Evening journal., 1892-12-07

lawyer IN q criminal trial, who, with a
fat fee in his pocket, looks upon the jury
and the court with self-conscious, self.
satisfied smile as he glibly moves for
new trial, with aformality as heartless
and as feeliugless as it IS perfunctory
who. knowing that his client IS guilty
scoundrel, used every trick, employed an
the periured witnesses he could com
mand and defended the case with
technical, pettifogging shrewdness,
knowing that he would get his fee
whether the criminal went to pri-
son for life or was hanged.
Such a lawyer, in such predicament,
smiles blandly all around and remarks
in a mildly deprecatory manner upon the
rulings Of the court, the failure Of the
jury to consider the evidence Of some of
the self-convicted liars he introduced to
testify, and the undue influence Of the
eloquent appeals Of the attorneys for the
prosecution upon the minds Of the jury
men.
Such it seems to us, is the plea Of the
man who has seen the Mckinley bill
produces Homestead
The President says:
The strained and too often disturbed
relations existing between the em-
ployes and the employers in
IN our great manufacturing establish
ments have not been favorable TO a calm
consideration by the wage Garner Of the
effect upon wages of the protective sys.
tenn. The facts that his wages were the
highest paid in like callings I'm the world
and that q maintenance of this rate of
wages, in the absence of protective
duties upon the product Of his labor, was
impossible, were obscured by the passion
evoked by these contests. He may now
be able TO review the question in the
light of his personal experience under
the operation of a tariff fOI revenue
only. ~ that experience shall demon
strate that present rate of wages are
thereby maintained or increased either
absolutely or in their purchasing
power, and that the aggregate
volume of work to be done in
this country is increased, or even
maintained so that there are more or as
many days work in year at as good or
better wages for the American workman
as has been the case under the protective
system every one will rejOic O. A gen
eral process of wage reduction can not be
contemplated by any patriotic citizen
without the graveat apprehension IL
may be, indeed I believe is possible for
the American manufacture to compete
successfully with his foreign rival in
many branches of production without
the defense of protective duties, if the
pay-rolls are equalized; but the conflict
chat stands between the producer and
that result and the distress of our work
ing people when it Is attained are not
pleasant to contemplate The Society of
the Unemployed, now holding it's FIRE
quent and threatening parades in the
streets of foreign cities, should not be
allowed TO acquire an American domicile
That specious plea that smiling ac.
knowledgement that the man, whose
money he fumbles in his pocket, must go
back TO Jail a convict, is made by am at
toney who never believed in the justice
or the wisdom of his case. He uses
irony to conceal the weakness of the de-
fense, and the pauoity Of his ideas about
IL.
General Harrison knows that a reduo
tion Of the tariff will not reduce wages
as he knows that the Mckinley bin did
not increase wages Hence his sarcastic
platitude that, "a general process Of
wage reduction cannot be contemplated
by any patriotic citizen without the
gravest apprehension, is insulting TO
Intelligence, except when considered as
the insineere, ironical menace of the
special plea of the attorney for a convict,
that the court and the jury are about to
hang the wrong man.