The herald., 1896-05-31

with the gag of syndicate which owns
him and paid for him body and soul and
bread and butter, and which is to here
after drive him like a horse-were Nc
kinley / say, today in the White house,
could you pass tariff bill?
Wouldn't it crash on the reef of sill
yer and sink in the waters of the SEN
ate as the Dingley bill has done?
Haven't the Republicans both branches
of congress on joint and separate bal
lot. and haven't they failed utterly,
fiatly and absolutely in their tariff ef-
forts?
What will be the change in congress-
ional conditions during the two years,
the four years to follow next March 8,
that is to pave the way to all this tariff
protection of which one hears so much
from your uninlightened lips Who is
to leave the senate and who is to come,
TO make easy victorious sailing for Nc
Kinleyism, where Dingleyism-th terms
are synonymouS-met such shattering
wreck?
Let me say word to you who eXalt
your horns and deafen quiet and better
folk with your uproar-unholy as insane
as to what tariff bills will pass and
what protection" will flourish when
Mckinley is king.
And let me particularly say it to those
purblind people of manufacturing sort
who are digging up their dollars to fur
nish a Mckinley war.
There Will not in the next four, and for
aught that can be seen in the next forty
years. tariff bill go through congress
except at the price of free coinage. No
free silver IS to /, no protective tariff
You will find my words true. IScident-
ally, don't personally care a bla.k cart
ridge about 1t. | can live with protection,
or live with free trade; / can live with
free silver, or live with gold. and find a
nightly place to spread my blankets.
But / repeat, this century will never see
d tariff change except it be hand in hand
with free silver, 16 to l. The bandits of
silver have you on the hip. Tariff is
down in the arena and you don't know
it. Protection is captive to silver, and
it will pine it's black life away behind the
bars unless you pay it's ransom.
Just week ag oil wired from Washing
ton that the tariff men of the northwest
We're planning a bolt at ST. Louis They
| would walk off with Nevada, Utah, Colo
RADIO, Montana and Idaho, and set up
the standard of rebellion. They would
name Teller for the presidency, and
whether they or the Populists or. the
| Democrats carried them, they would de-
| feat regular Republicanism in November
| in every state west of the Missouri
| With the Democratic party making
| clean sweep south of Mason and Dixon's
| line, the next presidential election would
| fall finally to the house of representa-
| tives. This last, however, is another
| story.
In the dispatch week ago was told
| how Dingleyism met defeat; how Teller,
Dubois, Mantle, Tom Carter and Cannon
| of the senate, Joined with the Democrats
and made a pack to run it down and
rend it.
1t was also pointed out that this as
sault on Dingleyism made as method
| of free silver 16 to war, had separated
| Dubois and Shoup, the two senators from
| Idaho, as we'll as Teller and Wolcott
| the two from Colorado. I tmade the is
sue squarely and left it to the people of
| their states to approve or censure.
| Since the dispa tch of a week ago much
| water has run under the bridge. Teller
and Dubios have been indorsed, Wolcott
and Shoup disrated and turned down.
| The two first will go to the st. Louis con-
vention to prepare and perfect the free
! silver bolt. The two others will stay at
home. The two first will, whatever the
| outcome at the polls in November, re-
| turn to the senate to do again for Nc
Kinleyism what they did for Dingley-
| ism-smite it hip and thigh; do death to
| it. Their colleagues, wiser sadder men,
| will creep faithfully in their wake; vot-
| ing as they vote. There will be more
guns aimed at protection" in the SEN
ate next session than before. Its de-
| struction will be more complete.
.
But the pressure of public opinion will
be too great for these desparadoes of
| silver"
What pressure? What public opinion ?
Teller cares no more for the bluster OF
Boston that Lodge for the bullying of
Denver. Dubois recks as lightly of the
censure of New York as would Hill of
the threats of the miners of the Gunni-
son. There's no way to avoid the result
| or win a separate way for the tariff. The
| brigands of silver occupying the trail
of legislation, have held protection up.
1t all comes to this, oh, McKinleyitz n
| Whatever the result at the convention
in ST. Louis, or the polls in November,
| you will get no protection without
granting free silver. The silver people
will meet you, Indian for Indian, and
| offer to trade beads for blankets, feath-
ers for raw hides, and they'll do no more.
And they can kill protection as often
and as long as you can kill free silver,
All this was decided at the obscure
primaries held last week in Colorado
Idaho and other regions to the north
west. The alternative was indOrsed:
mo free silver, no protective tariff. u
The assault on protection" made by
Teller, Dubois, Mantle, Cannon and Car
ter was indorsed. They were told to dc
it again.
The eastern protectionists should
nave dlteHueu u t1e carrying OI THESE
Colorado and Idaho primaries. The
eastern gold-bugs should have attended
to the carrying of these primaries. Both
elements failed to do this and the chance
has forever gone. Now gold or ''protec-
ton" is to be sacrificed. Silver has beer
permitted bull dog grip on each, ant
one or the other it can surely drag down
The history of the next congress will Sc.
lect and show the victim.
And now, most vociferous yet feather.
headed McKinleyite, what think yol
your manor rather the ring which has
bought him-wOuld do? Would he give
silver to gain protection? 1t is my view
he would; the ring would tell him to
And those banks and those businesse.
which fear free SILVER might better pom
der the future in this behalf.-Alfret
Henry Lewis in New York Journal
Before the Health Ordinance