The Forrest City times., 1897-07-23
ExTORTIoN AND RoseLRy.
The Policy That und~rises the Dsns-
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 The Dingley bill is not q revenue but protective measure. The policy un- deriving 1t is the robbery and extortion of one class of people. or one section of the country. for the benefit of an- other. The protection policy Is one which has built up an army of sappers and miners whose only purpose is to loot the country and build up huge fer tunes at the expense of the people. 1t is destructive of public honor and of personal patriotism. and leads to dis content with government and distrust between individuals.
 A measure conceived as the Dingiey bill has been could not fail to receive the condemnation of the democratic senators. It will not do for republicans to say that democrats are only seeking to embarrass the administration. They are fully aware of the necessity of revenue raising, and argue that the | needs of the government should be lib- | orally met, but here the agreement ends, for while the republicans want to build up individuals and sections at the expense of the others, the demo- crats met 1t with: All we have for the governments actual needs, but not one cent for robberyl"
 In the formation of . bill to raise such large revenue as is required, there will be those on hand who will seek to make the benefits either per sonal or sectional. In the taxation of imports thus is built up a margin in favor of local dealers in such articles It is in handling this feature that the difficulty of tariff making comes in, and 1t is right here that the democratic principle of even justice stands for the people, while the republican principle of protection stands for treasury loot CTS and the trusts and monopolies which have fattened upon the nation. It is the duty of democrats, everywhere and at all times, to fight favoritism. and to see that government is adminis- tered for all alike-making due recog- milton of all sections, and removing mere personalism from consideration. The Dingley bill is an abomination. The principle of protection itself is an abomination, and should not be permit ted to become fixture in the platform of any party. It should be utterly con demned and driven out of discussion, so that all parties would be committed to raising from the people only that amount which is necessary to meet the expenditures of the government, eco nomically administered.
 The democratic party has all along upheld the policy of just taxation and economical government-a policy which has been warmly upheld by the con stitution, and adherence to which calls for as stubborn 8 resistance to the Dingleyism of to-day as was given to the McKinleyism of 1890.
 The Dingley bill is built on protec- tion, and not on revenue lines; and, for that reason, it should meet, when on its passage, the earnest opposition of the democratic senators, who are right in endeavoring to amend it in order to reduce its objectionable features to a minimum; but who, when it becomes apparent that it is impossible to pass . revenue rather than a protection Ahcuoufc, suOulu FOtc to XIII the WuOle bill.
 The democratic senators have taken the right course in their treatment of the tariff bill, and in permitting it to come to a vote without unnecessary delay. The bill will be passed by re- publican votes over the protest of the democratic senators, and the republic ans will be responsible for the conse- quences. In the meantime the demo- crats may be enabled to insert few redeeming features in the bill, but mo- body expects that they will be enabled to revise it to a degree which will make 1t anything else than protection mon- strosity, constructed without regard to revenue, and as such deserving the con demnation of all democrats.-Atlanta Constitution.