Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-07-20

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The Baltimore Sun OF last Saturday
published most remarkable card ITO
the Democratic Voters of the State"
(Maryland). 1t was defense, special
ly. of Senator German and therefore
of all of the so-called recalcitrant SEN
ators among whom were Senators
Faulkner and Camden, and most ably
was it drawn. We are sorry we are
not able to reproduce the card entire.
Its length precludes doing so. A few
extracts will give readers of the Her
aid and idea of the kind of defense
these much-abused Senators are able
TO set up.
OF the Wilson bill as a revenue pro-
Queer we have the following;
at was evident that the Wilson bill
as it passed the House would not pro-
duce the desired amount Of revenue.
1t was an easy matter for those desir-
ing a little temporary notoriety TO
madly rush to the front contending
for reduction here and there with
out any regard for suffi iency of
funds to run the government, but
with the leaders of the party, the cool,
collected, level-headed men, who look
ei into the future and could see an
empty treasury and discredited par
ty, it was a more serious business.
That time has fully shown the correct
ness of their position all people now
know. The present bill as amended
by the Senate has placed in the pub
lie treasury thirty-fve millions OF dol
lars more than the Wilson bill would
have done, and yet there is deficit
of fifty-one millions. +"
Touching the differential duty on
sugar and showing that Mr.. Wilson
was notso rough on the trusts as some
claim, we make the following extract:
1.-THE very sources from which the
charges have emanated were loud in
praise of the Wilson bill as reported
by Chairman Wilson to the House of
Representatives, and Chairman Will
son has been justly heralded all over
the land as the great apostle of tariff
reform. and yet that bill carried with
it a differential tax of one-fourth of a
cent, or Just double the tax of the
present Senate bill. If evidence of
surrender to the Sugar Trust when
reduced by the Senate, why is it we
hear no charge of like character
brought against Chairman WILSON,?
1t would not servetheir purpose. It's
one of those cases of the individual
previously referred to. and not the
principle they are after. We chal-
lenge anyone to find line or
word from any member of the admin
istration that even indirectly holds
that this tax was not considered by
them as proper and necessary"
The closing paragraph-the perora-
ton as it were-the summing up of
the whole matter, contains food for
thought that is truly refreshing. We
can well afford the slap at Republican
principles as it clearly demonstrates
that the protective portion of the law
as it now stands. injected into it by
the Senate. is its only redeeming
features and but for the action of the
Senate the deficit. large as it is, would
have been more than doubled:
as it not time to call halt on this
wholesale abuse of party leaders ?
Contrast the positions assumed by
these self-constituted judges and the
men they have traduced. The form
er ready to defeat the party, if by so
doing they can down the individual;
the latter willing to forget abuse and
villifcation to join with those who
have exerted themselves to the ut
most to destroy and injure them, if by
so doing they can bring success to the
party. The one preaching hate, NAL
ic. aud all uncharitableness, the other
asking you to put aside all personal
feeling for party good. If, instead of
bounding these men as traitors and
exhausting the English language
in finding epithets to hurl against
them. the party generally had accept
ed the Senate bill as a party measure.
had gone before the country on it
showing the great saving to the peo-
pie and demonstrating that materi-
al reduction on the tariff could be had
without any of those evil results SO
confidently predicted by Republican
orators, the result of the campaign of
1894 would have been entirely differ
ent. Today the Democratic party,
reaping the benefits flowing from the
operations of the present tariff bill,
occupies a commanding position pre-
paratory to the great fight Of 1896.
In the coming contest you will find
that our adversaries will not make
the point against us that we failed to
reduce tariff taxes. but that we re-
duced them SO much that we had not
enough money to run the government;
that we have an empty treasury, and
increased Indebtedness. If we can
defend ourselves from this attack. all
will be well. If the present BILL with
its estimated increase of fifty millions
more revenue, puts us in this position
what would we have done under the
Wilson bill?"