Show l The Herald discussing the fact that 4m tin President has signed the porio I Uleo tariff bill declares 8 that by so doing he shows unmistakable con tomnt for the Constitution and utter disregard for the petitions of the people peo-ple most concerned and little compunction I compunc-tion for broken faith Neither r proposition pro-position is true nor nearly true The men who fought the bill with moat vehemence were the men who were In the employ of the tobacco and sugar trusts of the United States who had I gone to Porto Rico and bought up the I tobacco and sugar and wanted to send It frci of duly inlo this country As for the Constitution Senator Spooner I i I deaerlbed that In a few words Ho I said he thought that vagary had been i shot away That proposition of lie Democracy was first Invented by l cal I 1 bonn for the purpose ioc extend I Hlavery and It was fought r by such I men nH Webster ami Chief Justice Murslmll lAB for Lime lax all agreed thai the dltUrcfH In H Porto Kleo wax i I extreme and that something must be 1 IlI1r cu done for the people or that warswept and hurrlcancswcpL Island The mean uro la atemporary one Intended simply to raise needed revenue which had to be raised cither by taxation of that kind or by direct appropriation of this country Tho matter wJU he thoroughly thorough-ly ventilated between now and election elec-tion time and we take It the result will be Just as it was In the Senate a few Republicans will vote against sustaining I sus-taining it a good many Democrats will see that it Js the proper thing to do and will Indorso it I |