors of
detail in the present law, but we should
carefully avoid attempting any materi
al change of rates on any important
article. Some of the ablest papers in
the North attribute the increased ma
jorities IN Maine and Vermont, to the
threats made by some of our leaders of
persistent tariff agitation.
In New York the Democratic State
Convention which unanimously nomi-
mated Senator Hill for Governor, adopt
ed a platform deprecating any further
movement in the direction of general
tariff reform, and had little or no COM
plant against the Senate bill, except
the income tax feature, which expires
by limitation in 1900. Senator Hill
voted against the bill, but it was be-
cause of the income tax feature, and
because it did not give, as he held, pro-
lection enough to certain manufacture
ing industries.
The New Orleans Picayune, another
Democratic authority, adds
this protest against further tariff agi-
tation in late editorial:
Certain it is, that what the business
of the country needs, crippled and con
tracted as it has been to an unparel-
lelled degree for more than year
past, is rest and relief from vexatious
and disturbing agitations. If Con-
gress, at its coming session in Deem
Der, is to take up the tariff and con-
tinue to ring the changes upon it for
the three months that the Fifty-third
Congress is to remain in existence, it
will strike deadly blow at the bust
ness Of the country and put off the re-
vival to some distant day. Another
year of tariff agitation, in the midst of
a financial panic, will wear out all the
patience of the people and complete
the wreck of business. 1t makes no
difference whether the future agitation
is further to lower or radically to raise
the tariff rates, the result will be the
same.
Indeed, it may well be accepted as a
cold fact, that this Senate bill, which
the highest representative of the Dem
ocratic party stigmatized as wearing
The marks of ''party pe,fdy and party
IishOnor," and refused to sign when
passed, is to be the real ultima Hule
Of Democratic Tariff Reform" which
he give us-a- chance party has been
the deluded people for 80
years.
In the face of stubborn facts like
these, with his party hopelessly cut to
pieces and divided on this question,
for Il man to be tracking around" over
this district, talking tariff reform, ig-
noring great question like Prohibi-
ton and minimizing the financial
question, as the nominee of the Demo
cratic party is doing, is to make him
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