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! WESTEKN PAPEKS PLKASK COPT.
On the 25th day of October, 1S93,
; Hon. Thomas 13. Reed of Maine ad
: dressed the republican club of Mas
: sachusetts, at a dinner given at
: Music hall at Boston. The lioston
: Herald of October 20 (the next day)
gives a report of the speech, to
; gether with the applause which
; greeted the speech. The following
: extract from the speech, as reported
: in the Ilerald, is of interest to the
i west:
: "And let me tell you right here
: that there is no state so deeply in
! terested as the state of Massachu
i setts. Applause. It it were not
; for itscoudition I should say: Let
these men try it. Let us have a
: lesson of free trade burned into the
: quick, and then let us have peace.
: Applause. But when Massachu
: setts sits around to mourn her des
: troyed factories, her ruined indus
: ties, her ruined machine shops, she
; sits around to mourn for eternity;
i for if they are once destroyed the
omnivorous west will do the mann
. facturing for the country, f Ap
: plause. You have the start; you
: have the power; you have the
prestige. You can keep it. or you
i can throw it away, and the only way
'. in which you can keep it is by mak
I ing the voice of the majority of your
: people to be heard, and to be heard
across the country." Applause.
Uxdek the mulct tax law of Iowa
liquors cannot be sold with a license
according to law, but they can be sold
without a license, according to law.
The Australian ballot law did not sus
tain its reputation in Iowa last fall.
Mr. McKinley is probably not
alarmed about his presidential boom
ou account of the eulogies now appear
ing in the republican press of David It.
Hill as the champion of American in
dustry. Mr. McKinley knows a thing
or two.
At last the putrescent Breckinridge
l'llard case has drawn it slimy length
to a disgraceful end. The jury has
found for the plaintiff, awarding her
5 l-r.H)0 for the damage done to her
rather elastic affections by the gray
haired o!d rogue whose licentiousness
ami life of lies have dishonored himself,
a great name, a trusting constituency
and his high position. The I'ollard
sued for $50,000, but the jury ev idently
considered that she had put too high a
price upon affections which, according
to the evidence, bad been hawked
about for some time before they came
into the blighting possessions f Breck
inridge. However, 550,000 or $15,000,
the verdict eternally dams W. C. P.
Breckinridge and utterly blasts all
chances of a future political career
Tor him, had not his cowardly and in
decent tactics of defense already done
so. The Pollard stands small show of
ever collecting the price of her dis
honor, and her so-called "vindication"
would be an honester woman's curse
They both have earned the contempt of
the community they have disguited and
insulted, and their blighted futures are
more than well deserved.
REEIVS SECTIONALISM.
In explaining his Boston speech Tom
Heed again announces his belief that a
reduction of the tariff will cause maiiu
factures to move to the west. "
pointed out," he says, "that the Wilson
bill would destroy their New England
manufactures, and that when once
destroyed they would be rebuilt nearer
the market and nearer the materials
Twice the republican leader has
made against the present protective
system the charge of sectionalism. He
has said that the system is for New
England. Its existence has prevented
the distribution of manufactures by
natural processes of growth. It has
tended to keep capital in the northeast
and to hinder the diversiGcation of in
dustries in the west. Free trade,
otherwise known as the equality of
laws, would compel industries to ad
just themselves to materials and mar
ketsin other words, to become of the
highest benefit to Americans and man
kind.
If there is a junction of west and
south against the northeast, Mr. Heed
has supplied a sufficient explanation.
He is the author of an appeal to sec
tionalism which the seuth and west
cannot misunderstand. If the McKin
ley system lives to suspend the laws of
nature and restrain the most useful de
velopment, the west and south are
foolish if they do not unite to protect
themselves.
CAPITAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington, D. C, April 9, 1894.
Tariff reform received a deathly blow
in the house of its friends, or of those
who profess to be its friends, today.
David B. Hill was the traitor who gave
it a Derce thrust in the back, whereat
all the McKinleyites are shouting with
joy and express strong hopes tonight of
defeating the Wilson bill. Under the
guise of an argument against the in
come tax, which he assaulted with all
the force possible, he covertly assailed
tho democratic position, and asserted
that high wages in America were the
result of tariff taxation just what the
McKinley high taxers have been as
serting and the democrats have denied.
His plea against the income tax was a
tirade of abuse of the measure, and a
demagogic appeal for the support of the
rich who would have to pay taxes under
it. Mr. Hill demonstrated an utter
want of fairness, and that he is of a
cheap and narrow order of public men
who are the airs of statesmen, but
have noue of their candor, fairness or
regard for the public welfare. He
should be denounced from one end of
the land to the other as a traitor to
democratic principles, whose mission it
is to give aid and comfort to the enemy.
His speech further demonstrates that
it is folly to look to the east for any aid
in securing the reforms to which the
democratic party is pledged. The
democratic senators who represent
New York, New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland are as strongly opposed to
the doctrine of a tariff for revenue only
as are the republicans of New England
and Pennsylvania, and may be de
pended on to vote with them when it
comes to a show-down. Watch them
and see if this prediction does not turn
out to be true. Hill recited his speech
from printed slips, and lacks much of
being the orator 1 imagined him to be.
He bad a fine audience, and held it
quite well to the end.
The efficacy of the civil service sys
tem is strongly vindicated in the case
of Samuel V. Proudfit, assistant attor
ney general in the department of the
interior, who was appointed lo a
subordinate position from (ilenwood.
Iowa, twelve years ago, and who by his
close attention to his duties has re
ceived several promotions. 1 knew him
years ago as a young lawyer of fair at
tainments, good character and studious
habits. He came here during the Gar
field regime, and his training has stood
him well in hand since. He is now
recognized as an authority on all mat
ters affecting public land titles, and is
a perfect encyclopedia on the decisions
of the courts on land claims. He re
sides with his family at Falls Church,
a Virginia suburb of this city, wheitjl
spent a Sunday very pleasantly recently,
talking over old times and politics in
western Iowa. If all government of
ficials were as honest, as capable and
as true to a sense of duty as S. V.
ProudQt, the public service would be
much improved.
A branch of Coxey's army of the un
employed, numbering 41 men, arrived
in town Saturday night and they were
promptly arrested and spent the Sab
bath in jail. They were arraigned this
morning and were all discharged for
the reason that it was only shown that
they were poor men in search of work.
Several were union printers and the
printers' union took care of them at
once. Mrs. Belva Lockwood and an
other lady took them from the court
room to a restaurant and gave them a
good breakfast.
The werk of the census bureau Is
approaching completion. Twenty
seven of the clerks were discharged
Saturday a few women among them.
Judging from appearances whenever I
have had occasion to visit the bureau
a good many more women clerks, and
some men, too, could be spared without
detriment to the service, for they ap
parently put in most of their time in
idle talk, while the efficient ones do
the work. Thos. II. Gillan of Auburn,
Neb., who was appointed a clerk in that
office last January at the instance of
Mr. Bryan, has already been promoted
because of his dilligence and excellent
work. He was formerly clerk of Ne
maha county.
An electric railway company has re
cently been chartered which proposes
to put in a line between this city and
Baltimore, pledging to run its trains at
the rate of 100 miles an hour, and they
are already tearing up the pavement
of C street from the B. & O. depot
northeast, and putting down their
rails. They propose to carry passergers
at $1 the round trip.
The base ball fever is on now, and
there are games at several parks every
day except Sunday. The Washington
league team proposes to actually con
tend for the penant this year, and will
not be content to take its place at the
foot of the score, as it has done in for
mer years.
Local sports are badly demoralized
because congress has decreed that
there shall be no pool-selling on races
in the district hereafter. But congress
is inexorable, acd those who want to
bet must do so at the tracks.
I was sorry to hear of the defeat of
the democratic city ticket this year.
From Gutsche down it seemed to me to
be a good one. Better luck attend the
next effort. O. W. S.
IteeU'a lluuitliatlnn.
Washington, I). C. April 11,1804.
The great big New Englander who as
sumes to boss the republican minority
in the house, and who delights to lord
it ever every new member who may
venture into the arena of debate, to
wit, Mr. Heed, was never so discon
certed and at a loss for means to ex
tricate himself from his dilemina as he
was placed by the member from the
first district of Nebraska yesterday
evening.' The Journal, has for some
time been printing an extract from
Reed's Boston speech of last October,
in which he appeals to the selfishness of
Massachusetts to unite to maintain the
advantage which the unjust and un
righteous tariff laws of the past thirty
years have given her, or she would
find that the "ornuiverous west" would
do the manufacturing for the future.
Mr. lteed has recently published a
letter which he wrote to a man in Kan
sas, in which he attempted the explain
the Boston speech, and in doing so he
accused "a western congressman" of
going 2,000 miles west - to Denver to
criticise that remark, instead f doing
it here in the house where he could be
met. Mr. Hryan yesterday, therefore,
got the floor to place himself ight be
fore the country, to put Mr. lteed on
the record and to give him a chance
to explain himself before the
house, as best he could. And every
body admits that he did a very com
plete job of it. He put not only Heed's
Boston speech, but his Kansas letter
into the record, and then showed that
the latter was inconsistent with the
former, that his memory was bad, and
that his explanation didn't explain. It
left him in the position of appealing to
the selfishness of Massachusetts
against the west and the ignorauce of
the south, while he won the applause
of the enthusiastic democrats by show
ing that according to Mr. Heed if the
"omniverous west" had equal chances
with the east it would do the manu
facturing. In speaking of Mr. Bryan's effort a
prominent New York member said "he
simply drove Heed into the ground and
run over him." Another member said:
"I never saw a man so completely
frustrated and humiliated as Mr. Heed
was as Bryan ent on and when he at
tempted a reply." An Illinois member
said: "1 never thought such a thing
could ever be, but I was really sorry
for Heed, and he had much better
never attempted a reply. He would
have been better off if he hadn't said a
word." A republican member from
Iowa attempted to excuse him by the
remark that "Mr. Heed should never
have made that Boston speech. It was
a very unfortunate one for him and the
party as well."
These comments give a good idea of
the result of the controversy, and the
affair will no doubt have the effect of
showing up the motive which animates
the tariff, and will make the doughty
man from Maine a little more careful
how be discloses the objects for which
the tariff is promoted. The democrats
are jubilant at Reed's discomfiture.
C. W. S.
SO M E RECENT ELECTIONS.
The general gains made by repub licans
in nearly all the recent elections
have not been much of a surprise to
anybody who has watched the trend of
political events for any length of time.
To all such observers the effect of hard
times upon the party in power is per
fectly understood. Besides, the dis
satisfaction of democrats with the
tardy movements of their representa
tives, and the indisposition of some of
them to carry out the mandate of the
platform, is well understood.
At the same time it can not be de
nied that several of the late elections
have had results that are utterly illogi
cal, not to say absurd. They are an
illustration of the foolish things that
people are likely to do when they lose
their tempers, or when misled by the
artful misrepresentations of dema
gogues. For example, the municipal elections
in various Wisconsin towns, including
Milwaukee, showed general republican
gains. Such elections are always more
or less affected by local issues, but these
the republicans tried to dodge to a
great extent. They put to the front
the lying pretense that the democrats
had thrown laborers out of employment
and paralyzed business, and called upon
the voters to express their opinions
upon this question. There is no reason
to doubt that this had its effect upon
many people. Then the A. P. A. com
plication enured altogether to the bene
fit of the republicans, and, in fact, was
one of the great elements of their
strength.
It is said that the German Lutherans
in Wisconsin, who were attracted to
the support of the democrats a few
years ago by the passage of the Bennett
law, were in the recent election in
duced by their hatred of the Catholics
to go back to the republican party.
This was one of the absurdities of the
campaign. The intolerance of the re
publicans and their disposition to in
terfere with the rights of conscience
drove the Lutherans, who were mostly
republicans, and such Catholics as be
longed to the party, into revolt, and
both elements made common cause in
favor of religious liberty against the
party of intolerance and proscription.
By this combination the repeal of the
obnoxious law was accomplished. It is
amazing that with this experience fresh
in mind the German Lutherans should
so readily have joined in a campaign of
proscription against their late allies
It is true they had accomplished the
purpose for which they left the repub
lican party; but that party is still the
same proscriptive and intolerant or
ganization that it was before, as was
shown in its coalition with the A. P. A.
in the late campaign. It only wails
an opportunty to renew its war upon
the Lutherans. The latter by renew
ing their allegiance to the party which
proscribed them have shown them
selves wanting in discern u ent as well
as in gratitude.
In Rhode Island, where the defeat
of the democrats was so signal, there
was every reason in morals and logic
why they should have won. It was a
local election, in which national poli
tics was not primarily involved. On the
other hand, there was a local issue
there of tremendous importance no
less than the right of the people to
govern themselves. Last year the
democrats carried the state by a plu
rality of 185 and obtained a majority
of eight in the house, while the repub
licans had a majority of one in the
senate. Under the majority rule then
prevailing there was no choice by the
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C. E. WESCOTT.
people, and the election devolved on
the legislature. As thedemocrats had
a majority on joint ballot, the republi
can senate refused to join the house in
an election, and the old officers held
over. This year both parties nomi
nated the tickets of last j ear. Under
the circumstances every man in the
state who believes in the right of the
people to rule should have voted I he
democratic fcket. But they did not.
The democratic vote appears to have
been about the same as last year, but
the republicans added some J.OOO to
their vote, and thus won a sweeping
victory.
Of course, the neglect of local issues
of such magnitude as these is not to le
justified in local elections. But it illus
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times ot business depression, especially
when the action of the majority in pro
viding measures of relief has been
tardy. The lesson to be derived from
these disasters is so plain that be who
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