The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-01

watches thai great struggle. has read
xi.h smaxemeat and disgust the
revelations cf municipal corruption
and debarchs-v which have beea
laid before the public; il watches
With anxious soiicisude the decision of
the question whether shere is powsr in
the body polite OF this great city To
cleanse itself from these impurities and
ressserf decent government 1t IS coming
60 be recognized BY all students cf pubic
government that the question OF
municipal control brings these in-
stisuf.oas ard principles to the
severesf test. and We watch from all our
cities. great and small. throughout the
country. this great contest which IS nov
being wRged ia the city of New York.
sincerely hope we shall hare another
illustration TO add 10 those which we
have had IN ehe past. when things have
become utterly bad. that men without
reference TO party vii rally 10 the defense
Of their institutions and their homes. and
Get things right once more.
There are national questions involved
in this contest in New YORK congress
is TO be chosen. and those constituencies
in the great cisy of New York are 10 exer-
else al important influence in deciding
the question whether the control Of
the house OF representatives shall be
vrested from the Democratic party. Our
governments Z
a more important relation TO the business
OF the country than ever before. In the
oiden days, when our money was nour-
ished by state banking institutions and
when our state commerce was left TO reg
Mate itself or was without regulations, We
dsd not so much appreciate the important
touch which the national government
has upon the business affairs OF
the country. Now all our money is issued
in Washington City. Now that the regu-
lation of these interstate railroads has
been assumed by congress. We realize, as
we never have before. that the question Of
the tariff touches strongly every mans in
terest. whether be be rich or poor.
throughout the whole country.
ia is32 the gentlemen who had been
platform makers for thirty years were
called TO the unaecustomed duty of max
ing laws. The truabie with the Demo-
cratic party now Is that it is an incohercnt
party. Who could tell what il wss going
to do, what its pos sitian ON the tariff was
1t was proposed that the reve-
nues of the government should be
raised by customs duties. and that our
manufacturers and workingmen should
have the benefit of such measure of protec-
tion as came from iay ing duties upon for
eign imports adequate TO the support of
the general government This incidental
protection was talked OF by every one as
thing conceded. but when they came to
frame their platform of 1852. this
doctrine was overthrown. and the party
went into the campaign upon the
proposition that protection, all protee-
tion. protection Incidental and OF pur-
pose. was unconstitutional. This deciara-
ton, in spite of the court discussions, in
spite OF the opinions of the most eminent
1urists in our country, was adopted as the
principle upon which the Dsmo-
rsx xtaf&ee.
the tariff and administer the
government. l think perhaps of
ali the insects, the grasshopper is
the one most without an objective point.
No one can tell. nor does he know himself
when he jumps. " here he Is going TO alight;
il NAV be on the crown Of a sunfiower, or
may be in horse pond. A lack OF purpose
prevaded the party aud was largely instru-
mental In producing that disastrous de-
preston under which the country has
been iahoripg for two years"
Mr.. Harrison dwelt at some length upon
the dissensioas that have marked the his
tory of the Democratic party in the last
two years, and particularly in its
dealings with the tariff question.
After describing the manner in which
each ssnator or congressman held
out had contended for protection for the
particular industry of his district or state.
Gen. Harrison toacked upon the alleged
attempt of representatives of the sugar
trust to influence legislation on the tariff.
There has been some attempt made to
fix the responsibility OF the evil times
which came upon the country upon Re-
publican legislation. | can we'll UNDER
stand how man can be free trader
or tariff reformer without any inn
peachment Of his mental or moral
at inf a
how any man of sound mind could
have supposed that We could pass from
the Mckinley ball to bill framed upon
the lines of the Chicago platform, without
business convusion that would shake
:he country to its very center. What was
the first result7 IL was a pause. Mr..
Cleveland himself, in his letter 10
Mr.. Wilson, described the country
as idly awaiting tins experiment of
legislation upon the tariff. / will not at
tempt to picture the sad state in which
our country has been during the last two
years. They call IL a manic; il 10 hardly
proper name tor it, for a panic implies
movement. and this was death. The char
acter of the condition was this: There was
shrinksge. a drying up. Every man who
had securities found them shrinking. Every
man VINO had real estate foand il shrink
ing IN value and had no sale. Every man
who worked for his living found his pIace
imperilled, or his wages reduced Who
ever Is responsible. whatever policy Is re-
sponsible for bringing this condition upon
the country, carries heavy burden"
Mr.. Harrison ridiculed the theory tnat
the tariff reduction would open new mar
kcts Ii might just as well be admitted.
be said. that this chasing after the mar
kets of the world involves scaling down
in the wages of our working people. for
how can one compete who pays for bis
labor 81 a day with another making the
same product who pays only Sd cents a
day Mr.. Harrison eoncluded;
II went only a week ago through a busy
section of my state, where industries
stimulated by the discovery Of a natural
gas as fuel, had sprung up in the
last SIX years With marvellous rapid
from some Of these shops bearing on
their hats this legend: Wages
- per cent. of So it is, down. down.
down. Nv countFymen. let rs stop this
was on American industry aud American
homes let the greatest Of the manufact-
uring states, BY her people in this election.
speak so their voices shall be heard from
ocean 10 ocean IN condemnation of those
who have brought this disaster apon the
country"
Catholic Priests work for Republicans.
Sioux FaIIs, :. D.. Oct 3i-A sensation
vas sprung In South Dakota political cir
eies when il was learned tha. Bishop
Marty, the Catholic bishop of south Da-
kota, had sent out letters TO the priest. OF
the state. urging them 10 use their influ-
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