Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-11-11

GIN Lasg ulSuG L received tne i0llOWlDp
dispatch from Mr.. Morrison IN answer TO
my inquiries:
WATERLOO ILL.,, November 3.
j. S. Moore 1909 Madison A rc Ner York:
YES, am beaten. OF course you know why and
how lSignedI w R. MoRprsoS
Of course, know why. Mr.. Morrison for
years tried to reduce the war taxes. He
proposed to give the sixty million peonIa
sugar cheaper, ct least by halfa.cent q
pound; he tried to give the shiyer;Dp Door
people woollen blankets cheaper By q dol
lar pair; he wanted TO give the farmer
cheaper iron and cheaper steel, and he
offended the millionaire monopolists in The
same way that greater retormer than ne
did 1900 years ago when he drove the res.
cally money changers out Of the Temple.
That Is the sole reason ''avhy' Mr.. Morri-
sou was beaten. As for Mr. Iorrison'sj i'll
timation ''how," let the following dispatch
from Chicago 10 morning paper relate:
The contest between them was made
wholly on the tariff iasue, Mr. Baker bsing
a protectionist. He was assisted in the
lively ca mpaign, in which both candidates
spoke nightly, by John jarrett, of Pittsburgh,
ex.presldent ofthe Amalgamate0 Steel anu
Iron Association and now Secretary of the
American Tin Plate association, who spoke
nightly in favor OF protection. He
also enlisted the Knights of Labor in
Bakers interest, and hilad uleu at SO u day
and all legitimate expenses" 10 work against
Morrison. with money supplied by the
"Workingmen's Tariff Club, !" of Pittsburgh.
As a result of his labors the miners aud en-
ployees in the factories in BelIeyiaw, alton,
and East St. Louis nassed themselves
against Morrison, and threatening 70 boy.
cott saloon.keepe:s and merchants, turned
tbs tide against Morrison, and changed his
district from one with 1000 democratic ma
lority to one giving Baker q majority of $50.
Morrison carried but one county of the five
in his district
Mr.. Blaine is authority for the statement
that the iron manufacturers have made O
profit OF $3.50, 900, 900 in fifteen years. What
to them is the expense of 100000 or S2OO,-
900 to defeat for Congress man like Mr.
Morrison, who has persstently tried 20 lin
it their profit to reasonable prcu0rions ??
What spectacle for whole free people
when the ex.President Of the AmagamateG
Steel and Iron Association, the representa-.
tive of monopoly that made profit. ac.
cord:ng to Mr. Blaine, Of $3.50, 600 900 in iii-
teen years comes all tho way from Pitts
burgh to Waterloo, Ill.,, to crush
the obnoxious membe! Of Congress How
utiuy ct uIcu, Nv IL uhy anu IPgltiHlQfC
erpenscs,' to work against Mr. Morrison" "were
employed? Was il 5000 or 5000? Was it
$4,000 or 1000 dNy for at least twenty
days, besides the Legitimate expenses" that
the steel monopoly spent? Napoleon told
Fouche, when the latter warned him net 10
go to Russia, Bah to .aan who has
million soldiers ct his command Europe is
only 81 strumpet that has to obey any mama
behest." And yet Napoleon met his fate in
Russia
For while, to a monopoly who can
make profit of $3.50 ,000,0 900 in fifteen years,
the crushing Of Congressman who is hon
est and obnoxious is only question of
money. But tho day of reckoning will
come, and, like Napoleon, these monopolies
will find their end in ST. Helena. The
Amalgamated Steel and Iron monopoly
may lind ''S3 day and Legitimate ex.
penses' eflectual in o Congressional dis
lrict, but how etiectual will it be against q
united taritf-reform press or against millions
Of united tariff reformers? Mr.. Morrison is
defeated, but in his defeat the resentment
Of hundreds of thousands Of true men, who
hate and despise this great and wicked mo.
nopoly, will burn fiercer than ever, and al
though the monopolists may claim that they
have got gallows respite. yet they will
find that tariff agitation hitherto was only
child's play. J. S. MOORE.
New York, November 4.