New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-28
CONGRESS AND THE TARIFF.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir At last the people OF the United States are
ginning to realize their hopeless condition In
gard TO tariff legislation They realize that moth
ing but a return to the Mckinley protection bill
Will save the Nation from greater financial de-
preston and suffering. 1t is with sad hearts and
Borrowing eyes that we look to our representa-
tives for relief. graspng AT every faint hope as
the drowning man grasps the straw hoping 10
save himself. Yet these trusted representatives
dead to the wishes and deaf 70 the cries OF
suffering people; and ruin and destruction go on
az the same fearful rate that they have been
going for the past three long and weary years
The people had eagerly looked forward TO this
LlVth Congress. with the hope that the de-
structive legislation. in the form OF the Wilson
bill would be repealed and the country rescued
from utter ruin; but that hope has proved TO be a
vain deusion. and the trusted representatives
which the people sent to Washington have be-
trayed their trust and proved themselves traitors
10 the people in deeper sense OF the word
than BENEDICT Arnold ever did. We give you tho
following from The Greensburg Tribune Tho
calctrant Republican United States Senator'S. with
Carter as the leader. and the other five boast
that they will lock up the tariff legislation in the
Senate for ten years.
Shame on the men who boast that they will hold
the Nation In Its present ruined condition for ten
years more! These to whom the people trust
ed their interests and welfare! Shame these
childish blgots. who would make better repre-
sentatives AT the Home for the Predetermined than
for an intelligent people!
We are a patient and long suffering people. but
cannot sit down and close our eyes to the fact
that Congress Is plunging us deeper into ruin and
despair The time has arrived when the people OF
the United States will take the protection question
in hand and let II be decided by the popular vote.
We realize that the mandates OF the people must
and can only be made known and put In force by
a vote of the people. Let arise In might
and proclaim to the world that have rights
which must be respected we'll as defended The
proved beyond all doubt TO be the obnoxious Will
son BILL and from present indications there Is no
remedy for this unless the people demand its repeal
through the ballot box.
The protective tariff has been a bone Of conten-
ton for many years in this Nation and It has
proved Itself In the past well as the present TO
be essential TO the prosperity OF the Nation and q
question OF such vital Importance to tho people
that deem II unwise well unsafe. to trust
II TO hands OF corrupt politicians Other great
questions have been decided by the ballot box. and
we believe the only way TO decide this to the salts
faction Of the people is for every man at next
Wilson BILL" or for the Mckinley protection bill -
BY deciding In this way law would be estab-
lished which would forever settle the disputed
question. 1t is evident that the people must de-
eide this question, there IL no hSpe In legis-
lation. And we say with emphasis, let the people
decide IT, II is the people who affected by II,
and they have every just and honorable right to
do Now. let us wake up 10 those facts. and II
Congress Will do nothing for II is our bounden
duty TO do something for ourselves. NJ +. H.
Hillside. Penn, March 23 1885,