The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-08-10
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 a rehabilitation Of the
shattered fortunes of the Democratic
party:
1--WE are upon the I've 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 Ingersoll used to characterize
as IAN organized appetite" to show
common tact and common sense un-
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
so years when the Democratic party
failed to do the wrong thing at the
right time. Total i~ncapacity to cor
yectly judge the trend of things has
beer 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 1860 of show.
ing itself worthy of being entrusted
with the care of the country's best re.
suits occurred in 1892, with the result
Of inflicting a loss upon the country
moderately estimated at $40, 900, 000,.
900. The total cost of Democratic
tariff legislation on free trade lines
was probably greater than hat sum.
1t 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
h speech of one 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 a 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 in unprotected industries,
but receive none of the benefit of the
system. So a large class is taxed fol-
the advantage of a small class, and
fhnrnfnyn thu onta1if,r IF h,trInnt
which Jefferson planned for is defeat
ed by the inequalities which Roose
welt stands for"
And Congressman Henry, of Texas
followed with this jubilant pred1,
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 70,
!, the confidence of the business inter
ests, the industrial producers and tn,
, -wage-earners of the country! On,
demagogue shouting the shallow lie
3 disproved by the facts of the great
est prosperity ever witnessed or lima
| gined, that the benefits of protection
are for the favored few, while its in
y juries are visited upon the genera
mass; and another demagogue givinI
assurance that Texas and Tamman.
will be found shoulder to shoulder il
the upbearing of the standard of Ere
Trader Bryan. That is the combine
ton that is expected to capture tn
presidential prize of 1908: Texas an
Tammany, Bryan and free trade
John Sharp Williams may well plea
for common sense and common tao
There is need for them.