Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-11

tho announcement of Jealous animosities
nor a destructive discrimination between
American interests.
In order that we may begin with free
hands, we should vigorously oppose all
delusions which have their origin in undem-
ocratic teachings or in demagogic attempts
to deceive the DeonlH we're catch words,
which, If they mes ng, have no rela.
ton TO sound policy, and phrases, invenSeo
to please the ear of the victims OF cunning
greed, ought not to stand in our way. Look
ing beyond all these things we shall ma
Just principles, furnishing a vantage grouna
from which we can lay out q safe course OF
action.
A Plea for Rigid Economy.
We should strive to rid ourselves and our
countrymen of the idea that there is any
thing shabby or disgraceful in economy,
whether in public or private life. If e1-
travagance in public expenditure has pre-
vailed in the past, it affords no excuse for
its continuance; and there is no breach OF
duty so palpable as the waste of money held
by public servants Tor the peoples uses.
Our Government was founded in spirit OF
frugaliry and economy, and its adminlstra-
tion should not depart from those lines,
We need no glitter nor show to divert our
people from turbulent thoughts. we nave
a more substantial guarantee against dis
content in q plain and simple plan OF rule
in which every citizen has share. In or
der tlat this slOulQ 90 It's perfect WOrKt IL
is essential that there should exist among
our people q wholesome and disinterested
love for their Government, for its own sake,
and because it is a heritage belonging to all
The cultivation of such sentiment is not
Only high duty but an absolute necessity
to the consummation of the reforms we
en- ter upon. We shall utterly and disgrace.
fully fail if we attempt these reforms under
the influence of petty partisan sche ming or
the fear OF jeopardizing personal political
fortunes. They can only be accomplished
when unselfish patriotism guides the aspi-
ratiohs OF our people and regulates the
action of their chosen servants.
We who are to be charged with the re-
sponsioility of making and executing the
laws should begin our preparation for the
task by rigid determination and by q
selfpurgation from all ignoble and unwor-
thy tendencies threat iening to enter into
our motives and designs Then may we en-
and then may we hope to perform faithfully
and successfully the work entrusted to our
hands by conf1ding people.
Tom johnson Demands Free Trade.
Hon. Tom L. johnson, of Cleveland,
spoke as follows:
The Democratic party has been long used
to defeat. Now it faces the respons sibility
of a sweeping victory. Only party honesty
and party courage can guide it safely. The
reai danger is not from without. but from
within: noz from open enemies, bpt from
half-hearted friends; not that we may go
too fast and too far in abolishing protection,
but that we may not go fast and far enough.
What the masses demand of the Democratic
party is that it shall conform practice to
profession; that its action shall be as radical
as its platform.
1t is not the people, but the leaders, who
now need education on the tariff question.
The people indicated their will in the Con-
gressional election of 1890. they again indi-
Gated it in Chicago by forcing the nomina-
tion of Mr.. Cleveland against the politicians
ana a radical platform against protection
lst maj ority report. And again they have
spoken, and with a determination that will
brook no delay. We must do something
commensurate with our victory.
Agreat idea is again beginning to move in.
American politics. The Democratic ava
lanche has started. 1t will rend the party
that tries to play with it; it will crush who
ever seeks to block its way. What Con-
gress can do is controlled by its organiza-
tion. The will of the people will be
thwarted and the next Congress paralyZed
If We again put halt-hearTed men in the lead.
In organizing the new House let US remem-
ber that party honesty is party duty, and
party courage is party expediency," and
put in the lead men who will not
palter with protection. We need not fear
the free trader or the single taIer. The man
whom the'Democratic party has to fear in its
councils is the suGar-coated protectionist.
The quicker he goes elsewhere the better.
We need his room. The masses trust hon.
esty and love courage. They despise trim
mer and hate Il coward.
We should not be frightened by deficit
nor hampered by any supposed necessity Of
continuing the extravaganza of protection.
ist profigacy. Nor need we fear that the
people will not submit to direct taxation.
W hat they will no longer submit to are the
taxes on consumption, which throw the
burden on those least able to bear it.
Mills Says Labor Must Be Employed.
Hon. Roger Q. Mills spoke after Mr..
johnson and Carl Schurz, saying, among
other things on tariff legislation:
In proceeding to prepare the measure
which is to be substituted for the present
law OF taxation one subject must stand
prominent, overlapping and overshadowing
all others: that, one is that we must see that
shall not only not impair the right of Ameri-
can people to labor and to market the prod
ucts of their labor, but to see that the en-
ployment OF the labor of the whole country
party when it prepares its measures for
adoption. [Applause.l
The next speaker vas Ex-Governor James
E. Campbell, Of Ohio, who said: "Party
success comes not from principles without
men, nor from men without principles, but,
from the union of men and principles.
Mr.. Campbelrs speech was witty, and
heartily applauded. William j. Stone,
Governor-elect of Missouri, voiced the sem
timent Of the West thus:
The Western Democracy means to reap the
fruits of this great victory. They mean to
have the wall which greed has built circling
the Republic torn down, to -e-establish the
largest possible intercourse with the world,
and to restore the merchant navy. Our
Western Democracy is in serious earnest.
If any man there be IN public life who now
desires to hesitate, let him be damned.