The times., 1897-08-20

tributors a bonus OF two or three hundred
million dollars a year from now until
1901; and that. incidentally, the trusts
viii be able, willing and expect to donate
to the Republican mana cement whatever
of this plumber may be considered neces-
sary to carry the Ohio election this year
and the national elections of 1898 and
1900.
II is the peculiar belief and faith Of men
like Hanna and Havemeyer that political
principles professcd by the voters of the
nation In practical canvass are Of little
or no impcrJ, that they disappear before
the power OF corruption, and finally that
anything can be done and any party landed
in power if only one has sufficient fund
with which 10 buy leaders, ora tors and
voters. Hence the Republican business
manager and hislieutenantsa are supremely
indiifeFen 10 what the country may think
of the tariff billor anything else; they rest
easy in the conviction that they VIII have
fifty millions to spend in 1898, and, If
they need 1t, seventy Five OIL hnndred mil
lions in 1900.
Some Republicans. however, entertain an
opinion of the tariff outra ge which does not
quite agree with the views of Messrs.
Hanna, Havemeyer and others on the IN
side. This opposing opinion is voiced by
such a d~ed-in-the wool gold Republican
journal as the San Francisco Argonaut,
which says:
The Areonaut does not hesitate now to
say that the recent action OF the RepuD-
lican Administration and the Republican
Congress has been displeasing TO the vast
mass of Republican voters The tarlff
which has Just been passed was passed
at the dictation OF the trusts notably the
Sugar Trust. We have already shown In
these columns what millions the Sugar
Trust made out OF the rise in its certificates
while the Dingley tariff bill was passing
through House aud Senate. As Tor the
st statement that the Republicans did not
control the Senate the Republicans did
1 he control was ACQUIRED by peculiar
means, bat they controlled H. Senator
Allison, Aldrich's successor as 'steerer,'
practically dictated matters in the SEN
ate as Dingley did III the House. The
control was acquired by a series OF swaps,
dickers, and bargains OF which the Re-
publican party cannot be proud Stewart,
of Nevada, voted for the bill. Why?
Jones, OF Nevada, voted for the bill. Why?
Ii s freely stated in Washington that the
Administration propitiated both by GER
tain patronage in exchange for their votes;
According TO the maxim that the end
sanctifies the means, IL might possibly
| be held that any means OF passing the
tariff bill was Justifiahle IL IL was a
good bill But it was not a good bill.
II was bad bill.
The Argoaaut furt her remarks that
the situation thus created has its dan
gers: 1.-The Mills tariff wrecked the
Democratic party at the polls in 1888.
/ The Mckinley tariff wrecked the Re-
publican party at the polls In 1892.
| The Wilson tariff wrecked the Democratic
party at the polls in 1886. And the
Hanna tariff may wreck the Republican
party at the polls In 1900" Some OF
it is unnecessary here to cnticise them.
| The point is that all Republicans do not
recognize the safety OF depending en-
| tirely upon corruption and coercion In
the next struggle; but we do not ven
! ture to agree with them With mnch re
spect for the honesty and good faith
of the average bnt mistaken Republican
! voter, it is too plain that the party is
| bound hand and foot to the control of q
syndicate OF conspirators whose objecI
is the ultimate and permanent financial
and econ omic enslavement Of the Ameri
can people, and whose sole hope OF ac
complishing that purp ose lies in the
use of force and bribery.