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I' x H.autiful and Son! Inspiring Verbal If
Y Confwttr*ary
A !> ls Unsurr»ss.d-The Inky Dark
ness Of IirUnity Will be Emb -U.shod and
Transformed Into a Golden Hilo of Inten
ts « «>e D atty'a Welcome Porta .
r.A„ lUMPTOk. Nrw York September 1
Abe Key. r. DcWItt Tabn.ge, 1*. ft,
•rend# a good part of bl> summer test here,
took fOT the subject of 1,1. Vacation Sermon
,bl_' tU,c' laatera That Will Not Stick.”
***• "Miserable comforters are ye
^on, ob ^b' 1T|' T- 3> Following la the eer
thel|-m,^.°f l * hl"' * *rc,t m,nT trial*—
the hT, or si l™ ‘b<! h’*" of f opettr.Uts
0f "ls health; but the most exaapera
r .Mug that oamo upon him was the taa
taliaing talk of those who ought to haw ay«s
patblked with him. Lcasklgg ayouud upoit
them,and weighing what they bad lald,bc At
Nwa the trot-da of my text.
\thy did Ood let aln cent* Into the worldl
It la a qucsHm I 0ft-n hear discussed, but
hcvee Satisfactorily answered. God made the
world fair and beautiful at the start. If our
first parents had not sinned In F.dcn, they
might have gone out of that garOen, and
found fifty paradises all around the earth—
Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South Amer
ica—ao mauv flower-gardens, or orchards of
fruit, redolent and luscious. 1 suppose that
when Ood poured out the tllbon and the Bid
deke', he poured out, at the (stile time, the
lludsoo and the Susquehanna: the whole
emth was Tery fa r and beautiful to look utk
on Why dl l It not stay so* tAod had tee
I "Wer to keep ba- k tin and woe. Why did He
not keen tlictn b .ck! Why not every cloud
' «-a.e, an.I every step a Jsy.and t-yery tound
tuuMe, :>i)tj[ the l{ci a loufc jubilee of sin
”‘e* Tncn *,“1 »lnle§s woroenl (iod
r*f* *"»ke * ro.e •• easily h« He cau
ifi.f R .rn.\ " s‘*» the i'l'edoHiicaiiCe
T»r tlicrnaf He can make good, fair, rip's
irult a-« well as gnarled and sour fj-wiL . Wl1?
80 much, then* that »s rotHed and sourl He
Cnn matie men rrtbiist In health. Whr, then
jrc them *o many Invalid*' Why not have
Tor nt,r whole race pcrpctuai icjsuret instead
, f.8 _tuK and to.l «nd tussle for a 11 veil
’IH• i "HI tell \ou why God let sin come
.w w mu »unu-wm?ii i uci on tin* oilier side
°f the R ver of Death. That Is the plarc
"here such questions will I e answered and
too h in\ster.es solved. He who this side that
i ver attempts to answer Ibe question, only
Illustrates bt* o#n Igtlorance und iueompe
tcury. AM I know Is one great fact, and that
'*< Hist a herd of woes have come in upon us.
Jrompllug dowu everything that Is fair aud
beautiful. A sword at the gate of Eden, and
a sword at every gate. More people under
the ground than on It. The grave yards In
vast roaj irltr. The six thousand winters have
made more scar* than the six thousand sum
meiseau cover up. Trouble has taken the
teuder heart of tins worl t In Its two rough
hands, and pinched it until the nations wall
with tlie ugnnr. If ail tho mounds of gravo
.uirds that love been lifted were jut side by
sid* you might step or. (hem and on nothing
el**\ going oil around the world, and around
again, and around tga u. These are the
frx-'s. And now I have to say that* lu n
wor d like tins, the grandest occupation Is
th.it of giving condolence, 'ibis holy science
of imparling comfort tolbc troubled we ought
all of us to stud There are many of you
who could look mound U{>ou some of jour
very best friends who wish you well and are
very intelligent, and yet be able Iruthfudv to
say to them in jour davs of trouble, “Miser*
a bio comforters arc >e all.’’
I remark, In the first place, that very
voluble people are incompetent for the
work of giving comfort Hilda*) and KllphaV
hud the gilt of language, and with their
wotds almost bothered Job s life out Alas
for these Voluble people that go among the
houses of the afflicted i nd talk, nnd talk,
uud talk, and talk! They rehearse their own
sorrows, and then they tell the poor suffer
ers that tliev Teel badly now, blit they will
feel worse after a while* Silence! Do you
expect with a thin court-plaster of words, to
heal a wound deep ns the soul? Step very
gently around about a broken heart. Talk
very softly around those whom tfod has be
reft. Hun go your way* Deep sympathy
has not much to sav* A firm grasp oi the
hand, a compassionate look, iust orta Wfifd
that means ni much us a whole dictionary,
and jou Lave given, pet-baps, all the comfort
that u soul n*ed». A man has a terrible
wound In his arm. The surgeon comes and
h.nd* It up. “Now,” he Fays, ‘carry that
arm in a sling, and bo very careful of It.
L-1 pq one touch it.” Hut the neighbors
have heard of tt:e nc€id€ut, and they come
Ip, and they say, ‘ I. t us s~e it.” And the
bandage fr pulled « ff, und this one and that
one must see It, aud see bow much It Is swol
len; and there is irritation,and inflammation,
nnd exasperation, where there ought to he
healing nud cooling. The surgeon comes In,
ami says, ‘‘What does all this mean! You
have no business to touch those bandages.
That wound will never heal unless you let It
aUine.” Ho there are souls broken down In
sorrow. What they moM want Is rest,or very
Careful and gtenti**. treatment; but the neigh
bors have of the bereavement or of the
loeW, they come in to sympathize, nnd
they &av, “Show us now the wound. What
Were his last words! Rehearse now the
whole scene. How did you feel when you
found you were an orphan?” Tearing off the
bandages here, nml pulliug them off
there, leaving n ghastly wound that the
balm of Hod’s grace had already begun to
heal. Oi» let no loquacious people, with ever
rattling tongues, go into the homes of the
distressed.
Again 1 remark, that all those persons arc
Inc mpetent to g.ve any kind of comfort who
net merely as worldly philosophers. They
come lu and sav, “Why, this is what you
ought to have expected. The laws of nature
must have their way;” and then they get elo
quent over something tliev have seen in post
mortem cx mill nations. Now, away with ail
human philosophy at such a time! What
difference does it make to that father and
mother what disease their son died off He
is dejnl, nnd It makes no difference whether
the trouble was In the epigastric ot hypo
gastric region. If the ibllosopher be of the
stoical school he will come and sav, ‘‘You
ought to control your feelings. You must
not cry so. You must cultivate a cooler
temperament. You mttst have seif reliance
self-government* self-controlan Iceberg re
proving a It>acinih for having a drop of dew
In It* eye. A viol nist has his instrument,
and he sweep* his fingers across the siring®,
now evoking strains of joy, and now strains
of sadness. He can not play all the tones on
one string. The human soul is an instru
ment of n thousand strings, and all sorts of
emotions were made to play on It. Now an
anthem, now a dirge. It Is no evidence of
weakness when one is overcome of sorrow.
Edmund Burke was found In the pasture
field with his srins around a horse’s neck,
caressing him, and some one said, “W by, the
great man has lost hls mind!” No; that
horse belonged to hls sun who had recently
died, aud his great heart broke over the grief.
It is no sign of weakness that men
are overcome of their sorrows. Tnank
God for the relief of tears. Have
you never b#en In trouble when you
could not ween, and you would have given
anything fur a good ctv ? David did well when
he mourned for Absalom, Abraham did well
when be lemoaned Harsh, C hrist did well
when h<> wept for Lazarus and the last man
I want to fee come anywhere near me when I
have any kind of trouble is a worldly philoso
oher.
Again I remark, teat tnoae persona *rc in
competent for the work of comfort bearing
who have nothing but c»ut to offer. There
are those who have the Idea that you must
pro an over tnc distressed and afflicted. There
are times in grief when one cheerful face
dawning upon a man’s soul is worth a tbou
-and dollars to him. I>o not whine over the
afflicted. Take the promises of the Gospel,
and utter them in a inauly tone. Do not he
afraid to smile if you feel like it. Do not
drive am* more hearses through that poor
soul. Do not tell him the trouble was fore
ordained; It will not bo any comfort to know
it was a million years coming. If you want
to fli.d splints for a broken bone, do not take
cast iron. Do not teil them it is God’a justice
that weighs out grief. They want now to
hear of G<>d’§ tender mercy. In other words,
jo not give them aqua forth* when they need
Valeria u.
Again I remark, that those persons are poor
comforters who have never bad any trouble
themselves. A larkspur cau not lecture on
the nature of a snow-flake—it never saw a
sno» flake; »n.l thok! people who have al
wovs lived In the summer of prosperity can
not talk to those who are frozen in disaster,
(iod keeps aged people tu the world. I think,
hw tli a very work of aympalby. Ihey have
been through all these trials. They know all
that nbl.-b aootbea. If tberc are men and
• omen here who have old people la tbe
bouse, or near at band *o that they can
,a#lT reach them, I couzratulato them.
Some of us have bad trlalt in
life and although we bare bad many friends
around about us, wc have wl-bed that father
aud mother were still alive that we might go
.nltell them. Verbal* tbey could not say
murh but It would have been such a comfort
to have them around. These aged ooea who
have been all through the trials of life know
bow to give condolence. C berlsh them; let
ihein lean on your arm—these fged people.
If wlicu you apeak to them, tbey cau not
bear just what you say the first t me, and
veil nave to say It tbe second tune, do not
say It sharply. If yon do, you will be sorry
(or it on tbo day when vou take the last look
and biush back the allverr locks from the
wrink'ed brow Just before they screw<be lid
on Blessed be God for the old people! They
mav not have so much atrength to go around,
but they are God’a appointed minister* of
comfor t to a broken heart
People who have not had trial* themaelvea
| can not give comfort to otbera. They ms?
UJk eery beaUtifUIly. and tbev tnav give * ou
i gr*At dteal of poetite sentiment, but while
bote try Is Perfume that smells sweet. It makes
a Very poor salve. If 'OU hire a grave in
your pathway, and some bod? come* and cov
er* It all over with flowers. It Is a grave yet.
Those who have not bal grief tbemseives
know not the mystery of a broken heart
They know not the meaning of chtblles«nres,
ahd the having no on# to put to b d at night,
or th# standing In a room where eterv book
and picture and door la full of memories
— the door-mat where she sat, the cap out of
which she drank--the place 'there ah# stood
t at the door and Happed her bends- the odd
Hiriires that the scribbled—the blocks she
Milt Into s house. Ah no. tou
must hsve trouble yourself before yflh
can comfort trouble In others. But o>me
sll re who hsve been bereft and ye who have
, been comfotted In your sorrows, and stand
•round these afflicted souls, and ssr to them,
“I bad that verr sorrow nnscif. God com
forted me, snd he will comfort you;” and
that wM go right to the spot- In other
words, tp comfort other!, we must have faith
In Mod, practical eiiwrlence, and good,
sound common sense,
Hht there art three or four considerations
I that 1 Wilt Wrioi this Morning to those who
ttt sorrowful and distressed, and that we
can always bring to them, hc-'Wlng that they
will effort a Tare. And the first consider*
won la, that God sends onr troub'es in love.
I often hear people In their troubles ear,
“Why, I wonder what God has acalnst me.
Thor seem to think God has some grudge
against them becauac trouble and misfortune
have come. Oh na Ito yen not remember
that passage of Scripture, ‘‘Whom the Lord
loVetft Me cbaltenethf” A child comes In
with a Very bad splinter in It* hand, and you
Ifv it) briract It It ia a »eif painful Opera
tion. The child draws back from you, hut
you persist You are going to take that
splinter out, so you take the child with s gen
tle but Arm gra«pi for although there msv be
paiti In it, the splinter must come out. And
It 19 love that dictates It. and makes vou ire
lilt My. friends, I feallv think that nearly
all our tor to* a In tills world arc only the
hand, of onr Fgthef evttactlng dome thorn.
If (111 these aorraws weie scut by . Htinles. I
would aav arm yourselves against them, end,
as Id tropical climes, w hen a tiger comes
down from the mountain* and carries off a
child from the village, the neighbor* band lo
get her and go Into the forest and hunt the
monster, so 1 would have vou, If I thought
these misfortunes were sent by an enemy,go
out snd battle against them. But no; they come
from a father sc kind; so loving, so gentle,
that the prophet, speaking of His tenderness
and mercy, drops the ideas of a father, and
says, “As one whom his mother comforteth,
so will I eomfort vou.”
Again i remark, mere la coin Tort In the
thought that (tod,by nil this process, is going
to make you useful. Do you know that those
who accomplish the most for God and benveu
hate all been under tho harrow, ffiiow mo
a man that has dt*ne northing for Christ In
ibid day in A piibllf ofr private place, who has
had no trouble aud whose [ath has b-on
smooth. Ah, no.
Again there Is comfort In the thought that
all our trouble is a revelation. Have you
never thought of It in that connection? The
man wbo has never been through ehMtite
ment Is Ignorant about a thousand things li
his soul lie ought to know. For instance,
here Is a man who prides himself on hls cheer
fullness, of character. He has no patience
with anybody who Is depressed In spirits.
Ob, It Is easy for him to be cheerful, with hls
line house, hls filled wardrobe, and well
strung Instruments of music, and tapestried
parlor, and plenty of money In tlie bunk
Waiting for a safe Investment. It is easy for
him to be Cheerful. But suppose hls fortune
goes to pieces, and hls house goes down under
the sheriff's hammer, and thA hank wl 1 have
nothing to dd tilth hls pAper. Suppose those
people who w ere once elegantly entertained at
hls table get so short-sighted that they can
not recognize hi in upon the street. How
then? Is It so easy to be cheerful ?
It Is easy to be cheerful In the home, after
the day's work Is done, and the gas Is turued
on, aud the house Is full of romping little
ones. But suppose the piano Is shut because
the fingers that played on ft will no more
touch the keys, and the childish voice that
asked so many questions Will nsk uo more
ThPn Is It so easy I When a man wakes up
and finds that his resources are nil gone, he
begins to rebel, and lie says, 4God is hard:
tio«l Is outrageous. He had no btsiness to
tlo this to me.” My friends, those of us who
have been through trouble know what a sinful
and rebellious heart wo have, and how much
God has to put up with, aud how much we
need pardon. It Is only in the light of a
flaming furnace that we can learn our own
weakness and our own lack of moral re
source.
There filSd a great deal of comfort In tho
fAOt that there Will b* a family reconstruc
tion in a better place. From Scotland, or
England, or Irciaud, a child emigrates to this
country. It Is very hard parting, but he
com-s, after a while writing bom> as to what
a gooi land it is. Another brother conies, a
sister cornes, and another, aud after a while
the mother comes, and after a while the
father comes, and now th<*y are *11 here, and
they have a time of great congratulation and
a very pleasant rcuniou. Well, it is just so
with ourfamiles: they are emigrating to a bet
ter land. Now. one goes out. Oh, how hard
It Is to part with him! Another goes. Oh.
how hard to part with her I And nnothc", and
another, and we oUrsclVes will after a while
go over, and then we will be together. Oh
what a reunion! Do you believe that? “Yes,”
you say. You do not! You do not believe it
as you believe other things. If you did.
and with the same emphasis, why, it
would tske nine-ten tin of your
troublo off vour heart. The fact
Is, heaven to many of us Is a great fog. It is
away off somew here, filled with an uncertuin
and Indefinite population. That is the kiud
of heaven that many of us dream about; but
It is the most tremendous fact in all the uni
verse—this heaven of the Gospel. Our de
parted friends are not afloat. Tho residence
in which you live is not so real ns tho rcsl
In which they stay, You are afloat, you who
do not know In the morning what wilt happen
before night. They arc housed and safe for
ever. Do not, therefore, pity your departed
friends who have died in Christ. They do not
need anv of your pity. You might as well
send a letter of condolence to Queen Victoria
on her obscurity, or to the Rothschilds on
their poverty, ■» to pitv those who have won
the palm. t)o not say of those who are de
parted, “Poor child!” “Poor father!” ‘‘Poor
mother!’ They arc not poor. You are poor
—you whose homes have been shattered—not
they. You do not dwell much With your fain
Hies in this world. All day long you are off
to business. Will It not be pleasant when \oi:
can be together all the while? If you have
had four children and one Is gone, aud any
body asks how many children jou have, do
not be 80 Infidel as to Say three. Ray foUr
one In heaven. Do not think that the grave
is unfriendly. You go Into your room, dress
for some grand entert&inmeut, and you come
forth bcMUtlfullv appareled; and the grave is
only the place where we go to dress for the
glorious resurrection, au l we w II come out
radiant, radiant, mortality having become
Immortality. Oh, how much condolence there
la In this thought! 1 exited to ace my kin
dred In heaven; 1 exited to see them as ccr
tainly as I expect to go home to day. Av, 1
shall more certainly see them. Eight or
ton will come up from the grave-yard back
of Somerville; and one will come up
from the mountains back of Amoy, China,
nod another will cotne up from the sea off
Cape Hattera*; and thirty will come up from
Greenwood; and I shall know them better
than 1 ever knew them here. And vour
friends—they may be across toe sea, but iho
trumpet that sounds here will sound there.
You will come up on Just the same day.
Some morning you have overslept yourself,
and you open your eves, and sec that the
sun Is high In the heavens, aud you say, * I
have overslept, and I must be up and off ”
So you will open vour eyes on the morning of
the resurrection, in the full blaze of God's
light, and you will sky, “I must be up and
away.” «Oo yea, you will come up, and there
Will ■ reunion, a irumiuui.imi join
family. I like what Halburton, I think it
was—good old Mr. Halburton—aaid In bis
last momenta, “I tliank God that I ever
lived, and that I have a father In heaven,
and a mother in heaven, and brothers in
heaven, and sisters in heaven, and 1 am now
going up to *ee them.’'
I remark once more: our troubles in this
world are preparative for glory. What a
transition it was for Paul—from the sllp[>ery
deck of a foundering ship to the calm pres
ence of Jesus! What a transition it wu* for
Latimer—from the stake to a throne 1 What
a traneftlon It was for Robert Hall—from In
sanitv to glory! What a transition it whs
for Richard Halter—from the dropsy to the
“saint’s everlasting rest!” And what a
transition It will l*e for rou—from a world of
sorrow to a world of joy! John Holland,
when he was dying, said. “What means this
brightness In the room! Have you lighted
the candles!” “No," thev replied, “wo
have not lighted spy candles.” Then aaid
he, “Welcome heaven!” the light already
beaming upon bis pillow. O ye who are per
secuted in this world! your enemies will get
off the track after a while, and all
will speak well of you among tne thrones.
Ho! ye who are tick now, no medicines to
take there. One breath of the eternal hills
will thrill you with immortal vigor. And ye
who are lonesome now, there w ill be a thous
and spirits to welcome you into their com pan
Ion ship. O ye bereft souls! there will l»e uo
grave-digger * spade that will cleave the aide
of that hill, and there will bo no dirge wail
ing from that temple. The river of God,
deep as the jov of heaven, will roll on be
tween banka odorous with balm, au 1 over
depths bright with jewel*, and under skies
roseate with gladness, argosies of light go
Ing down the stream to the Stroke of * glit
tering oar aud the song of angels! Hot one
sigh in thtf wind; not one tear mingling with
the waters.
“There shall I bathe my weary soul
It seas of heavenly r*-sr,
A ail not a wave of trouble roll
Across tny peaceful breast *
Too Mach for the Esilroad Man.
It’s enough if you have a passing ac
quaintance with a railroad iuau. —
Washington Critic.
__. Shall a More •»? Slade I
Ccnrlw-JaunuJ.
The position of the Democratic end
Republican parties on (he tar'll may be
likened to two groups in a colony tit
people living three thousand feet up the
side of a mountain whose total height is
la 5,000 feet. It has berome apparent to
the thinking members of the settlement
that the advantages of this location are
very "unevenly' distributed. That while
a few have pleasant locations, fertile
garden spots nnd comfortable houses, the
majority are extremely (wolr provided
for: that they have to toll harder tfrid
gather less than their more favored fel
lows, their ground is more rocky, their
houses more leakv nnd inconvenient and
their families less happy.
Their discontent an 1 rcstlesanaes hnye
led them to explore, find they And that
1.000 feet below their abode, nnd still
2.000 feet shots the level, is an ample and
rich strip of territory, where the whole
Colony roold be freely and choicely ac
commodated That by moving down
there every niftn could', at least, start
even, no matter if differing dispositions,
habits and abilities did afterwards cod
tribute to the advancement of some over
others. So the disinterested ami patriotic
members who still cling to an old tradi
tion they have imbibed, that the best
government is that whirl) secures the
greatest good to the greatest number,
propose to the aristocrats that they nil
move down the mountain aide to the
spot which S moment's consideration
will convince a reasonable mart is best for
the less fortunate and greater number of
the people.
lint the slick, prosperous and independ
ent chaps deride the Idea ami respond to
the ptoposition by denouncing the would
be movers nsvallevitcs who want to lake
the Colony down into the unhealthy plain
three thousatt-l feet below, where disease
nnd extermination would follow It is
no use to explain anil protest that no
such radical journey is contemplated or
desired, nnd that the place they would
seek furnishes all (lie benefits of a moun
tain residence, and furnishes them to all
alike. The selfish individuals only
screech "valley,’1 "swatrlp, " or perhaps
oner to go up a thousnna icet nign*,r.
where they will be enabled by incans of
their present possessions to at onco obtain
all the privileges, leaving the bulk of
their fellow citizens as badly off as ever.
To make the parallel complete, we
must suppose otlr mo intaln clan to be
living under a constitutional form of
government—and mountain districts afe
jtcculiarly the home of Democratic ideas
—and that the issue of moving will tai
left to the people. If the electors obtain
a correct and unbiased comprehension of
the question from those who are unselfish
and can have no other interest than the
general welfare "f the community, a
move will be made aud in the right di
rection. If the voters whose prosperity
is involved allow themselves to be de
luded. the existing state of affairs will be
continued So in regard to the great
question of lux ation in the United States.
Will the people keep it at its present
altitude, or will they vote to lower it?
Kemlv to Hellcat.
c< tirler Jonroa*.
The Republican platform, written by
McKinley, of Ohio, who has supplanted
Reed, of Maine as the leader of the He
publicans in the House, denounced every
attempt to revise the tariff, insisted that
should be surrendered, demanded instead
of n timed duties, highet duties to ‘chock
imports," and concluded with a promise
of free whisky. The platform has startled
ihe country. Republican newspapers
like the Commercial Advertiser, of New
York, and the Providence Journal, re
pudiate the platform The Christian
Uni 01. a religious journal e lib* 1 by Mr.
Beecher's successor, denounces it I>r..
Storrs. a Rcpubiicajn an i the most elo
quent orator of Brooklyn, says that it
will be impr 9iiblo for him to support it.
and the ibports front tile people nr# so
alarming that Cannon and Dingley ill the
lions.' sought t<> change front and substi
tute free sugar for free whisky.
Nor docs till this adequately measure
the Republican defection or fully de
scribe the alarm among the Republican
leaders.
Never before in the history of political
parties in America, has a platform been
so entirely abandoned in the first month
of the campaign.
The Republican* in the Senate, recogn
izing the utter defeat of their party iu
the House, are preparing a new line of
battle and are ordering up their reserves.
The Press, of Philadelphia, acknowledg
ing that the Mills bill would certainly
pass the House, said:
‘ The charge that the Republican party
opposes a reduction of taxation and rev
enue needed no refutation at any time,
but it is now likelv t » be most forcibly
met when the Mills bid goes i> o the
Senate. The Republicans of that body
realizing the insincerity of the Demo
crats. promise a measure which shall at
once pr -vide for the reduction of revenues
to such extent as to prevent any danger
cm accumulation of surplus and not
menace either the industries or labor of
the country. Republican statesmanship
has done this in former years, and it will
make no mistake now if it proceeds on
the line of the Republican National plat
form *
I This is strange language from a Repub
lican organ which profe-ses to indorse
the Chicago platform. It is utterly in
consistent with the policy maintained in
the House by McKinley and Reed. They
have boon obstructionists throughout;
they have refused to offer any substitute
for the Mills bill they have declared the
existing tariff good enough for them and
as a measure of tax reduction propoic
free whisky.
Now, seeing popular con tarnation
\t lit ten everywhere, they “promise a
measure which shall provide for a re
| duclion of revenue,” etc., etc.
This j> progress; this shows the power
I of public sentiment. It is a change of
front after the battle has begun. Force
| the fighting all along the Hue.
Tax Reduction,
New Y«ik Wor d.
Mr Mills’ masterly summing up of the
case for tax reduction through tariff re
form, accompanied by a copy of the bill
itself, would make oik* of the most effect
ive documents that the Democrats could
circulate.
Mr. Mills showed first the “condition”
that called for tax reduction; a treasury
surplus of $11)0,000,000 now being aug
mented at the rate of $0;000,000 per
month. The Democratic policy is to stop
this surplus. The Kepublicau policy is
to spend it.
The Mills bill reduces the revenae from
universal necessities or comforts of the
people. by an abatement of taxes, $50,
000,050. It cut-* off $2 ’.0 M>,000 more by
putting up*.ii the free list other necessary
article®. It reduces the average duty
from $47.10 on every $100 of imports to
, $42.40. And this is called “free trade!”
It is an average duty 2d percent high
er than that of the Morrill war tariff of
ISO? It is almost identical with that of
: the profonged war tariff in 1882. which
the Republicans propose.I to reduce 20
j percent. If the premise of the Republi
can Tariff Commission and the Remibli*
can Congress in 1^82 h id been fulfilled,
the average duty would have been re
dticed to 81.16 p<*r cent. Tho Mills bill
leaves it at 42 45 And yet that was
“revenue reform,” white this is free
trade
'The truth is that tho bill does not go
far enough in the direction of a lower
revenue or a freer trade It issimply the
he*t that could be passed. If it should
become a law and work well, the people
would, no doubt, extend it. If it worked
id. they would no back The whole
matter is in their hands. Hut this cam
paign is to be took long and too earnestly
contested to admit of the deception of
intelligent voters, bv lying as to what the
Mills bill i*.
Mhy They Left,
fcpr R*j uhi.-*:v
But the easy assumption that the beat
men a:e in the Republican parly will nut
do. because it is not true. The time
when moral Conviction cave the Republi
can party its mighty hold on tho people
of the United States has gone by, and
tbit organization which did inch magnl
Scent work for humanity ha* lost it*
bold on tb* conscience voter just in pro
I portion as it has come under * leadership
I inspired by selSsh purposes anjj out of
touch with the high alms of, the past.
Why has Masssi litlselts witnessed such a
shifting of voters as constitutes the most
impressive evidence that It would he pos
sible to gather to prove that the leader
ship of the parly no longer represents its
old moral force? Simply because the vir
tue and convictions of tho rank and file
do not avail at present to dirqpt the pot
ieies and name the candidate of (he
party.
Let us illustrate this point a little for
the enlightenment Of a Massachusetts
man away from home. Wc will look for
some ot the men who moat consplriously
helped to support and to make the old
leadership when "Massachusetts led
America, and led her with an audacity
and an aggressiveness, with a skill and
eloquence, with a power and force that
has never been surpassed in all the tide
of time In the leadership of a great peo
ple.'' We will inquire for eminent citi
zens who are not ambitious for office, and
to Whom party IS ntoro than a means for
securing it—thoughtful voters, who dc
cline to give up to a political organize
tion what was meant for mankind The
roll of Cleveland Republicans as display i
ed four years ago is Indeed a notable one,
Janies Russell Lowell, President Eliot,
John M. Forbes, the late Rev. Dr. James
Freeman Clarke. Henry L. Pierce,Charles
1*. COilman, Thomas Wentworth lliggin
son, (Jen Francis A. Walker. William
Everett, Theodore Lyman, Robert Treat
Paine, Jr., F-dward Atkinson, thp Rey.
Dr. Rufus Ellis, Dr. Samuel EHBl. (Jen.
Francis A. Osborn, (Jamabet llradforil—
these are somo of tho men who helped
elect the present President of the United
State*. Such uieu loved the Republican
parly with a deep and disinterested de
votion—and why (lid they leave It? Not
for hope of gala, not because of personal
disappointment, but because the party as
led four yean ago had ceased to represent
them, and so it is to day.
1 ny ttieir irur.s ye man KIMT" luwu
Parties in a republic being a means to an
end, the good citizen is bound by every
high obligation to weigh parties and can
didute* every time he goes to the polls,
and to cast his vote fof the man who rep
resents the largest promise of honeat and
economical goyernmcit* in each given
case. No citizen can do less *ban this
and be true to his own manhood. He
will seek ‘ the best’’ man for local, State
and National offices, nnd will endorse the
j party which at the lime and place appeals
1 to his candid Judgment as the most avail
able instrument fdf promoting the welfare
of the people. No man la in tying
for good and all to ritzy political party,
because when bad leadership gets cm top
lie is a helpless victim of it. If be is
ready to repudiate it vfben occasion de
mands lie will be a true free mau and re
spectcd as such,
The Whisky T>x.
I Saw Yolk SUr.
The doings of Senator Allison and his
I cn workers in attempted tariff revision
are very significant and very instructive
I'nder the plea that they are giving the
first interpretation to the republican plat
form, these gentlemen are proceeding in
direct contradiction to that document
doing "yes" when it savs "no,” and ar
ranging to increase tiie free-list and lower
rates of duty, when their platform calls
for taxation of a larger number of Im
ported article* and for increase of duty on
those already taxed The Republican
tariff plank explicitly declares that the
domestic spirit tax must be entirely
abolished before any tariff duty Is disturb
c l, but these Republican Senators pro
pose to rerise the tariff first and consider
ns a secondary question whether nny part
of tlie whisky tax can lie interfered with.
Mill in no event do they intend to permit
the entire abolition of the spirit tax as
the Chicago platform demands. That
these Republican Senators are right und
their platform wrong docs not alter the
fuct of their absolute opposition to the
duly promulgated creed of their party—
n insensical, reactionary, impracticable,
nid altogether atrocious as it Is. To call
such direct hostility and fiat denial "in
terpretation'’ is ridiculous, Rlack cau
not be interpreted by calling it white,
l'hc negation of a doctrine can never ho
tile interpretation of that doctrine. The
plain fact of the situation is that Intelli
gent and common sense oil the Republi
can side of the Senate, as among intelli
gvnee and patiiotlc Republicans every
where, has risen in indignant revolt against
the Uieotian dogma enunciated as an ar
ticle of faith at Chicago. It was design
ed to captivate the ignorant. It has re
pelled and disgusted the enlightened.
The gentlemen who c institute the flower
of tlic Republican sido of the Senate are
in open revolt. There is no question
aboutlbat. Thennly question is whether
their manhood will resist the threats aud
blandishments of Hie monopoly agents
who are swarming to Washington, and
who ask the Senators to prostrate their
intelligence, patriotism, and bouor before
the monopoly Juggernaut.
Mill* ua Free W'bisky.
Some rattling tariff reform speeches
were made at the meeting of the Harlem
Democratic club in New York. The
principal speakers were Congressman
Mills and W. C. P. Breckinridge. Mr
Mills put the issue between free whisky
and tax reduction neatly, at follows
The Republicans say. "We will reduce
till! surplus by taking out of the treasury
the tax on whisky and give you free
wkiskv instead of free clothes " Follow
this advice. Drink this free whisky and
it will tiring joy to your hearts and a
brick to your hat. What possible good
will it do to remove the tax from whisky?
Whom will it benefit? The Lord knows
there is too much drunkeness here now
giving it the frightful impetus of such a
reduction, and yet this is what the Re
publicans offor the people. The Demo
cratic party, as the pany of the working
mau and the poor man, is engaged in a
great battle to secure for the people their
lights miller mu communion. num
have we done? Following in the line of
the President'* message we have framed
a bill, passed it and sent it to the Senate.
There they are in a quandary. Shall they
present a tariff reduction hill or admit
they haven't the capacity to draw one!
Their wise men have been sent for. If
they reduce taxation they will loso the
monopolists. If they don't reduce they
they must have free whisky, l.et them
choose either alternative.
Mr Breckinridge made an eloquent da
nial of the right of the government to
take money from a citizen except for
governmental purposes. The meeting
passed resolutions especially thanking
Mr. Mills for his ' talent, skill and palri
otisin ' in passing the billwhicli bears hi*
name. .
Interesting to the Cranks.
•'John," she said sweetly, as she
glanced at the clock, "do yon know any
thing about base ball?"
"Well, 1 rather guess I do.'t he ans
wered with pride.
"There is a shortstop in every nine,
isn't there?"
"Certainly.”
"Is there a longst.ip. too?"
"No."
"It is a pity.”
“Why so?"
"Because," and sbe glanced at th*
clock again, "if there was alongdop you
would make money. Every club would
be bidding for you
Col. Lamont says there is no truth in
tbe report that the resignation of (ienrral
! Black, pension commissioner, had been
requested or that thero were any differ
ences whatever between him and any
member of the administration.
There's a i awning difference between some
husbands at home and the same abroad.
Mrs. Garfield, widow of the Pnmldent, liaa
given #10,000 to Garfield University at
, Wichita.
After a watm contest. Miss F.lla 1-eJjen has
I P»en elected superintendent of City schools In
| Portland. Oregon, and wilt receive *S,t)00.
The United States for the past foot yeay
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