Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Help! Quick! [ARTICLE]

Help! Quick!

The talk of Congress holding an extra session to reform the tariff has subsided considerably, but the necessity of an extra session exists as much if not more now than ever. If the McKinley bill was the monstrosity that the Democratic party made a majority of the voters believe, why not get it off the books at once? There is neither reason nor justice in making the people pay tribute to the beneficiaries of protection any longer than they should. The President and House of Representatives were elected upon the promise of the Democrats to revise the tariff, and the complexion of the Senate was changed by making that question the issue in electing a number of legislatures. No excuse whatever can be trumped up to call for postponement until December. The party should do its duty to those who placed it in power by proving its sincerity when the Chicago convention stated that “protection was a fraud.”—Freeland (Pa.) Tribune.