Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — TRAITORS TO PARTY. [ARTICLE]

TRAITORS TO PARTY.

SEVERE ARRAIGNMENT OF DEMOCRATIC SENATORS. Brice, HUt, Murphy, McPherson. Smith, Gorman, Qlbaon. Camden, Caffrey, White, Morgan, and Pugh “Wear the Mask of Democrat*” Would Betray the Canas. Probably the moot remarkable political address of the year is that issued by the Democratic leaders of Minnesota through the State Democratic Association. It says: It is useless to disguise the fact that our party la confronted with serious peril It Is time for plain words; silence now is disloyalty to our party and Its causa In less than two yean after winning the moat complete victory any party ever won, while in full possession of the powen then given us. *e present the appearance of a defeated party, while our opponents, routed In the battle wear all the airs of victory. What has brought this astonishing change? Whence comes this peril? Not from our opponents; not from the brawling horde of protectionists whom we mot and overthrew in 1893. but from malignant and treacherous influences, allied with weakness or cowardice, within our own ranks The danger that observant men saw when the election of 1892 put upon our party the responsibility of directing national affairs and the duty of redeeming the pledges of tax reform made to and accepted by the poop Is and then a cloud no larger then a man’s hand, has overspread the whole sky. What was our promise to the people, and what has been, so far, our performance? We denounced protection as “a fraud and a robbery of the masses for the benefit of a few;” and »e promised that taxes on imports should be laid with a sole view to affording revenue. Our first disappointment was In the departure from the declared policy ot the party In the undue and needless measure of protection granted by the House bill, but, mindful of the extent to which contact with and sharing In the extortions of protection had demoralised representstlves In our ranks, we accepted it as the best now attalnabla and looked to Its free listing of coal, iron ore, wool, and lumber as the entering wedge to be driven home by later aud harder blows The House added sugar to the free list and sent the bill to the Kenata Here the error of the House bill became quite apparent. 't he compromise of principle there, mads more nlenteous fruit in the Senate The concessions made lu the House only whetted the appetite and fired the audacity ot the protected Interests With renewed energy they concentrated their efforts on the smaller body, further removed from the people, less responsible to them, and more impervious to public opinion. To our shame and dismay they found Senators representing Democratic constituencies, that had denounced protection and demanded Its obliteration from our taxing policies, willing to aid them. In the secrecy of the committee rooms these Senators browbeat the sub-committee with threats of open opposition to the bill unless the special Industries they represented were also granted protection or given increase ot IL There was a weak surrender to the demands of these attorneys of the trusts, and a bill was reported In whlqh the one redeeming feature of the House bill, Its one distinctively Democratic feature, was eliminated, and the bill made hardly distinguishable from the one It proposes to dlsplaca

Who are these men, Democrats In name, protectionists In fact who have thus brought dishonor and shame on our great party? Who are they who have betrayed the great loyal host who gave them the power thus to deliver us Into the hands of the enemy? Who are they who have thus made certain the apprehensions of our President expressed in his inaugural, and given to his thought the effect of a prophecy? Said hes “Even if Insuperable obstacles and opposition prevent the consummation of our tusk we shall hardly be excused; and if failure can be traced to our ftfult or neglect we may be sure the people will hold us to a swift and exacting responsibility.’* Who are these men who have interposed, “Insuperable obstacles and opposition," and made a failure due to our fault and neglect? These are the men. names fit to stand alone alongside of Benedict Arnold in the annals of our country: Senators Calvin 8. Brice of Ohio, David B. Bill and Edward Murphy, Jr,, of New York, John R. McPherson and James 'Smith. Jr., of New Jersey, Arthur P. Gorman and Charles H. Gibson of Maryland, Johnson N. Camden of West Virginia, Donelson Caffrey and Edward D White of Louisiana, John J. Morgan and James L. Pugh of Alabama These sre the men who wear the mask ot Democrats that they may the better betray our cause; these are thoy who have wrought this marvelous change, putting our party In the attitude ot defeat and giving to our opponents that of victory. But, Democrats, be not discouraged nor disheartened. The heart of the great mass of our party beats as true as ever. Remember that every great cause has had Its traitors; every great struggle for greater freedom has had its checks from the treachery of men whom it trusted, and be strengthened for the greater struggle before us by the Inspiring thought that, In the struggles of the masses tor freedom against privileged intrenched power the right has ever come uppermost Reflect that all the freedom we have to-day wo enjoy because our ancestors have risen from defeatsand have survived the treachery of comrades, and through all have “kept the rudder true”; and let the thought nerve you to further effort that you may give your children an increased measure of liberty. A few traitors In the councils cannot defeat the cause for which wo have fought for yean, aud In which we won the victory Of 1882. Chagrined, we are undismayed; betrayed, we are not disheartened; checked, we will not surrender. Nowhere let there be flagging or faltering. Everywhere let Democrats determine and proclaim that this, freedom’s battle, once begun, “shall not end until every cltlsen of our Republic shall be secure In the untrammeled right to buy what be will, where he will, and of whom he will; exchanging, without let or hindrance, the products of his labor for those of his fellow-laborers anywhere In the wide world. ” The address was Issued by the association through Its Executive Committea It Is signed by a M. Foote, President, of Minneapolis, and P. J. Smalley, Secretary, ot St. Paul. The membership of the association is 1.600 and includes all the Democrats of prominence in the State

The Hypocritical Treat. The sugar trust objects to the duty on its raw material That is natural. But its statement that the duty on raw sugar will be paid by the poor man in the increased price of his low-grade sugar is not true. The only onslaught on the poor man is made in the interest of the trust. The bill as it stands is so drawn that sugars of a saccharine strength that ordinarily would admit them at a low tax, by the application of the color test must pay the nigh tax that will exclude them. The poor man is to be forbidden in this way to buy good, cheap white sugars that are not granulated—that is, that are not made by the trust. The trust’s objection to the tax is not directed against the duty on the raw sugars, but against the decrease of duty on the refined sugars that come in competition with its own product. It now enjoys a protection of one-half of a cent a pound. The Senate will reduce the bounty to one-sixth of a cent. Hence the tears. The trust has been able to squeeze out of the poor man whom it pretends to pity a tax greater than the interest on the national debt. It pays large dividends on stock watered to five times the value of its property. It enjoys a monopoly that enriches it It owns Senators and Representatives. It maintains a costly lobby. It has refused to obey the law and report the statistics of its business to the Census Bureau. It conceals its

enormous profits in defiance of th® power of the Federal Government But it hires its labor in the cheapest markets in the world, and abuses its workmen with a crue.ty unknown even fan the iron regionq of Pennsylvania. It® outcry for the poor man u false pretense and hypocrisy. Its concern i® not for poverty but for its own abnormal profits.—New York World. Canada Ready for Free Trade. There is every encouragement for our legislators to move along the line® of greater freedom and Interchange of products along our Canadian border in the speech of the Governor, at th® opening of the Canadian Parliament last week. It is apparent that Canada has not only checked all desire to go further on the baneful rood of protection, but is already preparing to retrace her steps. “The amendments to the tariff laws which will be offered for your consideration are designed to simplify the operation and to lessen, as far as can be aone consistently, the imposts which are now in force. These are encouraging words, especially in view of the markets from which the imports, in the absence or reduction of duties, would go—our own. It is flying in the face of Providence to shut out the mutual advantages which each of these two countries can bestow upon the other. In some things w® can supply Canada over the land border to its great advantage; in other® Canada can deliver on both our Atlantic and Pacific seaboards to our advantage; and yet the legislators of each keep watch and ward to prevent th® good. They fine the Americans 75 cents for buying a ton of Canadian coal, while the Canadian is mulct 60 cents if he does the same. In other words, the Almighty has showered his blessings gratis on each country, and man, wiser than his Maker, stations the customs officer to impound, them.—American Industries

Minnesota’s Good Example. The Democratic leaders in Minnesota have addressed their party in terms of the most outspoken protest against th® disloyal behavior of the McKinleyDemocratic Senators at Washington. They have set an example that should be followed in every State in the Union. The Democratic party can compel the obedience of its servants a* Washington, if its commands are now repeated in tones stern enough and loud enough to reach the dull Senatorial ear. In truth, this command ha® been too long delayed. The rebellion would never have spread as it baa spread if Democratic organizations all over the country had spoken out at once in denuuolation of the earlier acta of treachery. There are some Democratic Senators mentioned in the Minnesota address who would not venture to disregard direct and numerous expressions of the will of their party, and. if such expressions were generally made none of them would dare disobey. Democratic State committees ought tobe heard from at once, and Chauncey F. Black's Democratic clubs and all Democratic and tariff reform organisations should speak out.—New York. Times. The Power of Plutocracy. It is better not to conceal thft true character of the obstacle placed in the way of the Wilson bill in the Senate. The plea that a revision of the free list and of the rates of duties on manufactured articles is being attempted in the interest of American industries and for the benefit of labor will not hold , water a moment The only labor that is being considered by the Senatorial emasculators of tariff reform is the labor of the lobby. The danger foreseen by the earliest and purest of American statesmen, feared by Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin, and thundered against by Jackson—the danger that special legislation might create' privileged classes that would at length prove stronger than the Government, and conquor it by corrupting it—is now distinctly in sight

Democracy Denned. The Democratic doctrine is the saving common sense of human government. It aims at laws which shall favor none and oppress none. It proposes to leave the individual, the unit of society and every system of government free and untrammeled so long aa he makes no attempt to interfere with the rights of others. It does not look upon a government as a guardian or the people as its v ards. It would restrict. as far as possible, and when practicable destroy, the organization of militia. In all tnete points it differentiates from both the Republican and Populist parties. They believe in the elevation of the government and the degradation of the citizen. It believes in the elevation of the citizen and the restriction of th® government—St Louis Republic.. Protective Mad. St Louis water is vile since thespring floods set in. But it is an admirable protection for the home industries occupied in the manufacture of. filters and bier. From the filter and beer industrieswe look for petitions against any effort, of Water Commissioner Holman toward separation of the mud from the water.. With the example of Pennsylvania iron manufacturers before them we do not see how the flltermakers and brewers can tamely submit to an attack on their busines?. River mud and a protective tariff ar® alike In so many respects that the filtermakers and brewers must se® their opportunities to push the consumers aside.—St. Louis Republic.

Placing the Blame. t The responsibility for causing thebusiness troubles of the country lies a*, the door of the Republican party. Unrighteous taxation, unsafe finance and< unlimited expenditure are a trinity of Solitical evils sufficient to pull dow* le richest and strongest of the nations. But the responsibility of continuing the unsett ement and uncertainty that beset all forms of business undertaking now rests upon the Democratic party. It has the power to put an end to the suspense which hang* like a cloud over the whole laud. — Philadelphia Record. Not a Weathercock. A contemporary observes that theHerald will keep right on doing all it can for tariff reform, notwithstanding that the drift is with the Republican* in the elections. Correct. The Her* aid is not a weathercock. It stands by its principles, and it expects to see them win in the long run. It will tell, the truth all the year round. —Boston. Herald. The Entire Argument. A high tariff corrupts elections, makes employers greedy, gluts homemarkets, creates trusts, closes mills and factories, cuts off our foreign markets, crowds the labor market, bring* on strikes, overtaxes the poor and deadens the moral sense of the nation. Why stop to debate such a monstrosity?—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Tariff Prevent' Trade. For every dollar's worth of? thing* the foreigner sends us a dollar’s worth of our goods must be sent in return, and the whole swapping business consists in giving that which we get by little labor for something which cost us more. Trading makes uS richer. Tariffs prevent trade.—Th* Courier.