The herald., 1893-10-16
A TRUE BUT LAmRErABLE REVIEW.

Yesterday afternoon one hundred and
fifty destitute persons arrived in Los
Angeles, mainly from Colorado. Seventy
Eve OF them reported at the police sta
tion. We decline to characterize these
persons as "tramps." Many OF them
are willing to work. and regret their in
ability to procure it. This is the first
time in the history OF the United States
in which panic was precjpitated on the
people in order to serve, as Mr.. Cleve-
land expressed it, as ''an object lesson. "
That the lesson is severe no one with an
unaddied brain can dispute. 1t has
thrown a terrible lot of people out OF
gee" with fortune AYE, thrown them
prone in the dust, and in state OF help
lessness which most we'll constituted
people will coIhmiserate with great
poignancy. The indications are sbund-
ant that this is the last ''object lesson"
in which Mr.. Cleveland will be allowed
to assist. The indignation of the masses
as to the complete surrender of every
department OF the government to Wsll
street ie so great that no other thimble
rig game, such as that to which we have
been treated, both upon the silver and
the Chinese question, will ever again, be
on the tapis in the United States under
a so-called Democratic regime.
1t is not pleasant to know that the
only potential Office which the Demo
cratic president has so far performed ia
what is known in Siam ss the White
Elephant Act. This animal is used as
decoy to get the wild elephants into the
meshes of the hunters. With the un-
limited patronage at his command, Mr..
Cleveland has thus lar shown his ability
to lead halt of the Democratic member.
ship OF the house of representatives into
the Republican camp on the silver quee-
ton.
What a noble and notable achieve
ment that? The Democratic party has
felt the blow, bat it has not been an ar.
Initiating one. True Democrats. view
ing this lamentable development, have
felt as did the Israelites of old, when
they realised that they had lost tribe,
and raised their voices, in painful rever-
berstion, "Oh Lord God Of Gods Oh
Lord God OF Gods What havews done
that tribe should be lost unto Israel ?''
The Democratic party may we'll ask
what it has done to be invited to be, par
excellence, the tender of Wall street.
Fortunately the bones of Old Hickory
are too firmly welded into the limestone 9
of Tennessee to admit OF his getting out
of his grave to confront the people who,
in this day and generation, desecrat 9
the name of Democrat!
But we are reminded of another pas.
sage of holy writ which says 'be angry
and sin not" Bearing this passage in
mind, we will simply content ourselves
with saying that we have every reason
to believe the White Elephant game, at
which we have limited, will prove a
memorable failure. The artificial panic,
created as an ''ohject lesson" served its
purpose iairly well, but it did not reach
far enough. Its creators and manipu-
lators overlooked the fact that the
United States is by far the richest coun-
try in the world; and that persons who,
from inclination or purpose of gain, de-
sire to betray the American people are
liable to be defeated in their peculiar
programmes by the irresistible elasticity
of the American people.
1t may be said that, in this brief ar
ticIe, we havs written bitterly. That is
30. But it is also true that we nav g
written truly. It is time that the prem
ier nation OF the earth should know
where it stands.