The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-29
After Cleveland Mckinley.

A shameless social disturber and occa-
sional promoter Of anarchy, h Neto York
World, spoke yesterday of the banquet Of
the Manufacturer Association az "a Bel
shazzar FEAST" The only conceivable object
Of the epithet IL to inflame the minds Of the
less prosperous part of the community
against the men who paid $15 each to hear
President MCKINLEY speak and to have
their dinner at q hotel which, as the
same newspaper points out in tall head
lines, cost $4,000 900. The inten-
tion Is manifestly to represent the
members Of the National Association
Of Manufactures as "plutocrats," oppres.
sors of the unfortunate, and merciless
money getters, feasting and revealing in
luxury unmindful of the handwriting upon
the wall.
Something Of the same note appears hero
as distinguished and disgraced the Hon.
GROVER C~LEvELAND's celebrated message
of 1887, wherein the President of the
United States warned the manufacturers
Of this country that unless they followed
his theories of tariff taxation ian abused
and irritated people, needless Of those
who have resisted timely and rea.
SOudpiO ICllCl, Huy hSiop uPoh -
radical and sweeping rectification Of
their wrongs" In later speeches and
writings of Mr.. CLEVELAND his impatience
with the manufacturer as a body was
manifested in even harsher~ outbreaks; as,
for example, when he told them that their
fortunes were mo longer solely the reward
Of sturdy industry and enlightened fore
sight," but that they "are largely built
upon undue exactions from the masses Of
our people" This state Of mind grew in
intensity until it eliminated in the Madi-
son Square Garden speech of July 20, 1892,
with its infamous appeal to the passions Of
the Homestead mob.
If from the point of view Of Mr.. CLEvE-
AND and his associate agitator, Mr..
JOSEPH PULITZER, the banquet at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Thursday night
was a Belshazzar feast, what was the
handwriting on the wall2
President MCKINLEY read 1t clearly and
interpreted it correctly. The letters on the
wall shone with the bright light Of conf
dence and hope; and the President who
succeeded the author Of the Homestead
speech read them thus:
II note with satisfaction your improved
appearance now" said WILLIAM MoK1N-
LEY to the gentlemen whom GROVER
CLEVELAND had denounced as conspirators
against the public veal. "Your object
now, as I gather it, is to go out and possess
what you have never had before. You want
to extend not your notes, but your bust.
ness. National policies can encourage in
dustry and commerce, but 1t remains for
the people to project and carry them on.
If these policies stimulate industrial de.
velopment and energy, the people al DO
safely trusted to carry them on"
The writing on the wall at the Waldorf.
Astoria was simply this: Better times"
Not a man there present failed to under
stand 1t. Sui what q contrast between the
President whose good fortune it is to utter
to q delighted audience just commentaries
upon this golden text, and the President
who saw In the energy n enterprise of
the American manufacturers nothing but
1.-THE communism of combined wealth and
capital" "overweening cupidity and self.
ishness," and "selfsh greed" trying to
trample the citizen to death "under an
iron heel y