The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-07-05
rIRsT FRUITS.

the country i'm this very fJrcible style:
Democracy is about to close the
fret four months Of its present
national tenure Of power. Itisnot too
soon to form an approximate idea Of
the harvest. Letus look over the field
as it promises. The first fruits are
abundant. We may anticipate what
Is to come.
We have the fruits Of various alli-
ances which the managers Of the
Democratic party found necessary 20
win. There was first the compact with
the Solid South The price Of this we
now see to be the suppression of the
honest vote Of many commonwealth;
the rendering obsolete Of a constitution
al amendment, passed as a safe guard
for the liberties of millions, and as an
honorable obligation imposed upon
us by the war The Solid South
demanded the uullifcation Of the
supreme law upon which the present
electoral system rests. The demand
is granted, but the advantages gained
from the system by the South remain.
They remain because they mean forty
illegal votes in the Electoral college,
and the domination Of the Union.
We have the alliance between De
mocracy and financial madness. While
Mr.. Cleveland during the canvass was
writing essays at Buzzard's Bay In fa-
vor of "soand finance" his agents
were making terms with every appar-
ent financial folly in the West. ANY
moonstrlcken dreamer, with fine no.
tions about lending Treasury money on
asparagus and toast was decorated
with the Cleveland badge and is now
In the Cleveland camp. This union
with,the moou-stricken elected a Presi
dent. The allies now ask their reward
In what measure? The tide is on the
swell and is coming. Drastic Treasury
changes. Free coinage ofsilver. Revival
of the Wild Cat currency. Destruction
of industries based upon the tariff aud
stable, harmonious fiscal laws. This
is what the meeting Of Congress por-
tends. It is a terror darkening the
heavens aud throwing ominOus shad-
ows over the land. The fear it awak-
ems is shown in the vanishing Of values
and business confidence, the rising
waves of widespread and irredeemable
bankruptcy steady swirl Of to-
wards Niagara.
Then the alliance Of Democracy and
anti-Americanism. This Is felt in our
new Democratic foreign policy, which
In practical application virtually means
that America has no rights abroad
which other nations are bound to re-
spect. England and Germany do not
welcome the American flag in the
Sandwich Islands. The flag comes
down. The m9tured, wise and de-
clared policy of an American admin
istration in February is reversed by
another American administration 10
March-for no intelligible reason other
than the sensitivity Of foreign ma
tions, and especially Great Britain, as
to American aggression" We see it
also in Il "Chinese policy" aiding the
only people who can have an in crest
in its success-the British merchants
in Hong Kong. The destruction Of
American commerce in China means
the advance of British commerce.
This work goes on from day to day
with increasing vigor. 1t Is, perhaps,
the ripest of the precious first fruits
of this Democratic regime.
What comes nearer home and reach
es the moral sense is the alliance be-
tween Democracy and Crime. The
first fruits,Of which many measures are
already garnered porteud a full hGr
vest in New York. II would be long
catalogue, but it summed IN the word:
-"Tammany." Justice sold even as
in the shameless days Of the Lower
Roman Empire. Justice taken To- the
shambles-as seat on the bench at prices
ranging from fifteen o. thirty thou
sand dollars. The resources Of a city
administeTed-peThaps we should say
sequestrated-by graduates from the
Tombs, whose hands drip with blood.
In this alliance crime i4 so potent that
politicians who would DO The work of
knavery are elevated tc the bench. as a
reward of knavery Tweed is dead,
but Tweedism remains. The thrvin
business Of Fagin, deceased, is now il
the shifty hands of the Artful DOdger
and Charley Bates IL Is Democracy
and cTime-wiJh crime triumphant.
We look to the West and behold a
crimson harvest, even ss when the
peoples are on the plain. NOT many
months have passed since the courts
of Justice of a great Common wealth
dealt with the gravest crime against
society. Wild, sin-hariened, ruthless /
runians, in many instances the scum .
and of securing Of the jills and KEN
nels Of the Old World preached the
gospel of anarchy gospel Of assassin.
alton, eon6scation and fire. Further
ing their prop gauda, they threw
bombs into crowds Of innocent citi-
ens, destroying many lives. The