Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-03

seems to indicate that citadel ID outside
the city gates, but the tenor Of which is un-
mistakable? Does not the President him.
self, in his latest contribution to the CON-
plete letter writer, tell US that this act fur
nishes vantage ground from which must
be waQed further aggressive operations a.
gainst protected monopoly and governmental
favoritisn9 The President must have re-
ferfed to protection to American industry,
for he used the sacred language of his guild.
He could not have meant sugar, for in his
last published ep!stle, with most lovely but
unmistakable circumlocution, he exhorted
the brethren not to be frightened at that
was and is openly for its brother tenant of
the same hotel floor, the Dominion Coal
Company.
Why should we comment on the pop-gun
bills? They sleep side by side in the Ravens
of rest. 1t is bad to be deal, but it must
be disgusting to be q dead humbug. They
cannot even hang on then the little shreds
of hypocrisy for which they were intended.
Mr.. Carlisle has smoothed even the hillock
on the graves; The world eIjoys very
greatly the Democratic denuncistion of
trusts today. And how good all this talk
is. The deeds of these people may not be
all that the decslopue demands, but their
language, their votes are wrong, their ac-
tions 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. Mr.. Stiggins of blessed memory can
taps is vanities," and yet down the rever-
end throat there coursed its way "vanity"
which had sugar in it-warm, my dear
young friends, with three Jumps of sugar
to the tumbler. II left Baby Charles and
Steenie (the Duke of Buckingham) laying
his duty before him." said King James of
the reprobate Delgarno. "Oh, Geordie,
Geordie, it was grand to hear Baby Charles
laying down the guilt of assimilation and
Steenie lecturing on the turpitude of incon-
thence"
The President clings, almost to weari-
ness, to his free raw material. What is
there in it? nothing but fantasy and delu-
sion. What difference is there for protec
ton at all except in the broad doctrine 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
workmep? Are not the men who dig coal
out of the mines as worthy of encourage
ment as the people who toll in mills? One
thing cannot be reiterated too often, and
touch upon 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 in
action and uncertainty. We are ready to
seize at anything if only it were fnality.
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, and the defeated President sub
dued, and, as he says, taking his place
among the rank and file. With one voice
they proclaim new agitation and a new
crusade. More than that MIR. 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 details,
they are united everywhere in the struggle
for the overthrow of the bill, now become
a law, after two years of the unhappiest I'M
certainty. We are promised two years
more unlees the House be wrested from the
grasp of these men aud the hands of Mills
and Wilson, Cochran, johnson and the
President are stayed. But the American
people will take care of that; not Republi-
cans alone, but honest, sensible people of
all parties and of all faiths Oae year and
quarter of such government will suffice
for half century.
Men begin to see now that the prosperity
of this country was not matter of course,
a thing which happened of itself, but was
the result of tensible measures, of a 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 its like
again. THOMAS B. REED.