This Means You

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Some time ago the people sent their supposcd servents, whom they liave since found to be their masters, to Washington with the command to créate a tariff for the benefit of the said people and not for the protection of monopolies and trusts. Will the majority obey the people's command, or will it be found .wanting in the supreme crisis ? Will it snatch victory frona the opportunity of years, or shameless defeat ? We shall see what we shall see. The French Deputies are in the midst of a heated tariff debate and they are rehashing the arguments so familiar to most people in this country. Occasionaly something is brought out that is new, or at least is put in a new way. For instance Deputy Faurer, a socialist and a radical protectionest, argües that a tax for any other purpose than revenue is Socialism pure and simple. This is novel, but the more one ponders the statement the more he is convinced that it is a plain unvarnished fact. Socialism is not a word that will please the ear of those who believe in class discrimination in matters of legislation as does "protection," but it is undoubtedly more appropriate. A tax laid for the benefit of a class is Socialism. Dear Governor, what has become of those three gentlemen whom you some time ago removed from their high office of trust and honor to which the people had elevated them and which they disgraced by the grossest neglect, if not by studied criminality? Have they retired to the shades of private life, a station most befitting men of their ilk, or are they still drawing the salary the people denied them, but which they by their dexterity in counting settled upon themselves? If they have shaken the dust of office from their sandals, did they first return to the state treasury the extra "dust" they had drawn therefrom? The people are anxious to know. The attempt of republican capitalists to ruin the country, by shutting down milis and factories, is the most diabolical and infamous attempt to thwart the will of the people, that has ever marked the history of our government. But it cannot avail them, and all over the country, the milis are going into business again, giving the lie to the claim made by noisy demagogues in congress, and blatant howlers for protection, that the tariff "tinkering" would hurt our manufacturingenterprises. Monday last, the Johnstown, Pa., steel works resumed business with 2,000 men at work. It had never any occasion to stop work, and was forced to start up by the strong demand for producís ot labor. Let our workmen bear these chaps in mind and drive every element of tariff robbery from the next congress. - Adrián Press. The action of Judge Chapin, of the Superior Court of Detroit, in fining and imprisoning certain calcitrant witnesses in the late Considine trial, cannot be too highly commended. The only criticism that can be passed on the Judge's action is that he was not -severe enough. When a tough is placed on the witness stand to testify against another of his ilk, he frequently fails to remember facts with which he is perfectly familiar, and thereby defeats the ends of justice. He cares nothing for the strictures of the court or for the wilful and delibérate violation of his solemn oath. These are matters of no concern to him, his only care is to lock up his testimony and prevent the merited punishment of a pal. There is no attempt to disguise the purpose of the lying statement that the witness "does not know," for he boasts of his crime and his purpose to defeat justice. That such a witness should be most severely dealt with no one questions. Courts should, therefore, wake up to a realizing sense of the enormity of the offense of these villians and teach them that justice is not to be trifled with. Courts as a rule are altogether too lenient in dealing with such offenders. If they would deal out to such lying witnesses the extreme penalty of the law, the tendency would be to make such gentry understand the necessity of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The republicanss have always claimed that when the democrats were retired from power in the nation thirty years ago, it was the result of their (democrats) own acts, and that the financial and business depression of the time was directly attributable to that party and that party alone. So far as the then existing situation was the result or governmental action, this charge was'true; but the same reasoning applied to the situation at that time leads inevitably to republican responsibility for the present situation. So far, therefore, as the financial stress and business depression of the present are the results of legislation or any political action, the republican party is wholly responsible and its attempt to place the odium on the democrats is as diabolical as it is dishonest. Never before in the history of the country has a political party put forth such herculean efforts to injure the business of the country for the purpose of thwarting the will of the people and regaining lost political favor as has been made by the republican party since Cleveland's inauguration. That those infamous efforts to restore themselves to favor will fail, there can be no question; for while the first impulse is always to blame the party in power, the sober second thought of the people will place the responsibility where it belongs. The people cannot be permanently deceived in this matter and here is where the republicans are laying up trouble for themselves. When better times come, as they are sure to Ao, the republicans will be bothered to explain them.