Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1894 — DEMOCRATIC DISHONOR. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC DISHONOR.

The Question to Be Settled at the Polis Not Economical but Moral. The Outlook. It is a tariff conceived in corruption and passed in dishonor. There are three fatal objections to the Senate bill. It violates the plighted word of the Democratic party. > It does this to enhance the profits oi wealthy corporations. And there is good reason to believe that this result has been purchased and paid for—if not d’rectly. their indirectly. For the feeble pretense of investigation and the report of “not proven” -have rather confirmed than dispelled the publit? suspieion-of— Such protection is both a •’fraud” and a “robbery.” The party dishonor is not lessened by the promise to pass in the House separate bills making sugar, coal and iron free — for the purpose of “putting the Senate in a h01e..” A triple dishonor is not so easily atoned, nor will public indignation be so easily appeased. Nor is it relieved by saving that this is “the best the party can do,” In that fact lies the dishonor of the party. The issue to’ be met in the fall elections is not economical, but moral. The Outlook does not demand a “tariff for revenue only” nor denounce “Republican protection as a fraud.” but it demands the honorable fulfillment of the party pledges and denounce as fraudulent men who characterize protection as a fraud in 1892 and enact it in 1894.