Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Strong Spinal Columns Needed. [ARTICLE]

Strong Spinal Columns Needed.

Set it down that a Democrat who wants tariff reform postponed is not a true Democrat. He may vote for its candidates, but he is treacherous to the .party’s principles and hostile to its spirit. The party did not make Grover Cleveland its candidate and declare Republican protection to be a fraud with a purpose to delude and betray the people. It did not adopt tariff reform as a cry merely to enable it to get possession of the offices. It adopted it as a principle and a faith and pledged itself, if intrusted with power, to reconstruct the tariff so as to relieve the people of unnecessary taxation. The party cannot delay entering vigorously upon that work without exciting distrust and contempt. The people whom we have educated to renounce the policy of Republican protection and to depose Its instruments cannot be fooled. They demand action. And so do Democrats who arc Democrats in very truth. Nothing else is honor4t>lc. Nothing less is possible if the party would not be humiliated. We must show that we have the courage of our principles. We must respect our pledges. We must act boldly and promptly. Timidity iiAct'dalllance will he fatal. Pluck in 'defiance has won us a great opportunity. Pluck in using the opportunity will win the admiration and the full confidence of the nation. —New York Worhj.