Show bizz sa democratic PARTY PAtr jN VOICE OP OF OUR bur PRESS ON THE ISSUES OP OF TODAY TO DAY TIM V people pu of Count country 7 havel BAT at ways vy baad Ramen sted the toi brab on and lain tot tor chicago 0 o chronicler says aie me kuperm loyal Tri bun ren the me fighting staff edtl editor bf te the chro chronicle bicle nicle turns ts away min from the living question of free silver his party so 90 much which Ls is giving trouble to dis discuss escuss and find and fault with the financial policy of et the republicans and their allies the war dm democrats catl a third of a century iko ago during the re belli oth tat but first the republicans of indiana turned away from the livins living question ot of free silver ilver to boast of the wise financial policy of their party a third of a century ago during the rebellion and ever since had they and other republican republicans laicans exercised a little modesty and not boadt uit that the policy ot of their party ai ah regard tp finance had always been the wisest possible and tar far exalted aba above e criticism had they not turned away from living issues to write their party history wry in the splat spirit and language of the arrant braggart the chronicle would not hot have had occasion or casion to the falseness of th lr elins the tribune now goes back of lin irah ad h with whom the indiana republicans stopped and says that betom the secession war the demo eratA embi nad A crippled cri P the nt bt bi the government by down tariff duties almost to the free trade level the democrats had reduced duties in 1816 and again in 1857 and the people never gave any party a chanc chan t tn increase ill reaze them again until the ki republican u alican party came into on the slavery issue at the end of a contest in which the tariff question queS tiU was not involved at all i everybody who klows anything an about the history of those years knows known that when til the people elected lincoln Lin colfi in ageo they voted to stop the leith sion of slavery and not to restore a protective tariff from which most of them believed the coun try to be happily rid the th tariff ot of 1857 was satisfactory th t take people and time was wae amm such republican leaders as garfield gar held allison and even blaine admitted that the country was never more prosperous than under the democratic tariffs of 1846 and 1857 the revenue under the latter rose from in 1858 ta M SA in 1859 and in 1860 but tor for the rebellion the tariff of 1857 would have produced plenty of revenue after the came in into to power in ili 1861 one of their first acts was to substitute a protective tor for a revenue tariff they took advantage of the power which the people had given thom them to be exercised in preventing the extension of slavery and enacted an old fashioned whig protective tariff which the people had repeatedly rejected and did not want this perfidious act was about the first legislative expression of republican economic policy the war democrats voted against it but tolerated it from pa patriotic motives from like motives they did not make stubborn resistance si to the greenback policy which was wholly republican the republicans alone were responsible for repudiating th promise premise to give coin bonds tor for greenbacks green gien backs which was contained in the first and second greenback acts by that repudiation the pay of our soldiers in the field which was none too high at best was in effect reduced fully 25 per cent the copperheads copper heads bad as they were cannot be accused of that wrong the tribune betrays conscious consciousness nees that the greenback policy of its party during the war was indefensible when it carefully abstains from any allusion to this act of repudiation committed in march 1883 1863 and it admits that the greenbacks green backs were depreciated by excessive issues when it says that no more greenbacks green backs were issued than were needed to pay the soldiers and do the business of the country and immediately adds but there would not have been as many greenbacks green backs put in circulation if the war had not been protracted as it was by the disloyal attitude of so many northern democrats the truth Is that the war financial policy of the republican party will not bear examination the less ins it Is made A a subject of boasting the more comfortable will it be to the republicans of today to day |