Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-09-23

THE HARRIS ON CURRENT.

Murat Halstead Proves That It Is Flow-
Ing Stronger Than Ever.
Stronger than ever the constant cur
rent for Harrison flows. There has not
been Tor more thnn q year an obstruc-
ton or an eddysin the steady stream of
events providing commanding forces
Tor q second term Of national admins
tration by Harrison.
The nomination Of Mr.. Cleveland was
. bid by Democrats for conservative
support, and It has aroused the ALI
ances in the south to opposition, seri-
ously threatening the soidity of that
section for the Democracy.
The strike agitations in this country
are as much exaggerated abroad as the
European cholera is sensationalized here,
but they have gone far enough with us
to show that the Democratic partisans
had greater reason than the Republicans
to be alarmed about their political influ-
ence., The strikes have testified to our
industrial and commercial prosperity
under the protective system, and it is
prevalent public opinion that there can
be no safer, no stronger administration
than Hatrison's.
There has been Democratic effort to
change the scene and the issue of the
national political contest-to locate the
decision in the northwest and insist
upon fighting the force bill. But it is
the tariff issue that rises up necessarily,
and the state Of New York that draws
with the attraction of gravitation.
Democratic concern as to the purposes
of Senator. Hill amounts to dismay.
Tammany is unequivocally for Cleve-
land, but Hill has not taken his place at
the head of the procession. His vote on
the silver bill for free silver after the
Chicago platform was the party law has
been deep mystery. There has been
| added to it the publication of state sta
tistics showing officially, on Democratic
authority, the increase of wages of
workingmen in New York since the
| Mckinley law took effect. Labor Com
missioner Peck, who makes the report,
is close friend of Hill, and had just
seen him before giving out the figures so
fatal to his party. Does this candor
amount to treason? Can it show that
Hill means to strike Cleveland? That a
cruel knocking down and out blow has
been delivered there is no doubt.
! Coincident with the statistics, which
are deadly dose for the Democracy.
comes the homo speech of Mr.. Steven
son, which unreseryedly places the tariff
and involved labor and wages questions
in the first place, and then aggressively
includes a subject so tremendous thai:
others cease to be distinguishable This
does not obscure the consideration of
the tariff, for it at once supplements and
magniies that issue.
Stevenson's point is, 1t would be 1.-The
essence Of justice" to restore the inter-
nal revenue war tax on our home manu-
features that one year yielded 1927 Geo.
900, and other war taxes of the same
character, the income tax among them
This is adding the platform of Omaha
to that of Chicago, and would grind the
manufacturing industries between the
upper and neither nlillstones of free trade
and special war taxation and grind them
very fine.
The speech CT Stevenson making this
shocking suggestion was delivered i'm.
mediately after he had been in co:,sr|tu.
ton with the Democratic 1n;;,:sS..rS il.
this city. and gains Significance from:
that fact.
Taken in connection with ti.r i.;!n:
commissioner report Ct tie i::f>ia',,
ton gathered from m":rfartar, ~, il
New York. it's influence upon business
men on the deciding quest 'l,s il tn,
decisive state, anl indeed H.! tue r;::1i.
featuring states. ni,.;,t Ee co'i>iu,.;&:...
if not conclusive
Republicans greet President lj;}ra;srl
with cheerful confidence and warranted
assurances that matters and things are
going his way with accelerated velocity.
l-Murat Halste;.d in New York Herald