The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-17
STATUS OF THINGS EASr-OF GOOD
OMEN TO Los ANGELES.

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The wrath OF the people of the United
States will be great against any party or
individual who shall be instrumental in
obstructing the passage OF tariff bill
at an early date. The doom OF the fill
busterer will be political death. This is so
well understood in tbs east that dearly as
the Republicans would like to block
Democratic legislation they are afraid
to appear in downright factionsl atti-
tude, and their protestation of being
opposed to filibustsrng is one of the
tiresome refrains of the current sessions
of the senate.
The general feeling at the east is that
any tariff is better than the present state
of uncertainty. Today any business
man seeking to make purchases has his
option of two prices, one for instant,
and the second for July delivery, at
which later date il is supposed that the
tariff will have been enacted into law.
1t is thought that with the formulation
OF any tariff business will be resumed
on large scale. 1t is conceded that
the stocks of all kinds OF manufactured
commodities have been exhausted. As
a consequence, an immediate revival
is expected if manufacturers and
business men are allowed to know
where they stand. The reaction against
the Democratic party that has charsc-
terized the recent elections ia referable
not 30 much to the fact that the Democ-
racy was known to contemplate serious
reductions in the tariff ss to the dilstori-
ness of their action. II President Oleve-
land had called an extra session OF con-
gress for the middle of April of last year
to carry out the pledges of the Demo-
cratic party as to the tarif-pledges SO
explicitly made at Cnicago-he would
now be known as statesman; and the
panic of last year, which has not yet
spent its effects. would never have been
heard of. That Democratic Man of
Destiny" preferred, however, to call
special session late in the summer to
violate the pledges of the party with
regard to silver. and he allowed the OPP
portunity of political lifetime to pass
by unimproved.
The whole people OF the United States
are now asking an opportunity to go to
work-to go to work at almost any
wages or under any conditions. The
settlement of the tariff issue will afford
that opportunity. 1t by no means fol-
lows that while all classes, both manu-
facturers, business men and opeI atives,
are eager to gee the wheels of industry
once more in motion, they are ready to
oondone unwse or unjust or special leg
islation. On the contrary. A year of
wasted opportunities for both capital
and labor has left resentments that
will not soon be healed. Bnt there is
general willingness to postpone both
controversy and reprisal to later date.
An outright failure to enact some aort OF
a tariff measure between now and the
opening of the next session of the
present congress would produce a down
right revolution next winter.
All over the United States there ia a
cry of distress and note of msnufac-
turing and business paralysis. II is
heard from tae north and from the
south, from the east and from the west.
1t -everberates from Maine to the Gulf
and from the Atlantic to the Pacific
ocean. 1t is heard from the interior
and from the lakes and from the cities
on our great rivers. Chicago, enriched
by her great fair, even reechoes this
business threnody. Nothing like it has
ever been known in the United States
before. A gloom pervades this country
such as covered Germany when Goethe
wrote his "Sorrows of Werther." There
is limit neither of height nor depth,
width nor length nor of any form OF ex-
tension to this great business bsnumb-
ing blue devil possession OF the
industries and the people of the United
States.
Under such circumstances people
seek such consolation as they may.
Angelehos may console themselves a
vast deal. 1t will be excepted from the
gloom which encompasses the rest OF
the country. 1t is msasurably so now.
The east is perfectly conversant with
the fact that, away Off on the Pacific
coast. there is an incompatible region
where, added to all the climatic attrac-
tions OF Nice and Mentone, illimitable
possibilities in the line of commerce
and production exist. The writer was
surprised to find that, during recent
visit to the east that embraced many
leading cities. the name OF Los Angeles
was on the tongue of everyone be met.
In 10 city is this more the case than in
Chicago. The already considerable