Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1888 — TARIFF REFORM. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF REFORM.

It looks as if the Republicans, with that beautiful consistency which ba - ever characterized party politics, would start in and steal the Democrats. * tar ff reform thunder. The Boston J ournal, a strong Republican paper, says, without a smile:

The first and most urgent duty which will confront a Republican Congress is a revision of the tariff. As another Republican paper, the Globe, says: It is amazing and amusing to see how fast the Republican papers and statesmen are coming out for tariff reform. The high tariff arguments seem to have convinced themselves that Cleveland was right. Another Massachusetts paper, the Springfield Republican, says: blow let the Repul licans retaliate by stealing back the tariff-re-form issue the Democrats filched from them. It would be swallowed by the whole country without a spasm as a dose of genuiue, healthy Protection where, coming from the Democrats it might have looked like poison. W e care not under what name it comes, but it must come.