The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-09
All Gone.

It is our duty to report that the great
Democratic doctrine of u tariff for revenue
only has gone by the board at the hands Of
two defenders that in their time have ex-
hibited a devotion to this principle which
promised to endure even after all other
support of it had been withdrawn.
The first is the Richmond Times, the lead
ing anti-Bryan Democratic journal Of Vir-
ginla. Our contemporary, caught in the
Socialistic gushing Of the day, unconscious
of the strength of Its yearning for reunion
with the Democratic party of Chicago, and
at last touching the bottom of Its own
MIND on the tariff question, sidles up to
Organism In company with Senator
CAFFERY. and, like him, declares for
q tariff for revenue only, 80 ad-
justed rs to bear heaviest on articles Of
luxury, which are consumed by tho rich
alone, and lightest on articles Of necessity,
which arc consumed by the rich and the
poor" The Richmond Times holds IL to be
constitutional, therefore, to regulate tariff
duties not in truth for revenue only, but
for the more efficient squeezing Of the rich
and for the special benefit Of the poor.
Its idea is actually to employ the tariff
" th0 CQuhiibhttOh VA bu0 iOIbuuCb u
the American rich and poor, all citizens Of
the United States. 1t would "protect" the
poor against the rich on the principle used
by the Republicans for protecting the
laborers Of America against the cheaper
labor Of foreign countries. Even the sacred
American principle Of free trade n equal
rights throughout the States of the Union
is repudiated by the new school of Demo-
cratic protectionists.
The second backslider is moro sensa-
tional. being ro less han tho father, the
son, or the inventor, at least, Of the Star
Eyed Goddess. the Courier-Journal. Our
Louisville contemporaries remuneration Of
the revenue principle is roundabout, but
nom the less final. Twitted upon the
Kentucky Gold Democrats expected In
dorsement of tho Cleveland Administration,
the Cotnier-Joornal protests that that
will como from its own heart too, and ar
IDENTIFY, since the Cleveland Administra-
ton was sound IN Dsm9n1Hth-! ~assentiels
and rang a clear note on ar The great issues
of the time"
We quote this not to illustrate with what
extraordinary faculty the Coaricr-Jonrnul
can elongate its neck the better to be
stamped upon by its enemy's both feet, but
to show how uncon1ned is the Democratic
revolution on tho tariff.
Sound In Democratic essentials r. "a
clear note on all the great issues Of the
timer In 1892 the Hon. GROVER CLEvE-
LAND, then candidate for President before
the National Democratic Convention, sent
in the Randall plank for protection, or the
"straddle of 1884," as the gallant Col.
WArTERsoN called it, when, backed by
the convention, no kicked 1t out and
wrote into the platform that tho tariff
should be " for revenue only" Next, when
MI. CLEVELAND accepted the nomination,
he lodged the tariff plank, or, as the New
York Times said, he changed 1t. And final.
ly when the time came to put the party
principle into legislation, President CLEvE.
LAND and Chairman WILSON submitted q
revision avowedly for protection. 1t was
faithfully denounced by Col. WArrERsoN.
One argument used by the gold Demo.
Gratis for holding themselves aloof from the
great party that opposes Organism has been
that they are the original Democrats on
the question of the tariff. Since the Chi
cago platform of 1895 repudiated the
tariff principle of 1892, and Democratic
Senators have been ~scrambling after pro
lection, the gold Democrats have thought
to see in that q right to live. Yet. after all
the gold Democrats have ecanted with the
silver men,. They are all protectionists
Even the Star.Eyed Goddess is fallen.