Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-06

OF deep cOnVlctlOn, 1tS following was well
nigh financial. 1t was crusade against
the great National sin, and it fell upon
the time appointed of heaven for the
publication of the Republic by fire.
Like whirlwind it swept its course OF
destructive, though wholesome violence.
Within decade the evil which had en-
gendered its being was more than de-
stroyed, and the land was strewn with a
mighty wreck, where, in fantastic chaos,
lay the seals of the Constitutions, land the
people amid the wide-fung havoc OF
war. That was the logical period of the
party's existence. 1t stood upon or pos.
sessed no doctrines of government, no
principles for the guidance OF institutions
of freedom in the repose of peace. 1t
was not National, but sectional party
for civil war, not for National fraternity
but the heart of the victorious people was
in its grasp, and the rage of war was long
unspent.
THE FREEBooTERs' OPPORTUNITY.
1t was the opportunity of opportunities
for the political freebooter, and never for
one moment did they suspend their
efforts, nor ever spare the exhausted
people. Upon one pretext and another,
from almost the earliest grasp of Repub-
lican dominion, corruption began it's
work, and schemes for the dishonest en-
richment of the few began to prevail. 1t
was in 1862 that, pursuing the sentiment
that the National defense required a
trans continental highway, Pacific rail-
road legislation began; it was in 1864
that, with unrelenting ingenuity, it was
amended to so diabolical perfection that
the Government really built the roads
and gave them, with land enough for an
empire, to the successful conspirators.
Then also began the earliest act for levy
ing war taxes, and afterward, with
greed that heightened with each new
gluttony, every revenue measure was
prevented and distorted by ingenious
touches, imperceptible to any but the
practiced eye, by which private trib-
ute was extorted from the people, five
times greater than the tax that went
to the Treasury. Then it was that the
monstrous vampire hidden in the tariff,
which seductively fans with the wings
of protection the laborer, whose hearts
blood it sucks, was begotten in sin to rob
the toiling producers in the fields and
forests of the wealth they create; and
when the war had ceased, great peo-
pie, with it's Golfers unlocked and its
resources exposed, lay before the spoiler,
while in the exhaustion of the struggle
and heat of rage, National guardianship
was gone. Then followed such seizure
of the National wealth by various de-
vices SO rapacious, SO gigantic, SO ingen-
ious in the methods by which the grasp
was laid, as has never been exhibited in
history. Nothing is comparable to it
but India under Warren Hastings. Other
nations have been despoiled by conquer
ors in the open force Of unlicensed con-
quest. This people was robbed by the
devilish manipulation of its own legisla-
ton and the emergencies of an admins
tration in the hands of it's supposed
friends.
OFFICIAL CORRUPTION.
The Secretary then referred to corrup-
ton in public contracts, touching upon
the partnership of Grant and Ward, to
Custom House scandals, undervaluation
of imports, Navy jobs and Star Route
contracts, and declared that these and
other things of like character had driven
the best men in the Republican party out
of it-Sumner, Chase, Greeley, Trumbull
and Beecher. He declared that the only
policy of the only branch of the Govern
ment remaining Republican since 1884,
the Senate, was comprised in two words,
construction and Misrepresentation, as to
everything for general good, and in.
stanced the tardy confirmation of Chief
Justice Fuller, the rejection of the Fish.
cries treaty and delay in passing the Re-
taliation bill asked for by President
Cleveland.
THE DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION.
b.
speaker said: In the Department OF State
you find everywhere our National rights
protected and the Republican obstruc
ton leaves us needless hostility with oul
northerrneighbor. If you take the Treas
ury, its guardianship OF our financial in
terests commands respect on every hand
The collections of internal revenue fo,
the fiscal year for 1885 (the last Republ
can YEAR, amounted to $112, 900, 900; fol
1886 (Cleveland's first Year, $117 900, 900
1887, $119, 900, 900; 1888, $125 ZOO, 900.
The cost of collection, he said, ha(
largely decreased under the present ad
ministration. The Secretary then com
pared the Naval administrations unde
the two parties, the restoration of land
to the public domain, the removal 0
cattlemen from Oklahoma, and said
Much has been said of private pension
bills, and much effort has been made t
maintain a theory of ill-will t.
soldiers on the Presidents part
because of his vetoes. Yet already NOR
such bills have passed into enacted law
under him, than during the administra
tions of both Arthur and Hayes, and b,
end of his first term the number vii
larger than during the administratio
u Grant, Hayes and Arthur all tc
gether.
SECOND EMANCIPATION.
Another thing to the credit of th
Administration was the second emanc
patton of the colored man his emanc