The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-12-03
New York Press. I

Mse-lie Reasons Like Chifh or IA Con-
Ddenoe Man-shyster Triokinless.
New York Pressl
Mhose who have heretofore regarded
APresident Grover Cleveland as n sol
</n, dull witted, honest sort o person
great self conceit, very much disposed
take himself seriously as the prophet
stined TO save a 'deldded" people from
Wemselves and t. lead them away from
DO noisy paths of demagogy into the
grcsn pastures of truth must be heartily
0Aiamed of that person after acquaint-
ING themselves with his i'll timed dema-
..gOgic, aud abusive utterance at the
Thurman banquet. Not only was it
WHOLLY unworthy of an ex-president Of
the United States. Not only did il dis
grace presumed'and self assumed leader
of party. Not only was it entirely out of
place on an occasion suggested by the
personal regard in which people OF all
parties hold the venerable statesman in
whose honor the day was celebrated.
Not only was it all this; but IL was an
almost painful exposure Of the incom-
potency, the inadequacy, the shySter
thickness, the intellectual shallowneSS
and the moral recklessnesS of Mr.. Cleve-
land himself, so great a fall was it from
the standard of the more or less popular
Cleveland myth. This typical Ameri-
can" this ''second Jackson" this alleged
''man of the people" this ''consecrated
apostle of democracy" succeeded i'm eX-
posing himself % view as bearing the
same relation to just and intelligent
craftsmanship as is borne TO legitimate
! and upright mercantile methods by a
curbstone fakir.
Not one argument from what pro-
tective laws have done; nothing but a
childish, petulant catching at some
words that prOtectioniSts have said II
this is not the intelligence Of an idiot; If
we are TO presume that Mr.. Cleveland
knows better, then il is the fairness OF
the Ycriest iiyc-dollar shyster who ever
bullied a witness i'm the TombS police
court, and made words appear of more
Importance than deeds or things, for the
sake of success at the expense of justice.
Several republican orators had outraged
the democratic spirit OF fakirism by init
mating that there is a cheapness that Is
costly What they meant was clear enough
TO every candid mind. Every intelligent
buyer knows that il is better econ
Omy TO get good thing that costs
more than TO get flimSy thing that
not superficial knows that the real ques-
tion of CheapneSS 10 him is what nc can
buy with one days work rather than
what he can buy with mouey of a given
face value. And every man acquainted
with American history knows that home
production, stimulated by protective
duties, has vastly cut down the cost of
almost everything thar the American
either eats, wears or uses. That il has
increased the opportunities of labor for
employment by the thousand. Every
well informed man knows that the Me
Kinley BILL hardly affecting the grades
of goods used by the great mass of pco-
pie at all, the manufacture of which
was built up by the old tariff, raises
duties on and promotes the manufacture
of better grades, with the certain result
of chcapening them to the masses in the
same way. and thus raising the American
standard of living and the wages of
American labor.
But Mr.. Cleveland reasons either like a
child or like a confidence man. Like
child he remembers nothing past and sees
nothing of the future. Like child, he
cries out against causes without the
slightest recognition of their inevitable
effects. But it is uncomfortable that. ig
norant as he was when he became preSi-
dent. nearly six years ago, he should not
know better by this time. His fractional
friends can no longer turn up their
noses at the sugary ilattery Of the dear
people, and the assumed championship
of their down trOdden cause, by his
feared and hated rival, Gov. Hill; for
Hill himself never fawned on the people
and cooed at them as a hystcrical woman
or a spoiled and whimpering baby, in
vein more insulting 10 their anlinesS
and their intelligence, than that now
adopted by Cleveland.
The note of Boosting triumph over the
result of an election which, by lies and
other tricks of Misrepresentation, was
perverted into an apparent disapproval
of a great code of industry-m laws,
which, if undisturbed, will enable us to
employ American labor on goods that
we now import TO the amount of $780,
900, 900 year, sounds like the harsh
saeak Of Ncro's fiddle while Rome was
burning. The Mckinley bill, undis-
tufbed, as we believe the sober second
Thought of the American people will let
N be. will cause at least half Of this $500,
oAO, 600, or S1OOOOO,OOO year, to
be manufactured in this country,
employing 175, 900 workers and
$50, 900, 600 of capitals; creating mar
kets for millions of American raw ma
terials and food products. Its apparent
discouragement by the elections will
probably prevent fully half of this cap
ital from being invested, fully half of this
labor from finding new employment, and
postpone indefinitely no small part of
the increased production of fine goods
that would be cheaper TO the people.
If Grover Cleveland dominates himself
as the leader of a RAID, not only on our
newly protected industries that will en-
ploy the unemployed, but our old ones
that so largely employ the employed, we
welcome the issue. And we want no
better man to thrash out Of his boots as
the leader of that raid than this preten-
tious demagogue and economic bunco
steerer who sets himself up as the oracle
of party that has no policy except that
of opposition, and no principles except
fsto the victor belong the spols."
MAKING DEMOCRATS FAMOUS.
Tnaa Mofpaq Hap{ta1