Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-08-22
SENSE IS NEEDED.
ALONG WITH A GREAT DEAL COM.
MON TACT.
Having Acquired These, and Standing
Shoulder to Shoulder, John Sharp
Williams Thinks the Democrats
Might Carry the Next House Of
Representatives.

John Sharp Williams has lately ex.
pressed this conviction regarding the
outlook for rehabilitation of the
shattered fortunes of the Democratic
party:
we are upon the eve of CARRYING
the house of representatives. il we
only act together. shoulder To shout
der, and show common tact and COM
mon sense"
To expect the Democratic party.
which lngersoll used To characterize
as IAN organized appetite" to show
common tact and common sense I'M
der any imaginable conditions. is as
unreasonable as To expect the leopard
TO change his spots. 1t is difficult to
recall a period of time within the past
30 years when the Democratic party
failed to do the wrong thing at the
right time. Total incapacity to cor
rectly judge the trend of things has
been its almost invariable record
Clearer proof of that fact could not
be asked than is to be found in that
party's mistaken adherence to free
trade and its foolish antagonism to-
ward the policy of protection Its
single opportunity since 1850 of show
Ing itself worthy of being entrusted
with the care of the countrys best re-
suits occurred in 1892, with the result
OF lniiicung loss upon the country
moderately estimated at $4,000. 600
600. The total cost of Democratic
tariff Legislation on free trade lines
was probably greater than that sum
lt would seem that common sense
might have discovered the effects of
the blunder and that common tact
might have prevented it's recurrence.
Nothing of the kind. The Bourbon
fight against the accepted policy of
the American people goes on forever.
The party has learned nothing, for
gotten nothing. For example, we find
the everlasting dull. dense hatred of
an established system cropping out in
the speech of enc of the leading ora
tors In the last Fourth of July cele-
bration of the Tammany society of
New York. On that occasion Bourke
Cochran declared:
AS only small percentage OF our
people are employed in so-called pro-
tected industries which receive the
benefits of the system, the great bur
den falls upon the balance who are
employed ip unprotected industries.
Dut receive none OF the benefit of the
system. So large class is taxed for
the advantage OF small class, and
therefore the equality of burdens
which Jefferson planned for is defeat
Inv hn fnnf 0
welt stands for"
And Congressman Henry, of Texas,
followed with this jubilant preda,.
ton:
When we meet Tammany In the
next national convention Texas will
be there holding up the banner OF the
greatest Democrat who has lived
since Jefferson-William j. Bryan"
What an appeal is here made fer
the confidence of the business inter
ests, the industrial producers and the
wage-earners of the country One
demagogue shouting the shallow lie,
| disproved by the facts of the great
est prosperity ever witnessed or ina
| gined, that the benefits of protection
are for the favored few, while its in
9uries are visited upon the general
mass; and another demagogue giving
assurance that Texas and Tammany
VIII be found shoulder to shoulder I'm
the upbearing OF the standard Of Free
Trader Bryan. That is the combina.
ton that is expected to capture the
presidential prize of 1908: Texas and
Iammany, Bryan and free trade.
John Sharp Williams may well plead
for common sense and common tact.
| There is need for them.