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Show MAKING HASTE SLOWLY. The sadly needed, long looked and prayed for tariff reform bill Still drags Its weary length through our national legislative halls, apparently no nearer final passage than when it was firet offered, A strong move, at whose head stands President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle, is being pushed to defeat the income feature of the bill. The income provision clause is approved ap-proved by ninety per cent, of the democrats favoring the passage of the enactment, while among the people peo-ple of all sections, save in. New York amoLg the millionaires the per cent-age cent-age of those in favor of the law is even higher. But New York is recklessly pushing the interests of her heavy capitalists cap-italists at grave hazard and seems determined de-termined to rule or ruin on.this question as she did in regard to silver. A fatality fatal-ity of the times appears to be that all needful reform legislation is retarded, held out upon one pretext or another until the germ of the reform has become be-come distasteful to those who were its warmest champions on the day of the introduction of the measure. The mountebank statesmen of the epoch have learned the mere trickery of the art of retarding reform, of which they know little and care less, until poor human nature is worn out and nature simply bows her head and permits the Btorm to sweep oyer. When poor Wilson'B bill was perfected per-fected and he, a broken down and well-nigh well-nigh dead man, went away to Mexico, everyone supposed the bill would become be-come a law within a month. But here we find ourselves today with a bill as little resembling the original as things terrestrial resemble things celestial, and no whit nearer completion than it was on the day it was presented in congress the first time. This is enough to sap the confidence of even the strongest partisans of the measure both in and outside of congress. The president of the United States surely Bhould be the last man on the earth to permit his personal friendship with and for the bankers of New York, to retard for one moment this one leading and imperatively demanded measure by the necessities of the times, to be jeopardized a single hour. It this matter mat-ter goes on much longer In this way the last vestige of hope for the bill will be lost forever. With silver in the condition it is, and tariff reform held back on the plea that it would disoblige the rich to have their incomes taxed, the president and secretary both opposed, we in the west might as well give up all hope of party success and abandon all effort as useless, or worse. It handicaps the western and southern democracy completely. com-pletely. Can the eastern and northern democracy win anything without the southern and western democracy? The very suggestion is preposterous. We have been the yielding section long enough. Let some other sections give way for once. We have thus given up our fullness for their husks long enough. Let us stand for tiue democracy democ-racy and give up not a jot or tittle mnrp. hut let the others triva wav. or taste of the bitterness of defeat, poverty pov-erty and despair until they learn what human sympathy is, and how to exhibit ex-hibit it. We, here and now, venture to eay, and sav it solemnly, that if silver is not restored, and the Wilson bill with the income tax clause intact is not passed before the end of the session, that we will enter the race predoomed to crushing crush-ing and entire defeat. |