Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-01
HWe,ll Blow In.1

EDITORS HERALD 1t would be we'll for
all Republican bankers and business
men and, in fact, all who belong to that
party and have an interest in the future
prosperity OF the country and desire a re-
duction of the public debt, to consider
the following airy proposition of the
Honorable Tom Fitch in his speech at
Hazards Pavilion last night, as follows :
"'There is the surplus; what shall we do
with it?' can tell you in four simple
words: Well blow it in.'
Then follows list OF visionary
Munchausen. Now, considering what
the country has gone through, the bur-
den of taxation upon the people and the
large amountof land under mortgage in the
country at large, together with the large
National debt upon our shoulders, which
must be paid some day, what sensible
man would entrust his interests and the
interest of his country to the manage
ment of party controlled and guided
by men advocating such views as these.
To put this airy proposition in practical
shape, consider for one moment, what
your reply would be to a person who
professed such principles, were he to
apply to you for position as manager OF
your bank or business. You very natur-
ally, not wishing your surplus to be
blown in, would prefer to put your busi-
ness in the hands of some more conserv-
ative person, and one who would not be
so liberal with other peoples money.
The curse of the country under Repub-
lican rule has been the ascendency of
men of this class.
Men possessing no business ability
where business has to be done on legit-
innate basis, and who can't stand compe
tition, and therefore desire to conduct all
business on a speculative basis, and by
means of combinations, thus placing
every kind of business on a false basis,
and wrecking the legitimate business of
the country. They can only prosper under
jobbery, and combination. Under the n
the rich become richer and the
poor, poorer, and we will end
by becoming nation of serfs.
They have got up gigantic railroad and
telegraph combinations on the money
furnished by confding stockholders, and
in each case have blown the stockhold-
ers' money into the pockets of the ring.
They have lobbied and johbed railroad
grants through Congress until the map
of the country west of the Mississippi
presents such a network of grants that
the settler in search of home on the
boasted public domain cannot set his
foot down without stepping on some
vested or accrued rights, present or pros
pective. In this way they have blown in
the public lands-lands bought by the
peoples money and conquered by the
pioneer.
They have kept high war tariff up,
taxing the people and enriching at the
expense OF the people many men who
could not run business on legitimate
basis, thus allowing them to make for
tunes each year, which are spent in Eu-
rope for pleasure, and to bring up chill
dren who return to their native country
with less love for it and it's institutions
than the veriest Russian serf that lands
on its shores for the first time.
They have allowed foreign pauper
contract labor to take the place
of our home workers in the mills
and factories which have been built up
at the cost and expense of the people,
aand in return for the benefits that have
been granted them they have blown the
American workman out of work.
They have blown the timber on the
public land into the hands of timber
trusts and syndicates. And nothing now
remains to be jobbed on; the air, thank
God. they can't control.
Hence they have turned their atten-
tion to the desert and the mountain
streams. These are to be corraled under
some philanlhropic scheme to put money
In In the pockets OF the now hungry ring.
The bayous OF the South are to be cleared
out in order to give the alligator a
chance.
Why did not the gentleman's party
enforce the telegraph clause on the rail-
road and telegraph grant lines when they
were in power? 1t did not take the DEM
ocrats long to enforce it, and make them
receive the business of the people. What
plain, sensible man who depends on hon
in such leaders. w. .E.S.