In 1892

The duty ot good democrats is plain. There is no need that they should feel discouraged. The exuberant outbursts ot joy from the re publicans, the wild poeans of victorj to which they give utterance, tht contumely they seek to heap upon he parly which gave them battle, the extravagant predictions of n long period of republican party rule should not cause a good democrat tu be cast down. Eight years ago we remember a republican victorv, ■which they claimed was to be tic death of the democratie party. Yel in 18S4, the party was resurrecteü better and stronger than ever. ing the campaign just passed, the Akgvs uttered no prediction of its result. Looking calmly over the clection returns and to the principie which animate the parties, the Ar GUSisnortf periectly tree to preuic that 1892 will witness the return o; the democratie party to power on the tantí reform issue. The victory in 1892 will be owing to no accident it will be due to no third party abstracting votes from the opposition It will be due to the intelligence o American ireemen. The campaign just closed was on educational one The time wa? too short for it to bear full fruit. But the seeds have been sown and in time will bring forth abundantly. We were defeated thi year in the rural distriets. The farmers were not educated up to the issue. The question at stake was not presented to them luily. lf any set of men are injured by the tariff they are the farmers. The bedrock of American institutions, the larmers are thoroughly unprotected. 'l'hey jay extra prices for their manufacured articles because they are forced to buy in an inflated home market, while they sell in the markets of the world in compeütion with India and all the other cheap labor countries of the world. It harclly seems sible that to them, of all men, should be due the defeat of a party which champions their cause. Y et such tne prejudice against change in rural districts, such the part'sanship which shuts the eyesof men totheirown individual interests to advance those of a party which antagonizes those interests that temporary deieat greets th party of reform. If a protective tariff has any valic claim for its existence at all, it is the claim that it increases the wages of the laborers in the protected industries. It is in thecities that such laborers are found and if tariff reform would injure anyone beside the protected millionaire manufacturer, it must be the employees of this manufacturer. This statement oiicrht to be self-evident. In the cities the tar íffquestion has been more generally discussed than in the country. The workingmen have been seeking a the light to be found on the question In their meetings and on the stree corners they have discussed the question pro and con. And despite the sophistries of protection, despite the desperate eftort to convince the laborer that lower tarifF meant lower wages, the scales have been falling trom their eyes and the cause of tariff reform has gained largely in the cities. The election returns show it Cleveland has gained heavily in the manufacturing cities and lost in the country. The duty of the hour is patent The time to run an educational canvass, is when no candidate is in the Held, when the intoxication of an election canvass is not muddling the brain of the voter. Let the same attention be paid to bringing these facts before the farmers that has served to enlighten the workmen and it will bring forth fruit more abundantly. The intelligent yeomanry oi America will demand tor itself freedom from taxation for the benefit oi the few millionaires vho maintain lobbies to deceive the representatives of the people and who keep a party committed to the support of their unjut system of taxation by liberal contributions for its succëss. Now is the time for the leaven of reform to work. It is because we have confidence in the intelligence of the American people that we predict success in 1892. "The well fought campaign for right principie of government has been lost - Cleveland and the democratie party are defcated. The chief reason for this disaster is the want of adequate preparation for meeting the main issue. Eleven months was not t ime enough in which to enlighten the mass of unthinking voters educated for a full generation in the belief that taxes promote prosperity and tariff regulates wages. The World questioned last June whether the president had not in precipitating this issue in the beginning of the campaign done the right thing at the wrong time. We commended his courage, but doubted his discreetness. Had the issue been forceé a year earlier it is improbable that the errors and sophistries and buga boos of the protectionists could have prevailed against the plain need of the country for a reduction of taxes through a reform of the tarff. However, it was a case of 'better ate thannever.' The president at east gave to his party an issue worthy of such a contest. He lifted he plañe of national politics from he petty strife for spoils of the rabile to contests for principie. He )uried beyond resurrection the dead ssues of the past, and brought both jarties face to face with the living uestions of the present. He submitted a campaign of education for a ainpaign of detraction, and though he education of the voters was not ompleted, the movement he inaugrated wiü not stop, it being well aid that 'no great question is settled ntil settled rightly' as Lincoln said f slavery. If unnecessary taxation is not wrong, nolhing is wrong. The war axes will be reduced, the surplus will be stopped. The tariff thatenriches the few at the expense of the many will be reformed. Cleveland and nis party can afford to wait for a vindication ot their position in this contest. It is better to have deserved success and lost than not deserved it and won. The democratie party is never so vigorous, united or determined as when in opposition. It has only to be true to its principies and steadtast in support of its policy to triumph. Right will prevail for 'in reuublics all needed reforms are sible.'