Judge — June 5, 1886 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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Bayard has ab been moderately active— indeed he has uttered a word or two al- most as Vigorous as courteous, lifting his voice so that it might be heard in the ievt room. Possibly he would have spok- more to the point had he awakened lier; but possibly, again, he would! e been checked by Mr. Cleveland and the rest of the cabinet, who are so.anxious: for reciprocity with Canada as to other matters tl they have altogether over- looked the fishery question, in which there is no reciprocity at all. There will be no war. The home government is as anx- ious for peace as the Canadian govern- t is anxious for trouble. The chick- whose comb has yet to grow is oc:| casionally more anxious to fight than} the hen under whose wing he looks for! safety. But the chicken and the hen are equally dissatisfied with each other in the present instance, and some very lively s may grow outof that. however, if Mr. Blaine were at the head of the cabinet? It is charged ainst Mr. Blaine that he is violent and, given the requisite authority, likely to get the country into danger. He is a statesman as well as a live man, how- JUDGE. 3 FISHY NEWS, ic Another Schooner Seized. z : ever, and if he is plain and prompt he has a habit of asking nothing which ought not to be conceded. His administration as secretary of state was brilliant, but at the same time it was so just that no nation had a right tocomplain of it; and during his brief incumbency of the office he originated more politics calculated to win the respect of the world for this country than any of his imme- diate predecessors. The seizure by Canada of American fishing vessels has created indigna- tion everywhere in the country except in Washington. If Mr. Blaine had had the place he held under Garfield ‘this would not have been so, PROTECTION THE FIRST LAW. There will perhaps be free trade in another and a better world, but not if, as Brother Tal- mage informs us, there is work there as well} as here. Where work and_ business are there is competition. Rivalry follows industry and enterprise as naturally as ducks take to water; and if it is true that opposition is the life of business—and it is—rivalry is by no} means a bad thing. If it were possible for all the business and working world to adopt the policy of free trade it might be made to work; but it would be as reasonable to expect every man and woman to become Christian and law- abiding at the sound of some ‘premature and hitherto unannounced Gabri trump. As long as the world goes round jails and lawyers and state prisons and custom-houses will be unavoidable. We must take things as they; are—not as we wish they might be. 'o take away the protection dam which has} held back the flood of unfair foreign opposi- tion to American labor and business would be toinvite peril to every man and every inter-) cstin this country. It would overwhelm us| with the pauper labor of Europe, and we have! quite enough of that in the imported article, | part of it coming voluntarily and part with! the funds unwisely provided by capital to enable it to resist the demands of /home indus- try The worker in iron and'silk and cotton, | who gets little enough for his work now, would find himself reduced to the level of the foreign worker, who in most instances, with twice the labor, acquires less than the funds necessary | this foreign labor is well understood in the mining regions, where it drive out labor that struck for something more than sixty-five cents a day, accepting a reduc- tion from that figure and growing fat and ad- ditionally filthy with it; and in Chicago and other western places, where the arms furnished by employers to imported labor have been used of late years to intimidate the employer him- self. Free trade here would mean foreign prices for labor and foreign profits for the man- ufacturer. ° Is it necessary to say more? There has been of late considerable free trade could. afford to in this country in communism, socialism and anarchy, and some little free trade in the bomb through which the extreme agitators preach. Let -us set up the old flag against all these abominations, whether they be called free trade ,or something worse, and let us look upon the right to fight out our quarrels among ourselves {as one of the first principles of the self-protec- |tion which every sane man believes in and j | practices. Maan of f the C Court. Sara Bernhardt threatened to write a play. | We beg to congratulate the public just the same, however—she di The public debt went down April. The administration is be how to handle figures, we ean tell you. Gail Hamilton saysit s the business of states- men to increase the national prosperity. Just 80; but see here, young lady—we have a Dem- ocratic administration. It is said that Miss Palm, whom Jones loves, will marry a New Yorker. But Jones needn't necessarily be without hope. For instance, the New Yorker may be an invalid. The Voice, which favors prohibition, holds the high license law responsible for the Chicago riots; but we still think that Elizabeth Cady Stanton had very much to do with them. The seizure of an American fishing schooner in a harbor of Nova Scotia is an insult that can only be wiped out in blood. Where is the noble American citizen who will furnish the bloodt After all, some of those Chicago sociailists deserve to be gratefully remembered. We refer, of course, to those who took poison under ‘J He Gore Gosh ter Mighty ! ef de ole man yain't went e1 togive him a decent burial. The quality of ishem dat we honest nebburs's ‘spected like dat, BALKED. ' i ‘age Agee n lef’ dem pore chick'ns a’ chained up ;'s 9 gret comicbooks.com