The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-08-30

HlelGon coaLs, ana the men who make
the equivalent of carriage cloths and
union mIeltons-the product of our wool
en- mills-will be lucky if they are not
"lIquidated into the tramp gang"
The process of liquidating has begnn,
and when it is ended, what then? More
llquldation. Does not Wilson, leader of
the House, Wilson, chairman of the ways
and means committee, declare that the
hight has begun to end only in absolute
free trade? Does not Mills re-echo the
same thing in beyildering metaphor,
which seems to indicate that citadel
is outside. the city gates, but, the fervor
OF which is unmistakablei Does not
the President himself, in his latest con-
rlbutIon to the complete letter writer,
tell us that this act furnishes van
tage ground from which must he waged
further aggressive operations against
protected monopoly and governmental
favoritism? The President must have
referred to protection to American indus
try, for he used the sacred language of
his guild. He could not have meant SUI
gar, for in his last published epistle,
with most lovely but unmistakable cir
cumlocution, he exhorted the brethren
not to be frightened at that, and was as
tender to it ms yelled way as he was
and is openly to it's brother tenant OF. the
same hotel floor, the Dominion Coal
Company. the beloved trust of the fu-
ture as the sugar trust is of the present.
Why should we comment on the pop
gun bills? They sleep side by side in
the heavens of rest. 1t is bad to be
dead, but it must be disgusting to be a
dead humbug. They cannot even hang
on them the little shreds of hypocrisy
for which they were intended. Mr.. Car
Isle has smoothed even the hillock on
the graves. The world enjoys very
i
trusts today. How good all this talk is.
The deeds of these people may not be all
that the decalogue demands, but their
language is. Their votes are wrong,
their actions are fatal, but fling out the
banner, and war-cry of "St. Pecksniff and
down with monopoly" and the public
will forget the sugar trust they did aid,
and even the coal trust they tried to aid.
History does not lack parallels. Said
the Rev. MIR. Stiggius, of blessed memo
ry, All taps is vanlties," and yet down
the reverend throat there coaxed it's
way vanity which had sugar in it
warm, my dear, young friend, with three
humps of sugar TO the tumbler. :" / left
Baby Charles and Steenie (the Duke
of Buckingham) laying his duty before
him." said King James Of the reprobate
Delgarno. "oh,, Geolrdie, iingling Geor-
die, it was grand to hear Baby Charles
and Steenie lecturing on the turpitude
of inconJinence.
The President clings, almost to wear
mess, to his free raw material. What is
there in it? nothing but fantasy and de-
fusion. What defence is there for pro-
lection at all except in the broad doc
trine that his country should do it's own
work and exploit its own resources, or
on the broad doctrine that full wages
should be paid its workmen? Are not
the men who dig coal out Of the mines
as worthy of encouragement as the Leo
pie, who toll III mills? Que thing cannot
be reiterated too often, and touch up
on it again.
WEARY OF TARIFF AGITATION. !.
The country is weary almost unto
death of these disputes about tariff. We
are, above all things else, weary of this
long inaetion and uncertainty. We are
ready to seize at anything if only it
were finality. Give US something we
can figure on and let us alone. was the
cry. But alasl even that repose is de-
MED u.s. The leader in the House de-
clares we shall have no rest. The lead
er in the Senate still talks of storming
the citadel, and the defeated President
anu DIS AO says bdhlUS Ills
place among the rank and file, re-echoes
the same With one voice they pro-
claim a new agitation and a new cru
SADIE. More than that, Mr.. Cochran and
Mr.. Tom johnson and all the outspoken
brave men who would have fought the
act to its death proclaim their standing
hostility thereto.
Whatever the Democrats think of each
other, whatever they say of each other,
however much they may differ as to de-
tails, they are united everywhere in the
struggle for the overthrow of the bill
now become law, after two years of the
unhappiest uncertainty. We are prom
ised two years more unless sthe House
be wrested from the grasp of these men
and the hands of Mills and Wilson, Cock
ran, johnson and the President are
stayed. But the American people will
take care of that; not Republicans alone.
but honest, sensible people Of all parties
and of all faiths. One year and guar
ter of such government will suffice for
half century. Men begin to seeEnow
that the prosperity of this country was
not a matter of course, a thing which
happened of itself, but was the result OF
sensible measures, of sound system
and wise forecast. However short the
Republican party may have come of
perfection. it governed on the whole,
wisely and well, and we shall soon see
it's like again. THOMAS B. REED.