| Show POLICY DEFINED A democratic contemporary grows poetic in telling of what kind of policy the democrats will pursue in in relation to the tariff it says the leopla will soon di discover scover that it is ia line like the dawning of the lizbet of day steadily and imperceptibly shedding its ita rays raya athwart the dark gloo a of tle passing night at first only to make the darkness ilar liness visible hut but increasing lug in force too to t o that obedis oba eela may ha ba dimly perceived the objects themselves ap appears app learing earm bogrow to arow upon the vision until their true forms are distinguishable this same came paper has been wont to call protect ion a robbery and a theft but betm in the light of the above figure we take it that si a sudden turning in away from such sins would not be according accordia tu to democratic policy it if a mau man has bas been a railway robber for instance le L a should not stop the business at once but rob first an express cur car then a stage san a coach next a freighter then a pedestrian and so on gradually as the light of day dispels the darkness of night ilaman if a man is ia a horse thief and desires to reform he ought to brual a cow ilion iea a calf a pi pis a chicker er etc gradually turning in from evil for if the brilliancy bril lancy 0 of f noonday noon day light should instantly succeed the blackness of midnight darkness the effect would be krousl erous soalmo so also wih the robber tariff inaugurated l by the republicans democrats do not intend to break away from the evil practice at once but gradually if it is the robbery they have all along claimed it to be better stop it at ones as that would be ba more consistent with their past position |
