Show DOST YOU FORGET IT It is refreshing to see the admission in a radical Republican paper that Every ruling measure now before the people is Republican Although the statement is made with the intention of boastfully assuming for the Republican Republi-can party the credit for all the brains of the nation it is none the less useful at the present juncture The people of the country need to have this fact impressed upon their minds The Herald has done its part from the commencement of the troubles that have come upon the country to make it clear to the masses that these disasters if traceable to legislation of any kind must of necessity be the consequence con-sequence of Republican measures and policies for the simple and undeniable reason that no other laws had yet been enacted But it has been the aim and purpose of Republican organs and orators to make the people believe that the financial finan-cial panic the labor troubles and the trade depressions are all the conse auence of Democratic ascendancy They know how untrue this is but their answer when appealed to as to the wrong of it is Oh thats politics poli-tics Such politics come from hell and are prompted by the father of lies no matter who adopt those tactics The truth is enunciated in the sentence sen-tence we have quoted Every ruling measure now before the public is Republican Re-publican Therefore on the Republican Republi-can party rests the responsibility for the troubles that hnvp wiine frnm Hmce ruling measures u Write that u down v as j I the inevitable logical deduction from the proposition inadvertently laid down by a Republican authority There is a feeling of irritation among the people of this country over the delays that have accurred in effecting the reforms which the Democratic Congress Con-gress was elected to bring about That is natural on the part of those voters who know what they want and are not tossed to and fro and carried about by every blustering blast of opinion The ruling measures which are to be repealed must be swept out of the way with all possible speed There will be no improvement in general affairs until un-til that is accomplished But the rational voters of the United States ought not tp expect that the Democratic party can in a single session ses-sion of Congress undo the wrongs and I change the ruling measures which have been brought about by more than I thirty years of Republican domination They must exercise reasonable patience In addition to the necessity of careful and conservative action on these matters mat-ters there is the obstruction continually con-tinually interposed by the party responsible re-sponsible for the measures to be removed re-moved and for the evils that have I crown out of them These drawbaclts must not be overlooked in the excessive exces-sive anxiety for reform I I The fickle multitude are swayed by feeling rather than reason Popular opinion is an unstable guide The same lips that are now cursing Cleveland Cleve-land as the cause of their distress will likelv in a few months be sounding his praises and in neither case will he be entitled to applause or blame There have been causes at work for which the Democratic President and the Democratic Dem-ocratic party are in no way responsible which have occasioned the present distresses dis-tresses They are not all to be charged upon any party But those who desire to saddle them upon the Dsmocracy should take to heart the truth culled from a Republican organ Every riding measure now before the public is i Republican |