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Show PROTECTIONIST DEMOCRATS ! As tho weeks go by it appears to bo moro and moro certain that tho schemo ot tho radical Democrats Demo-crats for "ripping up the tnrlff system" will bo blocked by Democratic votes, aided therein by Republican Re-publican protectionists In both Houses of Congress, nutcd recently that the Representative elected from' tho Joplln district In Missouri has gono to Washington Wash-ington expressly to light any proposition to reduce the tariff on zinc. Tho Democratic members In Congress from Colorado of both Houses can bo depended de-pended upon to tako tho same position both ns to zinc and as to lead. A good many of tho Democrats will oppose tho slashing of tho wool tariff; and tho uul.!lana Senators can bo depended upon to votu I'gaiust any destructive mensuro with respect to tho tariff on sugar. A recent number ot tho Now Orleans Or-leans Picayune speaks In sanguine terms with re-snect re-snect to tho tight now on In Louisiana "to preserve .. tho sugar industry of tho country from serious In-Jurv In-Jurv 'rom unwise tariff legislation." That mennB that the two Louisiana Democrats In tho sennto wll, as heretofore, voto against any reduction of no duty on sugar. With tho Louisiana Democratic Senators voting vot-ing iitwlnst a reduction In the sugar duties; with the A.lssourl Democratic Senators voting ngaiusi umpertng with tho duty on zinc nnd lead, and with the Democrats from North Carolina nnd Texas lighting In favor of tnrlff on wool and manufactures thereof, nnd upon rlco, it Is hard to sen how any destructive bill can bo got through tho Senate, when the ucnato is very closo at best and tho de-bcrtion de-bcrtion ot even one Democratic Senator from a Democratic tariff cutting program would bo dlsas-troiiu. dlsas-troiiu. Salt Lako Tribune. ta ft? ! |
