Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-13
An Authority in the Musical World
Gives His Views Upon Mat
ters Political.

trust the Republicans or the Democrats TO
do this work in q way that will best pro-
tect the interests of the country at large
] say we can trust the Republicans with
greater confidence than the Democrats.
! propose to give my reasons for this
udgment.
i am not of those who vote a straight
ticket one way or the other from party
aifiliaion or because their fathers did be-
fore them.
| have never taken any interest in ma
tional or State politics till now, nor have
| ever voted in Il Presidential election be-
fore.
l shall do so this November for the first
time, if | live, and | shall vote the Repub-
lican ticket.
This determination is the result of
thought, of a study of the history of both
political parties and especially of their
present tendencies in legislation.
] cannot stomach the Democratic party.
| find the Democratic party means the
"solld South" and | do not believe in a
solid South" just as little as l believe in
solid North"
| came to this country to be an Ameri-
can, to be humble citizen of great ma
ton, in which all nationalities were
merged
/ believe only in Americans in America.
/ know here no English, no French, no
Germans, no Spaniards and no Irish
know only Americans, | know no North,
no South, no East, no West, know only
the United States.
/ see that the backbone of the Demo
cratic party is composed OF the Southern
States, who are solid" and | see further
that they are trying to get by the ballot
what they failed to obtain by the bullet
How dc see this?
BY the Mills bill and many other signs.
| believe that tariff reform is impera-
lively and Immediately necessary.
But | want to see that reform carried
out impartially. l want all interests
treated alike. | want no favoritism shown
to one section of the country at the ex-
pense of any other, nor do | want to see
the agriculturist favored at the expense of
the manufacturer or the manufacturer IA
vored at the expense Of the agrculturist.
l want fair play in politics.
| do not find fair play in the Mills bill.
and the Mills bill has been indorsed by
the Democratic party at their National
Convention.
] do not believe in a tariff reform which
retains a protection of 100 per cent on
sugar, so per cent. on rice, two of the sta
piles of the South, and abolishes the duty
on wool and lumber.
The specious advocates of the Mills bill
claim that the average reduction is about
5 to 10 per cent
If you exact duty of 100 per cent. on
two articles and you take the duty off one
entirely while you leave it on the other,
Of course your average reduction is so per
cent. A nice way of calculating averages.
1t is evident to me that the policy of
the Mills bill is dictated by the require
ments and wishes of the solid South
They want to charge the North and
West all they can for their own products,
hut they want to buy what they need as
cheaply as they can, SO they believe in
free-trade, and if the agriculturists of the
West and the manufacturers of the North
and East go to the devil, what is it to
them?
For these reasons | distruSt the Demo-
cratic party as tariff reformers."
But | have other causes of complaint
against the Democratic party.
1t is identified with the rum power and
with the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
| regard both as -eminently danger
Gus to the development of this great couu-
try, in which, if science and history have
taught me anything, | believe that the
future of the human race is to be decided.
| am no temperance advocate, not even
a high-license man, for / say with the old
English song, 'Why should poor man be
deprived Of his beer?"
Education, Enlightenment, progress.
they and neither fanaticism nor restrictive
legislation will ever solve the admitted
evils of temperance.
But | am afraid of the liquor dealer as
factor in politics. am against the saloon
politician. l am against any situation
where rum" is political factor controll-
ing elections.
That the Democratic party is identified
with the rum power is a self-evident fact
to any man who has lived but 4 short time
in any one of the large cities of this
country.
Ny next objection to the Democratic
party is that it is hand and glove with the
Roman Catholic hierarchy.
bSilSNt III dUSOlult lISeuOLu III religion.
and that is why do not believe in the
domination of any one sect.
| respect the Catholic religion, and all
those who honestly believe in it, though
disagree with them.
But | do not respect the Catholic hier-
archy
Iu this regard l stand on precisely the
same ground as DIR. McGlynn.
For the poor parish priest whose life is
one long selt-sacritice who brings help to
the poor, comfort to the sick and hope and
consolation to the dying, have a feeling
beyond words to express.
For the sister Of charity, who braves
death in the hospital, in the vilest Sums.
in her daily work of mercy, what feeling
can any man of heart have but one of in
finite respect and affection?
Such lives as theirs must remind us of
the selfshness and petty vanities OF our
own existence.
But for the sleek eeelesiastic of high de-
gree, for the powerful cardinal, the great
archbishop, | have only antagonism of the
sternest character
IF the mass of the Catholic priesthood
have been blessing to the world, the
Catholic hierarchy, in all ages and in all
climes, have been curse to the world.
They have ever been the friends of
darkness and the foes of light
Human progress owes them nothing.
They have prostituted their great talents
to keep the peoples they ruled IN ignor-
anee and misery.
In their efforts to gain power, temporal
as well as spiritual, their crimes have cried
to heaven.
They fought against a United Italy as
they to-day fght against Home Rule in
Ireland.
To gain power and recognition fos their
church n England, they are allied with
Tory Government in an effort to stife the
liberties Of seven millions of people of
whom the majority have been the most
faithful of their religionists.
They imprisoned a Calico and thev
massacred a Coligny.
In Italy, Spain and South America,
where they are still all-powerful, the deg
radiation, ignorance and misery of the
masses are awful to contemplate
We get Whit of the condition of these
peoples when we see band Of poor Ita:-
ians or Spaniards land at Castle Garden
This hierarchy, grasping and unscrupu-
lous, is the right arm of the Democratic
party in this city of New York. and
through the Democratic party ii rrasps at