Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-10

Inc grand victory Wnlch cleveland
has achieved is another significant les.
son in American politics. 1t shows that
great and vital principle may. for a
tirae, be overlooked or misunderstood /;
| but that in the end, when the people
are aroused to its Importance, and real
ze it's significance, the dormant patriot
ism of the country is sure to awaken to
the occasion and assert itself in unmis.
taxable terms.
The Republican party might have
taken warning by the fact that Harrison
was only elected the first time by the
peculiar arrangement of the electoral
vote amongst the states, but actually
failed very largely of the popular ma
iority, which showed that there
was discomfort among the people
about maintaining war tariff in
time of peace. Indeed SO apparent
was this that the party, through
all it's recognized mediums of expression,
had given the people to underst tand that
the war tariff would be modified.
Blinded with power, however, and DOM
mated by the benefcisries OF the sys-
EN-. instead of carrying out their
pledges. the Republicans made the Nc
Kinley bill their party shibboletb, and
by its passage increased the striugency
of tariff that WAS already a burden
greater than the people could bear.
No one can deny that the Mckinley
tariff and the Lodge force bill were the
real Issues before the people during the
campaign, They were discussed on
every stump, and the line of battle was
distinctly ranged for and against them.
The people have spoken in no uncertain
terms, and the policy OF the successful
government is marked out plainly. The
country will return to sound doctrine in
it's tariff policy. The manufacturers
will be relieved and encouraged by the
admission of raw materials; iuxuries
and non-necessaries will be taxed
roundly at our ports; and the tariff will
be adjusted so as to afford ample incl.
dental protection to American industry.
The ecandalous spectacle will no longer
be afforded OF great government exer-
cising the sovereign power of taxation
to enrich one class at the expense of all
other classes.
The force bill has, of course. received
its quietus. This measure was a natu-
raj corollary of the Mckinley tariff
usurpation. The class that was en-
riched by the bounty OF the government
was eager to adopt any measure that
would have perpetuated it's favors and
entrenched the dispensers OF its advan.
tages in power.
The American people have again dem.
onstrated their right to rule. They
have shown that they are keenly alive
to any innovation that threaten their
national well being or their political
rights. They have also shown that they
are imbued with noble spirit of ad-
miration for distinguished public man
who willingly sacrificed his private in
terests for the public good. Nothing
can be more certain than that Mr..
Cleveland could have succeeded himself
in the presidency in 1888 had he not
precipitated upon the country his tariff
message on the very eve of the election.
The people were not then ripe for such
message; but Mr.. Cleveland, with q
prescience that did honor to his judg.
ment and with an honesty that showed
the purity and disinterestednes Of his
purpose, deemed it necessary that the
issue should be made, and he made it,
knowing that it meant his defeat. Time
vindicated his course, and he became
the Moses of his people when they re-
allied that they must get out of the
tariff wilderness into which the Repub.
lican party had led them. This is an
incident OF the campaign which will
live in political history and occupy
one OF its brightest pages.