The herald., 1894-10-14

ing. We do not recommend the senate
bill. 1t was not Of our enscting, bat i
Is very certain that il there is any goot
in IL, the only way to get at it is to Civ
it a chance.
Of course business in this country
must revive to some small degree il w
can have peace. 1t cannot stay wher'
1t is now, unless American enterprise il
dead and that can never be. We shal
have struggles over wages and lessensc
profits and increased competition Il
contend with, and whatever failures Il
protect them are in this bill, will find
themselves out. That much hurt viii
come, that wages will not again react
sheir former level. do not doubt; buI
We shall learn at the costly school of ex.
psrience and perhaps learn enough to
pay the cost of tuition.
We shall learn among other things tc
avoid the chairman OF the wsys and
means committee and his entire school,
as men who are pursuing a by.gone
dream. DID you notice how that gentle.
man adorned his last address by an out
burst Of enthusiasm which showed how
his head was actually in the clouds? !
cite it not because it 10 of much i'm
portance, but simply as showing the
leadership as we have IL now.
1.-THE battle for tariff REFORM" said
he, "has been wonderful and inspiring. "
| well remember the close OF that con-
test whom, to use the language of the
Democratic Times of Chicago, a mem
ber of the house Democracy had been
morally and legislatively whipped. /"
| remember we'll how every time rose
that day thought how much they look
ed like q grain field devastated by a hail
storm. They were devastated, not by
US for they had 100 majority, but BY
themselvos. / little thought l should
live to hear that the scene was ''inspir-
ing" Wonderful ID was, indeed, but
inspiring, never. Perhaps the orator,
when he used both words, was not think.
ing OF that scene, but of the brilliant
dinner in London, where his legs were
under the British mahogany and he was
cheefed by the applause of real friends.
Perhaps, however, hs meant to refer
to the condition OF this country the last
year and half. Perhaps this wonder
and inspiration came from the deserted
workshops, impending cut OF wages,
struggles between employers and work
men. Perhaps in cleudland there is
something cheering in the fact that only
HOO miles of railway were built the first
nine months OF this very year OF our
Lord, the lowest record for 80 years. In
the last ak months on a portion, only,
of itB lines, the great Pennsylvania rail-
road has spent So, 600, 900 less than usual
in its expenses. That fact means that
$5, 900, 600 less has gone out in wages to
the trainmen. in new buildings, in ex-
tensions, in engines and cars In q word,
"A m nf
lost that vast sum. Perhaps when add
all the suspensions to expenditures on
the part of all the roads, there is some,
thing so truly inspiring to the rsformer
that he can really long to etir up strife
so as to prolong such lovsble condition
of human affairs. Bat this world,
wsdded to material good. will think
otherwise, and long for the better days
gone by.
Education Ia the necessity OF the
human race, not book education, but ed.
ucation in the working OF human affairs,
My best consolation in these times is
that some lessons are being learned,
not out OF booke. but in more solid
fashion, out OF experience. Nor is the
lesson to be learned only by those who
voted wrong. Some oius who voted right
have much to understand as TO the
foundation OF things. Perhaps the
knowledge which comes to us, comes
fast enough for political life. When,
years ago, we defended protection OIL the
ground OF infant induRtries, we stated
good grounds for the establishment of
manufacturers. but today protection,
which ia not taxation of the many for
one, is merely method of securing to
every body in America the markets of
the country. ss the best method Of dis
tributing among the people the God
given gifts of the enterprise of which our
country is SO full. II l did not
bslievs that protection was only
q method Of making this country,
in the admirable language OF Senator
Jonss, "do all its work." l should not
recommend its retention.
1t is perfectly true that prosperity OF
any kind leads to large fortunes for those
who have the genius to organize for the
enterprises, but this is the case every-
where. Sir Joseph Whitworth, the
great steel manufacturer in England,
did not die o pauper, and Lord Arms
strong and the Rothchilds hardly seem
in the way Of impeverishmant. My
consolation, when l see these great
riches, for l own up to the same envy
tnhk dlulCtb my UEOtAIou VI tucH0 VINO
are better off than myself, ia that all
those riches are Of no profit to the own
era unless they build railroads or mills
or dig illuminations for the poorest of
us out OF the bowels of the earth.
The moro prosperity there 10 the
more there is to distribute, and there is
the chance that the worker, whether
with brain or muscle, had to wrost from
his employer his share. / am not the
author Of this idea. 1t comes from 8
Pennsylvania workman who declares
before the committee on ways and
means that ii congress would only pass
laws which would enable enterprises TO
make profits the workingmen would see
that they got their share. And this
very day in the strike which ia. or was.
going on in Massachusetts, the very
basis OF the argument on both sides is
the price of the goods and the conBe-
quent profits. The orators on the other
side have always declared that strikes
would not come when they had power,
but they have not passed away yet; on
the contrary, more looms will be idle in
the future than we have ever had in the
past.
Strikes are always unfortunate things,
but not always bad things. Their sue
cess consists, not in their victories, but
in their possible existence. Men who
see their way clear to profits will not
refuse recompenss to those they employ
when the great disorganizRtion OF o