The evening times., 1897-06-07
PROSPERITY'S LONG DELAY.
Former Postmaster General Wana-
maker Couusels Action.

New York, June THE Herald this
morning prints an interview with Mr. john
wanamaker, in which he says: ~ have
nothing 10 say about the President s tariff
speech at the Philadelphia Trade Winning
convention, and you cannot entice me into
conflict or undignified controversy about
1t.
Il hear that some who have only been
the Presidents friend since his election
are skillrully using his words to make enc
mics for him. Once for all, will say that
no one could persuade me that Mr.. McKin-
ley three months before and six months
after e!ecuonis not exactly the same man.
He would not bring his high office ani
hedignityofthe kingshipo 1000, 900 peO-
pie in this free country of free speech TO
make an attack on any man, much less On
one who as trustee or manager OF the
museum, was one of the hosts at dinner
given in his honor"
Stating his reasons for his recent speech
20 the business men OF Philadelphia, Mr..
wanamaker says: Il cannot SIT on Il
fence with s.irf wind blowing, and whistle
for prosperity, the vanished bird of beauti-
ful plumaee, to come back. She has been
live forever in a thunderstorm, l don't
know.
.'In these times campaign speeches are
only empty shells without kernels. How
ever wcll-meanIng, or whoever it Is who
thinks he does good by them, must be for
getting that million of worknien ana their
children are hungry. The man who looks
for bread in such speeches will not have
much 10 eat.
Tie public heart cannot he fired by
eloquence in this way just now, for the
powder Of patriotism is wet with the tears
of the suffering unemployed. Give ne
nold OF somebody's hand who Will do some
thing not talk ahoutit month after month
We ought To have a new, better tariff;
but if we cannot get it, let US settle down
on the old enc, and adjust ourselves 10
il as Lest we can. IL we cannot move out
of the old house, we might build a wing 20
il or add another story. Far better that
than veNing uncertainties.
A Republican House has been in ses-
sion since last December, and its r'ddled
hII still tosses about at the other END of the
Capitol If there is any through train
in Congress, the country would shout for
JttN 10 Stt liit hdllIl StN dbot'ih vi ~ "a
there ever was occasion TO put on special
II is now.
gathering ourselves together also on
the monetary question cannot be done
too soon There is no use sending delega-
tiuus To foreign nations until we have some
definite proposition To make. Let au-
iluliry tie given Immediately for the none
tarv convention to determine what the
United States wants to do on the money
question, and let us 20 after il ana get il
as promptly as possible
IF - be impatient is unpatriotiC, when
the delays are SO pTotTaCted and seemingly
unnecessary in adjusting these two great
questions uppermost in the publ ic mind, then
! must ask 70 he forgiven for miscuuntiGg
the pulse Df most Of the people that meet
There are not a few who believe that since
the war no such exigency fell upon she
country as that which preceded the election
of November, 1895.
THE spirit which moved the people then
H. stiu alive 1t viii neither be ignored nor
daIIied with The tariff, money. economy
Of expenditures, must he arranged fairly
an promptly If we are TO find conteBtmeut
or nruSDeritI' -