Show CLEVELAND AND GORMAN Jn the quarrel between the president and Mr Gorman both equally right many things ara to be considered Mr Cleveland ia right so far as the underlying under-lying fundamental doctrine of democracy democ-racy goand Mr Gorman is right EO far as the policy of his position is concerned con-cerned Democratic party principles demand free raw materals The doctrine doc-trine ie old Jefferson and the spirit the spirit of the past with all of its wisdom and commercial possibilities upeaking back from the other shore to the working patriots still working and striving on this mundane shore Mr Clevelands position touches the extreme ex-treme of the democratic faith on the tariff question Under other conditions than those which prevail todaywith emi Panic conditions still prevailing and which have prevailed for a year or so Is it best is it most prudent to push this extreme doctrine to a conclusion con-clusion Congress has labored for three months almost exclusively upon the tariff law It has already cost the country many millions of dollars yet by Mr Clevelands letter to Mr Wilson Wil-son which is a virtual veto all this labor la-bor goes for naught The senate is EO constituted that in its amendments to the Wilson billit has approached as near to free trade as the present senate sen-ate will ever be induced to go It is resolved to this Is a half loaf better than nO bread at all Is the medium tariff just from the senate real reform as compared with the robber exactions ofthe McKinley law We fear that if the American people were called upon to answer the question it would be answered an-swered in the affirmatiyeand that too by a very dense majority We cannot can-not afford to waste much more time on tariff this session and we can illy afford to dally much longer under the heavy burdens imposed by the McKinley Mc-Kinley law Something must be done to relieve the drastic situation into which the country has been plunged by the extraordinary schemes of contraction con-traction which have worked out here in JHe last few years Will we beat attain that extremely desireable end by stop pingoiow to construct another bill on thebasis laid dowujby Mr Cleveland or can we do it best and more quickly bv accepting the senates bill It seems to us that there can be but one reply to these inquiries We say this too with a most solemn conviction convic-tion of the correctness and fairness of Mr Clevelands position both as a matter of true democratic policy as well as patriotic wisdom But we are confronted by a perfectly intractible senate and another dreary wait of at least two years Gormans position will give us what measure of reform wa may now hope for and without anymore any-more delay Under the circumstances prevailing today which best We need relief need it badly and need it soon Shall the president or the senate sen-ate give way One or the other must or we will have two years more of the McKinley iniquity which both parties unitein declaring the monster imposition imposi-tion of the age It seems that a little patriotism on both sides will help outLet out-Let Mr Gorman consent to a little en longation of the free list and Mr Cleveland to a little curtailment and a peace thusbe patched up until a reference refer-ence to the people at the ballot box will indicate how the sovereigns feel on the matter themselves We Believe as littlein senatorial dictation as we do the oneman article and that is the yoice of the people |