The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-08-16
" ashingtOn Letter.

.Wasbinoton August 10, 1S95.-Sena-
tor Gorman is evidently letting the other
fellows do the worrying about the stu
alton in MARYLAND. He has gone for
his nsnaI August stay at Saratoga. He |
was in Washington Just before starting !
apd ssid. s.The ticket Is first class In |
evary respect and the Democratic party |
is to he congratulated. The trItiiug oh !
iections that are being raised against 1t
are no more than were to he expected.
/ The truth Is there Is less objection than
| expected. and much less than has
often risen before when tickets were
! named, and the party majority has been
| larger than usual when the votes were
! counted. / anticipate no more than the
usual amount of difficulty in carrying
| on the campaign. and look for a good
majority for Mr.. Hurst and the other
| nominees There must always be dis
appointments in politics, but the party
in the end will get together and win, as
usual | have no fear whatever OF the
result in November. Long before that
time all real Democrats will be united
for the common cause
Comptroller Bowler has heard the
arguments Ia favor of the constitution
aIity of the sugar bounty, and against
his assumption of the authority to pass
upon the constitutiOnalty of an act OF
congress, but be has not announced MS
intentions. From what has been learned
from other sources it will not be surprIs
ing should he, because OF his doubt OF
, the constitutiOnality of the original SUI
gar bounty clause of the Mckinley law,
refuse to approve the payment OF the
money appropriated to pay sugar boun-
r ties until the courts have declared the
law to be unconstitutional.
How many of the newspapers which
> make a practice of miSrepresenung the
l the acts and and intentions of the ad
ministration, both at home and abroad,
will make public the fact the United
States minister to China was the first
representative of foreign government
to demand of China, at the time OF the
, recent destruction of missionary property
f and massacre of missionaries, not only
r reparation for damage done and the
punishment OF those who did 1t, but the
fullest protection for Americans temper
X arily residing in China This demanC
l. was made in June and its effect may b'
p Judged from the recent massacre o
English missionaries, which has started
the British lion to roaring at the Chimes
= dragon at an awful rate. In that mas
o sacre not an American was killed or in
= iured, although they had a mission
II station nearby that of the English VIII,
were killed. Talk Is cheap, but when l
comes to acts this administration Is no
o behind that of any other in the hlstor.
l. of the country in protecting American
P. and American industries abroad. Tn
fairness of the Republican papers il
your vicinity can be judged by the wa.
Il they treat this Chinese incident. 1t
o brick houses to ginger cakes that mos
il of them will ignore it entirely.
Secretary Morton has more than one
shown that his ideas on public affair
l. are of the good, old Thomas Jefferson
;e Andrew Jackson sort of Democracy. II
b. has Just given another instance of il
\ Sometime ago he said to newspape
man in regard to a proposition to pay
a government bounty on agricultural pro
a ducts. ''It it Will pay to raise and e,
lie port agricultural products, there Is II
bs bounty needed And if it will not pa
no to raise and export agricultural produce
no bounty should be given" This di
not please the editor of the New YOr
periodical for whom the interview WI
ts- secured. He fixed up an answer to II
iaI secretary : words and this week NJ
Morton received proof of it. In rep
oi Secretary Morton has written him
n short letter, from which the followir
TOR paragraph, which is a nutshell statemel
MIS- OF the whole bounty question, is take
= BE kind enough to explain to yo
W. readers how the bounty is to be rails,
MS to pay the producer of agricultural pr
Re ducts for his exports, except by taxatiC
to upon the people. Has the governme
on of the United States single dollar tn
is not taken from the pockets of
"i' citizens by taxation The bounty syste
ln- is merely a modern application of ''rc
ell bing Peter to pay Paul" and there is
NC doubt of its being class legislation of [
q most vicious kind, although it is dii
cult to convince those temporarily ber
ige fitted that it is NJ.