Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-04
BLAINE ON rHR STUMP.

From kilograms recently sent out by
the Republican national committee, we
learn that Mr.. Blaine is shortly to take
the stump for Harrison and Reid. This
shows the desperate condition of the
Republican cause. Everybody knows
that Mr.. Blaine left the state depart
ment because he was subjected to all
sorts OF mean, little impositions by the
man Foster, who had the endorsement
OF Harrison for what he did; and also
because Russell Harrison, as a journal
ist, made free with the secretary's name,
in a way that no gentleman should have
presumed to do, when we consider that
his father owed bis seat in the executive
chair of the nation, more to Mr.. Blaine
than to any other ten men, living or
dead. And then after having done
everything in his power to humiliate
Mr.. Blaine, the little iceberg and his
clique cry out Help, Cassius, or we
sink"
A man of less vanity than Mr.. Blaine
would not go out into the canvass under
such circumstances. He could have
claimed, without danger OF refutation.
that he made Harrison president in
1888, and that the little Hoosier, once
fairly installed into Office, had "set up
for himself" as the late Nap Brough-
ton was won't to put it. But Mr.. Blaine
likes to be before the curtain and hear
the foot-stamping of the audience, and
the cracking Of peanut shells down in
the pit. And that is why. after being
most scandalously treated by the Har-
rison outfit, he comes out on the stump
and asks the people to re-elect Harrison
for four years.
Mr.. Blaine has ''fad," and that fad
is reciprocity, by which is meant
treaty between the United States and
some foreign country, by which no duties
are to be ever charged at either end of
the route during the tendency of such
treaty. The chief one Of these is with
the Sandwich Islands, adopted some
time in 1873, and supported both by
Senators Booth and Sargent OF this
state. By the terms of this treaty Cali
fornia was to handle all the Hawaiian
sugar crop, while those islands were to
purchase all their merchandise in
America. The frat part of this agree
ment was kept to the letter, and has
made Mr.. Claus Spreckels rich man.
The second part has not been kept, and
nobody else but Mr.. Spreckels has bene-
| fitted by the treaty.
England sells two dollars worth of
goods to Honolulu merchants today,
where she sold them one dollars worth
! before the treaty. The unbleaehed
brother, with his taro-patch fiddle and
his diet OF "poi" has unloaded his
saccharine matter upon US fer every
possible dollar, and then has spent the
money with the tribe Of John Bull for
everything that his household economy
demanded. The yellow brother has
never "said turkey" to us once. 1t is
pretty near time for the American peo-
Pile to be catching on' to the peculiar
tactics of these men who have the Pan
American fever, and who, while holding
a position at the head of our state depart
ment, are really the hired attorneys
OF some foreign government whose atti-
tude is hostile to the United States.
This was true OF Foster and it may be
true of Blaine. At all events we are
not yet ready for reciprocity, unless it
can be shown that there are more bene-
fits in it than the Hawaiian business
has yet developed. Mr.. Blaine is great
speaker, but, like Mckinley, he is
great sophist. Neither of them is
sincere.