Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-21
THE GREAT ISSUE.
Pilh and Point of the PO-
litical Battle.
THE PRESS AND PLATFORM
Democratic Doctrine on Tariff Re.
form as Taught by the Great
Leaders East and West.

n pldtIOTm WHICH uSCldIeu lOT odilli IOA
revenue only. At the time the Prohibi-
ton vote in that State WAS insignificant.
This year, with the Republicans on the
free whisky platform, the Prohibition
vote will be swelled to 100000. Put this
and that together, and add thereto the
strength OF an able, wise and economical
administration of the Government for
the last four years, and you have ample
reason for the claim that New York will
certainly cast her electoral vote for
Cleveland.-[St. Paul Globe.
The Government is now collecting from
the people in taxes every year from sixty
to seventy million dollars more than it
can possibly spend. 1t has $50 millions
of money in the treasury taken from the
people which it has no more use for than
a horse has for five legs. The Reputli-
can policy is to keep on accumulating
that useless surplus and keep up the
unnecessary taxation. The Democratic
policy is to stop taking from the people
money that the Government does not
want. Which will you have ?-[Thur-
man at Battle Creek.
1t is the constant effort OF our oppo-
nents to make out that the Democratic
party is in some way opposed to the in
terests OF the workingmen. Think min
ute as matter OF fact out of every hun
dred Democrats ninety are workingmen.
1t isn't possible that the Democrats are
trying to hurt themselves, is it?-[Thur-
man at Battle Creek.
Everything but labor is protected by a
high tariff. The iaborer must protect
himself, especially from those precious
friends who pretend to be his especial
guardians Portsmouth Times.
Did it ever occur to the ultro -protec-
ZIONIST to 60 back to China for an illustra-
ton of the logical outcome of their
doctrines? Here, if anywhere, should
be their ideal of statehood. This is the
closest corporation on earth, and its
famous ''wall" is a fitting emblem for the
high-tariff advocates.-[Chicago Daily
News.
The Tory policy of protecting the
classes at the expense OF the masses will
not work On this side. 1t is to be a
stand-up fight between the millionaires
and the millions, and the millions will
win.-[Boston Globe.
The Senate Tariff bill increases the
tax on tin plate, that industry which
does not yet exist in this country, but
which affects every workingman and
hotsekeeper in the United States.-[ New
Jersey Argus.
Newark is great manufacturing city.
On Saturday last the tariff scare at
tempted in New Jersey eliminated in
the cowardly and contemplate trick OF
handing the workingmen their wages
defended solely through their own Or
ganizations) in envelopes printed all over
with campaign lies as to the alleged
effect of tariff reduction on work and
wages.
On Tuesday Newark gave a net Demo
cratic gain of $500 over the charter cleo
ton in October. 1884 And now the
Tribune says: ''It is not apparent that
the tariff entered into the Newark con-
tes; in any degree whatever. Oh, no!
1t never 'enters into" anything where
the Republicans lose-as they did in
Maine, for instance.
The Newark election made the sawdust
fly from the battered Free Trade" scare
crows.-[New York World.
Is it possible that Mr.. Blaine doesn't
know that Secretary John Sherman had
more public money deposited in single
national bank in New York, when he
was at the head of the Treasury, than
Secretary Fairchild has now deposited in
all the national banks in the country p
Boston Herald.
There is Joy in the opium joints OF
Chinatown, in San Francisco, and in
Mott street, New York. The Republican
bill for "buncombe protection" puts
"opium, crude or manufactured for
smoking" on the free list. Since the
Republicans in 1872 put "joss sticks and
Joss lights" on the free list, they have
conferred no more substantial boon on
the particular kind of "labor" Harrison
consistently protected" in the United
States Senate.-[Albany Argus.
The refusal of the Senate to give our
manufacturers and our labor the benefit
of the free list of raw materials, is simply
q monstrous assault upon American Cap
it al, American labor and American con-
sumers. 1t is in defiance of the earliest
teachings of Republican Presidents,
Grant, Arthur and Garfield land it is at war
with every principle of justice to labor
and Justice to consumers. 1t is turning
back the hands Of progress into the dark
ness of Chinese walled theories, and it is
a fearful confession that there can be no
relief 70 either capital or labor without
an imperious demand from the people
in the coming election. 1t is
an APPALLING declaration that the
highest war taxes on the neces-
saries of business and of life shall be
continued indefinitely, and that high
taxes and low wages shall be the only
hope OF American workingmen. tits the
policy of madness the policy of oppress-
ing the many for the benefit Of the few,
and it is the most fragrant assault that
was ever made upon capital, labor
and consumers since the formation of the
Republic. 1t is mean partisan jugglery
with taxation nothing more, nothing
less.-[P Philadelphia Times.
AS a Senator of the United States,
sworn to serve the whole people, Mr..
Harrison was the representative of the
worst side OF partisan Republicanism
The Slick Six gang Of this city controlled
him completely, as the Democratic ap-
pointees from Indiana know to their
cost. The merits of case cut no figure
as against the commands of the gang
indianapolis Sentinel.
The Republican managers have at last
found a real 'tariff scare" But it is
they who are frightened at the prospect
of losing votes, and not the workingmen
who are scared at the prospect of having
their taxes reduced.
The growth of the tariff reform senti.
ment in the West and Northwest has
alarmed the defenders of the war taxes.