LOGIC, XOT THEORY. WHY MR. BRYAN'S TARIFF REFORM SPEECH COMMANDED ATTENTION Me Madt No C onccmloa to Protection, ml Win Above Ilenortlng- to Buncombe. Although a New Member His Time Was rlenlnl from One Hour lo Three. W. J. Dryaii, tho able yontig repr entative of the Nebraska Drmocracr, snccled in gniiring anl holding the attention of the lioncc on the tariff qnofl tion for three honrs. The time allotted to him was one honr, lint when that had expired Republicans and Democrats joined in r.rging him to proceed, and even after he had consumed thrice bis allotted honr they shouted to him to ro on. This was the more remarkable from the fact that Mr. Bryan in a new member, and his speech c f Wednesday was his flirt on the floor of the honw. So far as one can Judge from the brief report of his speech, Mr. Bryan commanded attention not only because he is a pleading and t-hwjnent speaker, bnt abo b-c-atite lie took a radically right position on the tariff question a position which could 1 defended with consistency and irresistible logic. He succeeded localise he was master of bis subject and scorned to stultify himself by addressing stuff to Buncombe connty that was inconsistent with sound doc trine. It does not appear that Mr. Bryan made any concession to protectionism by saying that grand larceny was wrong and petty larceny right, or that robbery as a chief purpose was wrong and in jurious to the victim, while incidental robbery was right and lneficial to the victim. It does not apear that he tol erated in the least the false pretense of the McKinley sophists that 'protection'' is for the benefit of lalxr, anil that "pro tective"' taxes equal to an unknown dif ference in wages are necessary for the defense of the workman and the indus tries of the country. Regarding this false pretense he quoted the statement wade by the high tariff champion, Henry Clay, fifty years ago, that it costs the same to manufac ture a yard of flannel in this country that it did in England. He also quoted the statement made by Mr. Blaine in 1 in an ofiiciul report to congress that the difference in wages in this country and in England in the cotton manufac turing industry was more than compen sated by the greater efficiency and the longer hours of labor of American op eratives. He also quoted J. B. Sargent, the head of the greatest shelf hardware manufacturing concern in the country, who was once a protectionist, as saying that while wages are higher in this country thou in Europe the actual la bor cost of manufacturing hardware U mot greater in this country, and that ader free trade he could pay the same wages and compete successfully against European manufacturers in the markets of the world. Thus, by the testimony C tho great light of the high tariff party, Mr. Bryan exposed the falseness of the pretense that tariff taxes are necessary to compensate the laborer in America for differences in wages and to maintain the American standard of wages. Mr. Bryan seems to have planted him self on solid ground from the first, and to have staid there to the last, leaving no weak spots in his defenses through which the McKinleyites could make breaches. No doubt that is one reason why he commanded such close atten tion. The man who is radically right and who dares to accept the conclusions necessarily following from his right premises always commands attention and respect. Mr. Bryan may be criti cised for supporting a bill which pro vides protection for a class of manufac turers, but he can reply that it is not in consistent for a hungry man to accept a slice of bread when be can get no more, and that it would be foolish for him to reject the slice, because he couldn't get the whole loaf. Or, when a workman cannot collect all the wages due him it ia better to accept a part than to go hungry. Chicago Herald. The Cur May Go as a ClneeU Ex-Speaker Reed is reported to be en gaged in the occupation of setting up the pins for sending himself as a dele gate to the Republican national conven tion. Mr. Blaine's admirers still insist that Mr. Reed shall remain at home. Perhaps a compromise might be arranged so as to allow Mr. Reed to go as a guest. That seems to be the popular caper this year. Boston Herald. Candidate lo a Pickwickian Sense. Mr. Alger says he cannot withdraw from the contest for the presidential nomination without "shirking his duty." Well, the withdrawing will be done as painlessly as possible in the convention. Blair, too, means to bold on to his light ning rod till the storm is over. New York World. A Possible Claim Disposed Of. Really and truly, Mr. McKinley did not cause the enormous crops of the past season. Mr. McKinley would be the last man to do anything to prove that there is not a home market for the American farmer. Louisville Courier Journal. They Ought to lie Withdrawn. Senator Cullom has withdrawn from the presidential race, but his pictures are still appearing in the newspapers. The pictures are really what the senator should withdraw. New York Adver tiser. A Dangerous Combination. If Tom Piatt and Jerry Rusk are against the administration, the adminis tration has somethiug to fear. Tom and Jerry can floor the opposition if they get on the inside of it. St. Louis Republic, From Ocean to Ocean. Extremes meet the Democrats have carried Portland, in Maine, and Seattle, in Washington, both Republican cities, by satisfactory majorities. Philadelphia Record. TAXES AND PRICES. The False I(rnitonlir of the Devotees of the Protection fallacy. universal business stagnation has forced down the prices of cotton, wool, iron and other staple articles below the average for many year, wvl some of the more reckless protectionist journals. willing to impose upon the credulity of meir readers, nave ascribed the brevail ing cheapness to the operation of the McKinley tariff. As the tariff could le t.f no advantage unless it should increase the price of manufactured stuffs, ami ait the drop in prices in foreign markets has been concurrent with depreciation here. no one has been deceived into th?1lief that high tariffs bring low prices except the dupes who are the victims of their own ignorance. Of this class, evidently, is Mr. J. T. Williams, who writes to The Record from Charlotte, Mich., how much cheap er goods are in l'J3 than they were in 19, and says that he has heard "that cotton ties, now made exclusively in this country of steel, are selling 20 per cent, less than when they were on the free list." Under the tariff of 13 cotton ties were not free; they paid a duty of 35 per cent ail valorem. The duty is now 1 cants per pound on ties in a finished or partly finished state. But Mr. Williams is evidently ready to be lieve that the process of taxing an article tends to cheapen it, and he is also will ing to ascribe to beneficent taxation the effects of overproduction, stagnation and sweeping commercial disaster. How is it possible to deal with the Willinmses and to lift them from the depths of protectionist superstition? Philadelphia Record. Not a MalUtlral Congress. Our esteemed contemporary, the Phila delphia Telegraph, is disposed to blame the present house of representatives be cause it hasn't devoted itself to the task of trying to pile up statistics. "What has been done dnring the winter?" asks this Philadelphia mourner. "What is likely to be done in the immediate fu ture?' What is necessarv to be done except to pass the appropriation bills and keep them down to economical fignres? Tho house will consider the tariff question thoroughly. There has leen and will be plenty of discussion. The countrv is not pining for legislation. In fact, it suffers from too tmv.-h legislation. But even if under nnd not over legislation were the rule, the house could accom plish little, the senate and the presi dency being in Republican hands. The house is all right. The country remembers from the example of the bil lion congress how dangerous, how med dlesome and how expensive is a congress run on the theory that a pile of legisla tion is a good thing. The more conver sation and the less legislation there is in congress, the better, usually, and the cheaper for the people. The Fifty-second congress is all right. New York Sun. High Tariff I. a Fiction. The Republican campaign managers in Washington are credited with cir culating a "tariff novel" as part of a campaign of education. The people, however, have finished their education in that branch of instruction. They know the tariff better than a book. It was appropriate, though, that a work of fiction should have been the chosen means of propagandists Exchange. The Republican Brand of Harmony. Can it be true that the president is conducting the correspondence in the Behnng sea matter because he does not agree with Mr. Blaine? And yet he is insisting on the theory that the Behring sea is closed, while Mr, Blaine abandon ed that contention long ago. New York World. Where, oh tVheref There is great astonishment all over the republic at the charges of corruption brought against officials of the federal courts in Boston. If Boston Republic ans cannot be trusted where are we to look for the right sort? Louisville Courier-Journal. Grandfather's II at or Grandson's Collart Editor Halstead suggests that all the delegates to the Minneapolis convention wear faithful copies of grandfather's hat. Is not the Harrison collar a suffi cient badge of their political order? St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Wherein Tracy I Unavailable. Secretary Tracy would make a very popular run u ing mate for President Harrison, but his bank account is not quite up to Mr. Morton's. This is where he would fail to meet the emergency. Boston Herald. Mo Barrel, No Nomination. Vice President Morton seems to be lost to sight politically, though dear to memory. It is said that his campaign subscriptipn in 1888 fell far below party expectation. New York Advertiser. The Irony of Fate. Senator Hoar would no doubt deeply repent his resolution for an inauguration shed were a Democrat president the first to get the benefit of it. Louisville Con rier-Journul. Mills' Advantage Over CrUp. One consolation to Mr. Mills, on his return to congress, is that he won't have to be in the same room with Tom Reed and Crisp will. Columbus (O.) Post. wm and Otherwise. The McKinley tariff is pronounced wise by a tariffite. The people of the conntry have pronounced it otherwise. Philadelphia Record. At Last Protection Pay Something. "Reciprocity is the homage which pro hibitory protection pays to genuine tariff reform, (iood for yon, Mr. Cleveland. Boston Herald. Like the Distinguished General General Alger's presidential boom ap pears to have taken a leave of absence. St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Hep.). HARRISON'S POLITICAL JOBBERY. The r.eward of .ta,g- W .,.!. Who Shield. ed "Illock-nf-'lTe" Dudley. Judge Woods, of Indi.ina, the man who shielded Dudley in the nefarious blocks-cf-fivc l-olitical game of 18, has received hi reward. President Har rison's apiintment of this man to be circuit justice has been confirmed by tho rcnate. But the confirmation was of a character t seal the president's action with the stamp of infamous political Jobbery. Ho had the debt to pay, and lesitating long he at length met tho ob ligation. But when it came to the sen ate we note with pleasure the unmistak able evidence that a few a very few, to be sure of the Republicans of that bodf eutertained a sense of honor that would not bend, even before the ignoble impor tunities of the administration. Harrison was in a tight place. A fail nre of the senate to cfirm his appoint ment would compromise him hopelessly. Something must le done. The matter was accordingly made a strict party measure, the Democrats opposing to a man. and Poffer voted with them. Nor did the administration give a full party vote, several senators alwenting them selves, not willing to oppose, but unable to stipix.rt the measure undertaken by the president. Where have we else such a spectacle? On what page of our nation's political historv is to be found a blot lilta this' A base and shameless plot for political prestige m a campaign is not alone winked at by the man who owes in part his victory to it, but that same outrage figures afresh at the opening of a new campaign, and we, the American people, are treated to the iiiMiirinir stertjirlo . cj - a - of our nation's chief executive stooping from his high place nnd, potent through his proud iosition, rewarding with hon ors the man who shielded this cowardly crime. A grand picture this the tirincinles of political party perverted, the American presidency prostituted to ignoble trick ery. The cose has had no parallel since the appointment of Wanamaker to a cabinet portfolio in consideration of his raising a catnpait'ii fund of HOO.000 for the Republican party. Columbus (O.) Post. Ruum's Refreshing Candor. If there were no other evidence, Pen sion Commissioner Ranrn's own testi mony before tho investigating commit tee would abundantly establish the charge that his administration of the pension office has been scandalously partisan and something worse. Ho open ly proclaims that he works the patron age and uses the functionaries of the bureau "for all they are worth" in pol itics, and, with a pleasing contempt for Mr. Harrison's pretenses of regard for civil service reform methods, proclaims his own defiance of them in the choice of subordinates for work. If Mr. Har rison had a whe regard for his own po litical interests he would have rid him self of Ranm many months ago. New Yotk World. A Weak Dependence. Senator Cullom has withdrawn from what he believed was the presidential race, with a recommendation in favor of President Harrison. But as the senator was not really in the race, notwithstand ing his views on that point, his with drawal leaves no gap and his recom mendation is not of great potency. If Mr. Harrison proposes to base his claim to the nomination on the fact that Cul lom has swung over to him, we greatly fear his title is defective. New York Commercial Advertiser. "Hamlet" with Hamlet Left Out. In the same breath wherewith General Alger declares himself a candidate for the Republican nomination for the presi dency he rules himself out. He says he will not open his barrel at Minneapolis. Not open his barrel, forsooth! He might as well not have opened his mouth. Without his barrel his relevancy to the nomination wonld be a myth, a mist, a mizzle, a Michigan nightmare! Phila delphia Record. Bobbing Peter to Pay Paul. According to the gleeful organs the McKinley law has turned Old World workingmen ont to starve. We must be sending them flour and grain to avert the dreadful calamity. It would seem quite as well for all concerned if these workingmen were able to buy our farm ers' grain. The policy of starving one's customers is not a large and wise one. Toledo Bee. No Inspiration In That Gonfalon. The Brooklyn Standard-Union is the only newspaper in the land to adopt Grandfather's Hat as a campaign sym bol. It carries the hat at its masthead and it must be said that, as a gonfalon, it is neither picturesque nor potent. New York Advertiser. Working I'pward. And so Prince Russell B. Harrison has been formally admitted into the press gallery in Washington. This illustrates what intelligence, perseverance and in dustry will accomplish for a young man in this land of the free. Boston Herald. Whence and Whither. Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, now sneaking in Rhode Island, says he would like to know where the money that beat bim came from. A question of equal in terest to all good citizens is where it went to. St. Louis Republic. "It Is Not the Coat," lite. Mr. Harrison should look with len iency on the man who wears a cheap coat. Many a man s wages have been reduced since Mr. McKinley's bill be came a law. Louisville Courier-Jour nal. An Involuntary Retirement. Senator Cullom says "he has not with drawn from the nresidential race." The race it was that withdrew. Columbus (O.)Post. Whv Harrison Is So Bellicose. If Mr. Harrison can get up a war b thinks he will be able to get an ine act f gates. AJtnfo Constitution. . Countless cases of female cora plaints, such as leucorrhoca, ovarian troubles, organic diseases of the uterus or womb, displacements, Bearing-down Feeling, causing pain, weight, and back ache, inflammation, nervousness, have been permanently cured by Lydia E. 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