The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-11-19

WASHINGTON, Nov IL, lSt5.
The Iui6-Ihe democratic party-7he Caucus Of
Al upon the Tarif-1he Resuh-What is to De
done'-Ho,0 stands Anen, &c.-7he true State Of
the Case
The country Is anxious upon the subject OF the Ia
rfl-the public mind is particularly alive to this
great question, and the prospective action upon 1t
by the Congress about to convene. Will any modl-
fication be made-will any thing permanent and re-
liable be enacted or the people to be contnu-
ally harrassed by agitation and repeated changes
How stands the perty How stands the heads
of the party in the Senate, upon this subject? Let
us pause for a moment to consider
Pending the session of 1912, a caucus of the
democratic members OF the two houses con-
vened in this city and in the capitol, through the in
strumentallty OF X. Barnwel Rhett, with view of
defining the position OF the party upon the question
of the tariff The issue upon which this caucus was
convened to decide, was, shall stand upon the old
Jacksonlan idea OF revenue tariff, with incidental
determinations tor home protection ! or shall we
take the unmtgated revenue standard OF the South,
independent and regardless OF any protection what
soeverl AT this caucus, assembled upon this issue,
there were present such men as Wright, Benton,
Walker-in fact, the whole motive power Of the
party And whatSwas the decision Z We will tell
you:
strict revenue Rhett and Holmes advocated it
with uncommon energy, and they were supported
by others of the same school. Benton, Allen.
Wright, and their adherents, took the old Jackso-
Man ground of revenue tariff with incidental dis
examinations for the protection of some manufac-
lures, as distinguished from the Southern
doctrine OF a revenue tariff, with determinations
Tor revenue, entirely regardless OF any protection to
any interest whatsoever. Before the debate closed
the Southerners knocked under -decl,ninp the de-
cision of vote, and yielding the wall TO an Incl
dentaly protective revenue tariff.
tf0h mot Ia,ct na,. NJ Il.
supposed to be identified with the Van Buren, Ben
ton, Wright, Buchanan majority in this authoritative
and conclusive decision OF the heads OF the party,
thus assembled In supreme caucus.
How stands the matter now The Union, as the
organ OF the Administration elected upon the princi-
pie of equal protection to all the great industrial in
terests of the country IS leading off in behalf, and
by cctatlon OF the administration, upon the de-
cson of the of ~, but in direct contraven-
ton of it, or in advocacy of the Southern idea of
revenue tariff, entirely regardless of protection.
Ihe question then recurs, Is Benton, is Allen, is
Fairfield, and are their compeers, to "wheel about
and turn about and jump Jim Crow" to the modi-
hed tariff tune of the organ Or is it expected that
the opinions OF these gentlemen TO be plastic
hands of the Executive. Some such thing must be
anticipated; Tor surely the administration would not
drive headIong and blindold into free trade, with
out some canvassing OF the ground.
And yet it is just so. The organ has been dab.
bling IN this matter blindfoded. 1t knows not the
opinion OF Mr.. Benton, nor of Allen, nor the course
they VIII take. 1t has not given this important con-
slderalon thought. 1t has been mainly thoughtful
OF organizing majority in the House for the print
ing, from the South and West, by its course upon
the tariff and It's feelers upon the more momentous
question OF the Oregon boundary, regardless of the
ultimate action upon these measures in the House,
and absolutely casting the Senate entirely out of the
calculation, the same If it to have no action
IN the premises at all This blind and headlong
course OF the organ, taken In this connection so far
from relieving, necessarily thickens the obscurity
around us.
The fact is-we reterate it with increased corro-
boration from accommodating evldences-the fact is.
the South to be bamboozled upon this subject OF
the tariff. Yes, sir, in the language of Col Ben
ton, which, In the Senate, on Clays bank BILL he
proved TO be legitimate English from Richardson's
quarto Dlctionary "they are to be bamboozled, sir
they are to be bamb6 oZed.' A strict South Carroll
ma revenue tariff cannot pass the Senate The
idea OF such thing is perfectly preposerous an
unmitigated absurdlty. 1t can't be done And with
all the prophetic lnslnuations OF the o-gan leading
10 the conclusion that the President will recommend
Southern revenue tariff, we tell the South Carroll
mans tney are right IN giving no faith to such de-
iusion incidental protection will not be abandoned
The President will not recommend its abandon
ment, even IN recommending revenue tariff The
Kane letter. will not admit OF SO wide an nterpre-
tallon as the abandonment OF all protection.
But let not the Pennsylvanians reloIce-let them
not whistle NEITHER before they of the woods
The duties upon cold iron will have to come down.
Inc Executive cannot escape urging some sort of
modification of the Tariff. He has to recommend a
reduction, at the hazard of accommodation
Should he fail, he will be read out of the Church by
manifesto, as. ohm TYLER was expelled from the
Wing church for his fathessness on the Bank oues-
ton. Cold iron, then, must come down. The pro-
lection upon it, all its forms of manufacture, stands
forth TOO prominent among the mpositions of the
bill Of AZ, ever to be designcdly overlooked.
Thus, them still South Carolina Is right in antci-
patlng nothing decisive from the President nor from
Congress, In behalf OF free trade. Pennsylvania is
wrought she expects any thing peculiar In support Of
home protection. The Kane letter" will be 60 in
terpreed as to meet neither the definition put upon
II by Pennsylvania, the construction given il,
by those acute resolvers of political antiquities the
South Carolina metaphyslcans. Both parties will
be disappointed, and the whole exhibition will con-
clnde with an explosion of gas. Other matters to-
night.
WASHINGTON, Nov. IL, 1916.
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