Judge — February 15, 1890 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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LL THE DEMOCRATS in the legislature who dare have deserted Governor Hill on the ballot question; but the cowards who stick to him are more or less brave, after all, for defying such mites of conscience as they happen to have. PEAKING of a leading Democrat, the Utica Herald says, “Although they say he is getting better he has just joined the church.” ‘That's no criterion to go by. If he is accustomed to apprehension why didn’t he join the church when he joined the party? ct that Mrs, Leslie Carter has signed with a manager tress next fall. We give artling intelligence, the bargain is based on the belief that people go to the theatre merely to encourage—what is the proper word, notor T IS an absolute f to appear as an for of cours THE MINORI HAT constitutes a quorum ? PREVAILS. If a man’s presence means nothing why should he take the trouble to be present at all? If he re- fuses to vote whenever a vote embarrasses him there can be a quorum only when his views prevail. Let us have quorums, er majorities, in AS THEY GO IN TO DINNER. RY —"' Poor, dear grandma is so industrious, MR. SILLS (wwho has been leaning against it all the evening) our elections. Say that fifty people refuse to vote, and therefore there can be no majority, or no vote, This blocks the wheels of election, as the bodily but silent presence of a number of men blocks legislation or the transaction of other kinds of business. A quorum means, then, that there is a quorum when you want a quorum, and no quorum when you are opposed to a quorum. REVISION IS REFORM. OTWITHSTANDING the assertion of the ablest of Democratic oracles that it is the purpose of the Republican leaders in con- gress to postpone and play with tariff revision and nurse the issue for parade in the presidential struggle of 1892, such a policy would be imprudent if not fatal. There is now no divided responsibility. A Republican legislative majority, unembarrassed by a veto maniac in the executive chair, has before it a plain and simple duty it dare not shirk. Demagogues in speech and print have apostrophized the bugaboo of surplus until a credulous people, doing much of its thinking by deputy, regards it as a menace to national prosperity. The fact is over- looked that over seven hundred and fifty million dollars of debt is due very shortly and to be paid or postponed. There is’ also a floating debt of three hundred and fifty million dollars of promissory greenback: which should and could absorb the excess in the treasury and be changed from indebtedness into certificates of deposit which, without a flurry of financial disturbance, would make each note as good as bul- lion in any part of the world. A tariff revision is not nec- essarily a tariff reduction. The varying circumstances of pro- duction require from time to time a change not of method but of amount collected. A tar- iff that was prudent and proper ten or twenty years ago may not be a wise one to-day. The clothes that fit. the baby will not fit the boy, and more roomy garments are needed for the man, No legislative methods can be modeled on the inquisi- torial bed of such orthodox ex- actness that this short must be stretched and that lengthy one amputated. Gov. ernment is but a larger form of business, and the people are the co-operative stockholders, AA plan that would work no in- justice whatever would be di- vine, but is impossible. ‘The wisest policy, therefore, is the greatest. good to the greatest number; not an ‘deal pro- gramme for helping the whole world by self-sacrifice, but car- ing first for one’s own. If relief to the treasury be absolutely needed, pare and prune the receipts of the internal revenue. Cheapen the poor man’s tobacco be- fore we lower the cost of the millionaire’s diamonds. Let the imported silks and satins of the rich lubricate by large tariff imposts the wheels of the great national machine. Strip the duty from all products im- possible to us. Shelter all we can dig, produce or grow. The expressed and outspoken opinion of Democratic leaders is in favor of and in the direction of lowering and ultimately ieveling the breastworks thrown up as a barricade in our fight with foreign iabor. ‘The microbe of English free trade is faitening and multiplying in the nostrils of the Cobdenites of the United States. The Anglicism of the free-trade mania of the late confederate constitution is still uncured. Now, it is the importer subordinating the general prosperity to personal profit that is the insurgent. Another “irrepressible conflict” on later and commercial lines is with us. It is no longer a sectional, but a civic issue. Georgia joins New England against the assauits on our domestic market of Euro- pean aggression, and to-day Aiabama and Pennsylvania are in common victim Did you notice that ; I'm always alliance. The Hessian of! 1890 fits between and feeds either camp. Under the cloak of the mugwump is carried the stiletto of free trade, while wearing on the outer lapel the seemingly loyal but hypocritical rosette of the reformer, J comicbooks.com