New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-31
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IRE OF LEGISLATION. WAS AIMED TO TEAR
THINGS DowN-AND NOW. ACCORDING
TO MR. WILSON. THEY ARE GOING
DO SOME MORE SMELLING.
Everybody ia asking as to this Congress. What
made it do so? The inquirer may be Repub-
lican but he is just as often a Democrat or q
Populst or a Mugwump Whatever his party
or his faction he is Utterly at loss to compre'
hend this Lid Congress. and. really, his bewiI.
derment and disgust increase In proportion a.
he inclines to he a Democratic partisan For
the Democrat feels. In addition to other em ons'
a sense of acute Disappointment He remembers
the pleasing dtty that he used to sing with
such robust energy -Four years more OF
Grover" and how he wont to predict that
at the end OF that time there would be left IN
the country no such thing Republican party
Everything seemed 30 plain then. Everything
seems so confused now. Only two years, instead
of four have gone. and instead OF there being
no Republicans there no Democrats No
body stands up now in the presence Of the COM
nunity and flashes his eyes and swells MS
breast and plants his feet and throws out his
arms and cries II am Democrat II he mem
tions it al all he does so only in the bosom OF
! his family. under the seal or the strictese
confidence. and then with the qualification, "Er-
| If know just what Democrat is"'
| Hindsight is better than foresight, Of course.
| put that isn't this This is the case OF men
| who haven't been able to gee six inches OH from
| their noses in broad daylight who wouldn't see
when it was pointed out them and who swore
1t wasn't there while in the very act OF stumbling
over It. And they al had the same trouble.
| mo
same thing Cleveland saw free raw materials.
but he couldn't see the Sugar Trust, and the only
raw materials he could see were those which his
good friend Whitney pointed out to hin-Whit-
ney's own materials He couldn't see Hawaii
| either, and was blind as bat to van Aien'
| although six days before election he had mooned
| away piousy enough. about the "capricous be-
stowal Of favors" which attended the corrupt
use OF money in elections. He couldn't see the
| glacial Quincy either. or the torrid Logan Car.
| isle making ducks and brakes OF the consular
| and customs services He couldn't see the I'M
propriety OF kicking the Supreme Court Judge
ship back and forth between himself and Sena-
tor Hill In fact VIXEN you come to figure It
out and sum 1t up, all he has seen are those two
items coal and iron, worth. as he himself re-
| marks only 100000 a year to the Government
! Sugar worth thirty millions; Hawaii, worth our
| National honor: Van Allen, worth his own SELL
respect; Quincy and Carlisle. worth his pighted
| faith-for these his vision was unsuited
| HILL THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD SEE.
Poor Mr. Wilson had 1t just as bad. He
| could see sugar and raw materials, too, but for
the men and womer who were burning 10 deatn
while he fiddled and famed the fire he had no
eyes at all. The Speakers sight was consist
emily OPAQUE He couldn't even his hour
Ilrica nd Gpnif -
trusts and transportation companies-the Presi-
| dent suggests that the trusts and transportation
companies saw them-it amounts to the same
thing Vest and Harris and Jones saw what
Mr. Wilson. with characteristic decacy. de.
scribed as difficulties" but they couldn't see
factory in ali the land. The only man among
them who could make n<re with his eyes
than the ordinary citizen could with his thumbs
was David b. Hill He could see, at least, that
IL was raining and that he'd better go in
The only way to understand these men 10 70
get their point of view. Nor Is that enurely
easy The point of view Of man ike MT
Crisp for instance who. six days before the Gor'
man amendments were agreed 10 by the HOUSE,
had stood up In the Democratic caucus and hao
said. for himself and for all the rest OF them'
that he was ready to stay there thirty days
sixty days, ninety days. before he would yielo
his heaven born principles. and who then ap-
noared ON the floor Of the House with the modest
statement that he was only plain practicai
business man who thought that If he couldn't
get what he wanted. he'd better take what no
could Cet-the point OF view Of this sort Of gentle
man is not go easy for an Anglo-Saxon with sooo
red blood in his veins to get at. The perform
arce Of Mr. Wilson himself throws no great
light on the subject. He not only allowed his
friends 10 repudia:e him. but his own outcry or
self-abase sement was the loudest Of all. one
month before he had brought these German
amendments into the House and had danced
lively war-dance all over them. He would never
consent 10 the abandonment OF Democratic pnn-
ciples upon which the Senators were insisting
Defeat he said, with yirtuous exclamation, was
hotter than dishonor The issue was no longer
between two theories of tariff taxation. Eclipsing
that was now the question whether the repre-
sentatives of free people were TO De permtte~
freely 10 legslate tor the people. or whetheE
there existed. outside of the Government FORCES
unnamed and mysterious. but so appallingiy
powerful that they could block the wheels OF the
Government and say to Congress: You shan
serve us and our interests WITHOUT resaiu " S'A'
interest Of the Nation!
HARD POINT OF VIEW TO GET AT.
This was Mr. Wilson's speech month oeiore.
But his firal appearance was very d'Hereht'
Tho plure I'm his helmet had broken and hun8
dismally on one side The liors look had gone
out of his eyes and the meek gaze OF the sheep
had replaced it, He was not anxious 70 ole
for anything any more. In his hands ne heio
the bill which he and the President had jointly
stigmatized as a record Of party perhdy ana
party dishonor," and he moved that II be ac-
cepted had seen men submit to shame ana
humiliation before l had seen men DO wAas
they had protested they never would do' ana 90
il with a certain affectation OF grace and gooo-
humor but never before had seen them 90 u
with frantic enthusiasm and anmistaKaoie oe'
iinht In addition 10 the Speaker and Mr. WI.