The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-09-28
The Doughty Dean.

Allegan Journal commenting on "A
recent speech made in that city by Mr..
Dean of Charlotte; shows that his glar-
ing Inconsistencies are everywhere the
most noticeable feature of his discourse:
The great educator at last lost HIM
self in pyrotechnic display which had
no foundation i'm truth and no place in
argument and fioated to the close on a
deluge of meaningless words. PRO
tectionists" shouted the orator, wiping
great drops from his stupendous brow,
'Protectionists are not reasoners and
are afraid of reason" And so the student
of American politics learned that night,
in this campaign of education, that
Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jack
son, Harrison, Taylor, Webster, Clay,
Fremont, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield,
Blaine, etc, are not reasoners and are
afraid of reason. "A tariff" yelled the
Eaton county jurist, is the most dam
nable and unconstitutional law that
was ever enacted" Perhaps it is I'M
generous to hold one accountable for
language used in moments of partisan
delirium, and we submit that very eX-
cellent men are sometimes profane, not
from perverseness of heart but by way
of emphasis. But what will we say of
the sincerity of an educator, and a bar
rister at that, familiar with the course
of tariff legislation from the opening
of the first congress down through a
period of one hundred years; familiar
with the decisions of the Supreme Court
of the United States from the days of
Marshall, constituting and upholding
these laws, familiar with such writers
on the constitution as Kent, Story and
Cooley; what claim can such "a speaker
have upon our confidence OF respect,
when he declares that of all laws that
were ever enacted, the tariff laws are
the most unconstitutional. And yet we
are told that Mr.. Dean is the most
effective Democratic speaker in this
district. Perhaps the most unfortunate
blunder of the whole address was the
unkind attack upon the skilled work.
men of the United States. They are
worse than the vassals of the middle
ages; mental slaves of their employers,
who are lords and barons," shrieked
the speaker with voice that had now
become as hoarse as a threshing
machine. "As | sailed down the Rhine
last summer" he continued, II saw the
ruined castles that dot its banks and
was reminded that the American mills
and factories have the same relation to
modern society that these did to the
dark ages" A modern factory, with
the music of its industry and the songs
of its willing and thriving workmen,
would bear about the same resemblance
TO a feudal castle that a banquet hall
would bear to charnel house, aud an
American workman, conscious of his
independence and proud of his man
hood, would bear about the same rela'
ton to feudal vassal that one of Ma.
pOleon's body-guard would bear to a
pall-bearer. The speakers pronuncia'
ton of the word Carnegie was some
thing awful. Carnegie was to him a
veritable hend and Homestead the
abode of the damned. How strange
this speech seemed in the light of the
facts. Not single workman was
affected by the schedule who was
receiving less than So 80 per day. Not
city Of 5000 people in the world en-.
joyed greater degree of prosperity
than the people of Homestead on the
day the men voluntarily stopped work
As writer describing the situation
says
There comfort in the cottage
There was plenty in the home,
For the wages they were ample
And the needy there were none"
1t was, as one OF the workmen declar-
ed to a reporter, "a strike, pot for the
accessories but for the luratries of lie
Good bye, professor in this campaign
of education, come again and we will,
by just and temperate criticism, do you
all the good we can. LISTENER.