Show APOLOGY I 1 A men who are studying the tariff I 1 1 question and all tho the issues therean to I 1 belonging not from a party but a paIrl patriotic otle standpoint think that senator john sherman sherma in explaining his C I 1 voto vote for the aickin mckinley rl ey bill him has not in the least his act of the insincerity which tho the democratic e enemy emy are disposed to charge to the supporters of the measure mr sherman rz I 1 Is manifestly labo laboring under some concern asto as to the possible result ot of I 1 I 1 the bill upon the con country and more still as to the intrinsic quality of his 1 own action in support of it if it he be is not in some doubt whether be he did not on that occasion encroach upon hia his conscience hia his words reported from a speech delivered afew a few days ago do him great wrong I 1 addressing himself to tho the beneficiaries fi fici aries of the bill ho he read them a solemn lecture on gratitude and kindred human qualities insisting that it would not be bs coming in them to take advantage of the rich tiling thing that congress was giving them and go to tampering with the free competition in the american market 11 11 lie 0 rave gave them to understand that tho the success I 1 ot of the kill bill depended upon their encouraging cou raging their competitors it in 1 the borne home trade eo so that hat tho the voters voter could ik lee see that they were honest bonest men mn and not disposed to avail themselves ot of the protection which congress Cong roea had I 1 intended for their patrons they must resist the temptation v which bich the bill afforded them to aggregate agg regita their I 1 capital in combinations pools I 1 trusts and other things for the tho i purpose of advancing prices i because eaid said mr sherman 11 II it you do these objectionable th things ings you will so offend the people that the protective I 1 I 1 I 1 tariff will disappear right quick I 1 hope therefore that you will open r the doors of fair competition an and d give the people the benefit of the protection I 1 which Oon congress gress intended for them if it you do not I 1 shall bo be as 71 ready lovoto to voto for the begeal repeal of the bill e as I 1 was for its pat passage sage 11 in ill he the estimation of he the enemies of McKin leya leys idea ui ef tariff reform this I 1 1 is 8 pretty of a giveaway give away for mr bherman ex iiames when bec he barged charged that no more deadly blow was wax ever struck at the republican party was not more unqualified in bis his I 1 condemnation than ia is mr lit sherman I 1 t 1 in these hysterical misgivings as to its results upon homo competition however auro sure u may vy be the ill results of the 6 bill upon the Ite republican publican party something may bo be said of sir sherman I 1 which is even more certain namely 1 that bis his a to retiro retire from 7 r 1 pol politics itice baa has not corao COMO any too so soon on already he may bo be considered a republican ji booso boose and in thinking i himself better than bis his party this last i confession declares him not only dangerously gerou sly superannuated but very I 1 j much more of a tr trimmer im f mer than thin people m have generally bell believed eved I 1 |