Saint Mary's beacon., 1890-12-04
TRUTH or THE SITUATION.


season the republican pa
l,ers stick to the one solitary occupa.
ION which seems 10 have any interest
,scsfSsi ~ Z cessasing the causes o.
Mtnisy bill2 they gravely ~ 4Sq..ss @ I
Or was it the Force Bill? Or was ii
just thing--a mere fortuitous con-
course Of votes for Democratic candi-
dates2
Bless your dear souls, il was every
thing. 1t was the Mckinley bill.
and the Force Bill, and the Reap.
portionment bill and Speaker Reed,
and the new rules, and John Wsna.
maker and the Blocks Of Five, and
Benjamin Harrison, and the crooked
pension business, and the Census, and
any. quantity Of other things, You
need not trouble yourself TO hunt out
any one cause Of your defeat there
are causes 10 abundance. and there
would have been more if you had
had little more time in which to
worry the people. Do not distress
yourselves to decide which sort Of
cake gave you the stomach.ache. You
have eaten all sorts there we're. Any
one would have been enough. Put
the stomach-ache down to all.
You began ipdustriously amassing
this vast accumulation of Democratic
votes as far back as 1884. Before
that, you had tried the patience Of
your supporters in the nomination Of
Hayes and the stealing for him Of the
Presidential chair. Nor were the
choice of Gen. Garfield aud the uu-
holy squabbIe that followed bis cleo
ton in any sense good politics. Still
You were forgiven. You had your
people behind you. You retained
their confderoe. And you abused it.
In 1884 you nominated a man whom
a large number of your followers
could not support, for purely consci-
entious and unselfsh reasons. We
need not enter into the merits Of the
case. You were warned Of the result.
Yet you forced that candidate upon
men wimwhad been loyal to you.
They dei&ted him.
Then you lost your temper. You
wanted revenge. You were not hot
in the defence Of your principles
indeed you did not even care TO win.
dicate your chosen candidate from
the discredit Of defeat. After spend
ing four years in trying TO annoy the
Democratic President, and to obstruct
all useful legislation, you uominst-
ed another mana nobody, whose
only claim to the place was that be
had no bad record. By dint Of shame
less, avowed, open corruption you
elected him. Since then you have
acted as though the country belonged
to you. That is the reason why you
have received this little reminder
that it does not
As soon as you found yourselves
in power, with bare majority in the
House Of Representatives, you made
working majority Of it By stealing,
without even decent trial the seats
of honestly elected Democrats. Then
you denied their rights to the minor
ity. You cynically announced that
your return to ascendency was
"permanence, and you proceeded on
that assumptions if you had really
turned the American Republic into
an elective monarchy. You passed
pension laws utterly indecent in their
unwarranted extravaganza. You
threatened us--and you threaten us
still--with two bills that would practi-
cally, between them, disfranchise half
the country.
Then you did pass bill the like Of
which could not be drawn up else
where unless it were 10 Bedlam,
than in the FiftY-frst Congress. 1t
is called the McKinleydbill but it
ought to be called IA Bill TO Raise
Prices and to Make Life Harder for
Every body, except a Few Prosperous
Manufacturers. So mad produc-
ton was this bill that it actually put
a tariff tax on tin plates--something
that every man, woman and child
uses--not because any tin plates are
made in this country, but because,
some day, some man, somewhere
might wish to think Of making themI
Do you think Of anything calculated
to irritate and enrage the citizen
which which you have forgotten to
treat him to-?
Do you wonder that you will cit
in the next House with a total repre-
sentation hardly more than half the
aize of the Democrats clear majority I?
Nobody else wonders. If the Demo
Gratis, after they have been long in
power become half as arrogant. sci
fish, and neglectful of you became,
they will be turned out Of their places
too, if the people have to fiji their
seats with Farmers Alliance candi
dates.
6 The Democrats have no one to
warn them of this as you were warned
between 1884 and 1888, when you
got full and fair notice that your PEN
sion legislation was an outrage, aud
your neglect TO reduce the customs
tariff an imposition upon the people.
You cared for neither wrong nor