Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1910-04-06

Missouri, are bringing them out o1
long enforced retirement to offel
themselves again upon the altar.
of their country. The surface OF
the waters every where is growing
dotted with the heads of them,
bobbing up serenely from below,
under a conviction that the skies
are clearing. They seem to fee
sure at last that there is again q
possibility for ''conseryative'
Democrat to get something. They
appear to harbor the deIusion that
nothing but tariff is to be talked in
this years campaigning. And
when tariff is the paramount issue
of campsign, nobody's heart can
bleed for the plain people and the
common people like that of Dem
ocrat loaded up with the gilt-edged
securities of predatory trust. No
body can feel for the poor ultimate
consumer like Democratic candi-
date for Congress who is interest
ed in enterprises for cornering the
necessities of life.
The late Senator German was
the spokesman of this class thru
out the making of the Democratic
tariff law during the uncertain,
hesitating, doubtful years of 1898
81 95, when panic was precipitat-
ed. He had been chairman of the
National Democratic Committee in
one or two Of its great tariff cam
paigns. Preceding him in the
chair of the National Democratic
Committee had been William H.
Barnum of Connecticut, and CAL
vim S. Brice of Ohio, men as thor
oughly identified with corporate
monopoly as ever German was. A
growing consciousness of the in
copsistencies of such leadership
with Democratic party professions
of solicitu1e for the masses was the
root of Organism in the Democrat.
ic organization. The wretched
performances of 1895 brought
conviction and clinched radical &C.
ton. Since 1896 the great Demo.
Gratis who had so long yearned to
relieve the people of all other bur-
dens than those in which great
Democratic leaders were financial
ly interested, or could get an in.
terest, have had to lie low and wait
for the tariff question to rise again.
1t has been a long wait. The
country has prospered long and
we'll under the protective policy.
It. has been brought up out of the
slough of despond into which it
sank during the years of the early
eos, in which Democratic admin
istration at Washington hesitated,
trembled, and finally split into
fragments. But so many new vot-
ers have come into the electorate
since then that it seems now this
old and hoary chestnut of an issue
must be argued all over again.
The party of protection is as Ger
tain to win in the final analysis as
American intelligence is certain to
take care of itself. Democrats
without any other hope of getting
into congress than this false issue
affords them are already found Of
fering themselves in many states
as candidates for one or the other
of the houses. They are already
"subordinating" all state questions
and all other national questions to
what one of them calls ''the one
supreme overshadowing issue of
tariff reform" The wcrkingman
is 70 be given rest by the million
aire Democrats who gave him such
a long rest before. We are to
wash away our sin with the water
of watered stocks. Burdened con-
suners will be eased of their bur-
dens in being deprived of a chance
to consume so much. All monop-
oily is to be charged against the
tariff and let 60 at that. The
singed cat is coming back. 1t is
badly singcd, and has many bald
spcts, and lis cry is not yet loud
enough to have aroused energetic
protest iu the two neigbborhoods
in which it has been heard. But
it is rising toward the higher
scales now. aud when the entire
country is aroused the cat must
remember all its dodges to escape
annihila,ion. They are all old
lodges. The singed cat has learn