Show the tariff robbery we heard a great deal during the campaign of 1892 about the tariff robbery and how unconstitutional it was it w q told when mr CLEVELAND was elected that he would at once call a special session of congress to appeal the mo kinley tariff and substitute free trade after which the country would prosper for a long time the country waa in doubts as to whether the special session of congress would be called finally the great told the country that it was not so imperative impe native that the tariff robbery should cease as to aske it necessary for a special session of congress still he believed in having the tariff promptly revised when it could bo regularly done the country in the meantime began to feel that the ballots of the majority in november 1893 spoke for fran rade and that that policy wa virtually upon the country industries dus tries of various kinds began to slack operations confidence began to vanish in commercial circles and the panic so called came upon then it was that the president conceived tha idea of calling a special session of congress not to repeal the mckinley bill but to further depreciate silver such legislation it was promised would bring immediate revival in trade the epenial congress convened the aberman purchasing act was repealed and still the hard amea continued more than that tha tariff robbery still exists in form if not in virtue and there seems no hurry on the part of the party in power to relieve the country of ita distress which some of them have the hardihood to say comes from the protective policy the question IB if they believe 20 great an evil comes from a policy that has always brought prosperity under republican publican Be rule why do our pot reverse toe wheels now and give good their free arnde policy the truth is the democrats now apar to pat to the test the principles on which they won the last national victory they feel it will be making permanent tho conditions that are now upon us |