The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-07
REED FIRES A SHOT.
Democratic Shams and Ignorance
Laid Bare.
Growers Pitiful Work Blunders Made
About Hawaii. Silver and the Tariff
Republicans Are Soon to Rule
bourbon Frauds Fiayed.

Maine. at the close of the session of
congress, was invited by the Chicago
Tribune to express his views on the
work done by that body. He responds
in the following eloquent manner:
And now they have gone. this senate and house
OF representatives, gone, with only three
months more OF unhappy life left in them
What are We to sayG One year Of almost con-
tinuOus session. and what have they done and
how have they done it? The republicans CAL
not use the language of reproach. of invective,
or abuse. The whole vocabulary has been ex-
/ hausted by themselves. speaking OF them
selves. We can not hope to equal, in comment
/ ing or.the senate, the tremendous and effective
words of the president OF their own choice. II
we were to search the whole dictionary OF dla-
| tribe We could not equal the charge OF party
perfidy and party dishonor. made by the presi-
dent against the senate and received by the
house Of representatives. with its one hundred
democratic majority, with cheers and applause
II we were to comment upon the president
and his action we could not use language half
so damaging Gs democratic senators used in
open senate with uplifted hands, asseverating
the truth of personal betrayal and personal
bad faith. II we were to comment upon the
house OF representatives and its leaders we
should be deemed guilty Of gross partisanship
II we used even their own words in describing
| their own actions.
| What condition for partisan critic to be
| into be obliged in common decency to use
softer words about his enemies than they use
about themselves. And the enemies are not
saints in embryo, beating their breasts and
confessing their transgressions to reach the
heights of sainthood through the depths of
sin. o, no! They are simply earnest men
standing by the broken business of a whole
| country and trying to tell who destroyed 1t,
and having met success we obviously cannot
use any language Of reproach or of harshness.
Earlier and Cfor that purpose) worthier hands
have gathered all those laurels. All We can
| say is that all the three sides are probably
right The president and senate have told
the truth ABOUT each other and the house
about itself.
With this simple expression of faith in their
yeracity let US turn to a slight review of what
they have done. There is no doubt that this
review will be as distasteful and unsatisfactory
to the majority Of honest democrats as to re-
publicans themselves Whatever good there
has been done has been spoiled in the doing
II the house has yielded to the dictates OF
long denounced common sense and adopted
proper rules. IL was only after all sound prece-
dent had been violated in the attempt to avoid
the necessity II the congress has repealed
the purchasing clause OF the Sherman act, it
was only done after such long delay as has de-
prived the country OF any advantage the repeal
might have given it. Nor has the mystery of the
collapse of the compromise and the connection
of the president herewith ever been cleared
up. Whether he consented to that compro-
mise or rot is not for to say. That is a
family secret, it is no family secret that
that compromise was not repudiated un
til after the republican members were
sounded and il was clear that they
would have no part or lot in it. Two such mis-
understandings as these between the president
and senate. If republican. would have caused
a sensation as OF burned wooden among the
people. But the democracy has limitations as
to morality very much enlarged. That party
seems to realize what Gen. Butler said in jest:
THAT nobody was truly unaSsailable until his
character was gone"
The tariff bill OF '.perfdy and dishonor' has
become a law, and an interesting law it is.
How democratic senate, believing in the
platform Of its party, could have passed it,
how democratic house could have passed it,
having n hundred majority. is simply incOm-
prehensible. How the rresident could have
permitted it to become n is simply i'm
possible study in I'm n nature How
can the country recCI ci.s this action with
its former estimate Of MIN. He was deemed
by very large part Of the people as a man
Of sound common sense and of great
will power. The reputation for good sense
certainly had shock in the case of the
Sandwich islands And business is likely to
Suffer from the contrast between the letter to
Wilson and the surrender to German. was
not one of those who expected such result.
Surrender was in the capitalization, He ought
to have handed in his side arms and signed the
bill. II he did not consent. then. by both !
house and senate. he has been pronounced to |
be not even a factor in the transaction. Here !
after the president, instead OF standing on o |
mugwump and unreal pedestal, must be |
reckoned with the rest Of them, and the regrets |
will not all be on the democratic side.
mo truth oh thn "a . hat ff
was a foolish bill when It went out of the ways |
and means committee, and was made still /
more foolish in the house. 1t had neither |
policy nor practice, and yet 1t has been erected |
into a golden calf to be worshiped by party |
and that, too, with the consent |
and approval CT their own Moses. The senate |
bill does have some regard to the business of
the country in spots, but 1t will prove failure
like the other though not TO the same degree.
The strikes in Fall River, New Bedford and
elsewhere over the cotton schedule, said to be
the best ever made, show, as 4 prominent
democratic capitalist put it, that labor has
got to lQuidate." Stocks have liquidated-
that IS, gone down one-hah-except sugar.
Labor IS to do the same. But there will be
this difference-stocks are submissive, labor
ers are not.
Already the free traders are spreading all
over the country lying statements of how much
cheaper carriage cloth. cashmere, worsted,
after because the tariff tax IS taken Of Well
those operatives in Fall River and New Bed
ford will buy none o, them this week at least and
the operatives all over the country will buy
fewer of them after labor has liquidated.
Liqridated labor" will buy very few carriages
to get the benefit Of cheap carriage cloth. and
will indulge very seldom in union melton
coats, and the men who make the equivalent
Of carriage cloths and union meltons-the
product Of our wooden mills-wiL be lucky IL
hey are not "liquidated" inIO the tramp
gang.
The process OF liquidating has begun. and
when 1t is ended. what then: More 'liQuida-
ion" Does not Wilson. chairman Of the ways
md means committee, declare the fight has
begun to end only in absolute free trade: Does
lot Mills reechO the same thing in q bewilder-
ng meditation, which seems to indicate that a !
,itndel is outside the city gates, but the tenor
If which is unmistakable: Does not the presi
lent himself in his latest contribution to the
complete letter writer tell US that this act
furnishes vantage ground from which must
)e waged further aggressive operations against
monopoly and governmental favOrit-
sm:" The president must have referred to !
to American indus Try, for he uses
he sacred language OF his guild. He could not
lake meant sugar. as in his last published
pistle with most lovely but unmistakable cir ,
umlocution he exhorted the brethren not TO
De frightened at that and was tender TO 1t
n vailed way as he was and is openly for its {
,rother tenant OF the same hotel moor, the Do ,
ninion Coal company.
Why should comment on the popgun
ills: They sleep side by side in the Ravens OF
est. 1t is bad TO be dead. but is must be dis |
usting to be dead humbug. They cannot I
ven hang on to them little shreds OF hypocrisy :
or which they were intended Mr.. Carlisle
as smoothed even the hillock on the graves
he world enjoys very greatly the democratic
enunciatior OF trusts to-day. And how good
II this talk j., The deeds of these people may
OF lie all th't the cecalogue demands. but
heir language IS. Their votes are wrong, their I
ctions are fatal, but fling out the banner and
Iar cry OF ''St. Pecksnin and down with mo-