Show I ON A TERRIBLE STRAIN The local straddler of two horses that run away from each other is in a ludicrous ludi-crous position and has not sense enough to let one or the other go and stick to a single saddle Wealth prosperity and abundance astonishing to think of and penury depreciation of values lowering of wages and ruination agricultural and laboring interests at one and the same time in the same country are an utter impossibility And yet the Tribune straddler continues to strain every nerve to keep up his lick on both It is useless to rant and foam and try to change the question that is an old trick of the Tribunes and Is understood It is not the alleged prosperity of last year and the distress this year that are contrasted It is the simultaneous unexampled prosperity and terrible disaster that form the dilemma of its own making Prosperity through a high tariff and distress through silver depreciation depre-ciation during twenty years not at different times that is the incongruous proposition that it has to tackle and which it tries to dodge but in vain In this endeavor it rattles away on the old story of the countrys alarm and says If a man has a treasure guarded by a wall that robbers cannot climb or breakthrough break-through the security of that treasure Is absolutely taken away should competent authority decree that the wall must betaken be-taken down and it is not necessary to wait until the wall is demolished before the owner will take fright Well who is it that has the walled treasure and who is it that is in a fright The Tribune thus furnishes its own answer an-swer Manufacturers have been protected in this country by the wall of the American tariff They see the threat now that that wall must come down That is all there is of the terrible alarm Republicanism has thrown a wall around a favored class at the expense of the people at large The treasure is the monopolies fostered by the protective system and hedged in by the high tariff wall It is not robber who V have decreed de-creed that the wall shall come down It is the people who arose in their might and declared that the robber tariff shall be demolished Yes that wall must come down This ia no threat of apart a-part it is the voice of the people it is the verdict of the majority at the polls I When paper that is doing its utmost to create fear and cause alarm by picturing pictur-ing evils to come that have no existence not even in actual imagination but only in malicious invention talks as if < the people are dreading what thay > have peremptorily per-emptorily demanded it needs a guardian to protect it against Jurther folly One more quotation and we have done A Irrotpr tin cry t that somebody l else responsible simply barren demagoguery dema-goguery No o effected by the question can possibly take any notice of it I I Precisely And what is this every day co 0 V 1 Ift 3 V I repetition of the nonsense that ° present distress under Republican laws and Republican Re-publican duties and Kspnbhoin silver legislation are due to the Democracy but Uo parrotprating cry and barren demagoguery It is also transparent trickery and brazen buffoonery The rest of the remark is a fair sample of Tribune logic and consistency We should say a person affected by the question ques-tion cannot help taking notice of it But our wondrously wise neighbor says if he is affected by it it is impossible to notice it The Tribune is in a bad way It should be lifted down from that straddle strad-dle and also given a few lessons in common com-mon composition and ordinary horse sense V |