The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-05

was expiated IN the blood of both. Inc
outer aspect Of the most homogeneous peo-
pie on earth was made perfect by the am
putaton Of the one disfigured feature OF
the body polite. The original cause OF the
quarrel finally removed, the law Of nature,
working through an ineradiCable consan-
guinitY, began its holy office; and the angel
that blessed us alike in our crades-nor
could distinguish between the babe that
clenched It's tiny fists at the northern star
and the babe that gazed with wondering
eyes upon the southern cross-cried out to
the victor from the heaven of an all-pervad-
ing peace:
You can not chain the eagle
And you dare not harm the dove;
But every gate
You bar 10 hate
Will open wide to lover
Thank God the voice Of the angel was
heard; and bore we are to-day perhaps the
better, certainly the stronger, because,
when the battle was ended, there was
nothing left to fight about; and, it may be
also, because we who, as the saying goes,
failed to got there, are as proud of you as a
little brother can be of a big one; defying
you only to be ashamed of u.s.
REPUBLICAN DISTRACTIONS.
But, all these years, what has the repub
lican party been about! 1t is nothing more
nor loss than the truth OF history To say
that 1t has opposed every peace movement,
every liberal movement and every reform
movement Where should we DO to-day if
that party, as an organized body had been
allowed the full bent and proclaimed pur
pose of its recognized leaders? What prog
ress has the country made in its effort to
extricate itself from the moral debris Of
civil strife, to throw off the nightmare
of sectional indigestion, intellectually
to emancipate itself and physically to lib
crate itself from the passions, the errors
and the burthens OF a state Of warm
word, what single strip of political territory
lying between this present national anniver-
sary and that Of 1865, have we traversed
which has not had to encounter the obsiu-
ate resistance and the angry resentment of
such of the republican chiefs as remained III
command and were not, like Sumner and
Greeley, Chase and Seward, driven out by
the excuses Of party zeal and the debauch
cries OF opportunity
will not weary you with a recital of the
story in detail. IL any man denies it, point
him to the debates in congress, to the pro-
ceedings of the republican conventions, to
the files of the republican newspapers. If
he denies it still, ask him to explain the
present attitude of the republican party
and the meaning OF the prospectus it has
put forth as the embodiment of its claim to
restoration. That prospectus, or manifesto,
or platform--or whatever you may choose
to call it should call it the last chapter in
the gospel of Mammon-clOses the account
Of the republican leaders with the old firm
OF Obstruction, Destruction, Misconstruc-
ton & Co., and it will mark-as | truly
hope and believe-the end Of the somewhat
thick and greasy volume, which records the
decline and fall of a professional patriot, of
whom it can be most fittlngly and most &C
curately said that,
whilst he lived he lived in clover;
When he died, he died all over"
beg you will forgive the levity. In a
case of this sort the suggestion of death nat
nrally produces an enlivening effect. But
the issue behind it, is no laughing matter,
| promise you; because, upon It's determine
ton, hang for period at least the interests
and happiness of millions of people That
issue is two-fold, relating, first, to taxes,
and second, to revenue; and through these,
to the entire business of the country, its
stability, its integrity, and the just distri-
button of its advantages among all classes
THE ISSUE OF THE CAMPAIGN.
The issue thus made up and forced upon
us is not one of protection versus free
trade Let no protectionist so delude him
self, or lay any such fiatteriug JUNCTION to
who seeks to precipitate free trade, literally
to burn down the factories and blow up the
custom houses, he should support this plat
form, and bid God speed to its prompt
application and rigid enforcement; because
if its terms could be carried out in good
faith, it would eliminate in such glut of
an already over-supplied home market, and
such consequent loss of employment to the
American operative as would surely bring
tina Vvhnla AdiAna dpxur,
achieving by command of the mob that
which this party of demagogues- living
from hand to mouth-rotuses, by its policy
of obstruction, to commit to the custody Of
statesmen.
Gentlemen, it cannot be carried out |
know those, who have proclaimed it, too
well to believe them capable of thinking
they can carry it out or of intending to try
to carry it out. 1t is but a trick issue
trumped up for present purpose They
have exhausted yesterday, and are reduced
to the confidence game of making forged
drafts on tomorrow. The think by this
daring flight of the gamblers imagination,
this Napoleonic disregard of all that has
gone before and all that may come after
to take the country by surprise and to cap
ture it, unawares. They are likelier to find
in it their Waterloo; for there is nothing,
nothing whatever back Of it, except broken
plOhkOo, iulSe vows hilu SOfulu AmDltlOnS,
IT is simply a reckless appeal to the cupidity
of the capitalist and a shameless reliance
upon the ignorance OF the masses, and par.
ticularly OF those who are technically de-
scribed as wRge-earners.
IL this were the time and place it could
be shown that wages have no relation TO
tariffs, being referable in all countries to
supply and demand But it is not the time
or place. NV immediate purpose is TO deal
with the general situation; not TO enter upon
an economic discussion. | want TO EXPOSE
the heartless insincerity OF the party leaders.
who-learning nothing and forgetting every,
thing, and therein showing themselves
worse than the Bourbons, who did remem-
Der something disguised themselves
as the friends of industry and labor, in order
that they may, for their own exclusive
benefit, lease the country little longer
since they have no power to sell it outright
to the very combinations and trusts they
affect to denounce. This, stripped of ali
surplusage, is the real issue OF the presiden-
tlal campaign.
THE TWO PARTIES.
There can be, fellow democrats, nomistak
ing this republican plan Of campaign. The
platform and ticket are in perfect agree
ment 1t is a rich mans platform. II is a
rich mans ticket. The invocation Of these
however, is addressed TO the lowly and the