Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — High Tariff—Tried and Found Guilty. [ARTICLE]

High Tariff—Tried and Found Guilty.

Mr. Harrison hardly does justice to the aims and purposes of the people who have asked him to give way to what they believe to be a better national policy. The theory of protection had a full generation in which to show what it can do. At the end of that time the merchants and artisans deliberately declared that the results did not equal their expectations, and that the promises made by the protection leaders failed of fulfillment. There was no other issue of any serious importance in the campaign. The voters gave them-, selves to a consideration of this question: “Now that you see what protection can do, and what it cannot do, are you satisfied with it and will you have it continued?” That question was debated long and exhaustively, and on the first Tuesday of November it was put in the convention of the whole people. It was overwhelmingly decided against President Harrison and agninst his party. And it was thus decided, not for any reasons personal to the President, but because the great bulk of the nation believe that-a lower tariff will give them "more business, a larger market, moro steady work, and better wages. We are a work-a-day community from Atlantic to Pacific, and we want all that our circumstances, our enviable position, and the peculiarity of our Institutions are capable of affording us. If we can get on in spite of a high tariff, cannot we get on better without it? That was the backbone of the contention, and as the judgment of the people is final in this matter, the one party stepped to the rear and the other party came to the front. We. seek prosperity, and we seek all the prosperity within reach. We are all alike in that mattet and there is nodivision of opinion on the subject. Give us mills that will tttm all the year round; give us a mmiket that will accept all we can product:; give us living wages and steady employment. These are our one ambi lon and wo c-are more for them than for party organization. Therefore, if tho majority believe that a radical revisions trtie McKinley bill will give us these things, then let that bill be revised. That is the whole story and all there is to it.— New York Herald (Independent).