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Show UARRI3Q.V AND "PIGTAILS." Under the above coption the Denver Jf,'ws speaks of Harrison's feeble atteinp'. to console tlie"masses regardless ot insult to the intelligent men of the west: The President forgot the dignity at San Francisco which has heretofore hereto-fore n arked all his speeches during )iis present tour. It is hard to tell just what Mr. Harrison msant in the jmguage: "Our pathway has been strewn with flowers; we havj been surprised whenwe were in the region of orchards and roses to be sudden-Jy sudden-Jy pulled up at the station and asked Jo address some remarks to a pyramid pyra-mid of pigtails. It woul 1 see n that the President jn his djsire to siy p euan'. things to the people of the several cities he has v isited has sought for the subjects sub-jects he supposed them to be most greatly interested in, and has made his views accord with theirs. At Chantoogi, one of the miraculous manufacturing cities of the newsouth he urged the benefits of a prohibitive prohibi-tive tat iff would secure to its infant industries; at Galveston he inspired the hopes of its people for appropriate appropri-ate is cf millions with which to Jinild jetties and deepen its harbor, an. I at seaport cities generally he r as sung praises to subsidized steam ship lines and South American reciprocity. re-ciprocity. His knowledge of San Francisco and California generally Is that which he acquired while in the senate, during which period was their struggle for. prohibitive Chinese Chi-nese legislation, and an exposure of the dee; hatred they felt for their Chinese population. Doubtless he supposed that none of the old feeling feel-ing was allayed, and that the most pleasa it things he could say to San Franciscoanj was something low and yalgar about their Chinese population. popula-tion. No matter what the feeling of the masses on the Pacific coast may be about the Chinese, the President madia grave mistake in descending descend-ing to sheer vulgarity in speaking about them. The population of .the coast are as educated and refined refin-ed as that of any other section in America, aid he has but made the common mistake of misjudging the falibre and feelings of the people of a section of the country with which he was not familiar. He may be compelled hereafter to explain and .apologize for the phrase, "a pyramid pyra-mid of pigtails." |