New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-08
EDMUNDS ON LIVE ISSUES.
Compulsory Arbitration Is Absurd
Lesson of the Strike-The
Dangers of fImni
grafton.
In It, BE Thinks Lies Gne of the Country's
Gravest Probl0ms- and
the Ballot Box.

what he said on the present congressional
situation, on finance, on the late labor
troubles and compulsory arbitration on
third parties and on immigration. Every
word is important:
First he emphaticali7 voiced his firm
faith in the Republican party and in the
necessity Of immediate Legislation look
lag to L restriction Of immigration and a
modification of the laws regulating suff-
ray.
Y Republican Of Republicans. Mr.. Ed
M.unds looks to his party to perform
these duties which he thinks are absolute
y necessary. In speaking Of the Rcpub-
Iiran loss If power he said:
Naturally the very large proportion
Of nuCtlralizcd citizens gravitate toward
the Democratic party: first, because the
name is the one which they in their own
homes associated with government by
people. anil which has been misllsad and
misapplied too often for them to have
any ri:shttul idea Of its meaning; second,
because the foreigner, for reasons not
necessary for me state. when he reaches
Democratic machines. so to speak, and
those naturaliZed have not been here
long enough to have acquired property
and become acquainted with our Repub-
llcan ideas and to some extent with the
real nature Of our institutions and to
tind out what real liberty is. For this
reason socialism has some slight hold
upon the masses of the people, but I
don believe that among native and ma
turallzcu, who have clear conception
Of the duties Of citizenship and the elor-
lous nature of our institutions, and a
knowledge OF the constitution, how lust it
IS to all. how full Of the most consum-
mate wisdom. giving and guaranteeing
liberty, life, the pursuit of happiness
ami the security in home and business
lite to all--I don't believe, | repeat. that
one in 1000 is n socialist or that there
Is one anarchist in every 20 900 citizens y
Inquired whether he thought anv
change should be made in any of the
issues which the Republican party had
put forward III 1892, or whether a new
issue be make.
Il do not know said Mr.. Edmunds,
of any change that should be made in
the tariff or financial issues. nor auv new
issue that ought to be put forward. The
protectionist Republican party and the
so-called free trade Democratic party
are entities; they cannon be split up nor
divided. and in principle each is wholly
wrong or wholly right. The principle
that unuer!ie the policy Of either party
cannot be changed"
What criticism have you to make of
Democratic congressional legislation"
so far as the course has run the Dem
ocratic "arty has done nothing but re-
peal the Sherman act, and in that thew
had Republican help. Every one knew
the Sherman act was not fundamental
nor a chief cause of the distress that be-
gan with the spring Of 1898. 1t was
undoubtedly a good thing to repeal the
law, because it had carried US to a point
beyond which we could not 90 without
great danger Of becoming a silver cur
rency country, but the real difficulty lay
in the alarm of our business men at what
they anticipated the Democrats were 90
ing to do. The Democratic party plat
form, the Chicago platform, had made
certain declarations. Business men feared
that these promissory declarations were
going to be fulfilled. The one chief,
distinct declaration and the most men
acing. was the one that said explicitly
that any tariff law, except one purely
for revenue, was not only unconstitution-
al, but crime against the people.
Business men knew that with a tariff
based on such principles the country
would be flooded with cheap and inferior
goods, in consequence of which they
could. not sell the product of their manu-
factories nor pay the men whose labor
they were employing; nor could the lab
oring men who formerly had earned good
wages secure that return for their toll
that would be necessary to buy perhaps
cheaper products. Also looking at an
other and most important consideration
the producer of so-called raw materi-