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The Burlington News, tho Tariff
and the Democracy.

The Burlington News, tho Tariff
and the Democracy.
In recent issue, the Daily News of
Burlington, gave forcible utterance to
opinions which would have appeared
quite we'll in Democratic journal, so
completely are they in accord with the
prevailing appeals of Democracy to
abandon the tariff ISSUE" Democracy
knows that the tariff. and that alone, was
| the prime cause of the terrible business
depression from which we are emerging,
and that SO long as the present tariff
does exist, allowing such an influx of
cheaply manufactured goods from abroad
! our business condition cannot be what
it should. Our manufacturers are heavi :
ly handicapped by the low and the ad-
valorem duties. Democracy knows all
these facts, they are too plain to be over
looked, so she asks us to declare the tar
iff ''dead ISSUE" The tariff is by far
her most dangerous enemy. She has en-
acted tariff law, sectional in its aims,
vicious in its principles and absurdly in
adequate to our needs. The campaign
is approaching. The desperate condi-
tion of Democracy cOmpels her to ask
that we overlook their incompetency,
and her criminal negligence of American
business interests, and in this the Ne,cS
joins her. Not only does the News not
express its opinion in a becoming and
argumentative style, but violently de-
clares that:
"The attempt to make the tariff ques-
ton the paramount issue of the cam
paign, is simply a cheap political trick;
piece of hypocritical foolishness or of
foolish hypocricy, as the reader pleases;
acowardly evasion of the duty of the
party"
The News should know that the cOun-
try can never materially develop under
the infamous German tariff. This tar
iff is Democracy's chief and only work;
by it she must stand or fall Republi-
cans demand a protective tariff, in the
true sense of the word, and they will
have it, The country's needs demand 1t
above all else. So why should the tariff
be abandoned, the strongest weapon
against Democratic incompetency and
dishonesty that Republicans have?
We are experiencing revival in bust
ness, under the present tariff, it is true
But this revival did not commence until
| "a ~ I,o+ +ha m n
the next Administration would be Re
publican. The people signified theil
wish for restoration of Protection, fol
nearly every congressional, and guberna
: torial contest, in that wholesale buria
of Democracy last fall, was fought OF
the issue of Protection. Tariff wasn't
dead issue" then.
For more than forty years the Repub
lican party has fought to protect oul
workingmen from the ravages of tht
pauper paid British and other foreigl
laborers. Since 1861, till 1898 she ha
given us such a system of protection a
as has placed America in cOndi
ton that has made it the Mecca of tn,
foreign laborers. In 1892, through mis-
representation and humbuggery, Democ
racy deluded the people into oYerturninl
this policy. They are now sorry TO
their work and demand re-enaction o
the protective laws. They want the mex
campaign again fought on the old line
Democracy, of course, says "No." L
, the Republican party now to abandon
her time honored principles as she il
about to reap the fruits of her victorie
and acknowledge that Democracy anC
, her job lot of humbuggery, which she ha
, imposed upon us, is right and correct, al
the News suggests? We guess not. From
an editorial in last Fridays Boston Jour
nal, under the caption of Tariff frs
and foremost" we quote the following
/ Iowa follows Ohio in an accurate rec
ognition of the political outlook. Its Re
: publican State Convention, like that. il
, Gov. McKinley's State, voices the domi
3 nant sentiment of the Republican voters
I and, indeed of the American people, il
giving the tariff issue the precedence
| over all OCuer' IL was ulsI III Une speeCu
es; it was first in the platform. On this
S point the Iowa Republicans, citizens o
what used to be regarded as purely ag
ricultural State, are as explicit and EN-
phatic as ever were their political friend
t of Pennsylvania or Massachusetts. The.
: denounce the Democratic notion of fire.
: trade, and stigmatlze its embodiment il
the Germany Wilson bill as disastrou
humhup They cOnOratulate the conn
y try that in the prosperity of our indus
\ tries under Republican supremacy, thei
q paralysis under Democratic rule, ant
their revival with the reputation of tn
: Democracy, the vindication of protec
o ton is complete.
|, Highest of all in Leavening Pow