The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-06
REED FIRES A SHOT.
Democratic Shams and Ignorance
 Laid Bare.
Growers Pitiful Work = Blunders Made About Hawaii. Silver and the Tariff Republicans Are Soon to Ruler
 Bourbon Frauds Played.

work done by that body. lie responus
 in the following eloquent manner: And now they have gone, this senate and house
 Of representatives - gone, with only three
 months more of unhappy life left in them. What are we to say? One year Of almost con tinuous session, and what have they done and
 how have they done it' The republicans can
 not use the language of reproach, of invective, or abuse The whole vocabulary has been ex- hausted by themselves, speaking Of them selves. We can not hope to equal, in comment- ing on the senate, the tremendous and enectlve words of the president of their own choice. 1T
 we were to search the whole dictionary of dla-
 tribe we could not equal the charge of party pertidy and party dishonor, made by the presi- dent against the senate and received by the house of representatives, with its one hundred democratic majority, with cheers ndapplause
 If we were to comment upon the president | and his action we could not use language half | so damaging as democratic senators used In | open senate with uplifted hands, asseverating
 the truth of personal betrayal and personal
 bad faith. If we were to comment upon the | house of representatives and it's leaders we l should be deemed guilty Of gross partisanship | if we used even their own words in describing
 their own actions.
 What condition for partisan critic to be l into be obliged in common decencyto use softer words about his enemies than they use l
 saints in embryo, beating their breasts and | confessing their transgressions to reach the heights of sainthood through the depths of l sin. O, no! They are simply earnest men | standing by the broken business of whole
 country and trying to tell who destroyed it, | and having met success we obviously cannot
 use any language of reproach or of Ea-shness. Earlier and for that purpose) worthier hands | have gathered all those laurels. All we can say is that all the three sides are probably | right. The president and senate have told | the truth about each other and the house about itself .f. | With this simple expression of faith in their
 yeracity let us turn Go slight review Of what l they have done. There is no doubt that this
 review will be as distasteful and unsatisfactory | to the majority of honest democrats as 60 re- publicans themselves. Whatever good there has been done has been spoiled in the doing. 1 If the house has yielded to the dictates or | long denounced common sense and adopted
 proper rules. it was only after all sound prece- dent had been violated in the attempt to avoid the necessity. If the congress has repealed the purchasing clause of the Shsrman act it
 was only done after such long delay as has de- prived the country of any advantage the repeal might have given 1t. Nor has che mystery of the collapse of the compromise and the connection of the president herewith ever been cleared up Whether he consented to that compro- ullsb DT IOJ lS HOJ TUT lllt lO oeJs 4hdb AS o family secret, it is no family secret that that compromise was not repudlated un- til after the republican members were l sounded and 1t was clear that they would have no part or lot in it. Two such mis- understandings as these between the president and senate, if republican, would have caused
 a sensation as of burned woolen among the people But the democracy has limitations as to morality very much enlarged. That party
 seems to realize what Gen. Butler said in jest: That nobody was truly unassailable until hls character was gone"
 The tari1 bill of "perfdy end dlshonor" has become law, and an interesting law it is. | How democratic senate, believing In the platform of It's party, could have passed it, | how democratic house could have passed 1t. | having a hundred majority. is simply incom- prehensible. How the president could have permitted it to become law is simply an im- possible study in human nature. How can the country reconcile this action with | it's former estimate of him He was deemed | by very large part of. the people as man of sound common sense and of great will power. The reputation for good sense l certainly had q shock in the case of the | Sandwich islands. And business is likely to
 suffer from the contrast between the letter to Wilson and the surrender to German was | not one of those who expected such result. | Surrender was in the exploitation, He ought | to have handed in his side arms and signed the
 bill. If he did not consent. then, by both | house and senate, he has been pronounced to
 be not even Q factor in the transaction. Here- l after the president, instead of standing on a
 mugwump and unreal pedestal, must be reckoned with the rest of them, and the regrets
 will not all be on the democratic side.
 The truth about the Wilson bill is that 1t | was foolish bill when it went out of the ways
 and means committee, and was made still more foolish in the house. It had neither | policy nor practice and yet it has been erected into a golden calf to be worshiped by party
 conventions, and that, too, with the consent | 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 prominent | democratic capitalist put 1t, that labor has
 got to liquidate." Stocks have liquidated- | thaV is, gone down one-half-except sugar ] Labor is to do the same. But there will be 1 this diference-stocks are submissive, labor
 CTS are not.
 Already the free traders are spreading all | over the country lying statements of how much | cheaper carriage cloth. cashmere, worsted, coatings challies Out not sugar., will be here
 after because the tariff tax is taken of, Well, | those operatives in Fall River and New Bed-
 ford will buy none Of them thls week at lea ast and l the operatives all over the country will buy | fewer of them after labor has iQuidated. | ''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 equivalent
 of carriage cloths and union meltons-the | product of our woolen mills-will be lucky if
 they are not "liquidated" into the tramp gang.
 The process of liquidating has begun, and
 when it is ended, what then? More "liquida- tion." Does not Wilson, chairman of the ways
 and means committee, declare the fight has | begun to end only in absolute free trade? Does not Mills reecho the same thing in a bewilder- | ing meditation, which seems to indicate that
 citadel is outside the city gates, but the tenor
 of which is unmistakable? Does not the presi dent himself in his latest contribution to the complete letter writer tell us that thIs act
 furnishes a vantage ground from which must
 be waged further aggressive operations against
 protected monopoly and governmental favorit- ism?" The president must have referred to protection to American industry, for he uses
 the sacred language of his guild He could not
 have meant sugar, as in his last published
 epistle with most lovely but unmistakable cir
 cumlocution he exhorted the brethren not to
 be frightened at that and was tender to 1t
 in a vailed way as he was and is openly for it's