The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-16
MR. CLEVELAND.
His Course vindicated by Time and
 Events.

savoyards Washington Letter in Louis
 The tariff Is still with us. and will re- main with us until 1t is levied as .the founders of our government 'e in.enSed %si.h ~ CT of the leading political parties mas any use for a constitutional tarin. Alter the word ..only' was expurgated rom the Democratic creed the man who pre- sided over the Chicago National Demo- cratic Convention of lS96 Senator in Congress from the State of California, voted for some of the most vicious ana most odious protective features Of the Clay and Martin-all Bryanites-support- cd the lumber iniqutty of the Dtngley law. which adds to the cost or every cabin erected in this country. Even the elouuence. the sarcasm and the 1ndigna- ton of Vest wers powerless to arrest the new heresy in the Democratic confession of faith. The time had come when the only test of Democracy was blind. igno- beetle, unprincipled, wicked denunciation of the greatest Democrat ltving-the one Democrat in our history whose pame would make a harmonious quartet of the and Tilden Grover Cleveland is the maj am talking about. If there ever was a public man who could with more conf1- dence appeal to the verdict of the future than ne. that INdH udHic Has ltOt pcCh recorded in history. And as for that, the present generation Is making kindly ad- vances in his direction
 Mir. Cleveland was elected in 1892 to re- form the tariff. It was for that the old Democratic craft was put in commission. Two years before, the sherman silver law was enacted and our national some $s000, ,OOO per month with full legal tender stump-tail money. worth 47 cents the dollar. The result was inevita ble. Real money was virtually. demonetized. Gold went to the stocking. or went abroad. There was a financial panic and universal business prostration. Had Cleveland been weak man he would have gone to silver basis inevitably. He was a strong man and determined to maintain the public faith and pre- serve the public credit How we'll he did it Is known of all men. But 1t was at a frightful cost-frightful because the swine in Congress knew not the pearls he cast before them. That is History with big H.
 The Sherman silver Jaw was most vi. cious legislation. There ds no doubt of that Its author so recognized it. 1t was beneficent purpose. It saved President Harrison the responsibility of veto Of a free coinage measure which would have made Is to 1 the paramount issue of
 
 people were not sufficiently educated to a proper understanding of that question. The great debates in both houses of Con- gross, in the public press. on the stump, at the cross roads and at the kneading- troughs. of the bill repeating the pur- chasing clause of the Sherman law taught the people that l6 to meant na- tional repudiation and universal bank ruptcy. As soon as the repeal was ac- complished business began to revive. The autumn of 1893 gave evidence of some Industrial revival; but ft waited on the incompetent and more or less trai- in Congress. Even the imperfect bill they passed would have saved the party and been followed by prosperity if the silver nonsense had not again been exploited and made a Democratic Cardinal. Capital hatly refused to risk itself on that tempestuous ocean. Business pros- trate-there was a deficit in the reve- nues. Gold vanished from channels or credit could only be preserved by sales of bonds for gold. Cleveland did not hesitate and his was greater ana braver act than Jackson's in removing the deposits from the United states Bank.
 The battles of the standards followed. Bryan was twice hopelessly defeated. The country ratified the gold standard. As soon as the people overthrow silver, and thus removed the danger of repudiation, prosperity returned to smile on the scene. It came not because of the abom- nations of the Dingley bill; but in spite Wilson bill. or the Mckinley bill, or the Mills bill Gold came from all quarters. The dinner pail of labor was full. The teemng millions of America were em- ployed at the highest wages ever known, and more credit for that unprecedented wave of prosperity is due to Grover Cleveland than to any other individual, living or dead. History will so record 1t.
 But the Republican Party and the Re- publican administration got the credit Of it. Cleveland was the Quentin Durward who slew the boar; the 2. o. D. was the Louis xI who got the glory. Joseph c. Hendrix. Democrat, of Brooklyn. N. Y., was a member of the Fffty-third Con gress. He made a speech on the silver question that was prophecy; put ne spoke to deaf ears He pleaded he per suaded. he supplicated; 1t was all in vain. He pointed the road that led to victory and to the triumph of the Democratic Party for a generation. They paid no more attention than they would have paid to the cackle of hen that laid last years eoo It was folly; 1t was stupidity; it was ignorance. ballasted with prejudice, that prompted them.
 Who seeks and will not take when once
 'tis offered
 Shall never find it more"
 The Republicans are having trouble over the tariff and there Is no telling what is going to come of it. The BRb- cock bill is very embarrassing. and that gentleman promises to give the Repub- Iicans almost as much trouble as Ran daT used to give the Democrats. Certain it is that when the people have time to look into 1t they are going ot put on the free list articles that our manufacturers sell abroad at less price than they de- mand and receive at home. That is Bab- cockism, and it is an ism that will cir culate like the cholera.
 CHANDLER AND WooDFoRD.