Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-09

thlcago Herald.
1t is the portion of the right to be
triumphant in apparent defeat. The
stole of today, being right. may rail at
his tormentOrs like any greatheart of
classic times. Put to this present torture
of misfortune, the spirit of tariff reform
and honester government may mock its
captors. What are they in all their pres
ent glory? Does the foreigner pay the
tax because Harrison is elected? Are
trusts private and sacred enterprises be-
cause Blaine wins? Is civil service re-
form wrong because on the 4th of next
March every democrat will be purged
from the departments? Are dear blankets
blessing because the whisky tax is to
be abolished?
The cause of last TUESDAYS catas-
trophe, although largely chanceful, are
still worthy of some remark. The CAM
paign was one of intellect. The Herald
has resolutely believed that the culture of
the east is bogus. The boosted intellect
OF that region does not control the popu-
lar movement, and probably does not
even exist. The classes robbed by the
wicked war tariff could be terrified by
simple and discreditsble means. In the
west the same classes listened to all argu-
ments and offered the spectacle of com
plete revolution in thought.
There always have been times when
the counsel of the fool with cap and bells
was OF greater advantage than the advice
and admonition of the ssgest minister on
the other side of the bed of Justice, the
seat of power. No propaganda ever
begun with more evil prospects than
the contention that was teegraphed
from Paris last December. As the con
Ventlon OF railroad attorneys at Chicago
brought forth their candidate and plat
form, it seemed to many good men that
the republican cause was blasted at it's
birth. The utter elimination of Gresham
and Allison, the only clean elements in
the convention, the brazen dogma of the
1nfallibllity of high taxation, the labelling
OF tobacco as necessary and sugar as
luxury-these noisome beginnings
seemed to offend common intelligence
The vacillation of the senate gave a taeit
rebuke to the Mckinley platform. The
lsudlng of Blaine and all his speeches
only tore away the veil of sophistries that
conceals the khalif of protection from the
gaze of bis deluded subjects Attacks
upon the president revealed the honesty
OF bis character. Assaults on his patri-
otism coufounded his enemies with the
proofs of their own villainy.
ln every way the moral, political and
sentimental position of President Cleve.
land was impregnable. The siege laid
was weak and faint hearted. Yet the
citadel is taken, and the head of a wise
and noble commander-in chief is on a
pike over the portculis.
There were some few signs that might
alarm the watchers on the high towers
Ben Butler, bird of most evil omen,
presaging disaster, appeared on the hori-
zon. The Bourbon spirit of privilege.
ensconsed within as we'll as beleaguering
without, gave evidence of mutiny The
president himself, gazing afar off, did not
deign to notice certain petty assaults. A
little more expediency here, flavor of
trlckery there, ruse or stratsgem, and
the New York gate would not have
opened to the enemy. But il the govern
or OF the city of tariff reform erred, he
pays for it so dearly that all men may
have exceeding great charity.
The triumph Of General Harrison com.
pletes the ruin of civil service reform
Whatever the nation had hoped of Amer
lean politics in this regard is now proved
TO De utterly impracticable.
The repeal of the internal revenue
laws, excepting the butter tax, follows as
the essence of victory.
The increase Of the war tariff is already
foreshadowed in the senate substitute fol
the Mills bill. The people on Tuesday
chose the senate's plan of higher taxa,
ton. 1t may be that in more carefully
fastening the gives of monopoly on the
ankles of the people care will be taken to
give the outer appearance of equalization
and reduction. About these arts Of the
tariff senators and agents the Herald ha!
spoken clearly.
An unfriendly attitude toward othe,
nations must result as necessity of |
situation whose strength is laid in bigotr,
and rancor.
Lastly there will reappear visibly il
american government James G.. Blaine
the most dangerous man who has con
fronted the American people since Asrol
Burr. Plying his necromancy upon th,