The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-27
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

| Republican party for the combination of
"Silver protectioniSm' with tariff ''proter-
| tionism' should instantly rouse the whole
country, but especially all its business and
sound-money men, to grave reflection. 1t
must now be apparent to millions of Amer
| leans who have often voted for an alleged
| 'protcction' to our 'infant industries
that this antiquattd system Is to be pushed
! to unheard-of and most pcrllous eN-
trcmeS.
1t seems that the madness of projections
ism can find no reStinT-place for Its ambl-
ton even in the ardentlv advocated re
enactment of the Mckinley tariff. too
crcdulous people have fondly supposed
that this taritf-monstrositv was the ter
minus of that terrible and treacherous
wilderness of patcrnalistic legislation
through which the Republican party Tor
30 wears led them. But the fog Is now be-
ginning to lift and in the light Of Thurs
DAYS Washington conference 1t becomes
clearly lisccrnible that even the rugged
Mckinlevism of 1890 is not the LAND :
end of the present high tariff agitation,
as depicted on Republican charts, but 1t
is rather if we may borrow figure APP
piled by the American historian Schouler
to Douglas "Squatter-soverc scheme
of 1870 1.-The roundin@-pont into Il vast
and illimitable jungle of sectional contro
versy, where tigers roar and scorpions
Stitfen to attack.
The nation may well stand aghast at the
cool dcliberation of the big Pennsylvania
manufacturers vino propose to sacrifice
the financial stability and prosperity OF
the Union for the sake of foSte ring their
already oyer-proteced industries.
REED AND ALLISON vs.. MCKINLEY.
The Baltimore Sun says: MckinlevS
managers have been SO successful III Secur-
ING delegates for the "Napocon of pro
lection" that the other candidates for the
nomination at St Louis are reported to
be panic stricken. \ Washington dispatch
to the New York Herald states that the
Reed and Allison managers have decided
to combine their forces, with Il view to
stopping the invasion of their territory 10y
Ma or Mckinley. SO that a vigorous cam
paign NAV be waged against the Ohio man
until the st. Louis convention has made
its choice 1t is evident that Speaker Reed
has not developed as much strength as his
friends expected, and while he has been
holding the House in check ut Washing
ton in the interest of the party, ana
probably of his own candidacy as well the
Mckinley "boomers' have been capturing
delegates at every point, with little regard
for the Maine mans alleged diSinterested
services at Washin gton. But as Allison
has no strength at all except, perhaps, in
his own State, which is not Il particularly
influential one and as the Reed boom
shows symptoms of collapse,it Is plain that
| Mckinley has not much to fear from the
proposed combination. His straddie Oh
the money question will do him more
harm than any opposition which Reed and
L,;,, hn.r m M
if he pins his faith to platform of protec-
ton and free coinage he would hardly be
able, if nominated, to carry Pennsylvania,
where a few manufactures have cvinced Il
disposition to yield to the demands of the
sac brush Senators.
| ELECTION OF SENATOR'S BY PoPCL\R VOTE.
The Philadelphia Ledger SAYS: 1t would
be difficult to gather more admirable and
convincing mass of reasons for the eiec-
ton of United States Senators by popular
vote than is contained in the Joint resolu-
| tiOns for that purpose reported by the
Senate Committee on Privileges and Flee
tions. The Senate is one branch of the
Government that has not proved its use
| fulness by its history. Its conception is
| excellent and apparently sound in logic.
! 1t was designed to be body representing
not the people in Segregate masses, as the
House of Representatives does, but the
States, as such, forming the nation. In
other words, it was to view all proposed
| legislation, not from the standpoint of 10
cal interests nor that of partisan politics,
but with the broad purpose of conserving
the best interest of the whole nation.
Needless to say, 1t has disappointed this
apparently wise expectation. The only
effect of its peculiar plan of election is to
free it from responsibility and enable its
members to defy the will of the people as
totally as they neglect the interests of the
nation The title recently given to the
Senate by t1ippant writers, The Million
aires Club describes its character only
too we'll Its members are not all wealthy,
though Il large proportion of them are, but
they have the rich man habits of luxury,
personal ease and Indifference to the
opinions of others. The Senate has come
to regard itself as superior to the people,
and the only way to bring it to a sense
of its proper position is to make it direct
lv responsible to them.
THE CUBAN RESOLUTIONS
The Baltimore American of Tuesday
SAYS Congress should do what ii intends to
do regarding Cuba, and put and end to the
uncertainty and anxiety which its vacillat-
" no excuse for the farce which has been
enacted during the past two weeks. 1t
gives a handle to the foolish critics of
Congress, and if persisted in will give
plausibilitv to their attacks. 1t is to be
presumed that the House knows its mia l.
and Il body so august as the Senate ought
to have at least and inkling of its mind
after years full discussion of the matter
in the newspapers and many days of
weary debate in the Senate. Sending the
Cuban resolutions back to conference YES
tcrday was, therefore, thoroughly dis
appointing. The recognition or non
recognition OF Cuban billigerencv is not
matter of domestic politics, but of foreign
policy. Nor is it a matter to be used by
parties for political advantage.
The entire country sympathizes with
the Cubans. 1t would be remarkable
were it not so. The American people won
their freedom Il little more than a hundred
years ago, after protracted Strdyyle with
tyranny, and it would be passing strange
did they not feel strongly for Il people
who are fighting the same battle now
against very much greater odds. and
against a tyranny which is impossible I'M
der Anglo Saxon rule. The people are
unanimous in their sympathy, and it ought
not to be difficult for Congress, as their
representative, to give it practical cN-
preston. \ prolonged dispute over the
meaning of words is the most absurd
thing that can be imagined. The question
of belligerency is one that every nation
decides for itself. and Spain has in a nota-
bic instance decided against this country.
The CubanS in arms are holding their
own. and more. against the butcher Wcv-
Ter, but how about the unarmcd. the tie
fenSeleSS. the women and children Oc-
casionalv, word leaks through the Gordon
of Spanish soldiers, IA message which
these braggartS have not had Il chance to
edit, and it tells of outrages and brutali-
ties from which American citizens do not
always escape. Even this might be tolc-
rated. were it exceptional, or the result of
mOmentary excitement and intiamcd pas
sonS. But for fifty years this barbarous
warfare has been going on at intervals
Thousands are now alive who remember
the atrocities of the SpaniardS in the tifteS,
when Lopez and his brave men We're
slaughtered. Scarcely twenty years after
wards the Cubans again turned on their
opprcssors, anG these horrible scenes
were enacted for ten wears. They have
again rcvoltcd against the horrors Of their
lot and is this thing to be borne for ten