La vie de Benjamin Harrison et Levi Morton P . t des journalistes, à propos de qui ourfriend MacMillan a parlé, appelons cela le sanglant -shirt. Theysay nous essayons de raviver le conflit de la guerre, au râteau sur des braises éteintes, à attiser le feu de nouveau.^ Je veux qu'il se tenait sous-que, pour l'un, je n'ai rien contre le sud pour whattook lieu entre 1861 et 1865. Je suis prêt à forgetthat ils ont été rebelles ; du moins, dès qu'ils sont prêts il toforget qu eux-mêmes, et le temps ne semble pas s'être comeyet à eux. Mais notre plainte est contre ce qui a été fait en1884, pas contre ce qui a été fait

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The lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P Morton . t journalists, about which ourfriend MacMillan talked, call this the bloody -shirt. Theysay we are trying to revive the strife of the war, to rake overthe extinct embers, to kindle tlie fire again. I want it under-stood that, for one, I have no quarrel with the South for whattook place between 1861 and 1865. I am willing to forgetthat they were rebels ; at least, as soon as they are willing toforget it themselves, and tliat time does not seem to have comeyet to them. But our complaint is against what was done in1884, not against what was done during the war. Our com-plaint is against what will be done this year, not what was(lone l)ctwccn 1S61 and 1865. No bloody sliirt — tiiough thatcry never had any terrors for me. I believe we greatly under-estimate the importance of l)ringing the issue to the front, and, with that oft-time Republican courage and outspoken fidelityto truth, denouncing it the land over. If we cannot do anv-thing else, we can either make these people ashamed of this. 212 THE LIFE OF outrage against tlic Inillot, or make the wcjilcl ashamed ofthem. There is another question to which the Republican partyhas committed itself, and on the line of which it has accom-plished, as I believe, much for the prosperity of this ccnmtry.I believe the Republican party is pledged, and ought to bepledged, to the doctrine of the protection of American indus-tries and American labor. I believe that in so far as our nativeinventive genius, which seems to have no limit in our pro-ductive forces, can supply the American market, we ought tokeep it for ourselves. And yet this new captain on the bridgeseems to congratulate himself on the fact that the voyage isstill prosperous, notwithstanding the change of commanders ;who seems to forget tliat the reason that the voyage is stillprosperous is because the course of the ship was marked outand the rudder tied down before he went on the bridge. Hehas attempted to take a new di

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