Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-11-01
Extract from the Speech Of Deputy
Commissioners Of Pensions, z. G. Bell,
a. Hollin's Hall, Baltimore.

hhON tiOW ShC
fierce opposition and almost .insur-
mountable obstacles which your
Democratic Senator had to meet
and overcome in order 10 pass a
tariff bill and, seeing these things
the vast power and frantic ap-
peals of the protected interests !;
the deadly hostility and obstruct-
i've tactics OF Republican Senators.
under rules clearly in the interest
of the minority, and apparently
designed for the very purpose of
making it impossible for the ms
jority to ever pass bill without
the consent of the minority, and
the suspicious, uncertain friend
ship of the Populistic Senators,
constantly threatening to kill the
measure-I say under all these ad-
verse circumstances it Is one of the
marvels of Senatorial legislation
that we were able to get as good a
law as the modified Wilson bill has
proved itself to be.
But, my friends, while defeated
then, | hope we are not discourag-
ed. We know that we are right,
and we know that "Truth crushed
earth will rise again ~ We be-
,e that there will be plenty of
surprises in the near future for the
cohorts of pelf and plumber WHO
are now so joyfully dividing the
raiment of Democracy and so mer-
rily rejoicing over it's alleged de-
mise. They are even proceeding to
sell the very skin of the Democrat
ic hon but the lion is not dead
yet, and it is never safe to strip off
the lions pelt or bargain for its
sale until you have him caught and
are absolutely certain that the ami
NAL is dead.
pleasant it is for the little tin gods,
When great SOve mods;
But the title tin gods make their little mis-
takes
IL missing the hour when the great Inye
wakes"
The Democratic party was not
dead. but sleeping in '94; it will
be awake in 1895. 1t has lived to
see the passing away of over sixty
different parties during the last
hundred years of it's splendid his
tory. and it will live to see the death
of as many more during the next
century, if that many opposing
parties should, perchahce, arise
for the Democratic party has found
the elixir OF political life, is blessed
with immortality, and cannot die.
The Republican party, after shift
ing to our shoulders it's own sins of
more than thirty years of vicious
class legislation and criminal ex-
travagance, is now. with All assur-
ance that is monumental and II
mendacItv that is unparalleled, seek.
ing to attribute the rising tide of
reviving prosperity to the alleged
certainty of Republican success one
year hence. 1t will not suffice.
In the language of the lamented
Lincoln "You may deceive all
the people sometimes, and you may
deceive some of the people all the
time but not all the people all the
time"
The Wilson tariff law, though
not what it ought to have been, nor
would have been had it not been
for the indefensible Instructions of
the Republican Senators is immeas-
urably superior the Mckinley law,
and has brought and will continue
to bring, increased prosperity and
happiness to all our people. More
than that. it will demonstrate. the
fallacy of a thousand sophisms,
and nail in full view of an indig-
nant people a thousand Republican
lies.
For more than quarter of GEN.
turv the Republican party has made
economic fallacies its refuge, and
beneath the sophisms of protection
ism and other specious delusions,
intensified by appeals to sectional
prejudice and passion, has hidden
itself but thank God ! my coun-
trymen, the hour is at hand when
the hiding places of error shall be
uncovered, and the refuge of lies
shall be swept away
The morning hangs its signal
Upon the mountains crest
While all the sleeping valleys
In silent darkness rest:
But from peak to peak Il flashes.
IL laughs along the sky,
Thatth crowning day Is coming by and by. :
Let rs not despair. Let us re-