Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — No Delay, Trimming: or Cowardice. [ARTICLE]

No Delay, Trimming: or Cowardice.

Every .argument and pretext for delay in reaping the fruit of a Democratic victory, is a concession to the demands of the defeated party. Only those who .are, cowardly, or wavering, or mercenary will give to the pleas for procrastination any consideration. To atop ithe wheels of a benifleent revolution is to join the reactionists and tto‘become an enemy of progress. The .people voted for reform—not the mere idea of tariff reform, but for actual, efficient, radical reform. They voted for that method of reforming a great abuse and evil, which is to destroy it They did not vote for that spurious method of reform which would tolerate further the abuse and evil, postponing the day of reckoning and arresting final judgment The demand for reform was as emphatic in relation to the time as in relation to the principle which was to be enforced. As in many cases at law, time ie rtbe essence of the contract into which the Democratic party entered with the country in its platform and at the ballot-box.

There is no necessity nor excuse for procrastination. Two or three campaigns of education have heem fruitful. The people of this country, all men who read and vote, are as ! well instructed now on the tariff question as they will be at any time in the perceptible future. Congressional committees can find out nothing new on the subject of the tariff. A tariff commission could not extricate from any possible mass of testimony a single fact in regard to the commerce and Industries of the people which would add a ray of light to the common intelligence. Every feature of tariff legislation and its practical effects has been elaborately discussed, and no further period of deliberation Is necessary or desired. Every hour of delay beyond the period at which the new Congress can assemble and obey in its legislative capacity the mandate of the voters is an hour of cowardice. The people have no time to wait They do not propose to stand in the vestibule and cool their heads, while their representatives in the inner halls are considering the advisabibity of obeying their command, If the Democrats in Congress shall fail to administer at once and effectively the commission with which they are charged they will have disobeyed and forfeited it. this infidelity to duty they will be held accountable. No cowardice, no trim* wipg, do paltering, no delay, is tbe

‘dseunrcl mate at the ballot-box. It i>s the recorded will of the voters.'Chicago Herald.