The Colored citizen., 1894-09-17


The truth about the Wilson bill is
that it was foolish bill when it went
out of the ways and means committee
and was made still more foolish in the
house. 1t had neither policy nor prac-
tice, and yet 1t has been erected into
golden calf, to be worshiped by party
conventions. and that, too. with the con-
sent and approval of their own Moses.
The senate bill does have some regard
to the business of the country in spots,
but it will prove failure, like the other,
though not to the same degree. The
strikes in Fall River, New Bedford and
elsewhere over the cotton schedule. said
to be the best ever made, show, as a
prominent Democratic capitalist put it,
that labor has got to liquidate. Stocks
have hquidated-that is, gone down
one-half-except Sugar. Labor is to do
the same But there will be this differ
enco. Stocks are Submissive, laborers
are not.
Lying Statements
Already the free traders are spreading
I'll over the country lying statements Of
how much cheaper carriage cloth, CASH
mere, worsted coatings, challies (but not
sugar., will be hereafter because the tar
iff tax is taken Off Well, those opera
tives in Fall River and New Bedford
will buy none of them this week at least,
and the operatives all over the country
will buy fewer Of them after "labor
has liquidated. "Liquidated labor"
will buy very few carriages to get the
benefit of cheap carriage cloth and will
indulge very seldom in union melton
coats, and the men who make the equiv
alent of carriage cloths and union mel
tons-the product of our woolen mills
will be lucky if they are not "liqui-
dated" into the tramp gang. The process
of liquidatipg has begun, and when it
is ended what thenf More ''liquida-
tion." Does not Wilson, chairman of
the ways and means committee, declare
that the fight has begun to end only in
absolute free trader Does not Mills re-
echo the same thing in q bewildering
meditation, which seems to indicate
that citadel is outside the city gates,
but the tenor of which is unmistakablef
Does not the president himself in his
latest contribution to the complete let
ter writer tell us that this act "fur-
nishes a vantage ground from which
must be waged further aggressive opera
tions against protected monopoly and
governmental favoritism?' The presi-
dent must have referred to protection to
American industry, for he uses the sa-
ored language Of his guild.
Not Sugar.
He could not have meant sugar, for
In his last published epistle, with most
lovely but unmistakable circunilooution,
he exhorted the brethren not to be
frightened at that, and was as tender to
it in yelled way as he was and is OPEN
ly for its brother tenant Of the same
hotel floor, tie Dominion Coal company.
Why should we comment on the popgun
bills? They sleep side by side in the
havens Of rest. 1t is bad to be dead, but
1t must be disgusting to be dead hum
bug. They cannot even hang on them
the little shreds of hypocrisy for which
they were intended. Mr.. Carlisle has
smoothed even the hillock on the
graves. The world enjoys very greatly
the Democratic denunciation of trusts
today. And 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 warcry 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.
Some Quotations.
History does not lack parallels. Said
the Rev. Mr.. Stiggins Of blessed men,
ory, "All taps is vanities," and yet
down the reverend throat there coursed
its way vanity" which had sugar
in it-''warm, my dear young friends,
with three Jumps Of sugar to the tum-
bier. 81 left Baby Charles and Steenie
the Duke of Buckingham-laying his
duty before him." said King James Of
the reprobate Delgarno. "Oh, Geordie
Puglins, Geordie, it was grand to hear
Baby Charles laying down the guilt Of
dissimulation and Steenie lecturing Oh
the turpitude of incontinence.
The president clings, almost to weari-
ness, to his free raw material. What is
there in it? Nothing but fantasy and
delusion. What defense is there for pro-
lection at all except in the broad doc
trine that this country should do its 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 peo-
pie who toll in mills?
One thing cannot be reiterated too
often, and 1 touch upon it again. This
country is weary almost unto death Of
these disputes about tariff. We are
above all things weary of this long in
action and uncertainty. We were ready
to seize at anything if only 1t We're q
fnslity. "Give us something we can
figure on and let us alone" was the cry.
But, alas even that repose is denied us
The leader in the house declares we
shall have no rest The leader in the
senate still talks of storming the citadel,
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