The Red Cloud chief., 1892-12-30
THE PRESIDENTS VIEWS.
Why Protection was Defeated In the
Late Election.

WIZ Protection was Defeated In the
Late Election.
II President Harrison had the Same
felicity in personal intercourse rs Ia
public speech and with the pen be
would DO . marvel Of politics. His
latest instance in point was n little
passage in a letter written, apparently.
with no thought OF publication.
Speaking Of the late campaign, he
said Of himself: ~ was a leader i'm.
prisoned, and save from the little visit
to Mr.. Reid, l knew or thought but
little about it." That is undoubtedly
true. His devotion to the invalid wife
by his side was such as to make every
thing else remote from his thoughts.
But even IL he had been on fire with
eagerness for the fray. he would still
have been "a leader imprisoned" The
proprieties OF the situation forbade
his taking part in the campaign, and
that OF itself was q very great loss.
No one who recalls the wonderful
series OF speeches made by Gen. Harri.
son at his home in 1888 can doubt that
his silence during the last campaign
was an i~ncalculable loss to tho rcpub-
lican cause. How much influence his
speeches would have cxerted no one
can tell, but they certainly were a loss
great and irreparable. No one could
take his place. The vacancy remained
untitled. That little speech at Mr..
Reds home was hardly up to the
I~iarrisonian standard. The shadow
OF impending afliction was upon it.
But tho latter part of the letter Is
especially felicitous. The failure of
protection as an issue last fall was due
tn the fact. as he puts it, that 1.-THE
w~age-earncr has refused TO share his
shelter with the manufacturers" adding,
with rarest felicity, ''hc would not
even walk under the same umbrella"
That expresses it exactly. The wage
carriers are men of intelligence. At
least they know enough to know that
under free trade American industry
would be paralyzed, or compelled to
go on. II at all. at greatly reduced
wages. But n wave Of special ami
mostly to capital and enterprise swept
over the country, and when passion is
at the front considerations of prudence
are thrust into the background and
sacrificed with mud eagerneSs. How
of this prejudice was due to the |
Homestead strike is a matter of uucer-
tainty. but all agree that it was a pow
crful factor.
II is not worth while TO dwell upon
the mistakes and mi,fortunes of the
last campaign, except as they roint a
lesson. The manufacturers of this
country might "a well understand that
4 has 80, -. IN - a. "a. |
Of the wage-workers. On the contrary,
they must realize the fact that the pco-
pie rule in this country and that to in
cur the enmity of their employees is to
court disaster in one form or another.
The ultimate success or failure of pro-
is still undetermined. Four
years more and another election will
be upon us, and the result of that cleo
ton will undoubtedly turn. rs did the
last one, upon sentiment. II the man.
u~facturcrs rely upon hard times and
to bring the wage-wOrkcrs
their side they will be disappointed.
Protection is q mutual benefit, as is
perfectly plain, but bodies of men. like
individuals, need only to have thor
touched with the torch Of
to make them forget their own in
in an eagerness to get sven.
The story Of Samson's pulling down
the temple illustrates universal human
nature under the goad of evaporation.
The manufacturers of this country rs
a class are fair-minded men, and have
only to take counsel of their unimpas-
common sense to restore good
between themselves and the
wage-workers .-Chicago Inter Ocean.