The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-15
The QUAY We All Admire.

lite quay we All Admire.
Early last week the Bulletin of the
American Iron and Steel association,
published at Philadelphia. contained n
strong editorial tribute to Senator
Quay 10 whom 1t accorded the credit
of saving Perrsylvania's industries.
On Saturday the Manufacturer, pub
lished in the came city, supplemented
that just tribute with one even more
eloquent. most of which we now quote:
Whatever may be the faults or the. ,le-
licienc.es OF Senator Quay. the manufac-
turers Of Pennsylvania and of the coun-
try VIII not soon forget the valiant fight
made by him against the Wilson tariff
b.n. II IS wholly beyond dispute that to
his resolute and long continued exertions
Is due the fact that the Wilson tariff is not
more unfrlcndly TO domestic industry.
Some Of the most Important schedules, 1f-
fcct.nS great Pennsylvania industries,
Were 50 modified undcS the compulslon APP
pied by senator Quay, as to be deprived
Of thsir muraerous qualities The VIII
son tariff is bad enough as It stands.
Had IL passed the senate in the shape in
without the amendments particularly in
sisted upon by Mr. Quay, it would have
been so much the worse as TO have IN
alC'cd heavy damage upon industries in
which the people OF this state are especial
Iy interested. The manufacturers and
the workingmen of Pennsylvania are bet
ter on 10 the extent of many millions of
collars because Of his faithfulness; and
now, when he Is assailed upon every side,
ii is but just that an acknowledgment
should be made of the value Of his services
and OF the skill and fop,!tudc shown by
him in defending the principles of his
party and the welfare OF his constituents.
The contest for higher tariff protection
is not yet ended. 1t is to be renewed dur
ing Mr. Quay's term as senator: and his
services will again be in demand for the
defense of home industry from the assaults
of foreign capital and European cheap Ia
bor.
1t affords us pleasure to endorse ev-
cry word of this. 1t is in line with what
this journal repeatedly said at the time
of the great tariff struggle in the sem
ate. We can even say more. We can
cheerfully add our testimony as to the
efficiency of Mr.. Quay's public services
as q United States senator on many
other occasions. We do not agree with
those persons who fail to perceive in
Mr.. Quay qualities and requirements
to admire. We do not agree with those
who claim that Pennsylvania, so far as
its Junior senator is concerned. is poorly
represented in congress. We recognize
in his ordinarily abundant sagaclty and
shrewdness of Judgment points of equip
ment worth a great deal more to the
real interests of an industrial common
wealth like our own than great gifts
Of mouthy facility at speeohmaking or
than marked aptitude i'm posing, pea
cock-wise, in palatial parlors. We re-
gard Senator Quay as the one man of
all men for his place, when he will re-
main in that place and not usurp the
places of other men.
But our admiration for Mr.. Quay as
a senator does not blind us to the un-
Righteousness Of his present factional
position in the pending internecine state
contest. It is by no means inconsistent
with an utter lack of sympathy for his
unwise, and as we suspect misguided,
effort to visit vengeance upon those
who have exercised their private right
and their official obligation to differ
from him in his lamentable effort to
Delamater the city of Philadelphia, to
rulllfy the state constitution in the mat
ter OF reapportionment and to SUBJ
ordinate the governor and his official
advisers 10 the place of personal SER
wants or clerks. In these attempts Mr.
Quay Is not at his best, but at his worst.
They are unworthy of him; and If he
cannot be disuaded from them by diut
of personal counsel and friendly inter-
cession, then he must be driven from
them blythe lash of deliberately-invited
party discipline.
He will still be a United States sem
ator, and, we trust, a good one.
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cnaalinp of governmental phenomena,