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The proud man, fat with the fat of the land,
Dozed buck in his silken chair;
Choice w irifes of the world, hlaek men fo
command, ^
Rare curios, rich and rare,
Tali knights in armor on either hand—
yet trouble was in the air.
The proud man dreamed of his young days,
when v
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—jje toiled light-hearted and sang all day.
He dreamed again of his gold, and of men
Grown old in his service and hungry and
gray.
Then his two hands tightened a time; and
then
They tightened, and tightened to stay!
Ah me! this drunkenness, worse than wine ’
This grasping with greedy hold!
Why. the poorest man upon earth, I opine,
Is that man who has nothing bat gold.
How better the love ot man divine,
With God’s love, manifold!
They oame to the' dead man back in hte ehair,
Dusk liveried servants that come with the
light;
His eyes Mood open with a frightened stare.
But his hands still tightened, as a vice is
tight.
They opened hte hands—nothing was there,
Nothing but bits of night.
—Joaquin Miller, in the Independent.
AN OLD LOVE AFFAIR.
A HE wind was
blowing briskly
IS straight from
the mountains.
The gaunt pear
tree growing at
the door of the
„ little, old weatb
f'f/ er-worn in whirl house of
was a
\\ fm( flying blossoms.
WuL Zff The cramped
A ** front yard and,
farther out, the
sunken wooden planks that served for
mdewalk, were heaped and white with
them.
Behind the house, its one gable
shining Bharply against it, a blaze of
saffron revealed the April sunset.
In all the long street only two per¬
sons were .visible. One was a rosy
faced woman toiling up from the gro¬
cery store below with her arms full
of small packages; the other, a lank,
tall man, middle-aged, like herself,
who oame slouching along from the
opposite direction. They met at the
gate of the little house.
“Well, Raohel.”
“Well, BilL”
“How are yo’ gittin’ ’long now? I
ain't seen yo’ fo’ near two weeks.”
“Well, only toler’ble. Mother’s
been ailin’ more’n usual, an’ I’ve been
kep’ pretty close. She’s better now.
You look well, BilL
“Yes, nothin’ ever happens to me.”
He leaned his arms upon the pollings
before him. “Wan’t any wood
chopped, Raohel, or anything heavy
moved, or a nail pat in somewheres?”
“No, Bill; I’m real comfortable jist
now.”
“This fence needs filin’.” He shook
it roughly, and a piece of polling
broke off in his hand. “One strip o’
timber an’ a half a dozen nails’d make
it all right again. It’s rotten, tho;”
he shook it once more.
“Yes, it’s old, Bill, like most every¬
thing ’boat here is. A new coat o’
whitewash ’ll make it better, I guess.”
“I won’t be here to put it on fo’
▼o’, Raohel; I’ve got a three-months’
job down to Rider’s at Haversham.
I’m goin’ down the road a piece an’
git a lift in his cart. He’s waitin’ fo’
me.”
“I’m real glad to hear it, BilL”
“A good three months’ job. Rider’s
daughter's gom’ to git married, an’ he’s
goin’ to give her a house, and I’m to
build it—sort o’ cousin o’ mine, yo’
know.” He pulled himself away from
the fence and held out his hand. * • Yo’ll
have to do without me for a while,
Rachel; goodby. BilL” ”
“Goodby,
He lingered yet another minute.
“No show fo’ me yet, eh, Bachel?”
She shook her head. She looked
young da she smiled up at him. With
that smile on her faoe she lifted the
lateffi and let herself into the lit
tl« gnea' yard. A daffodil was bios
ing at the foot of the pear tree,
stooped to pull candle it, and, carrying hand,
it like a little in her
made hear way back to the kitchen. A
‘ ’ a of sunset blinded her as she
r .ned the door. She groped her way
' grous to the table in the corner, and
sped her packages in a heap
:
Two people were, speaking in the ad
ina room. She oould hear every
was said. With bonnet in
tood listening. .
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^jTTes, I remember all 'boat it, Mis'
“An’Ia’n’t been able to t
his doin’it neither. An’when
ay BaeheL 1
jistatye: ‘Ho; girl o’ mine is go
in’ to marry inte
took they pint' loaded gun*
ir neighbors.’ An’heaays: To’
I didn't do it o’ purpose, Mis’
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said, “an’ I’ve got to git np early, an*
stir ’round, mi* wort, t haven’t a day
nex’ week I c’n call my own. I’m go
in’ np to the Turner farm to help with
the spring cleanin’, an’ then the Meth¬
odist preacher’s wife stopped me down
on the pike, an’ asked me come an’
help her with her sewin’.”
The daffodil in the glass on the little
table and a few of its kin still left nn
pulled in the neighboring yards were
soon all that survived of the April
bloom. A storm raged the next day;
Green Meadows was swept clean of its
white. May came. June flashed
down upon the hilly land. The bushes
that walled in Bill Tipsdale’s little
garden were heavy with roses. Many
a time on her way back and forth
Rachel pu*ed a handful to put in the
cracked Japanese pitcher on the
kitchen shelf. They seemed to bring
her uncouth lover nearer to her. The
year took a great stride toward
Thanksgiving. There were scarlet
berries instead of roses on Bill Tips¬
dale’s long bashes.
One Sunday afternoon Rachel broke
off a sprig from an overhanging branch
as she passed by' on her way from
church.
“Yo’ haven’t seen him lately, have
yo’, Rachel?”
She tamed and faced Miss Simmons.
“No, not fo’ mor’n seven months, Mis’
Simmons.”
The older woman stood silent a mo¬
ment and looked, first at Rachel and
then at the barred, smokeless
standing in the thin November light,
and book at Rachel again.
“They’re hardly any o’ them—hard¬
ly any man—worth rememberin’ in
that way, ” nodding toward the berries.
“They’re pretty,” said Rachel,
rather stilly. * . i t
“He ain’t as nice a3 yo’ think he is,
Rachel,” laying a hand on her arm.
“Don’t yo’ ever hear any news from
Haversham?”
“No; what is the matter, Mis’ Sim¬
mons?”
“Bill Tipsdale’s married to Hester
Ridey. They’ve been married more’n
a month.”
“How do yo’ know he’s married to
Hester Rider ?”
“Folks at Haversham all say so, an’
Simmons asked old man Rider, an’ he
said yes; an’ that same day he seen
him and Hester walkin’ down the
street together.”
“It’s strange fo’ Bill Tipsdale to do
a thing like that, Mie’ Simmons.”
“It’s a shame an’ a sin, Rachel.
Stickin’ to yo’ so long, an’ then not to
know any better’n to marry a girl jist
half s old as he is.” ,
“I don’t seem able to believe it at
all.”
“It’s as true as that I’m standin’
here tollin’ yo’ and yo’re standin’ here
listenin’. ” Rachel stooped and picked
up the bunch of berries that had fallen
out of her hand. “Don’t yo’ go wor
ryin’ ’bout it, Rachel. Yo’ were too
good for him, anyhow.”
Rachel stared steadily into Mrs.
Simmons’s face. “There isn’t anything
to worry ’bout, Mrs. Simmons. I’ve
always had my mother to tend to, an’
sewin’ an’ cleanin’ fo’ ether folks, an’
I’ll jist keep on doin’ as I’ve always
done. I ain’t a baby to go an’ knock
my head against a stone wall.”
She tramped homeward erect and
stern. Once she stopped and flung
the rose-hips far out into the middle
of the road. A little cloud of dost rose
np and hid them from her. She felt
as if she had flnng away the last shred
of her youth. goin’, Rachel?”
“Where are yo’
asked her mother an hour later.
“What yo’ pnttin’ yo’r bonnet on fo’?
Seems to me yo’ jist come in an’ then
go ont again.”
“I’m goin’ to run down an’ tell Mr.
Simmons to stop fo’ me to-morrow
mornin’ with his express. I might’s
well go to Haversham to-morrow an’
do my fall shoppin’ as nex’ week.
Wheii it’s done it’s done. ”
.
Out of the fog that shrouded the
dawn of the following day rattled a
cnrionsly colored vehicle—a glare of
yellow and splotchy crimson—and
drew up in front of the Fuller house.
A muffled figure waited at the gate.
, “That yo’. Miss Rachel?”
“Yes, I’m here, Mr. Simmons.” He
helped her np carefully to a seat.
“Only got yo’ and the letters this
mornin’. Chilly, ain’t it?"
The last house on the street had
been bnt lately built. Its white paint
was void of age and weather stain; its
shingles fresh and yellow. It had no
garden; simply a strip of grass divid¬
ed by a brick walk that ran np to the
door.
Raohel had her hand held ont to the
latoh when a step sounded behind her.
A young woman with her sun bon¬
net poshed back off her face and a ket¬
tle in her hand stopped at the gate,
ghe was tall and had an abundance of
very fair hair that curled about her
brows like that of a baby’s; her eyes
were bine.
“Are yo’ Bill Tipedale’s wife?”
“Yea, m’m.” Tha young woman
gazed curiously at the Wont middle- ,
aged one. long have yo’ been married
“Hew
to him?"
“Meet two months. .It’ll be two
“I heard so, butl jmt come in from
Green Meadows to-day, an’ I thought
I'd ask,”
“I hope yo’ll be happy,” she mid,
of
was b«ff way down the
a blur of It a
r -
m
feel all right when we’se movin’ an*
the wind Mowin'. I guess. ”
They had traveled more than half
the distance to Green Meadows and
were in the heart of the hill country
when Mr. Simmons turned upon his
companion with the same question he
had asked her in Haversham.
.“Heard any bad news to-day, Miss
Rachel?” * ’ •i____'
“No, none.a’tall”
“Now, don’t yo’ git frightened,
Miss Rachel, but I’m goin’ to tell y o’
’bout something that happened in
Green Meadows this mornin’.”
“What, Mr. Simons?” » J
“Well, then, yo’t house burned
down this mornin’.”
She caught his arm in a grasp that
made him wince.
“Ah’ what’s come to my poor old
mother, Mr. Simmons?” ^ an’
“She’s safe an’ sound, not a
scratch on her. Bill Tipsdale was
passim an’ he rushed in an’ carried the
old lady oat through the blaze an’
took her up to his house an’ laid her
on the bed, an’ went back , an’ helped
to save the thinga Everything’^ been
burnt up if Bill hadn’t been so stir
rin’.”
Down they plunged into a hollow;
anything that Rachel had to say was
lost in the clatter that followed. Thej
clinbed up to the level again; the
mountains were closing in about them.
“Can’t yo’go faster, Mr. Simmons?”
A cloud of dust rose up and went
before and behind them. The little
naked birches along the pike looked
silver like and ghostly through it.
They beckoned, but the two travelers
rattled on. It was throught this cloud
of dust that Rachel caught a glimpse
of the blackened walls of her old home.
A little after she stood at Bill Tips¬
dale’s door. '
There was a lamp burning in the
front room. That and the logs on the
hearth flooded it with lignt.
The old woman, propped up in bed
in the corner, rose on her elbow as
Rachel came in. Her face was as vital
as ever.
“Go git Bill Tipsdale. Go git him,
right now.” ,r *
“Mother—
“Go git Bill Tipsdale, I say.”
Bill thrnst his head in from the
blackness of the outer room.
“Come in here, Bill Tipsdale.” He
lumbered forwward. “I don’t lov yo’
better’n I ever did, Bill Tipsdale, an’
I don’t ever expect to, an’ I don’t
think yo’ve got more sense than yo’.
had before, either, but yo’ seved me
from bein’ burned up this mornin’,
an’ I ain’t goin’ to forgit it any
more’n I’m goin’ to forget some other
things. An’ if yo’ want Rachel, yo’
can have her. ”
“I guess Baohel’ll have to decide
that, Miss Fuller; but if she’ll have
me, I’ll be glad to have her.”
“But yo’re married to .Hester
Rider,” said Rachel.
Bill took a step or two toward her.
“How do yo’ know I’m married to
Hester Rider?”
“The folks all cay sc, an to-day,
when I went to town, I went an’ asked
her.”
Bill became radiant. He held np
his left hand, with all its five fingers
spread ont as far as possible, and with
the forefinger of his right checked off
each statement be made.
“William E. Tipsdale—that’s me.
William C. Tipsdale—that’s a nephew
of mine. Will Tipsdale they call him,
not Bill, an’ he looks like me, too,
only younger. He’s married to Hes¬
ter Bider. Don’t I tell yo’ old Rider’s
daughter was goin’ build to git married,
an’ l was goin’ to a house fo’
him?”
Raohel was dumb.
“1 guess that’s why fclks have been
foolin’ me all day long. ”
The old woman championed him
from her pillows.
“Yo’ most have forgot Bill Tips¬
dale’s one o’the stickin'kind, BaoheL”
“No; I never thought yo’d believe
tnat o’ me, RacheL”
“I don’t know how I could have be¬
lieved it, either,” she said.
The afternoon of the following day
they walked together to the parson¬
age and were married. Coming back
through the little churchyard Bill pointed the
toward a sunken grave on
edge of the winding walk.
“He’s kep’ ns waitin’ a long time,
RacheL”
“Poor Tom! Mother lored him
better than all the rest of us put to¬
gether*”
They* let themselves out into the de¬
serted lane that ran along on one ride
of the church, and strolled along like
two children, hand in hand.
“I guess yo’ all think I'm the lund
that lives from hand to mouth, with¬
out any cane fo’ to-morrow; but
there’s where I’ve been just a little
smarter than yo’think. I know I ain't
worked hard enough to hurt myself,
Rachel, bnt I’ve been savin’ an’ savin’,
an’ there’s a right smart o’ mine
in Haversham bank. I thought that
maybe some day yo’ an* me could have
a chance, an’ so I kep’ on savin’. We
eoold begin bufldin’ to-morrow,
BaeheL”
“We’ll talk it over first with mother,
BilL”—
It is * carious fact that no insect bat
the silkworm will willingly eat the
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WAR ON TRUSTS.
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DEMOCRATS HAVE WON T SCE FIRST
V BATTLE WITH REPUBLI¬
CAN TRUSTS.
Du tics Greatly If educed on All the
Products or Trusts - oesperate
Efforts to Win Protection Re¬
cruits—Decided Victory for De¬
mocracy.
Most of the claims and pretensions
put forth by the Republicans to catch
votes, during the past decade, have
been misleading, if not actually false.
Such is the claim now being made
from every stamp that the new Tariff
bill is peculiarly the work of trusts
and that no other tariff hjill ever
granted such special favors to trusts,
Conscientious Republicans who know
the history of the McKinley bill
would not open their months on this
subject. They know that the trusts
and protocted interests praotioally
had their own way in the McKinley
bill, which is a patohwork of trust
legislation. Dozens of important
clauses are in the langnage suggested
by the Droteoted manufacturers. Du¬
ties were increased—often oombined
—on almost every product sold by
combines and trusts. The few reduc
lions on trust products, suoh as those
on steel rails and steel beams, were
not sufficient to interfere with trust
prioes. difficult '
On the contrary, it will be
for the Republicans to instanoe, with
one exception, any single trust pro
duct on whioh duties are higher than
before last August. In nearly every
case duties have been lowered or en
tirely abolished. Here are a few of
the trust products on which duties
have been abolished:
Snlphuric aoid, copper ingots, oot
ton seed oil, yellow pine lumber, salt,
harrows, harvesters, binding twine,
jute bagging for baling cotton.
Here ai'e trust products ou which
dutie < have been reduced fifty to 100
per cent. : *
Borax, castor oil, copper sheets,
white lead, lead, santonine,
sponges, cement, locomotive tires,
smelters’ products, soap, penknives,
shot, stove boards, zinc in sheets, tea
zles, peanuts, rubber goods, cordage,
brooms, buttons.
Here are trust products on which
duties have been reduced twenty-five
to fifty per cent. : iodoform,
Boracic acid, ammonia,
linseed oil, coal,ultramarine, red lead,
fruit jars, calomel, crockery, biscuits
and crackers, staroh, flint giasa, win
dow glass, plate glass, sanitary ware, and
freestone, indurated fiber, iron
steel beams, boiler iron, vapor stoves,
steel rails, wire rods, eleotrioal sup
plies, galvanized iron and steel bolts
and nuts, sewer pipe, cast iron pipe,
soda water machinery, penknives
(some kinds), hinges, wheels, aaws,
screws, skewers, typo preserved fruits,
raisins, leather board, wood palp, oil
cloth, matches in boxes, sash, school
furniture, snaths, axes, barbed wire,
condensed milk, spools, bobbins and
shuttles.
On the following trust produots du
ties were reduced ten to twenty-five
per oent.:
Cigarettes, oat meal, rioe, envoi
opes, india rubber, paper bags,
brushes, matches not in boxes, um¬
brellas, cartridges, cask9ts, celluloid,
cotton duck, cotton thread, lime
lithographic prints, marble safes,
sandpaper, straw-board, tomb-stones,
trunks, wall paper, whips, wrapping
paper. all these
Redactions of duties on
produots have lowered the limit to
whioh trusts oan raise prices. McKin¬
ley raised this limit and turned mil¬
lions of dollars into trust coffers.
Refined sugar is the only important
trust product ou which the duty has
been increased. But the sugar trusts
would gladly pay $5,000,000 and per¬
haps $10,000,000 a year to get back
its McKinley duties. Under the new
law four-fifths of the duty paid on
sugar will go to support the Govern¬
ment. Under the MoKinley law
ninety-nine per cent, of the duty paid
went to swell the trust’s profits. But
the Democrats are not through with
this trust yet When they get an¬
other whack at it this winter they
are likely to take away the remaining
half of McKinley protection.
The Democrats have won a de¬
cided victory in the first battle with
protected trusts. It should not be
forgotten that these trusts yere en¬
trenched behind protection walls
which the building. Republicans They had been glutted thirty
years in were
with the “sinews of war” extorted
from the populace on the the ontside of
the wafts. At every point outer
walls have been taken and the trusts
have been driven from their position.
The trust combine is broken;
those tracts that have lost
all their protection - are no
longer interested in the fight and will
not assist other trusts to maintain pro¬
tection. Is fact they should help to
defeat the other trnsU, for the trusts
as well as npon
outsiders. The trusts are making a
effort daring the present
^Tmy K Th^um^ds oTtrnM em is^rie.!
-f f T fti.i-f i rit ae Republican campaign
makers, are trying to deoetve the peo
not - - a protect - * —a toe tX _ tnmc, a - o ont * prvwci rad a Aha mo
They arid to
“If you knock these pro
down you will let the
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batthfey fen ow thei r their time ie short.
They will always fight to sure os much
McKinleyiam as possible, bnt they ex¬
pect to have bnt little left after a few
more charges by the Democrats, their
mortal enemies. On with the war!
Let it not stop while one protection
stone stands on top of another?
Thc ( ireat Obstacles That Hampsred the
lie niocrats.
No fair mau will sit in Democratic judgment
upon the efforts of the
party who doss not recognizs that it
has been hampered by two great ob
stacles, at every stage of its work, for
which it was not itself at all respon
9ible. The first was that its control
of the Senate proved to be more nom
inal than real. In a full Senate it
would have had a majority only by
the casting vote of the Vioe-President.
With the existing Vacancies in the
Senate it could spare but one vote,
and still have a majority. And no one
will deny that pariy fealty sits rather
lightly on more than one Senator ao
oredited to the Democratic parly,
The second was that tho party came
into power when the sky was already
darkening with the olouds of a finan¬
cial storm, and that the storm soon
broke in great fury, despite the faith¬
ful efforts of the administration tokl
lay it. > like Mr. Lodge
Of course partisans adminis
are quick to oharge the new
tration with the resulting disasters,
bnt other people have longer and bet
ter memories. For months before the
Harrison administration ended, the
Treasury was in great pecuniary of
straits. New taxes or new issues
bonds would have been needed to meet
ordinary running expenditures, had
not the Sherman law passed to
the available cash of the Treasury
more than fifty million dollars, depos
ited by the National banks for the re¬
demption of their notes, and had not
Secretary Foster, by a change of book
keeping, still further increased that
cash by twenty million dollars of
token and subsidiary ooin, nott before
treated as a treasury asset The Seo
retary himself frankly informed the
Ways and Means Committee just prior
to Maroh 4, 1893, that additional in¬
oome of at least fifty million dollars a
yeB r would be needed for the easy run
ning of the Government. Moreover,
the free gold in tho Treasury began
steadily to diminish from the dote of
the passage of the Sherman law. -
It was under circumstances these supremely
grave and difficult, that
the Democratic party took the reins
0 f government for the inauguration
Q f its < ‘new policy. ” The long
threatened financial panio oame and
goon hardened into a severe oomrner
c i a l crisis. But neither was the
Democratic party responsible for it,
n0 r for the vicious laws whioh, if they
did not beget tha panio and the oriais,
certainly quiokoned their doming and
added to thair fury. Its work had to
be undertaken, iherafore, amid those
“oounsels of calamity” whioh, as Mr.
Burke said, “are seldom wise,” and in
the faoe of 4 rising eatery from parti- the
gam like Senator 'Sands Lodge, and who Tender- use
logic of Goodwin
den Steeple, to oharge that the pbysi
0 i B n himself was the cause of the Very
ills he was called upon to onre or to
alleviate.—Hon. Wm. L. Wilson, in
North Ameriean Review,
An Interesting Story for Labor,
For four f ye ars the country has been
uJj exp „ immt ng with dear goods, under
MoKinley . H arrison theory that
. <oheap and go togeih6r , and
that cheap coats make cheap and mOn. de¬
We got tired- of that theory other
cided to experiment with the
theory—that cheapness is a blessing,
and that the more goods we can obtain
in exchange for a day’s labor the
better we are off. The Democratic
Congressional Committee has issued a
poster, which shows the tariff reduc¬
tions on many articles and com¬
modities ot an ordinary household.
Each article is illustrated, and the re¬
ductions are made conspicuous by
placing them on the illustrations. The
short story told on this poster is a
very interesting one to labor. It runs
as follows:
Labor rises in the morning under
the new Democratic tariff. He puts
on his flannel shirl, reduced 70} per
cent.; his trousers; reduced 75} per
cent.; his vest,* reduced 65} per cent.; and
his coat, reduced 74} per cent.,
shoes, reduced 20 per cent. He washes
his face and hands in a backet re¬
duced 28} per cent., with soap re¬
duced 50 per cent., and dries himself
on a cotton towel reduced 35 per cent.
He puts some coal, reduced 46} per
cent., into a stove, reduced 88} per
cent He eats his breakfast from a
plate, reduced 45} per oent, with »
knife and fork, reduced 53 per oent,
and seasons his food with free salt;
smokes his day pipe, reduced 80 per
eent, and reads that under tariff
reform, 1 timber, binding twine, grain,
bags, cotton ties, cotton agricultural bagging,
copper, salt, wool and
implements are free. , He draws on
his overooat reduced 76 per cent,and
pats on bis hat, reduced 71 8-10 per
eent His wife wears a woolen drew,
reduced 76 per cent; a hat reduced
70 per eent; wool stockings, reduced
74} per eent ; shoes, reduced 20 per
oent, and pate on her woolen shawl,
reduced 76} per eent To help him
a living she uses thread, reduced
28} per oent., rad ra
dnoed 12} per oent He lies down on
M* bed, r<*dne<*d OT3W9
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of lipSbVl per tin pmte, egt.
per eent;
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long speech mais at Lincoln, Ill., fcafor
Democratic meeting, roost oj
being devoted to National issues,
reviewed the tariff fight in Cougi
at length, and made the following j
sonal statement concerning it: ; '
“I state to you in all candor tba
is not all that I desired. There r
was a moment that I would not,g
have given the casting vote in
Senate in favor of the Tariff bill
passed the House of Represents!
From the beginning I have be
firm believer in the doctrine of .
raw material. Bnt it must not b
gotten that while the House of Repre
sentatives contained a Democraticms-■
jority of nearly 100, our majority was
but one in the Senate. In fast, with
every State fully represented in’ that
body, there would probably have been
no Democratic majority at all. Tba
Senate contained but forty-four Dem¬
ocrats, and with the Republican a£
tors voting solidly against the bill
every stage, it can easily be seen that
in a bofiy so nearly balanced, tariff re¬
form had no easy battle to fight. At
one critical moment of the straggle,
$he bill was only saved by the mat¬
ing vote of the presiding officer of tha
Senate. I have thus gone somewhat
into details in order that you may
realize something of the difficulties
under which the present law was en¬
acted. Recalling as I do the hostility* Tariff
of Republican Senators to the
bill from the moment it orossed tha
threshold of that chamber, I can only
wonder that it ever became a 'aw..
Firmly believing, as I do, that bene
fioial results mast follow its passage, I
rejoioe with yon in its triumph, and.
that the MoKinley law is no longer
upon our statute hooka In determin¬
ing the merits of the present TarifT
law comparison should be made, nob
with an ideal Tariff bill, bnt with ex¬
isting law—the MoKinley law then ini
fcrcc. ” %
His olosing remarks on this topfo
were as follows:
“The passage of this bill marks th®
turning point in tho history of tariff
legislation. For a third of a century
each tariff enactment has b.ceu root® that
burdensome to the people McKinley than
which preceded it. The
law was the cnlmination. “Whom
the gods would destroy, they ft)
make mad.” The present law is alp
step in the right direction. T]
great reform will know no backwa—
steps. I fully endorse the words of
President Cleveland when he says of
this law, ‘It will certainly lighten
many tariff burdens that now rest
______| heavily upon __ r _____ belief the people.’ t that ^ it j fUll will shlMfte
with him the prov®
‘the barrier against the return of mad
protection. ’ From the hill of vantage*
we now occupy, our eyes oan look out
upon upon the the pathway pathway that that leads leads tol oom
mercial emancipation.”
The Republican Record.
Did not the last Republican Goi
gross unsettle flnanoes by g
the Sherman law j dislocate
and load us with heavy bu
monopoly by the MoKinley bill; in¬
crease appropriations for pensions by
the dependent pension bill fifty oi
more million dollars per year, and in¬
troduce general and dangerous de¬
moralization into onr patriotic pen¬
sion system ? Did it not also voU
bounties and subsidies and sew offices,
and thus launch us upon a billion-dol
lar scale of governmental expenditure*
Did it not make a stupendous and
Btate nearly successful effort to degrade
governments, invade popular
suffrage and embroil sections and faces
by a force bill? Parties must be
judged by their actions wheu in pow¬
the er, not opposition. *by their profession^ Hon. when Jgj
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son.
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Two High Tariff Object Less
What an object lesson these
strikes of the serfs of the
and Massachosetta sweatshops L.
on the effect of high tariffs in pi
ing high wages 1 And how tin
is right now, when the voice <
protectionist orator is cnee
heard in the land, and p
more than unusally stride
cause of what he is plei
“the factory olosing
tariff. ” As Homestead th
um light in 1892 on the p
picture of labor rolling i
wages, all because of high
which gave to it a decided!' ghastly
that made it look
so the greet army ofs*
appears in 1894 in t
time to satirize the
crusade against tariffs
timore Sun. sSr
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The fall ^ in the
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