New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-10

Never in the whole history II economic science
or experience has any policy been more complete
" vindlcatcd by results than the policy embodied
In the tariff OF 1890. The advance II The VA
ton, not merely in lis industries but In the indi-
vidull prosperity Of lis people. WAS without a
parallel in this country. or within Ike time
in The history Of any other country under any
policy whatever But the vindicaiion which
came when it was decided 10 overthrow that pol
icy was still more convincing. The predictions
Of It's defender, which had sometimes seemed
exaggerated. and prompted rather 10y excited
feeling than b, cool Judgment actually fell far
short Of the disasters which began 10 come upon
In. country the very month that decision was
recorded at the balotboNc>.
4 further yindicatiOn Of a different kind * now
in progress. Though many darkcn the air with
fasohoois. the fact Is still made clear In every
day 5 experience that industries and business are
recovering finely because The change Of policy
threatened The change for which all Free Trad
crs and tariff refOrmcrs passionatcly clamor'h
and which The Democratic party solcInnly prom
Used, was not carried out. but was defeated by
the combined cowardicc dishonesty and per
sonal greed Of part Of the Democrats The same
"pcriidy" for which the President and all the
FrccTradc and tariff reform journals then de
nounccd these Democrats 80 savagcly. has
brought that measure Of recovery which those
same Journals and the President himself now
boast Of as the result of the tariff they de
nounced.
The issue which the plain people keep steadily
in mind is between the National policy If Pro-
lection and the Democratic attempt TO ovcriurn
t.. lot tit.. oh. .lpl.s Of
one bill or another save as these affect the great
principle at stake. The very leaders and the
very Journals which denounced the Senate Tariff
bill as "B Of Sale and Surrender. In every
part violation Of Democratic principles and
pledges protective in almost every schedule
bought through Congress by corruption. and
'packed from end 10 end with inlqultous favors
10 monOpolics," now have the audaciiy To claim
that revival Of business Is caused by the bill
which their President refused 10 sign.
No doubt some voters are deceived. But most
OF them have their own personal experience 10
enlighicn them With hundreds Of journals In
every part Of the country eagerly catching up
every item OF Increase in wages and revival of
work. the list ST. carefully paraded covers less
than half million out OF the five million manu-
featuring and mechanical workers. The fact
that comparatively few whose wages have been
advanced are yet receiving the wages they re-
cevcd in 1892 is also known 10 the millions when
paydays come round. 1t is a strong Illustration
Of the dcbauching power OF a vicious opinion
upon incllccs ordinarily clear, that men are
found hoping by stalwart assertion TO dupc the
people about the wages which the people them
selves receive So Of the revival OF work; there
Is scarcely town in which some establishments
are not idle and every man and boy there knows
the reason.
The country rcjoices and takes heart because
the purposes and threats and pledges and dcs-
defeated and brought to disgrace by the per
| fdy" Of some Democrats. The result was bill
which In some schedules actually gives effective
protection, and in others failed only because the
men who secretly dictated II. really meaning to
give stronger protection than any previous tariff
had given, were not intelligent enough to do the
work they had set out for themselves. In scarce
ly single schedule Of this new tariff IS there
wanting evidence Of the distinct intention to
maintain the protective idea and policy far
enough, at all events, to avert the political dis
aster which the elections Of 1893 had already
foreshadowed. But for this most humilating de-
feat OF the Free Traders, the condition Of bust.
ness and wages paid might have remained where
they were when a more complete success Of the
raid upon domestic industries was expected. And
yet through all ihankfuness that the "tiger I'M
cha' asd" WAS drugged and stupefed and rem.