American Politics.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 51, 25 August 1894, Page 4

American Politics.

0The Newlcork correspondent of the Bydney Morning Hwald says that the Senators have transformed the Wilson Bill as it came from the House into a monstrosity of Protection only a little less hideous than the McKinley Rill , and it is possible that the House, which is justly indignant, may refuse to accept the changeling, and there will in that case be a deadlock. But the elections are only four months dsstant, and the people will then, undoubtedly, make themselves heard in a positively irresistible fashion. Every consideration of personal interest, therefore, is in favour of bringing the two Houses together upon a compromise, no matter how unsatisfactory in order to let the anxious statesmen go home and try to get their constituents into & good humour. Few chapters of American history, however, surpass in innate meanness the story of the present treachery of the Democratic Party to its pledge to give us a tariff that should not only be lower than that now existing-, but that should be so just as to be accepted as a finality for many years to come. We bava indeed still free wool, but even that was saved by a majority of only two votes, and t*te rest of the Bill is f>o bad that even if it is improved somewhat by the House conferees, it will still be utterly unacceptable to all genuine tariff reformers.