Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-17

party mas gone on record since the elec- tion in favor of proceeding at once to the work of enacting a new tariff law -zi
 In face of all this, is 1t not remarkable that the agitaters that would have the free coinage advocates court-martialed fonzspeaking in fa~eFAof the white metal, under. the. heinous charge of being agi- tators, proceed to 'agftate the tariff ques- tion?
 If it is agitation that brings about un- satisfactory business conditions, and not unsatisfactory busiIiess conditions that bring about agitation why do these gold bug papers insist, on agitating the tar if? Why dc they not go right along proclaiming that prosperity is already abroad in the-land; and let congress and the new administration do what the peo- pie have right to expect them to do? Why stop the business men of the coun~- try from gathering up the golden shekles that have come in the wake of the tri- umphs of esgeidestaHdard and put them to holding public meetings in an effort to keep the republican party from doing that which only six weeks ago it was commissioned to do, and that by the aid of the very element to which these agi- tators now appeal
 If it was not the gold standard, but was the silver agitation that made bus mess unsatisfactory from the time of the unconditional repeal of the purchasing clause of the Shreman law, until pros perity was restored by the election of Mckinley, and that is what the agitators about whoms wr'write now said about it. why abandon that bright and shining idea? Why not apply 1t to the tariff question .and> say a protective tariff such as the fepublicans have been placed in power to denaetyswill not hurt business and bring s,apout unsettled and unsatis- factory business conditions, but that agitation of othese question will. and cease agitating
 True. we think such al tariff law as the republicans will give the country will un- settle and destroy bushes much more rapidly and effectively than did the Me Kinley law, because the new tariff law will have to aid it in blasting the best interests of the country the gold stand ard set up by the Cleveland administra- tion and its consequent contraction Of the currency, but we are opposed to agita- tion. We have accepted in good taath the result of the recent election We re- alize, that the people have demanded as a remedy for the ills we think flow from the operation of the gold standard and contracted currency, additional taxa ton, andc when the people demandh a3 thing .they-shnuld have 1t. es-.a
 The gold bug papers should cease agi- tating the tariff question and let the country rest wlle the republican party applies the medicine which 1t promised the patient and which the patient has voted its willingness to gulp down
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 Hon Ben Hunt, of Madison county, must be holding high carnival with the Ladies' Suffrage association since his re- turn home. MT. Hunt; it will be remem- I bered. is said to be member of the association, notwithstanding he Voteo against the bill allowing women to prac- tice law, and this act called forth consld- erable criticism. Now, the Huntsville Democrat is edited by two brainy Two-. men, what their position is on the sun rage question the State Herald IS un- able to say, but they are usually eau tions and correct in noting current nap peningis, and why they should nave made the following woNbroad errors in one is- sue of their paper the public cannot un- derstand. unless MT. Hunt has taken upon himself the task of devoting ms recess to the Flaming of the Shrew;
 '"The Tribune, of Birmingham now nubIished by Philander Morgan, broth CT of Senator John T. Morgan, has come out as an evening daily.
 "Gov. Johnston has appointed Charles G. Brown solicitor of Limestone county
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 Mark Hanna, having elected presi- dent, has now taken upon himself the work of electing republican gold standard senators from several states. Ain't Mark