Show WHO MADE THE MENACE The announcement by the President that tariff reform has lost nothing of its immediate and permanent importance impor-tance and must in the near future engage the attention of Copgress seems to enrage en-rage our Republican friends who but a few days ago were berating the Democratic Demo-cratic party for delay in attacking the robber tariff They call this announcement announce-ment by the President a menace even darker than his assault upon silver We will say in passing that the President Presi-dent has made no assault upon silver He has recommended the repeal of an acknowledged improper provision of law and many true friends of silver think that repeal will be of tho greatest advantage advant-age to the silver cause But about this menace as to the tariff GKOVER CLEVELAND was elected by the people principally because he had put himself squarely before the country as hostile to the protective policy of the Republican Re-publican party Tnpy placed him In the executive chair because they had confidence confi-dence in his honesty and integrity and determination to stand by his convictions They also elected a Congress pledged to the same work as to the tariff i Now because the President explains that the revision of the tariff required by the people will follow the more imminent duty the settlement of the financial questionhis intimation is called a menace men-ace and all kinds of horrors and calamities calam-ities are prognosticated as consequent upon this alarming and terrific threat Do our Republican mully grubbers want tho Congress and the administration to proceed with tariff reform or do they not If they do why call the mere announcement an-nouncement that in regular order it will be attended to a menace If they do not why prod and sneer and spur and goad the administration for not rushing poll mell into I free trade as they please to call it V But these questions imply honesty and consistency on the part of thoso to whom they are addressed and that is perhaps giving thorn credit for something to which they are strangers They will no doubt keep on with their contradictions and misrepresentations and tho good that will come of it will bs that the simplest sim-plest as wfcli as the most intelligent of voting citizens will whntarrant humbugs hum-bugs are the assailants of tho President and the party he represents |