The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-14
that if there is any good in it the only way o

that il there is any good In 1t the only way O
get at it is 10 give 1t chance.
VI course business in this country must re.
Vive TO some small degree II we can have peace.
IL cannot stay where il is now. Unl-ss Ameri-
can enterprise is dead. and that can never be,
we shall have struggles over wages and less
ened profits and increased competition to con-
tend with, aud whatever failures TO protect
there are In This bill will find themselves Out.
mat much hurt will come, that wages viii not
again reach their former level, do not doubt:
oui we shall learn at the costly school OF ex-
perience, and perhaps learn enough to pay the
cost OF tuition. We shall learn among other
| things TO avoid the chairman of The Ways ana
| Means Committee and his entire school, as men
VINO are pursuing bYgone dream. Did YOU
notice how that gentleman adorned his last
ADDRESS by an outDurst of enthusiasm which
showed how much his head was actually I'm the
| clouds? cite 1t not because il Is of much i'm.
poftance, but simply as showing leadership as
| We have ii now.
"The battle for tariff REFORM" said he has
| been wonderful and inspiring"
l well emember the close of that contest
| when, TO use the language OF the Democratic
Times OF Chicago the members OF the House
| Democracy had been "morally and leg
| isialiyely whipped" l remember well
how every time 1 rose that day I
thought how much they looked like a grain.
Fl Id devastated by hailstorm. They were
devastated not by US for they had 100 ma
| jority. bur by themselves. | little thought I
should live TO hear that the scene was ''inspir-
| Ing" Wonderful 1t was, indeed but inspiring
| never. PERHAPS the orator. when he used both
| words, was not thinking OF that scene. but OF
the brilliant dinner in London, where his legs
| were under British mahogany and he was
cherred by the applause OF real friends.
Perhaps, however, he meant to refer TO the
condition OF this coentry during the last year
and half Perhaps this wonder and inspira-
tion came from the deserted works shops the
! impending cut OF wages the struggles between
| employers and workmen Perhaps in cloud
| lano there Is something cheering in the fact
| tbat only HOO miles of railway were built the
| first nine months of this very year of our
Lord. the lowest record for thirty years. In
! The last six months, on portion only of its
| lines, the great Pennsylvania Railroad has
| spent S5000,O00 less than usual In its ex-
| penses. The fact means that five million
dollars less has gone out 10 wages to the
trainmen, in new buildings, In extensions in
engines and cars; In word, the wOrkingmeu
OF this country have lost that vast sum- Per-
haps when you add all the suspensions to ex-
pendiiures on the part OF all the roads there is
something so truly inspiring TO the reformpr
that he really long to stir up strife so as to
proloDg such a lovable condition of human af-
fairs. But this world. welded to material
BoOu, VIII tuluh OlDeIWIS6 ana long Tor The
better days gone by.
Education is the necessity Of the human race
Not book e0ucation, but education in the work
ing of human affairs. My best consolation in
these times is that some lessons are being
learned, not out of books, but in more solid
fashion, out OF experience. Nor is the lesson to
be learned only by those who voted wrong
| Some of US who voted right have much TO un.
deIstand as TO the foundation of things. Per-
haps the knowledge which comes o us comes
| fast enough for practical life. When, years ago,
we defended protection on the ground OF infant
Industries, we stated good grounds for the
| establishment OF manufactures, but IL to-day
protection, which Is not taxation of the many
| for the one. but merely method of securing to
everybody IN America the markets OF the coun.
try, was not the best method of distributing
| among tile people the God-given gifts to enter
prise Of which our country is SO full ] should
not be for II. For if aid not believe that pro-
lection was only method OF making this coun-
try. IN The admirable language or Senator
Jones, do all its work." should not demand