Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-08-25
BLAINEs SHALLOW BoMBAsT.

in Maine with his mouth yes
terday, and by that act saddled his
friends and party with the onus OF proof
the coming Presidential cam
paign. After the usual cut and dried |
babble concerning free trade, and claim
ing for his party the honor OF being the
priests OF that doctrine, he flew out at q |
tangent, and pulling out several stops,
swooped down on the labor problem with |
veritable flood OF chin-music. He |
claimed that free trade would not only |
open the American labor market to com
petition from abroad, but also to compe
tition from the colored people of the
South who would thus be forced TO ac-
cept wages lower than the white man,
because they-the white men-would
have to take wages as low as the foreign
markets paid. This is specimen argu-
ment OF the hydra-headed class, which
he used, and will serve to show the in
sincerity of the whole. The wages OF the
southern negro were never affected by
those OF the northern or western white
man, and so peculiar are the local condi-
tions that hedge about the great majority
OF the southern colored men, that no
amount of change or competition in the
North or West can affect them or their
wages in the South. After twenty years
of Republican rule, that often was
another name for tyrany, the negroes of
the South are slaves to northern capital
lists now more so than when, by the right
of ownership, they were the personal
property of the southern planter Blaine
knows very well that there are certain
fields of labor in the South, covered en-.
tirely by the negro, and they will always
remain so, and his buncombe allusion to
the colored people OF the South is but
another "anchor to windward" to catch
the floating negro vote in the North. 1t
was upon the Fisheries question, how
ever, that the article of lingo found its
fullest vent. Blaine stated that Presi-
dent Cleveland made promise to the
English Minister to counsel the forma-
ton Of commission to look into the fish
cries dispute, but failed to tell his audi
ence that the necessity for that commits
sion grew out of difficulties which he
made by the procuring OF a stringent Gus
toms law against the Canadian fish pro-
duct in the United States, when he
nearly ruined our whole fish trade to air
his Jingo proclivities as Secretary Of
State, to gain a point with mat element
Of Irish-Americans, Of whom Finerty and
Alexander Sullivan are representatives.
The Canadian fishermen were grieved
over the law, and have determined to re-
taliate in kind, and the President was
bound to take some action looking to a
settlement of the vexed question, and re-
commended the formation of commits
sion for that purpose, and Congress did
not see fit to appoint one, to settle dis
Republicans, and now he has the Arctic
gall to call that honorable act OF the
Presidents into question, and by inu-
endo, propagate the belief that the Presi-
dent did wrong. We shall publish ex
cerpts from leading eastern journals on
this point OF Blaine's dishonest plea, ,whe n
they arrive, and our readers will then
see how this bubble has been pricked
, among the leading writer's of the East
To cap the climax, Blaine assailed the
action OF the State Department in the
Cutting case asian unnecessary and I'M
dignified display OF bravado toward Mex
ico," when he cannot be blind to the fact
as the nation certainly is not-that he
was invited to step down and out Of the
office OF Secretary OF State for displaying
that same bravado toward the Englisl
Government, and for which he earned
the sobriquet of Jingo statesman. While
the recent status OF the Cutting affair il
anything but satisfactory to Americans
in general, the error-such as it Isl!
one OF commission, not OF commission, anc
Bayard has the consciousness OF aiming a
the right as he saw the right, and Blaine
should be the very last man TO call hi
acts in question. On the great event o
the day-the Prohibition straddle-ou
dispatches are scant, but enough is con
tanned in them to permit the formation
of an opinion of the whole. He shoul
dered the Prohibition movement bodily
and thereby damned his party in Maine
and forever exposed its actions and pro
fessions to the charges OF falsehood anC
deceit. The action being forecast, sur
prises no one who knows the mans re
cord, but the effect OF it will be such {
sweeping denunciation OF the man anC
his methods by the popular vote o
Maine, as to teach him that the American
people have passed the day OF blind faitl
in political charlatans, and will look fo
their salvation to the people and the peo
ple's party, knowing that in being par
OF that power, they will have voice il
determining tho law OF Prohibition
Blaine cast his political horoscope yester
day, and, from an unprejudiced stand
point, it is evident that he has formed al
entrance for the wedge of popular con
demnation, which, in the near future
shall irredeenably split his party anC
relegate him and his lingo statesman
ship to deserved oblivion.
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EVICTION.
Our dispatches to-day outline the in