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An Honest Tariff.
We are on the eve of a new na¬
tional administration, and the par¬
amount question awaiting it is one
of such serious moment to the peo¬
ple of this country,that every mind
is filled with anxiety lest a grave
mistake be made or injustice result
in the adoption of measures for the
relief of the government, and “the
protection of American manufact¬
urers.” In the latter phase of the
question lies the greatest danger.
Republican policy has always been
so radical in this direction that
much is to be feared from its re¬
investment. We have always be¬
lieved and always shall believe that
a “high protective system” is dis¬
honest and that it is, in its general
effects, pernicious. It is dishonest
because it seeks out a few of the
many upon wlrch to confer special
privilleges, which are costly as
well as exclusive, while the general
public is called upon to foot the
bill.
It is pernicious because it places
upon the products of -other coun¬
tries which would otherwise buy
our breadstuffs and many of our
manufactured commodities, duties
so burdensome as to compel those
countries to take their trade from
us and give it where a fairer fleld is
offered. Such desertion means to the
farmer especially, an enormous loss
of foreign trade, and a consequent
cheaping of iarm products at home,
without any compensation to him.
W e are aware that democracy is
held up by republican demagogues
as the “party of free trade.” But
the charge is as absurd as it is un-
true. Democratic farmers and
manufacturers have quite as much
human nature within them as their
republican rivals, and self-interest,
not self-sacrifice, usually control
the vote of both. True democratic
doctrine insists, first: Thai the
primary and legitimate purpose of
the tariff is, or should be,to provide
sufficient revenue to meet the cur-
rent expenses of administrating the
government; Second, That its
neficence should extend to and be
limited by the reasonable protec-
tion of such industries as are in
their infancy, are legitimate and
useful, and are directly exposed to
foreign competition There should
be no favored section,but the whole
country should be treated alike ;and
up to this time such has not been
either the practice or the policy of
the republican party. The new ad¬
ministration will have an excep-
tional opportunity to right the
wrongs persistently repeated and
maintained for a quarter of a cen¬
tury by its own party.
The National Hippodrome.
We are heartily in accord with
ex-Senator Walsh, when he says
that we are on the eve of a general
and grand revival of those prosper¬
ous times in the dear if not near
past, the very memory of which
excLes our salivary gland. The
only, or the chief drawback now is
found in the melancholy and re¬
sentful kicker. But, if we can
only induce him to die. or to go to
his brothers in Molokoi, the incu¬
bus on capital will be lifted, and
confidence will unlock the broad
doo** beyond which lies the golden
streem of plenty.
We do not, unfortionately, agree
with the worthy ex-senator’s view
when he tells us that the modern
rapid transit facilities, which have
indeed brought the four corners of
the country to a common centre,
affording daily intercourse between
the sections, have dispelled section¬
al feeling. Here in the South it is
true, there is but little sectional
prejudice remaining, except in
spots. But in the west, the ani¬
mosity toward the east grows daily
more virulent. “Effete East,” is
the western appellation for the
most cultivated and enterpris ; ng
part of our common country;
“bloated bondholders, greedy cap¬
italists, Wall Street Swindlers,”
and other like elegant epeithets are
favorite western expressions, as
applied to the great bankers who
are on record for generous aid ex¬
tended time and again to the Gov¬
ernment in its financial distresses;
to the heads of the great rai 1 roads
which have redeemed the lonesome
west from the catamount, the pra¬
irie dog and the savage; and the
wonderful houses of exchange in
Wall street which are just as essen-
tial to the f armer as they are to
the manufacturer and the banker,
j n conducting the vast export trade
G f the country without the impos-
s i b i e handling of the billions of
coin instead of bills of exchange.
We cannot back the suggestion
j Q f the ex-senator, that “it is time
that we give the people on the oth-
er s ide of the water” to understand
that “this country is strong enough
an( j b i g enough to manage its own
affairs,”—not, at least, to any se-
rious extent. No; we have not
j sufficient time to spare from the
management of other peoples’ af¬
fairs. We are so magnanimous, so
excessively virtuous, that foreign
atrocities demoralize our sleep, our
business, and our digestion. We
do not even have time to spare for
the appropriation bills, until we
have time to dispose of matters in
other portions of the globe. We
offer resolutions in the House of
Representatives, which, if the in-
. structions therein contained were
obeyed by the President, would
j ma k e him a State criminal, since
those instructions direct him to
violate a specific provision of the
Constitution, a provision which
directly applies to the Sanguilly
case. The resolution offered by
Mr. Cameron in the Senate was an
impertinence to the great powers
of Europe, with whom we have
friendly commercial relations at
least, and no quarrel of our own.
Whatever we may think, as indi¬
viduals, of the cowardly and inhu¬
manity displayed by those allied
powers toward Greece and in be¬
half of the infamous Turk, the
Congress is a national tribunal, and
its acts are expositions or declara¬
tions of our national policy, and
our national policy, as understood
by the best jurists and statesmen of
this county, is non-interference in
foreign affairs. If we stand square¬
ly upon our own rights under the
Monroe Doctrine, we must accord
to Europe the same freedom from
American influence.
What Next?
We sympathize profoundly w'th
bleeding, devastated Cuba ; we
would welcome a collision with her
infamous tyrants and oppressors,
if Spain herself caused the ruction ;
and we would cheerfully help to
exterminate Weyler’s butchers in
the ruined island, if we had the
lawful right to do it. We are in
sympathy with little Crete; and
earnestly hope it will be freed from
the bloody thraldom of the vaga¬
bond Turk, We think of ancient
Greece, and see in the uprising
and arming of that classic people
a revival of her glory, a renewal of
her martial spirit. We hope most
fervently for her triumph over the
cowardly Powers who are now
asserting the fuedel law of “Might
is Right” in the Piraeus, and at
Canea ; while they tremble in each
other’s presence.
But we believe in international
law, without which the world
would resolve itself into chaos; we
believe in constancy in maintain¬
ing the Monroe Doctrine, We
therefore do not approve the law¬
less measures proposed in Congress
to declare war upon Spain or any
other foreign power without proof
that such power has violated inter¬
national law to our particular inju¬
ry ; nor do we approve of Congress
taking official notice of the Cretan-
Greco-European quarrel. The res¬
olution of Mr. Sulzer, offered in
the House, “declaring war to exist
between the Kingdom of Spain
and her Colonies and the United
States of America and their “Ter-
ritories,” etc., we regard as mon-
strous, mad, and shameful. The
resolution practically recognizing
the belligerancy—as far as an im-
potent Congress can—of the Euro-
pean island of Crete, etc., we con-
sider impolitic, unnecessary, and
unwarrantable. We rail at every
indication of interference with
American affairs and peoples, and
insist on strict observance by all
European Powers of the tenets of
t ^ le ^l° nroe Doctrine as we inter-
P ret t ^ em » an d vve at the same
^ me i ns * st upon dictating Euro-
P ean P°hcy in European affairs,
an( ^ COUI> t the enmity, while we
j exc ^ e the derision, of every nation
I w ^h whom we have important
commercial relations. Truly we
C nati ° n “ ^ ° f
ou r Statesmen
bee 0 our guess ad-
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Let us Have Peace!
On the 3d day of last November,
the citizens of the United States
cast their ballots at the polls for
express purpose of determining
which of the two great national
part es should administer the affairs
of the Government for four years.
The main issue in .that extraordina¬
ry campaign which culminated in
the election of a republican Presi¬
dent, was whether gold or silver
should be the principal “coin of
the realm” for at least four years
more. The question was settled;
and the honest people of the whole
country who are all too confiding
in the faith of politicians, breathed
sighs of relief that we should have
a season of peace; that we might
go about our business once more,
unbarrasced by the demagogue;
that the defeat of a doctrine would
si'ence its advocates for a few years
at lease, and that there would be
no rebellion against the verdict.
When two brave men fight
squarely, the one who is defeated
hones* ly abides by the result.
When two nations go to war to
seLule a difference or maintain a
policy, t hey tacitly agree to accept
the consequences, be they what
they may, and when one of them
conquers, the other lavs down the
sword. When two great national
pari es announce opposite policies
and enter the lists for the deliberate
purpose of seeking the arbitration
of the people, each party is bound
by honor, by citizenship, by com¬
mon decency, to abide by the de¬
cision of the majority of the arbi¬
trators. No honest gladiator, na¬
tion, or party has ever proved
treacherous at the end of the con-
flict, nor repudiated the contract.
But we have in these degenerate
times a, example of bad faith, of
treadle v, ot insinceritv, on the
P art ? not or <1 party but of some of
its pretended exponents, which tills
us with wonder and insnices r 11s
with .... empt. , Rustless „ . and sel-
con
fish ambition, a vanity which is as
devouring as it is unwarranted, and
a blind and obstinate disposition to
wrangle with, snarl at, and de-
nounce everything that is, the par-
asites of political society, the acci-
dents thrown to the surface by dis-
content and misfortune, the froth
that is flung off the turbffient sea of
j j politics—in a word, the Agitator,
still prophecies more evil times,
j still does his “level best” to keep
the country in a state of doubt, of
turmoil, of suspense. Going about
with hypocritical cant and sorrow-
ful countenance, he pretends to
deplore what he exults in, every
local disaster in business. Secretly
glad over e\»ery tale of misfortune
which is eagerly heralded to him
through mercenary journals or so-
cial clubs which are not social but
political, he tells it over and over
to wide-eared auditors in hired
halls with snivelling effort and
effect. The Agitator is like a cer-
j tain insect, which, the moment it
enters still water, dies, its life de-
pends upon ceaseless, tireless com-
motion.
Never before in our history has
Agitator been more—preva-
lent. In order that our foreign
trac * e m ight be diminished and our
revenues reduced, he assails in turn
Russia—for the prosecution of the
Jews; Turkey, for its slaughter of
the Armenians ; Spain, for its
butcheries in Cuba ; and England
all the .time, because! Artful as
he is dangerous, he is apt and alert,
the instant he sees, what he him¬
self scarcely feels, symptoms of
popular sympathy for a wronged
alien ; the quickened heart-beat of
this great-hearted people is the sig¬
nal for him to turn on the faucet—
that he may be the first to weep;
the first ebillition of feeling among
his countrymen over the woes and
wrongs of our foreign brothers is to
him a pointer; he instantly poses
as a leader, rants, vituperates,
scoffs at international law, and
with pasteboard sword all ready
i painted mounts the tribune, and
turns on the footlights.
The more of a mediocre the Agi¬
tator is, the more he is heard from.
While wisdom sits in its modest
corner mute, but observant, he
struts in front, loquacious, but not
observant. Without experience,
he assumes to teach ; ignorant of
statecraft, he asserts unbounded
knowledge of political economy,
to sum him up, he it is who tells
us that we must “let the new ad¬
ministration have a chance;” while
he is covertly seeing to it that if it
“has a chance” it will not be his
fault. He would have gold circu¬
late ; but his feverish fear that it
W’11, leads him on in the under¬
ground effort to scare it back when¬
ever it begins to creep forth from
the bursting vaults of the eastern
banks. Silver clubs, and silver
orators, and silver “movements”
have their proper time and place ;
but the preparations fora renewal
ot the campaign of ’96, are already
exerting an influence among the
more timid capitalists both in this
country and in England; and we
predict a continuation of the gold
tainino among tlic people just so
kng as this at present useless, dem-
agoguical, and wholly unwise asri- 0
tation of c the interminable money
question continues. Let us repu-
diate the Agitator; give the new
j administration a chance ; throw no
obstacle in the way to prevent cap-
| ital coming out of its hole ; try to
dispel prejudice and encourage
amity among the sections; and do
whatever we can, individually,
collectively, whatever theories we
may have about finance, to pro-
mote the best interest of the whole
people; leaving other nations to
attend to their own affairs, inviting
their commerce and capital, and
ceasing to hold ourselves out as the
monitor of mankind. If we do not
pursue this course, if we hamper
the republican party in its efforts to
restore prosperity, if we intimidate
capital by re-organizing !
a money
cru sade at this critical time, we
shall suffer as we ought to suffer;
an d the all-sufficient argument nec-
cessar y» should the republican par-
ty fail to give us what it has prom-
hsed, will be thrust in our teeth,
‘A ou undermined our work, you
an t a gonized our honest efforts, and
we have not had a fair show.” Let
us give them a fair show, help them
bring back good times, be pa-
triotic in the true ’ not in <>’<= dem-
a S°guic sense ; and rise above mere '
party to the fair plane of honesty.
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from Bob Mann.
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