The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-09-19
The aEpuaLlcAn PLAN.
what the Issue Of ths High Protection
iata Il Likely TO Re.

| Through reports from all along the
| line IL Is made plain that republican
| leaders intend to force the tariff ques-
tion to the front as the overshadowing
issue of the next national campaign.
There are signs unmistakable that
some kind of a truce has been patched
up between the silver millionaires and
the tariff barons the latter TO become
the direct benehciaries of high pro-
tective system should their party gain
control in the country, and the former
to be rewarded for the repression Of
financial agitation within their own
ranks by having the government re-
sumo the purchase Of silver bullion for
storage in the treasury. Not only
have Mckinley, Harrison. Allison and
even Morton indicated with greater or
less emphasis that the republican war
cry Of 80 and '92 will be revived,
but prominent spell-binders of the
party in almost every section are Civ
ing utterance to the same sentiment.
Among the latest echoes of the re-
publican campaign keyr. to was Sena-
tor Cullom, of Illinois To the assem-
blage of his partisans at Springfield he
said: when the republican party gets
control again, as II will next year,
with some republican for president, we
will take up the tariff act and go over
1t item by item and make such amend
ments to 1t as will give reasonable pro-
lection to American labor and Amer
lean industries as against foreign labor
and foreign industries. The people Of
HI 10 l., An1
that sort of protection; they were never
certain of 1t until the democrats, by
mistake, got possession of this country
two years ago"
In this brief statement the senator
virtually tells the people of the United
States that they are fools; for It was
they who committed the mistake"
which he seeks to pervert into wide
spread calamity. Not only were they
guilty of this mistake" In 1890 when
their repudiation of high protection
and of It's representatives was the most
emphatic on record, but two years
lrmation of the original Judgment
rendered. During the interval they
had ample time and opportunity to
test the practical workings Of the sys-
tenn against which they had pro-
nounced within a month of the time
when 1t became operative. They stud
led 1t with an acuteness and an earn
estness begotten of self-interest, and,
with full knowledge of its bearing
upon the welfare of the country, they
again placed upon it the seal of their
disapproval They saw that the Nc.
Kinley law was framed In the interest
of a special few, that 1t exacted extor-
tionate tribute from the masses to the
classes, that was responsible for the
worst political corruption the country
has ever known and that II was rapid
ly building up moneyed autocracy
that would In the end usurp from the
people their right of self government.
But 1t is to be hoped that the repub-
lican leaders will continue to regard
their most memorable defeats as a
mistake" on the part of the voters.
Democracy accepts the challenge. It
valves the charges Of hypocrisy, incon-
sistency and broken faith to which
those Of the opposition throw them
selves open, for when they were only
an obstructive minority they never
ceased to condemn tariff agitation as
disastrous to the country, causing pn-
certainty, destroying confidence and
paralyzing trade. The issue will be
fought upon its merits. 1t will be
found that the fatal mistake was made
when the unscrupulous managers of
the g. o. p. tried to place the democrat
10 administration in false position.
An era Of reviving trade and prosperi-
ty is more eloquent than words can be
In vindicating the wisdom of democra-
cy and convincing the people that they
made no mistake. Actual results con-
stitute evidence so conclusive that
even republican trickery cannot evade
or republican cunning dissipate it--De-
troit Free Press.
THE WOOL DUTIES.
Barbarous Mckinley Taxation WIN Not
BE Resumed.
The suggestion of Senator Dubois
that 'the restoration Of wool to the
dutiable list Is the thing in which the
west is most interested" and that
this should be done likewise as
revenue measure is not received with
enthusiasm by the New York Tribune
That journal reminds the western sem
ator that wool duties cannot be, re-
stored without a restoration of the.
Mckinley taxes ON woolen manu-
factures, and that this Is likely to
prove difficult task.
Not only difficult but impossible for
two years to come, with the senate
constituted as it will be and with
President Cleveland In the white
house. The attempt to increase rev.
enue by raising the taxes on the cloth
ing Of the people will not be success
full at present, If ever again.
There are economic as well as pos
litical reasons for this. The short ex-
perience we have had with free wool
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