Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — Politicians, Take Warning. [ARTICLE]

Politicians, Take Warning.

Those who hope and itihoee who fear that the demand of flhe people for a radieal reform of itbe tariff will somehow he juggled with and ..evaded by the politicians overlook the,most impressive and most decisive.element in that demand. It is that pub- , lie wrong be righted. The economic argument against protection is conclusive, but it was no xaere.nrgument of any kind which led to the peaceful revolution of this year!* .Presidential election. Protection went down not simply or mainly because it was perceived to be economically unsound, hut because it was perceived to be politically unjust. Politicians will do well ,‘to give early and serious heed to the just demand of the people for relief from oppressive tariff taxation. Delay i« not even expedient. If there is any force in the plea that the law-made profits of certain men should not »be touched this winter or next spring, there will be still greater foroe in it a year from now. and greater yet from then on- Those mysterious “adjustments” which we are adjured not to touch will become more sacred and sinviolable with every month. If > they are to be broken up at all, ; as the country declared its wish tthey should be, the work cannot *be begun too soon. Furthermore, ;it will be extremely dangerous for any politician to trifle with a public demand which , has so strong a moral element jn it as tiaat now found in tte tariff-reform movement. "When an avalanche of that cart is loosened it never moves backward. -In 1861 Sen7t<w 'Sherman was writing his brother that the Republican party would pass no laws disturbing slavery either in the States or the District of Columbia. The clearer-sighted General told him that a war was cowing .whieft would •‘vijein all politicians.I'’ 1 '’ It did ruin all who did not make haste to- ‘ ally themselves with the moral sentiment back of the war. A similar sentiment ;is now stirring ,in the breasts of the people, calling for the speedy removal of tpe abuses aqd injustices which selfish men have.enacted into law pqder the tjame of protectiqfi, and it will be t&e ruin of all politicians who do.pot give heed to.it New York Evening Post, Dec. 5.