The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-12-05
RrPUDIATEs eLEVELAND

Since the inauguration Of Mr..
Cleveland, says the New York Re-
ooydcr, ten months ago on Sunday
the Philadelphia Ledger has possessed
the confidence of bis Administration
to a greater extent than any other
journal in the country. 1t has been as
close to Mr.. Cleveland as it was to
Gen. Grant i'm the old days, and the
relation has been as honorable to the
President Of to-day rs it was TO the
illustrious ex-President whose remains
rest on the Hudson under the shadows
Of the Palisades. Mr. Childs bad no
favQrs to ask from either the dead or
the living Chief Magistrate. He
knew Gen. Grant was sincere in all
that he accomplished and strove to
accomplish for the county, and it is
very certain he believed Mr., Cleveland
was equally patriotic in his devotion
to government of the people, by the
people, for the people. If he had
thought otherwise he would never
have permitted the great journal he
controls, and in which he takes so
just a pride, to have been heralded
from one end of the country to the
other as the "organ of the Admins
tration." Nor would he have allowed
his able managing editor, Mr.. l..
Clarke Davis, whose name stands
underneath his own at the head of the
editorial columns of the Ledger, to
have been the companion of the
President on vacation expeditions
from which the most intimate friends
of the Executive and the most
eminent political leaders were sternly
excluded.
These confidential relations, how.
ever, have come to an end, and Mr.
Childs, and not the President, has
severed the ties that have existed
between the Administration and the
Ledger, The evidence is abundant
that, as long as the Ledger believed
Mr.. Cleveland was acting for the best
interests OF the country, his Admins
tration could have its unpurchased
and unpurchasable support; and
within the week the great Philadel-
phia paper bas msde proclamation
that on no other tennis can il have it.
The Ledger parts company with the
Administration on the Wilson bill,
1t is opposed to its passage as 8
measure destructive of American labor
and capital. "By American industry, u
says the Ledger, ''by the capital
invested in it, by the labor engaged in
it, the Wilson tariff bill will be re.
garded with both indignation and
trepidatiou. It will seem to ouI
domestic capital and labor as a means
TO the cutting of the ground from
under the feet of their prosperity the
knocking away of the props which
sustain their well-being. What il
proposes to do is to practically revolu
tionize our entire economic system, to
reverse that policy which, for so long
a time, has, by afiordiug protection tC
our industries from the paralyzing
influence of underpaid foreign labor
made this country so great, popuIous
wealthy, and its people SO well-to'dC
and happy" "And, p" adds the Ledger
"it is for our manufacturers, farmers
merchants, whether employers Of
employed, to promptly, earnestly
appeal to Congress against the passag'
of the Wilson bill"
That is a telling blow at the un-
American economic policy which th'
Administration has determined t,
drive through Congress and impose on
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