Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-25
A GREAT OUTRAGE MATURING. = ITS
PROBABLE RESULTS.

they can ignore the honest aspirations
of the people. The great demand for
decades has been that the excessive
imposts of the post war tariff should be
reduced. Even from the farmer the cry
has arisen. In the language of scripture,
the people have asked for bread and
have been rendered a stone.
The great, essential right of any man
is that he should be allowed to retain
the usufruct of the labor of his hands,
consecrated by the sweat of his brow,
with such diminution as an economical
administration of the government in
wolves. There is no reason why the wage
Garner should be crushed by the cap
italist, and there is particularly no
reason why the government of the
United States should be party to such
an infamy.
Nevertheless, notwithstanding all the
| abundant reasons against such an in
iquitous programme, the Republican
party in congress has been for months
engaged in the business of putting more
burdens upon the people, and still fur
ther handicapping the natural develop
ment of the industries and commerce of
the United States.
Discouraged for a moment by the re-
suit of the election IN Vermont,
and momently encouraged by the lit
tie flare-up in Maine, the Republican
party marches steadily forward to its
Nemesis. The mockery of bounty
which has been proposed in order to
placate some American interests does
not go into effect until next July. BY
that time the humor may have seized
upon changeling congress to repeal the
act.
As matter of fact, the Mckinley
tariff, which is not changed in it's essen
tials by the senate notifications, in
creases the duties on everything the
average citizen wears to an intolerable
is exactly doubled. The impost on
everything worn by the poor man and
his family is doubled or materially in
creased. Such men as Andrew Carne-
gle, who told Hon. VIM. L. Scott, of
Erie, that he had made $1,000 a day the
preceding year, are the only people
who will be benefited by the Mckinley
tariff. Meanwhile, the wealthy man
ufacturers, like Carnegie, are pocketing
the enormous bonuses of the tariff, and
are putting in all their energies in i'm
porting Hungarian and Italian laborers,
who will work for comparatively moth
ing, thus taking the bread out of the
mouths of the defrauded and despoiled
American workingmen, whom this Nc
Kinley tariff is ostensibly aiming to
benefit
All the while, the manufacturers of
the United States clamor for free raw
material, the people are vociferous for
cheaper blankets, clothing, hardware
and other necessaries of life, and men of
both parties are keenly observant of the
hypocrisy and double dealing of the
party of ''great moral ideas" All the
signs will fail in remarkable manner il
this Mckinley bill does not give us an
other Democratic tidal wave. The time
for one of those phenomenal visitations,
purifcatory OF politics, would seem to
have arrived. In California it will elect
Pond, while in Pennsylvania it will for a
second time install Pattison in the gu
bernatorial chair.
In moment of folly, Gen. Joseph R.
Hawley's paper, the Hartford Courant,
undertook to take Mr.. David A. Wells,
one of the most enlightened publicists OF
the day, to task because he, an original
Republican, was supporter of tariff
reform-a proposition which the Cour-
ant undertook to put in the shape that
Mr.. Wells was advocating free trade.
The latter gentleman made a crushing
rejoinder, and reminded Senator Haw-
ley that the distinctive Republicans
who made the Republican party out OF
nothing, occupied substantially the
same position on the tariff that he
(Wells) did today.
Nothing could be neater or truer than
this remark. Garfield embodied the at
titude of the original and genuine Re
publicans IN the aphorism that he, per
sonally, was in favor of that sort of pro
lection that led up to free trade. Thai
is as far as any Democrat is prepared tc
60 when the fact is borne IN mind that
the immemorial doctrine of the Demo
cratic party is that no more revenue
should be raised by the tariff or any
other agency than is necessary for the
maintenance of the government, econ
omically administered
In all probability, the passage of the
Mckinley tariff, even with the milo
amendments of the senate, will signal
ize the permanent divorce of the great
states of the West and Northwest from
the Republican party.