National Republican., 1884-04-17
Tho Woes Of the Wailers.


way, but unlike 1t is queer how two great
minds whom driven to despair will find such
widely different causes for the WOO under
which the country has suffered, is suffering,
and is in danger Of suffering in the future.
Mr.. Bnyard wrote his letter on tho Sd of
April, right on the heel of April fools day.
Had it been dated April it could not have
been less serious. He cannot eat dinner with
the Iroquos club because no one knows when
the great measures pending in congress will
come up. These measures he defines TO be
the speedy loosening of the restrictions
upon production and trade caused by tho
tariff laws" III plain English this means
simply tho Morrison bill. Why no
ono can tell when this bill will
come up and be acted on Mr.. Bayard does not
say. Whether it is because of the over
whelming democratic majority in tho house
whether il is because of tho over exertions
of Mr.. Carlisle, or whether it is due to the
astounding celebrity of Mr.. Morrison, who has
taken nearly five months to write a bill pro-
viding horizontal reduction Of 90 per cent.
in rates Of duty. the senator does not tell,
but any ono of these reasons is sufficient to
show the impossibility of predicting exactly
when the expected relief may be looked for.
In tho meantime, while the democratic house
is sitting down quietly on production and
trade with alarming symptoms Of not being
able to lift the bundle of burdens it sees and
has grappled with, the senator is engaged in
the disagreeable duty Of holding his nose
over an old cesspool which everybody knows
was cleaned out by the republicans more
than three years ago, and whose stale
odors afford no attraction to any noses of
ordinary construction and refined sensibility.
Mr. Bayard's intimation is that he can be
seen any day, for long time to come in the
attitude of 4 gentleman holding his nose over
something which. in spite of his covering
hand, affords an occasional Whit The Iro-
quois club said, Long may he wave"
Mr.. Tilden, on the other hand, with a
rather remarkable nose, if his pictures do him
no injustice entirely overlooked all the dan
gers and woes which Mr.. Bayard describes He
doesn't see the incubus resting on production
that makes Bayard so gloomy. He doesn't
see Morrison sweating away, with his hori-
zontal crowbar trying to remove it, and the
old cesspool has no smell strong enough to
excite his olfactory nerves in the least,
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sensitive proboscis for long time
What Tilden sees is not less alarming than
what the Delaware man has his eye on,
though it does not smell quite SO fragrantly.
He sees an attempt made about eighty-four
years ago to misconstrue the constitution and
one made twenty-three years ago to subvert
it altogether. He says: people were COM
PEELED to make manly choice between these
calamities and the dangerous influences of a
civil war" This is especially good. 1t is
gratifying to know that they went against
the dangerous influences" in spite of the
great unpleasantness il itoccssioned The con-
spcuous part taken by the sage Of Greystono
in helping the people at that time he fails tc
mention, and does not remember those cele'
brated democratic resolutions which pro.
nounced tho war failure Some people may
remember all about the attempt to subver
the constitution, and how dangerous the in
fluences were about that tme but politenes
requires that no names be mentioned, the
| fight being over.
But Tilden sees other things-particularl,
two. One is the alliance of the governmen
| with "vast pecuniary interests" Whei
t Sammy says this, one can almost fancy hin
sitting over barrel, holding his nose Bayar
S fashion. Mr.. Carlisle went to Philadelphia
s some time ago to assure the people there tina
business interests would be protected" bu
now it appears that pecunisry interests an
e government must have no alliance, and onl
! poor men like Sammy must administer tn
5 government
The other special terror is the great gun
@ used in elections. By these Sammy does nc
Q mean the shotguns of Copiah and Danvillt
5 the guns that slew Chisholm and thousand
0 Of others, nor the guns which have destroye
b the ballot in most of tho southern state
t Apparently, Sammy has never heard OF thes
d small firearms. The guns which alarm hil
t are fourth Of March guns trained on tho whit
2. house by General William T, She
h man, sometimes known as Tecumse
Sherman, and whose name has bee
mentioned as an available candidate for IL
i presidency, provided he can be induced
D. accept tho democratic nomination. The
s. guns of Sherman it now appears were W HI
d prevented the country from having dem
= cratic administration in 1876, and, come
It think OF it, tho same guns stood In the wa
ir of that blessing as far back as 1S62-'6i ar
=. along nearly all the period when Jefferso
& Davis would have given US democracy in /
&c highest form at very cheap cost and !
questions asked, Democrats insisted for
70 long time that Mr.. Tilden was juggled out
y theIpresidcncy by the trick of an elector
10 commission, but this statement clears !
y history in that regard, and shows that but
VI the guns the 100000 one-armed men" '
10 heard about as ready to start from Loui
as Vile, Ky, would have been here at the ina
10 Ruration March A, 1877,