The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-09

working the Pension Racket.
Bangor, Me-, Sept. s.-The greatest
audience ever gathered in Dorchester
county at a political meeting assem-
bled in the town to listen to Governor
Mckinley, of Ohio. Long before the
zine advertised for the opening of the
meeting the hall was filled to suffoca-
ion. Every seat was occupied, and
many persons were obliged to stand
up and at least thousand were turned
away. AT least, $500 people heard the
4 speech, which was received with mani
4 f&st etions of applause, showing that
Hf& IN this quiet campaign interest in
national affairs is strong in eastern
Maine. After making his speech in
the city hall, Governor Mckinley ad-
dressed an overflow meeting at Y Nj.
c. A. hall. AT the city hall meeting
Congressman Boutelle presided and
made speech.
Governor Mckinley prefaced his adj
dress by warm tributes to James G..
Blaine and Hannibal Hamlin. The
Democratic President and Democratic
Congress, he said, have been running
the government for eighteen months,
during which time little else has been
running.
Rank Hypocrisy.
Industry has practically been
Stopped. Labor has found little en-
pl9M bent, and when employed, it has
IAbeet greatly reduced wages. Both
Fnment and people have been
A<efIling their reserves and both have
cen running in debt. The government
has suffered in its revenues and the
people in their incomes. The total los
ses to the country in business, proper
ty and wages are beyond human
calculation.
There has been no cessation in the
waste of wealth and wages; no con-
tentment, brightness or hope has any
where appeared.
The appeals to charity have never
been so numerous and inceSSant, nor
the necessity everywhere manifest.
Congress has disappointed the people,
trified with the sacred trust conffded to
at, excited distrust and disgust among
their constituents and impaired their
Investments.
Pledged, if platforms mean any
thing, to overthrow. our long-continued
policy of protection they have quar-
relied and compromised, and upon their
own testimony have been compromised
The result of their long wrangle is a
tariff law with which nobody is salts
fed, law which even those who made
chairman on ways and means, and al
most the entire Democratic side of
the House condemned by a yea and
nay vote only a few days before its
passage, affirming their intention in
the most solemn manner not to permit
1t to be enacted; law which factions
of the Democratic party are agreed is
the work of a monstrous trust, which
Chairman Wilson confessed in the
House, amid the applause of his con-
. Cfederates, with deep chagrin, Held
ACongress by the throat
p Doesn't Like Tariff Reform.
law of which the House of Repre-
atives was so thoroughly ashamed
they had no sooner passed it than
Nv made hot haste to seek its i'm
mediate amendment by passing supple
mentary bills which put their fairfield
sugar, al, lead, iron and barbed wire
on the free list. Under threat of still
further similar assaults on the much
disturbed and distressed industries of
the country, utterly needless of the
stupenduous ruin they had already
wrought. a law which the president
condemned before its passage, and from
which. when passed, he withheld his
appneyal. A law which was character
ized ybefore its passage, by the greatest
A,1e senior senator from New York. as
~ violation of Democratic pledges
and principles" and which was de-
nounced by the official head of the gov
eminent as such, as an act of party
perfidy and party dishonor:" that if
the House should at last concur in it,
''they would not dare to look the people
of the country in the face" and which
the executive still condemns since their
surrender, as the livery communism of
pelf.'
Afraid of the Failure.
The president in his letter to Con-
gresham Catchings said 1.-THE millions
of our countrymen who have fought
bravely and well for tariff reform not
accepting this bill should be expected
to continue this struggle, boldly chal-
aenging to open warfare, and constant
! ly guarding against treachery and half
heartedness in their camp" and who,
while he permitted the bill to become a
lw, lacking the moral courage to veto
If the country were disposed TO
4eept this bill as final and could per-
Santly adjust business to it, the
NSty in power would not have il so.
Thev have so declared with boldness
and unanimity. This means, unfor-
tunateiy, a constant agitation until the
4th day of March, 1895. at the least,
and for two years longer after that.
unless the people in the congressional
elections this year make the House
Republican, in which event no further
Wrecking of our industries or interior
ence with the labor Of our people can
occur during the administration of
President Cleveland. What will your
verdict be?
Grows Irritable.
Governor Mckinley then gave a his
toy of tfhe new tariff legislation. He
ald.<16e bill that passed the House
vf&d have created, according to the
estimates he had seen of its revenue
raising power, a deficiency of from
$40 O,g. 600 to $50, DOC, 600 The "self-con-
sfituted adjustment committee of the
Senate. to which the bill was intrusted
after it came back from the Senate
finance committee was unknown to
the constitution, unauthorized by the
rules Of the Senate, or by party caucus,
tradition or custom. The manner of
8 the making of the bill should condemn
ct.
at was traded through" without
regard to principle, public policy, pub
lie interest Or public morals.
The adjusting committee went
through the whole list Of senators very
maternity. They gave Senator Murphy
nm, duty on collars and cuffs; they gave
senators from Tennessee, Alabama,
Aginia and West Virginia, the duty
OF coal and iron ore; they gave to the