Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — The Fox and the Geese. [ARTICLE]

The Fox and the Geese.

The Philadelphia Record contains a suggestive cartoon. Two geese labeled “Silver Purchase Democrat" and “Enormous Appropriation Democrat” are carelessly approaching a fox, lying on its back as if dead. The fox Is labeled “High Protection.” The cartoon is entitled “The geese that think the fox is dead,” and is intended as an object lesson for Democrats. The idea is a good one and expresses a truth which may be more conspicuous to the Democrats after they have made, or tried to make, a tariff bill on the lines of the Chicago platform. But it comes with poor grace from a newspaper that advocated new duties on sugar, tea, and coffee, and the leaving of protective tariff duties an “textile fabrics of every description, products of iron and steel, earthenware, glassware, etc.” (all of which articles by the way, are manufactured in Philadelphia), because “tariff beneficiaries whose interests deserve consideration” are not in favor of a “ruthless cutting of protective duties.” No, the high protection fox is not dead, and he lives at the same old quarters and does business in the tame way.