Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-29

who have gone astray to the truth, and
draw them back into the Democratic
fold. We must offset money with polltl.
cal education-appeal from the gold OF
the corrupters to the higher intelligence,
the broader interests and the underlying
patriotism of the votere.
Each Democratic club should be made
proselyting school, and these political
schools should be multiplied until every
voter could be reached.
The Republican party is in power
simply because the people failed to real
ize at the last presidential election the
real merits of the tariff issue. They were
carried away by false and pernicious
theories and became the victims OF gilt
tering but deceptive arguments. The
whole tariff policy of the Democracy was
based upon the doctrine of tariff that
would at once secure the needed revenue
for the government and protection for
American labor. The Republican party
on the other hand insisted on tariff 80
high that combinations and monopolles
could impoverish labor by its exactions
and tax the consumers at will. The wall
was to be raised so high that competl-
ton from abroad should be impossible,
and the manufacturing towns could then
organize trusts, limit production, ana
insist on the pound of flesh from the
helpless masses.
The policy of the Democratic party,
whilst it would protect our manufac-
turing industries from reasonable compe.
tition from abroad, would have opened
our ports to the free admission OF the raw
material, which we do not produce, or
which we only produce in insufficient
quantities, and would thus enable us to
compete with foreign manufactures in
the markets of the world. AS it is, our
own fabrics are now, from the necessities
| of an exclusive tariff, limited to our
home market. We would not, by this
policy, open our doors to foreign manu-
factures; but we would extend our sellt
ing market from its present home limi-
to every quarter of the globe. Instead
of giving labor employment for half the
year, we would give it work all the year
round. Instead of placing a barrier upon
production, we would give 1t the chance
for unlimited expansion.
l am greatly mistaken If the kinder
garten lesson which this administration
will give the people will not awaken
them to the enormity of the mistake they
have made. They will learn that they
have given their sanction to cannibal
policy which in any other but new
country like this, with unlimited natural
resources and immense tracts of land
available for settlement, would have
been productive of the direst conse.
quences. But even here, with all our
undeveloped resources of natural wealth,
| the effect of this ruinous policy will be
keenly and disastrously felt by great
section of the working people.
Let this club, and every member Of
this club, and every Democrat in the
land constitute themselves exhorters
and educators to enlighten the voters
upon the principles of our party and
| to point cut the perils that must
overtake our country if the plutocracy
now in control are permitted to hold un-
disputed sway in the councils of the
nation.
The ark and the covenant of
our political salvation have been car
rled by the Democratic party through the
flush fields and the arid deserts of our
political history. The equality of every
citizen-equal rights, equal privileges
and equal immunities under the Govern
ment for all, these have constituted the
great corner stone of our party from the
beginning. When the Government is
permitted to wander away from these
fundamental articles of faith-when
strange gods and stranger idols are set
up for our worship-when the aristocracy
of wealth is permitted to take the place
of the aristocracy of manhood, and
the favored few are aspiring to
the titles now so freely awarded
of kings, barons and magnates-
when great party, masking itself be-
hind a merit of patriotism in arms
which belongs as much to Democrats as
to Republicans, has yielded to the
Establishments of the plutocrats, and
become their tool and their bulwark of
strength-when we behold all these
signs and evidences of encroachment
upon the policy and governmental sys-
TEN transmitted to US by the fathers of
the Republic, how can we justify to our
selves policy OF inaction or course of
indifference? Eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty, and at no period in the
history of our country has the energy,
the vigilance, the self.sacrifce, and the
patriotism of the people ever been called
upon to arouse to greater eXertion or to
uOTo uuWSdtyluS WoVOhiuihOoot 'loH
now, when the "scurvy politician with
his glass eyes,"
"Plates sin with gold,
And the strorg lance of justice heartless
breaks"
And when even the Bishop OF New York,
in historical church, on recent great
national occasion, felt called upon to
rebuke, through the head of the Govern
ment, the brazen and open corruptions
of his party at the very fountains of po-
litical power.
After the grafton the following pro-
gramme was rendered:
Instrumental Solo ...................se Selected
Miss Viola Bennett.
Recitation-"Bingen on the Rhine. .............
Miss Lille Sargent.
Orchestra.
Recitation-"Indian Scene. ne"................
Helen Mar Bennett.
Instrumental solo-"Butterfly" y"..................
,by Luca Fumagalli
Little Ethel Stewart.
Vocal solo-"Soldier's Good Bve". -. ......
Mr.. W. II. Stohl.
Recitation Holding the Wolves at Bay '......
Little Ethel Stewart.
Scotch Dance-"Highland Fling" .............
BobDie Burns.
Scotch Bagpipes .................
Gregor Mcdonald.
The entertainment closed with ball,
at which dancing continued until late
hour. The following we're the members
of the committees, to whom much credit
is due for the excellent manner in which
they contributed to the success OF the
occasion: Arrangements-G.W w GloWner,