Show POLITICAL XOTES Mr Cleveland has good reason to commend com-mend certain features of the tariff bill while disapproving others Take wool as an illustration The larger part of his reat tariff reform mesaee of 1SS7 was devoted to an argument for free wool > and It was his argument OP that special item that made the most marked impression impres-sion on public opinion It would be aTc a-Tc t victory for tariff reform if free wool and a corresponding reduction on woolen gcods were the only changes from the McKinley law embodied In the new lawPittsburg Post Dem Wool has been the donjon of protection It has been taken and the rest will have to surrender eventually No Congress ever promised so much and performed ro little in proportion to the apparent ability of the majority to make gool its promises This has been recognized to be due to the domination of the professional politician in the Senate Sen-ate but it is i cogent that there Is a similar responsibility resting on the professional Ib g afe b W lIg pftl fessional politicians of the HousePitts burg Dispatch Rep The failure of this Congress S do more was owing to an unholy alliance between the Republicans of the Senate and three or four Democratic senators who were controlled by others than the Democratic party The close of the first session of this Democratic Congress marks the end of one campaignj of education and the beginning be-ginning of another The people who were mlsleq by Democratic promises and party I ledges in 1SU2 Into voting for a change i have learned a lesson from the Democratic Demo-cratic party They are now prepared to teach the Democratic party a lesson in return Mail and Express Rep The people were not misled by the Democrats and thev knew it The Republicans publicans are trying to mislead them now but they will not succeed nut even if It be granted for the sake of argument that the protection given the refining intirest under the new law Is somewhat less than that under the Mc Kinlov act the fact remains for the discomfiture dis-comfiture of the Democrats that the present pres-ent duties were Imposed at the dictation of the Sugar trust and that while under the McKinley law sugar was cheapened to the consumer under the new law the price will bo increased subject entirely to the regulation of the monopoly Omaha Bee Rep It is a strange and inexplicable thing that the Sugar trust should become so immoral im-moral under the new tariff which gives it less protection than did the McKinley law when it was the same thing under McKinleyitm that it is today The absence of the moral air of Republicanism ism probably accounts for the change The cardinal fact which will make the 2Sth 01 August memorable the history of the nation is that on this day is begun the actual operation of the law of commercial com-mercial emancipation Yesterday Mo Kinleyism with all the burdensome ar itrary and corrupt inliuences which It involved reached the term of its existence exist-ence From today the course of the nation na-tion will be steadily forward in the freer pursuit of that prosperity which our resources re-sources and cur energies once unfettered assure usN Y Times Dem McKinle > isir was the highest point to which protection has ever gone in this country and under it the nation suffered the most severely from financial depression depres-sion For mote than a year of active political lite the Republican party the tried and niuvoii reprci entative of all that was rational ra-tional intelligent Independent Industrious Industri-ous and in a word all that was char acceiistically American in the country WS upon a vague alarm sounded by designing de-signing rogues displaced It had given the country twenty years of uninterrupted uninterrupt-ed prosperity It had nurtured American genius and ingenuity i by securing for both the Ii Ihcst remuneration they ever had in the worlds history N Y Commercial Advertiser Rep One thing If i < certain and that is that the Repuuican party will nevr again be placed plac-ed in power if it is intended to make the attempt by conjuring with McKinleyism The Republican members could block the legislative wheels with a little aid from their few allies on the other sidfe of the chamber and they did so > for weeks Mr Culloms confession serves to remind the country that day after day for weeks the Republican members pursued the policy of obstructing offering frivolous amendments making speeches as long as > the sacred writings of India and all for the purpose of forcing concessions to monopoly from unwilling Democrats Chicag Herald Ind Had the Republicans been actuated by a spirit of patriotism the tariff bill would have become a law months ago The Ijemecrats of the House fought a good fight and have itceived the plaudits plau-dits of the country No Democrat who stool honestly and squarely by the tariff pledges of Lib party Is scathed by the presidents letter Hut for their courage and devotion the tariff bill would have been still further damaged In the Senate and to them is due the many benefits which were preserved in the final form of the bill Atlanta Journal Dem The Democrats of the House fulfilled their promises to the country and the country recognizes the fact From the beginning to the end of the great struggle which terminated in thi repeal of the iniquitous McKinley law Mr Wilson gave evidence of the intellectual intel-lectual strength and patriotism which characterIze him But at no time did he approach the grandeur of his character char-acter until at the last moment he had the courage to yield his personal pride and opinion to the common good and accept less than he hoped to achieve but much more than firther resistance would have accomplished That was a sublime exhibition of heroism Kansas City Times D6m Mr Wilson not only showed himself to be a man of intellectual strength and patriotism but also a man who is acquainted ac-quainted wIt the ways of practical politics poli-tics The new tariff policy is the wsest of any we have had since the war and the peipla will speedily send calamity howlers howl-ers to the rear ascommerce industry and trade revive amongst Philadelphia Times It is th2 first since the war that has not been revised upwards and the consequence con-sequence is a great Improvement J Now there is an end of it The sun this morning rose upon a land emancipated emancipat-ed from its four years slavery Ale Kinleylam goes to take its place among the great mistakes the cruel mistakes of history The new order of things begins be-gins Boston Post Oem The Fiftythird Congress has especially condemned itself by the passage of the Income tax clauses of thc tariff bill but except for that It has made a fairly good record especially when one considers Its possibilities for mischief under the lead of the Popuis > ts with whom both Republicans Repub-licans and Democrats seught to curry favor fa-vor Philadelphia Ledger Rep The rccord of the Fiftythird Congress is much better than its 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