Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-12
Then Mr.. Hoar Says the Democratic
Majority is Registered.
POLITICS TIE CONTROLLING MOTIVE
A Coalition Between the Aristocrai
and the PopuIist.
TARIFF ITEMS ANALYZ ED

The argument for the American policy
| of keeping American markets for American
workingmen has. he said, been stated in
many ways Our early statesmen who won
the great contest of the revolution, who
laid the foundations of the Constitution,
the leaders of the young nation, liked to put
the arguments for protection on the ground
that it was essential to nationa! inaepen-
dence. Washington, Jefferson, Jackson,
Hamilton and John Adams held that view.
and later Webster and Clay and John
Quincy Adams and Calhoun, until he ceased
to be a national ard became southern
statesman. dealt rather with the necessity
for nationa: wealth for variety Of employ
ment for encouragement of infant indus
| tries which needed fostering care to put
| them on their feet. Later still, the states
men Of the country saw that We were be-
| coming a great manufacturing nation, ano
| that the destiny of the country was to be
| controlled by the men who did the work In
| the workshops and on the farms. that those
| men would not be fit for the august func-
lions Of sovereignty unless a scale Of wages
| were maintained enabling them to live in
| comfort and to keep a standard OF living
| which would save citizenship from debase-
! ment But In all these arguments the ques-
ton has been dealt with on a national and
comprehensive scale. i wish to take an ex-
| ample of an individual and local Industry.
A Desirable Community.
| Mr.. Hoar then described the economic
conditions Of the town of Southbridge.
Mass. whose 5000 Inhabitants are. for the
most part. dependent upon the large works
| there of the American Optical Company.
Speaking of the operatives of this town, he
| said that there they received twice the
| wages and consumed twice as much as per-
| sons performing the same labor abroad. I
do not claim, he said. any special pre-emi-
Eos LLrfI
| of an American community. Massachusetts
has siXty-forr others very much like her.
What say of her say of all. She has her
rational banks. her savings banks. her
| town hall. the state house of her little re-
public, while her freemen meet as equals
and debate in honor tine things which main
| tain self-government. Every man has an
equal vote. Every mans vote is freely cast
| and every mans vote is honestly counted.
She has her churches where, in different
forms, the common Father is worship.d
with all the essentials of a common Chris
tian faith She has developed liberal pa
| trtotic American spirit.
| Now, Mr.. President, 1 do not know what
our democratic friends may think. but
| think a community Of this kind Is a good
! thing. The fathers and mothers are hon.
est, temperate American citizens. They can
| read and write. They understand public af-
| fairs. They attend the churches. Their
children are in school They have created
| an honest industry. 1t is a community
without lord and without a serf. They
are customers to their brethren of the
south and of the west.
Il cannot conceive any good reason why
| American craftsmanship should not be d.
| rected toward fostering and encouraging
communities like this. The junior Senator
| from the state of Texas visited that neigh
| borhood two or three years ago and prom
Used to be the Moses that should lead them
into the promised land of paradise flowing
with milk. honey and free coal.
! The Senator from Texas processes to be
,,allx to Co.
| But he tells us he is between the devil and
| the deep sea. / suppose the devil of democ-
| racy and the deep sea Of popular indigna-
! ton. / do not think he is in any danger Of
| drowning. / think from the wall of anger
and rage which he uttered when the word
sugar was pronounced the other day In
his ears that II is quite manifest who is
getting him and that all the Senator will
| be able to make Of his good intentions is
| to make a pavement for his future dwelling
place"
Politics. Not Principles.
Senator Hoar then pointed out that under
the pending bill the industry of that town
would be severely crippled. IL not over
thrown. The reduction, to a considerable
extent. in the wages paid would be newt
able.
You promised" continued the Senator
that as a partial equivalent for the dam
age which you would do you would
and free sugar. / do not understand that
| this promise is to be kept Senators who
| have been profuse in their promises for
free "a W ma terial tell us that they cannot
Keep their promise to put coal on the free
list because they cannot pass the bill IL
| they do. Why not? Do you pretend that
the bin would not pass the House? 1t has
come over from that body with coal on the
free list and the party majority unanimous
in its support. Are you going to lose any
| democratic votes here? If SO who are they :?
Both the Senators from West Virginia a
great coal producing state, Senators from
| Alabama and 1 think both Senators from
| old Virginia have almost Indignantly dis
| claimed this imputation. Who 10 II that
is constraining the somewhat osten ia t,6us
| virtue OF the Senator from Texas, the Sen
| ator from Arkansas and the Senator from
Missouri? The true reason is not that you
are afraid of losing the measure here for
winch you say majority OF the American
people declared itself in 1872 but because
you are afraid Of losing the votes of West
| Virginia at the polls hereafter IL You keep
| your promise.
I wish to call attention to the fact that
these democratic principles are not violated
these democratic pledges not broken the
alleged command of the American people NOT
disobeyed for want of democratic votes in
| the Senate. 1t Is for the fear of public
Indignation expressed in the elections You
are ready enough to strike at the industry
of any northern state from which democ-
| racy has no hopes I'm the future You strike
down the workmen's wages. you put pro-
| tective duties on his food and fuel and you
tax his little savings, and then you tell us
! that you are doing what you do not want
! to do doing II because some nameless
| shapeless, voiceless. shadowy and unknown
phantom stands ready to slay your bill IL
you do otherwise. Where is this man. IL IL
| be a man? where is the Senator, II II be a
Senator, who is exerting this mighty power
| secret irresponsible irresistible, before
which the knees of democratic committees
and democratic majorities tremble their
arms are paralyzed and their tongues are
| dumb. The most remarkable circumstance
of the whole, Of which l have spoken is
| this curious substitution for the ordinary
conduct and function Of a legislator Of the
| behest of some mysterious, unknown secret
political power. Somebody somewhere pulls
u string, and the regular democratic major
ity is duly registered.
AristOcrat and POpulist.
| In conclusion. the Senator said:
1.-THE power which is to pass this bill is q
coalition between the aristocrat and the
populist, between the spirit Of the old slave
master and the spirit which would make
war on property, on frugality. on honest
labor, on honest moderate earnings. The
| alliance is between the spirit of sectional
ism of the south. and that spirit at the
north which never has known the Impulse
of a true nationality. 1t protects by snor-