The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-15

the British, and refreshed by that touch
of his mother earth, viprated back to
renew his declaration. Surely he does
not mean peace and ouietness! Nor has
he the slightest idea of the value there
OF. The President writes OF Mr.. Catch1ngs
that this is only the vantage ground for
Il new attack MIR. Mills declares that
only the citadel has been carried and
that he is going back for the rest of the
town. These men seem backed up by all
the official Democratic power. Inc
democratic press seems with them. Inc
Herald which maintains an ornament
al and splendid silence about the candi-
date for governor denounces in round
set terms all who are mot fully commit
ted to an immediate and vigorous renew
al of the battle" "The demagogues who
cry, let the new tariff alone are Cor
NANTES and not real Democrats. and
joins with the World on that same day
and in like denunciation. 1t does look
as if the only men in the Democratic
party who have any disposition to try
their own work are Senators from
Maryland, Ohio and New Jersey, and
they are being hooted at in all Demo-
cratic conventions in the United States,
and where, as in Ohio, they were not
maligned in set terms, the presiding
officer proclaimed the doctrine of ire
newed war" of vantage ground for new
attack" and such like unwholesome adj
vice. 1t is pretty evident then to
every sensible man that quiet and GER
tainty are not to be hoped for in Demo-
cratic success On the other hand the
Repu blicans are forced into such posi-
ton that they must for the next two
years give to business that certainty
which it must have to do anything sue
cessfully. We could not make any
change for better from our point of view,
because Cleveland and the Senate could
oppose. We certainly should not do any
thing to make the
TARIFF WORSE,
for that is contrary to our principles.
To sum it all up in word, this appeal
to business men, and by business men
mean almost all the people. Democracy
promises war on business certainty,
while the Republicans must give you
rest. We do not promise you prosperity,
for these conditions are not of our choos-
ing. We do not recommend the Senate
bill. 1t was not of our enacting. But
it is very certain that If there is any
good in it, the only way to get at it is
to give it a chance.
Of course business in this country
must revive to some small degree il we
SeAA AdvO pOdCCs IL CdHAOt sway w AOAO II
is now unless American enterprise is
dead, and that can never be. We shall
have Struggles over wages and lessened
profits and increased competition to con-
tend. with, and whatever failures to pro-
tect there are in this bill will find them
selves out. That much hurt will come,
that wages will uot again reach their
former level do not doubt. But we
shall learn at the costly school of ex-
perience and perhaps learn enough to
pay the cost of tuition.
We shall learn among other things to
avoid the chairman of ways and means
and his entire school as men who are
pursuing as bygone dream. Did you
nlotice, hoy that gentleman adorned
his last adj ress by. an soutburs of en- thu
siasm which Showed how much hisshead
was actually i'm the clouds. II cite lit
not because it is Of much IMPORTANCE
s ssgp a showing what lesd t'altp ws
"The battlesforatariffsr eform," said he
@has been wonderful and inspiring
contest"
/ well remember the close of that con-
test when, to use the language of the
Democratic cor respondent of the Demo-
cratic Times of Chicago, Every mem Der
of the House Democracy had heen moral
~ and legislatively whipped remem-
Der we'll how every time / rose that day
L buOuSub uUW muCu bucy IOUktu Ike d
grain field devastated by hail storm.
They were devastated not by u.s. for
they had hundred majority. but by
them selves. / little. thought should
live to hear that that scene was Gin
spring" Wonderful it was indeed, but
inspiring, never! Perhap the orator
when he used both words was not think
dinner in London, where his legs were
under the
BRITISH MAHOGANY
and he was .cheered. by the applause of
real friends. s s
Perhaps, however. he meant to refer
to the condition of this country the last
year and half Perhaps this wonder
and inspiration came from deserted
workshops, impending cuts of wages,
struggles between employers and work
men. Perhaps in, cloudland there is
something cheering il the fact that only
HOO miles of railroad was built the frst
nine months of this very year of our
Lord, the lowest record for thirty years.
In the last six months on portion
only of it's lines The great Pennsylvania
railroad has spent $4,000, 600, less than
usual in it's expenses. THAT fact
means that S5sUO0, O00 less has
gone out in wages to trainmen in new
buildings, in extensions, in engines and
cars, in word that the working men
of this country haye7lost that vast snm
Perhaps when you add all the loss of
expenditure on the part of all the roads,
there is something SO truly inspiring to
the reformer that he can really long to
stir up strife SO as to prolong such a
lovable condition of human affairs
But this world welded to material good
will think otherwise and long for the
better days gone by.
Education, is the necessity of the
human race, not book education, but
education in the workings of human
affairs My best consolation in these
times is that some lessons are being
learned, not out of books but in more
solid fashion out of experience. Nor is
the lesson to be learned only by those
who voted wrong. Some of us who
voted right have much to understand
as to the foundation of things. Perhaps
the knowledge which comes to us comes
fast enough for practical life When
years ago we defended protection on the
ground of infant industries VIC stated
good grounds for the esta blishment of