Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-21
Political poturs.

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| Political Points.
We want reduction of the tariff. We
are taxed on every interest; blood is not
only extracted from the larger veins OF
the body polite, but it is bound hand
and foot and covered all over with GALL
nippers who are allowed to suck blood
from every vein.-[General John A. Lo.
gan, Cong. Globe.
The New Jersey Unionist sent inqui-
ries to representative labor leaders in
that State as to their views on various
matters of politics. OF thirty-two an
swers received, only two we're "for pro-
lection as it is" while thirty were for
tariff revision of some sort. PIN. Y.
World.
Mr.. Morton's "noble philanthropy" is
attracting great attention in Republican
circles. His philanthropy" in giving
money to buy votes in Indiana got him
the French mission and then the nomi-
nation for the Vice Presidency. A phi
lanthropist seated on corpulent barrel
is the most attractive object in nature to
lean Republicans who feel the need Of
fat.-[St. Louis Republic, (Dem.)
The Philadelphia Press, in comment
ing on paragraph regarding Southern
industrial development which appeared
in the Nashville Banner, asks: "When
is the break in the solid South coming 2"
When the sectional party at the North
that has warred upon Southern civiliza-
ton for twenty odd years shall have been
swept out OF existence you may look for
that break-not before. -[Richmond Dis
patch, (Dem.l
The platform is giving the "party" no
end of trouble. 1t is such a fiat contra
diction of the one on which Blaine stood
necessity of tariff revision, and of his
famous Paris reply to President Cleve-
lands message. in which he took strong
ground against free whisky, that the per-
picked managers are at loss to know
how the magnetic statesman" can take
the stump for Har ison and free whisky
Albany Argus, Dem.)
Worthier, better and juster, il seems
to my mind, would it he to give our .peo-
Pile, the toiling masses, cheaper food,
cheaper fuel, cheaper clothing and
cheaper shelter-cheaper because re-
leased from the heavy and unnecessary
burden of high-tariff taxes. l will put
free sugar, free coal, free salt and free
lumber against free whisky an l free to-
bacco under all circumstances, and SO
will the great mass of the American peo-
ple.- Congressman Knute Nelson, Re-
publican.
"The vote for Ben Harrison" it SAYS.
'has forever dissipated the Chinese
bugaboo in American politics. The Cali
fornia brawlers declared that they could
not accept Sherman or Allison on account
of their pro- Chinese record. But they
finally accepted General Ben Harrison,
whose record on the treaty excluding the
Chinese was as pronounced as that of
Hawley of Connecticut. Most people in
the Eastern and Middle States rather ad-
mire General Harrison for his courage in
standing up in behalf of poor defenseless
foreigners. We are gratlfied that the
representatives of the Pacific States have
acknowledged the absurdity of their et-
forts to prejudice the Pacific Slope against
certain Senators. They give what in
law is called cognovit of the weakness
of their previous position. ."-[ Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
One result, at least, of Grover Cleve-
lands election to the Presidency has
been of benefit to the country; it has
brought about better feeling between
the North and South-between northern
and southern men in all parts of the
country. First, in the North, such bug
bears as "paying the rebel war debit"
"raiding the treasury" and so on, are
forever done away with. Northern bust
ness men have seen that our southern
citizens can be trusted to administer the
duties of public office just as faithfully
and capably as any one else. So far from
squandering the so-called Treasury sur
plus" they have been foolishly jealous in
trying to keep it close, and have spent
less money in developing the re resources
and commerce of the country, by public
Improvements, and securing the sea coast
defenses, both North and South, than
Republican Administration would have
spent Express.
In 1860 our foreign tonnage lacked
only one ship of being equal to Great
Britain, and was growing at nearly
double the English rate; so that when
the Republicans went into power, March
A, 1861, it was the largest in the world,
The war gave our commerce black eve,
but the Republican policy of non-inter.
course, of making everything we want in
our own country, of checking imports
aud confning them to goods not made
hereto coffee, caoutchouc, camphor.
cinchona and capsicum-could not be car
ried out if we had large mercantile in. |
terest to combat. Protection therefore
destroyed our shipping, and the Chicago
platform reaffirms its hostility to COM
merce in its clause against free ships. |
Our mercantile marine was deliberately
destroyed by the Republican party ito |
make this country independent of |
Europe" We cannot build ships be-
cause the tariff raises the cost so hich |
that the ships will not pay interest on |
money invested. In. Y. World,