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WBDNBSBAY, , 13, The Great Issue. Nothing Must be ?ttoice? to -Obt??re Tariff Reform. The foHowic g paragraphs are from an article by Representative Wilson, of We?t Virginia, in the Forain for April : The Weakness of the Democratic party at the close of the civil war com pelled k to rely for a return to popolar favor more apon the misdeeds and demerits of its opponents than apon positive merits- of its own. Anxious 4e <sraw recruits to its wasted ranks, it 'natural i y bad recourse both io its plat forms and in its campaigns, to vigorous ^arraignments of the party in power ratfcer than to clear and explicit state wenteof its own purpo>es and principles. Yet it would be unfair to charge it with any concealment of its temper and attitude as to the chief controversies of the day. It was, as it ever had been, a national party, and exerted itself at all times to assuage the spirit of section alism. Ii was, as ever, a States* rights party, and did all that it could to revive the drooping cause of local selfgovern ment, and to resist the centripetal forces let loose by th? war. It was, as ever regardful of the burdens of the people, and fought against extravagance in patite expenditure. These were GREAT AND TIMELY SERVICES, and they were wisely and well-rendered *oy the party under the lead of Hend ricks, Thurmao, and Bayard. But any party condemned to remato long in opposition, ifit does ?t actually dis solve, loses something of the boldness and initiative that belong to and are developed by responsibility and action. It is too apt to content itself with censure and criticism, to become lax, if not ambiguous, in its own expressions of faith, welcoming to its ranks all who are willing to co-operate in war upon the party io power, without requiring from them the acceptance- of any definite principles. * * * * But the rank and file were ready for the word of eommand ; and when that word cam? from President Cleveland in December, 1S87. they marched forth with great enthusiasm for a great cause, and with something of the affirmative and aggressive purpose that bad so often led the party to triumph in past generations. The first battle was lost, and lost as much through the lingering vitality of the sectional issue as through the perfect combination of the protected industries.' But deeply as they felt the defeat of an administration whose vigor, honesty, and fidelity to Democratic principles well deserved approval from the people, the Democratic hosts lost neither faith nor earnestness io their cause, and went out of power with the buoyant confidence that in its name they would speedily win again perma nent control of the Federal government. Everywhere they KEPT THE TARIFF ISSUE TO TEE FRONT, defined their position more boldly and clearly upon it, m ado it a theme of con stant debate ou the hustings, in the press, 8t the school-house, the post office,, and the village store, until eco nomic discussions "got into the air," and the screaming of the bloody-shirt orator fell upon unheeding and uosympatheic ears. * * * "Tariff reform is therefore not only a great issue, it is a cardinal Democratic issue. It means not only the rescue of the Government from the service and control of privileged classes and favored individuals, but it involves and carries with it all the other great reforms which unselfish citizens are so anxious to secare, and at times so hepcless of securing, in our politics. It is truly B*id by Herbert Spencer that every principle has its momentum, and the principle of protection brings with it a .brood of evils more incompatible with g>Qre government than are all its unjust *s?oeey exactions. In the very outset, it tescbes that some men have a right te reiy on government for success rather 4ban upon their own efforts and merits. Sach a doctrine wrests government from the service of all and turns it over to the service of a class. Moreover, it bestows upon government, to ose the word of an old Virginia statesman, **rhe wordly omnipotence that belongs to the power of dealing out wealth and poverty" and thus changes political campaigns from contests for sound principles into BATTLES FOR PRIVATE BOOTY. ? reform of the tariff must therefore precede any genuine and lasting ballot veform.. We may adopt the Australian system, just as in days past we adopted the secret ballot, and for a while bsfiie tbc briber and intimtdator; but greed -and ingenuity will soon learn the com bination, if great plunder is still to be bad by rifling the safe. And it is not only the voter who must be shielded from temptation and corrupting in fluences, but also the law-maker. A permanent lobby is a necessary part of a protective syt^tem. * * * * And lastly, we are no longer left iu doubt that tariff reform is the essential -safeguard of that doctrine that lies so near the Democratic heart?'he doctrine of local self-govern meut?the vital breath of our Continental Federal republic. Every one who was not blind discerned the waud that was be bind the force bill in the Iast'Congress. * * * The strong and driving force behind the whole scheme was the great and vigiiant combination of our tariff supported industries It was an attempt on their part, under a fa;se mask, to get control of the power of Government in perpetuity, without the constantly recurring expense of bribing voters and the constantly recurring hasard of sut'init'iog th* ir conn ties to popular elections. For fear its friends in the House would not. understand this fact the New York Tribune had the fraokness to blurt it out, while the bill was pending there, by sayiog, "The election bill carries within itself the assurance of .FUTURE TARIFF BILLS BY THE HUNDRED. It is thus, because tariff reform, Saide from its economic advantages, is he beginning and nccefsary foundation f other great reforms that tend to elevate American citizsnship and to give stability and purity to American institutions, that it has so speedily brought allies to the Democratic camp. hfiS allies are animated by unselfish {atriotism. They ask nothing for themselves. M au y of them, doubtless enough of them to hold the balance of jower in doubtful States, are not yet tilling to admit that they "beloog'' to .the D-mocratic par?y so that they will j f?li?n its flag wherever it may choose to go, bot even the "Mugwump" against whom partisans on both sides delight to rail, will almost always be fogod ready to vote the Democratic ticket, provided the Democratic ticket stands sincerely for Democratic princi ple*. Should the party now falter io this 6ght, should it suffer a cause that has given the party so moch moral as well as voting strength, that is so great and democratic in itself, and so big with ether great reforms, to fall into the background WHILE RIVAL CANDIDATES STRUGGLE, for the Presidential nomination, or per mit it to be weighted down by other issues, then tbe party will manifest sucL a triSing with duty and such a throwing away of great opportunities as to provoke a moral reaction against it self, involving not only disaster, but disaster with merited disgrace. The mere suspicion that all this might hap pen has alreacy thrown some confusion into its rank;; asd awakened the most anxious feeling in tbe country. Yet suc cess still waits upon tbe dischargeof duty, and duty requires two things at its bands in the Presidential oamptign of 1892 ; First, the adoption of a olear aod unambiguous tariff-reform platform, and a campaign made opon that platform alone, with tbe exclusion of issues on which the party itself is split and tbe country undoubtedly against it ; secondly, the nomination of candidates whose names aid characters shall give the people the unmistakable guaranty that they represent io person all that tbe platform sets forth in words. If it be said that this is pitching a national cam paign upon a single issue, I have already shown that this single issue involves, not remotely, but directly and vitally, almost everything that we understand by good government. And to the enumeration already made must be addrd the ever-present issue of frugality and honesty in government expenditures. But the question arises : Who doubts that the Democratic party is loyal to the cause of tariff reform, and ready to fight for its success? Why is it necessary to say all this today. Because another issue has been made prominent that threatens to divide tbe party into warring fragments-and cause it to truan der in ioternal strife tbe strength it has been gathering for a great and final con test with protection. * * But upon what pleas will the most sincere advo cate of free coinage witbio the Demo cratic ranks justify to himself the forcing upon his party, io tbe present state of public opinion and in the com ing campaign, an issue tbat threatens to defeat the party and carry down in one common wreck party, tariff reform aod, possibly, bi-metailism aleo? This question is one that addresses itself to day with unprecedented directions to tbe Democrats of the South, for to them it is something more than a matter of party defeat. Tbe South has now realized what has been her most ardent longing since the war, tbe obliteration of tbe sectional issue. For the first time since ?ppomattox, she sees an issue big enough, national enough and near enough to the people to cast down the bloody shirt, to the discusi?n of which her own sons ars invited in the most genuine spirit of fraternity ou all plat forms in the North, and by whose vir tue as an ANTIDOTE TO SECTIONALISM one of her ex-soldiers has been raised- to the Speaker's chair of the House of Representatives. For the first time since t' e war, Democrats of the South see their party completely rehabilitated as a national party bringing to tbe Hoose of Representatives a majority of members from the North as well as from the South ; bringing to the Senate memtk i from Wisconsin, Illinois, and New York ; and occupying the Gov ernor's chair in Michigan, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Iowa?States, until tbe last year or two, the very strongholds of Rebublicanism. Is the Southern Democracy so fa?s fied in its own mind that the free coin age of silver is the one great aod speci fic remedy for the distresses real or im agined of the people, that in pursuit of that remedy it is willing to put in peril all these things, to rit>k ail it has slowly and paiofully gained io the political contest of twenty-seven year.-; and this in tbe face of the warning, expostula tion, and pleading fur life of so many of their wisest, discreetegt, and mnat sin cere Northern brethren, men who for the sake of the South fought *many years in political minorities, without hope or prospect of persoual advance ment? The National Democrat comments editorially on the foregoing as fol lows: Mr. Wilson pointe ont with force the datiger to a party of being long ill the opposition: its liability to accumulate all the elements in the body politic that are in opposition to the dominant party, but that have no other common tic; the thoroughly Democratic character of tariff* reform; the stimulating eff.-ct upon the party of the raining of this standard of aggressive party action, and he makes an eloquent and conclusive plea that this great cause should not be endan j gered by the obtrusion just now of j any other issue, no matter how import- ! ant it is Tariff reform is, above all other! things, peculiarly a Democratic issue, I historically as well as logically. The protective tariff is in the interest of classes and localities, instead of being in the interest of the whole people and the entire country, and therefore the Democratic patty must be hostile to it. Its inevitable tendency is to aggrandize the Federal at the expense of the local government, and there- j fore again the Denocratic patty must be opposed to it. It tends surely ! and fast, toward government by the few instead of the many, and so it s diametrically opposed to the founda tion principle <?f Democracy. It keeps an army of lobbyists here at Washington between the people and their R presentan i ves, and so thwarts and deforms the popular will. It contains within itself the seeds of every public policy that is antag onistic to all the views of sound gov ernment taught by Democrats, from Jefferson to Cleveland. Southern men, especially, who were two years ago looking forward apprehensively to the enactn ent of the force bill, must understand tl at the force bill is essential to the Republican scheme, and that the party is fully committed to it. There are those who imagined that the Republican party has turned its back upou McKinley and is vow headed in the direction of reciprocity* and that by this device a considera ble measure of special and localized tariff reform may be looked for. No mistake could be greater. The Har risons and Keeds and McKinleys are in an overwhelming majority in the Republican party. They are merely toying with reciprocity, willing to use it if it will help them retain pow er. They have not given in their adhesion to it and it is in their minds merely a concession, extorted from them by weak-kneed members of their own party, to be thrown over board as soon as possible. If the Republican party should succeed this fall in electing a Presi dent and a House of Representatives the first use of their power would be to make the McKinley act more bur densome than it is now. The next two steps they would take would make a Democratic vic tory impossible for the next twenty five years. They would pass the force bill, take possession of all the election machinery and count all the votes, the result of which would be to render a Democratic victory in the electoral college impossible, and they would redistrict all the States by act of Congress so as to make a Demo cratic victory in the House of Repre sentatives impossible. The Democratic party cannot afford this year to do anything that will create a division in its ranks or alieuate any vot?is who are coming over to it o:t the one great and all embracing cause of tariff reform. Earth Roads, and How to Make Them Successfully. Manufacturer's Record. The theory that earth roads cannot be kept in good condition is a fallacy, as it is a matter of every-day observa tion that some earth roads are kept in a uniformly good condition. An earth road, if in good condition, is more pleasant to travel on than a turnpike, and we claim that an earth road can be kept in good condition for at least nine months in the year, and in a passable condition for the remaining three months Our common earth roads are fre quently constructed without regard to location, adaptation of materials, or of the first law of road making? proper drainage. The road is often constructed whet e laud is cheapest and poorest, where it is impossible to drain it, and where the soil is of such a character as to absord all the water that falls on it. We find notable ex ceptions to this rule, however, in some sections where roads are built with proper regard to drainage, and of a'j light soil nut easily affected by rain or frost. Such roads, if properly maintained, can be kept in uniformly good condition. Experience demonstrates that clay, or any of its compounds, is not a suit able soil for the surface of a road, as it absorbs water readily. Coarse sand, gravel or shaly rock is much better and where the soil of a road bed is largely or entirely of clay, it should be coaied with any of the above mentioned soils. We have already stated that the first law of road making is thorough drainage, and we wish to impress the importance of this fact upon every road maker. A road cannot be kopt j in good condition unless it is thor oughly drained Water is the great est enemy of earth roads. Frost is also an enemy, but only as it acts on the water in the road Water has no place in any road, and it sliould be carried off the road-bed as soon as it falls, if possible The narrow-tired wheels, so commonly used in this Country, are also an enemy of our common earth roads, and if our peo ple would follow the example of our neighbors in European countries and use broad tired wheels, the result would soon be apparent in the im proved condition of the roads. As proper drainage is of parmount importance in road-making, the ques tion naturally arise, how shall we keep our roads drained in the best and oh' apest manner? It is too often the case that the cen ter of the road-bed is the lowest part of it, allowing the water no chance to flow off ; or the surface of the road bed is uneven and spongy, allowing; the water to soak into the road bed, instead of flowing off. It the road bed ia kept in proper shape, with a uniform curvature from the crown to the ditch, free from holes and ruts, and the ditches are kept clear, the water will flow off readily. It is, therefore, essential to keep the road bed in good condition and the ditches clear ; and to do so requires time, la bor, intelligence and the use of im proved machinery. The last is of the utmost importance. The method, so long in vogue, ol ploughing out the ditches and sheovliug the earth into the roadway, has been universally condemned. 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