The herald., 1896-08-22
WEAKNESS EXPOSED


A weak cause weakens its advocate
Nothing could illustrate the force of this
aphorism more emphatically than the
feeble arguments of the Republican and
former Democratic papers. OF these pa
pers none have gone more completely
TO pieces than the Los Angeles Times
The Times is no longer a newspaper. 1t
IS mass OF evasion, epithet, abuse and
misrepresentation, all of which are pit
iably weak. Take as an instance the
Times of the 18th instant
Here is a summary OF one page. The
cartoon is supposed TO be a car
feature of Bryan supported on
one side by caricature Of work
ingman in his work cap, and on the other
side by caricature of a farmer. In
this case it is of course logical to abuse
and caricature the great body of work
irsmen and farmers, as well as their
greatest champion since the days OF
Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. Then il
was a question of the black slave. Now
it is the question of the white slave.
While in thus abusing the body of the
people the Times is logical in its carica-
ture, it turns around in another part of
the paper TO urge that workingmen are
to support Hanna. Abuse alternates
with iiattery. The Times hates the voter
whom it would deceive.
An editorial entitled Mexico and
America" starts out with the confession
that Mr.. NJ. Eurieth had written the
Times letter setting forth in full the
prosperity of Mexico. The editor says
that he uses his editorial preroga tive TO
refuse to publish the letter. He then
proceeds to garble it, and on this excuse
publishes a letter against Mexico. This
letter is anonymous and bears plain
oarmarks of having been invented IN
the editors study. This like alhthat tho
Times now does, is one-sided; and rot
only Sc, but as in the above instance.
it both refuses to publish facts fur
nished it and invents a story to con-
tradict them.
In another editorial the Hoodoo says
that the Silver craze is fast dying out
Two columns off, in still another ed-
toral the dying out" is postponed for
thirty days. within thirty days the
cheap dollar rubbish and free coinage
fustian that alleged Democratic papers
have been talking about for the last six
months Will be exploded"
In one place free coinage is dying, and
on its last legs, and in another on the
same day IL is going to commence dy-
ing ard explode within thirty days.
If epithet and abuse were argument
the Times would have a strong case
with its 'craze," rubbish" and "fustian
free coinage"
Another editorial is headed "Chlna
and Free Trade" In this editorial China
is held UP as a free trade country. The
brazen earontery of this falsehood IS as
bad as its Hanna workingmen clubs
story China is the one pre-eminent
champion of protection one Of the Won
ders of the world is the great wall OF
China built to shut out the world from
ITS land side On it's ocean side China
prohibited all foreigners from trading in
its ports and besides decreed that Chi
nese vessels should be constructed with
an open stern. This made even coast
voyages dangerous and prohibited for
eign ventures because an open stern
meant death at sea. The treaty ports
Of China are the only ones where a for
eigner can trade. These We're opened
al the mouth of French and English can
non. The conditions of local taxes and
costly transportation limit trade from
these treaty ports SO that China as Il
whole is protected as It always has been.
The narrowness Of Chinese exchange is
iluetrated by the fact that ali our Chi
nese come from but one treaty port
and the villages Immediately about it.
kWdng Tung. OF Canton. furnishes Chi
nese to the world. The rest of China
has nothing to do with emigration. 1t is
as though the state of Louisiana and
New Orleans Of that state furnished all
Americans who went abroad. No illus
trdtion of the advantages and disad-
vantages of impedjments to trade is bet
ter than China. The prosperity and
growth of that populous empire is prac-
tlcally confined to the treaty ports.
Travellers elsewhere speak of shrinking
population. Where least impedimcnt IL
exchange exists there is growth anu
prosperity, and where most impedimeat
exists there is shrinkagc and decay
In another editorial the Times praises
Senator Perkins for resisting the mo
nopoly Vaccinations Of Huntington In
the same eTusicn it explains and eXcus 8,
lis resistance to the monopoly machna-
tions of Wall street. IT says with an
assertion of confidential information
that The senator's conscience, like Macs,
"was against silver, but his constituents
wanted it," Nov neither conscience nor
constituents are to decide. Hanna :
Will must be done. Poor Perkins, TIE
cards were long ago stacked against
him, but if they had not been the Hoodoo
would have finished this excellent man.
Perkins in his present political sur
roundings iS like @ fish out of water.